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2011
The University of
Georgia
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Literary Capital
Title Index
Accumulating Insecurity / Feldman, Geisler,
and Menon, eds.
Alabama Getaway / Tullos
The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave
Trader / Winter
Atlanta and Environs / Garrett & Martin
Camille, 1969 / Smith
Civil Rights History from the Ground Up /
Crosby, ed.
Common Birds of Coastal Georgia / Wilson
Common Birds of Greater Atlanta / Wilson
and Atkins
A Distant Flame / Williams
Drowning Lessons / Selgin
An Everglades Providence / Davis
The Faiths of the Postwar American Presidents /
Holmes
Fitzgerald / Bunge
Flashes of a Southern Spirit / Wilson
For the Mountain Laurel / Casteen
From a Far Country / Randall
From Mounds to Megachurches / Williams
The Invention of Ecocide / Zierler
Jack London’s Racial Lives / Reesman
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the
Rise of the Religious Right / Flippen
John Bachman / Waddell, ed.
Legba’s Crossing / Russell
Literary Capital / Sten, ed.
Marching in Step / Macaulay
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching /
Armstrong
My Work Is That of Conservation / Hersey
One Hundred American Paintings / Georgia
Museum of Art
Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier / Juras
The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth / Cheng
Religion Enters the Academy / Turner
Remember Me / Joyner
The Riots / Deulen
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate / Horner
Roppongi Crossing / Cybriwsky
Shades of Green / Finseth
Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America /
New Series
Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations /
Margolies
Spit Back a Boy / Pollock
St. Catherines / Thomas
Stutter / Billiter
Tracing Vision / Georgia Museum of Art
Transforming Scriptures / Bassard
The Unemployed People’s Movement / Lorence
Upheaval in Charleston / Williams and Hoffius
Vanished Gardens / White
Vibration Cooking / Smart-Grosvenor
We Are the Revolutionists / Honeck
Weather / Lucas
Writing the South through the Self / Inscoe
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A Washington Reader
Edited by Christopher Sten
The nation’s capital seen through the eyes of some of our best writers
Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of
interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital
offers a compelling portrait of the city through the work of seventy authors
ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington
Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early twenty-first
century. In the introduction Christopher Sten explores two broad categories
of prose—historical writing focused on politics and writing about the lives
and times of the people of D.C. with official Washington as the setting.
Sten also defines a core group of “Washington writers,” native and naturalized authors who focus much of their work on the city: Frederick Douglass,
Henry Adams, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, Gore Vidal, Ward Just, and
Susan Richards Shreve, among others.
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Included are letters, essays, short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels
and historical writings by a broad selection of such renowned American
and international authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Alexis
de Tocqueville, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Sinclair
Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, and Joseph Heller. The reader
also incorporates many writings by well-known African American authors,
including Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer,
Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes, May Miller, Ralph Ellison, and
Marita Golden.
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“Literary Capital is great in concept and even better in execution.
Christopher Sten has skillfully selected an assortment of the classic
and the contemporary, the literary and the reportorial, the appreciative and the denunciatory, in writings about life and habits in
Washington. In a fair world, this collection might slightly raise the
esteem of Washington in the public’s eyes. In the real world, it makes
for wonderful reading.”
—James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic
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“Literary Capital is an indispensable guide to the literature, culture,
and history of Washington, D.C. Here, finally, is a book that captures
the nation’s capital in all its glory and tawdriness, revealing why it
has long been a ‘magnet for writers,’ as Christopher Sten writes in his
superb introduction. With its brilliant selection of writings, it is one of
the very best books on the literature of a city.”
—John Stauffer, Chair of the History of American Civilization and
Professor of English at Harvard University
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“All the readers of Literary Capital will be indebted to Christopher Sten
for the fine and moving collection of ‘Washington writing’ he has gathered here. It is full of familiar and surprising entries that offer a good
mix of national and local subjects and points of view—foreign, native,
power holding, power seeking, and the disempowered. Literary Capital
captures the ‘story’ that makes Washington so interesting as a place.”
—Sarah Luria, author of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building
Washington, D.C.
July
6.125 x 9.25 | 424 pp.
8 b&w photos | 1 map
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3836-1
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Table of contents and contributors
I. “This Wilderness City”:
Early Impressions (1800–1860)
Abigail Adams
Christian Hines
Washington Irving
George Watterson
Margaret Bayard Smith
James Fenimore Cooper
Frances Trollope
Alexis de Tocqueville
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
IV. City of Hope and Heartbreak:
Minority Reports (1880–2000)
Anna Cooper
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Mary Church Terrell
W. E. B. Du Bois
Edward Christopher Williams
Alain Locke
Langston Hughes
Ralph Ellison
Mario Bencastro
II. Eye of the Storm: Race, Slavery,
Civil War (1830–1905)
Black Hawk
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wells Brown
Solomon Northup
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louisa May Alcott
Walt Whitman
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley
Upton Sinclair
V. A Capital Town: Private Lives and
Public Views (1920–2010)
Sinclair Lewis
Jean Toomer
Willa Cather
Samuel Hopkins Adams
John Dos Passos
Louis J. Halle
Marita Golden
Edward P. Jones
Thomas Mallon
Andrew Holleran
III. Vanity Fair: Reconstruction and
National Expansion (1865–1910)
Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner
John William DeForest
Bret Harte
Frederick Douglass
Henry Adams
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gertrude Atherton
Booker T. Washington
Henry James
David Graham Phillips
VI. Nation’s Crossroads: Poetry
and Politics (1920–2010)
Langston Hughes
Sterling A. Brown
Allen Tate
Archibald MacLeish
Elizabeth Bishop
Allen Ginsberg
Denise Levertov
May Miller
Reed Whittemore
E. Ethelbert Miller
Also of interest
William Wells Brown
A Reader
Ezra Greenspan, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3224-6
Cloth, $64.95y | 978-0-8203-3223-9
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3634-3
The Civil Rights Reader
American Literature from Jim Crow to
Reconciliation
Julie Buckner Armstrong, ed.
Amy Schmidt, assoc. ed.
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3225-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3181-2
Christopher Sten is a professor of English at George Washington University. He is the
coeditor of “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific and author or editor of three
other books. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Lee B. Ewing
VII. Imperial Washington: Power,
Corruption, Crisis (1950–2000)
Allen Drury
Robert Coover
Gore Vidal
Joseph Heller
Norman Mailer
Susan Richards Shreve
Ward Just
George P. Pelecanos
Mary McCarthy Joan Didion
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Camille,1969
May
5.5 x 8.5 | 90 pp.
8 b&w photos | 1 map
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Histories of a Hurricane
Mark M. Smith
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
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One of our most innovative historians explores the
many meanings of a natural disaster
Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and
southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most powerful
hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.
Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm’s impact
in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith examines the sensory
experience and impact of the hurricane—how the storm rearranged and
challenged residents’ senses of smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste. The
second essay explains the way key federal officials linked the question of
hurricane relief and the desegregation of Mississippi’s public schools. Smith
concludes by considering the political economy of short- and long-term
disaster recovery, returning to issues of race and class.
Camille, 1969 offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of
social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from
Camille worked for some but did not work for others. Throughout these
essays are lessons about how we might learn from the past in planning for
recovery from natural disasters in the future.
“A stunning, eloquent book that reveals the sheer destructive power
of nature. In Camille, 1969, Mark Smith carries us into the eye of the
storm and helps us understand how Camille, Katrina, and other hurricanes that will surely follow will forever change our life on this planet.”
—William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the
Mississippi Blues
Also in the series
“In the post-Katrina era, the Category Five Hurricane Camille, which
devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, is often forgotten.
Mark Smith’s Camille, 1969 provides a fresh perspective on Hurricane
Camille by examining not only the human dimensions of the disaster
but also the racial and political contexts that shaped both the immediate impact of the storm and the long recovery that followed.”
—Charles C. Bolton, author of The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over
School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980
A Web of Words
The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature
Richard Gray
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3005-1
Weathering the Storm
Inside Winslow Homer’s Gulf Stream
Peter H. Wood
Raegan Quinn
Cloth, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2625-2
Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of
South Carolina. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Sensing the Past:
Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History; Writing the American Past: U.S.
History to 1877; and Hearing History: A Reader (Georgia).
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Upheaval in Charleston
June
6 x 9 | 368 pp.
36 b&w photos | 2 maps
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3715-9
Ebook, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3958-0
Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius
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How the great Charleston earthquake forever changed
an iconic southern city
On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South
Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and
west to the Mississippi River. When the dust settled, residents of the old
port city were devastated by the death and destruction.
Upheaval in Charleston is a gripping account of natural disaster and turbulent
social change in a city known as the cradle of secession. Weaving together
the emotionally charged stories of Confederate veterans and former slaves,
Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius portray a South where
whites and blacks struggled to determine how they would coexist a generation after the end of the Civil War.
This is also the story of Francis Warrington Dawson, a British expatriate drawn to the South by the romance of the Confederacy. As editor of
Charleston’s News and Courier, Dawson walked a lonely and dangerous
path, risking his life and reputation to find common ground between the
races. Hailed as a hero in the aftermath of the earthquake, Dawson was
denounced by white supremacists and murdered less than three years after
the disaster. His killer was acquitted after a sensational trial that unmasked
a Charleston underworld of decadence and corruption.
Combining careful research with suspenseful storytelling, Upheaval in
Charleston offers a vivid portrait of a volatile time and an anguished place.
Also of interest
“A compelling account of the most powerful earthquake ever to hit the
southeastern United States. Virtually every structure in Charleston and
some as distant as central Ohio were damaged. This well-researched,
suspenseful narrative weaves a story of how a historic city recovers—
with human intrigue and conflict that ends in murder.”
—Jack Bass, coauthor of The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern
South Carolina
A Devil and a Good Woman, Too
The Lives of Julia Peterkin
Susan Millar Williams
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3250-5
Renaissance in Charleston
Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country,
1900–1940
James M. Hutchisson and
Harlan Greene, eds.
“As the authors show so vividly, ‘natural disasters do not erase old conflicts—they reveal dirty secrets.’ Along the way we learn about a variety
of fascinating topics—the history of science, charitable fund-raising,
journalism, disaster tourism, urban architecture, Jim Crow segregation,
and African American activism. And the whole story is capped off with a
shocking murder and gripping courtroom testimony: a real page-turner!”
—Jacqueline Jones, author of Saving Savannah: The City and the
Civil War
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-2518-7
Julia Peterkin, winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Award. She teaches American literature
and creative writing at Trident Technical College and lives in McClellanville, South
Carolina. Stephen G. Hoffius is the author of Winners and Losers, a prize-winning novel
for young adults, and coeditor of The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
and Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R.
Martin. A freelance author and editor, he lives in Charleston.
Jack Alterman
Susan Millar Williams is the author of A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of
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Flashes of a Southern Spirit
May
6 x 9 | 260 pp.
15 b&w photos
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3830-9
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3829-3
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Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South
Charles Reagan Wilson
From Cherokee religious ritual to the music of Al Green
Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American
South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and
distinctiveness.
Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding
southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the
high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the
setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights
movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson
shows how identifications of the spirit are crucial to understanding what
makes southerners invest so much meaning in their regional identity.
From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early
twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range
of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery. He finds new meanings in the works of such
creative giants as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Elvis Presley,
while at the same time closely examining little-studied figures such as the
artist/revivalist McKendree Long. Wilson proposes that southern spirituality is a neglected category of analysis in the recent flourishing of interdisciplinary studies on the South—one that opens up the cultural interaction of
blacks and whites in the region.
“Wilson has been one of the founders, promoters, and premier practitioners of southern studies. . . . Collected here under the umbrella
of what he terms ‘southern spirit’ are some of his best essays, with
discussions of southerners both famous and forgotten, gospel music,
high literature, and self-taught art, all connected through Wilson’s
deft understanding of the complicated role of religious experience in
shaping and being shaped by southern culture.”
—Charles A. Israel, author of Before Scopes: Evangelicalism,
Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925
Also by the author
Judgment and Grace in Dixie
Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-2965-9
Baptized in Blood
The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3425-7
“Along with Wilson’s direct contributions to our understanding of
southern religion and culture, his work on historical methodology and
interpretation has been vital, as seen in his book Baptized in Blood, a
canonical work in southern religion. The essays collected here explore
and extend both of these aspects of Wilson's scholarship and are of
immense value to scholars and students of the American South and
American religion.”
—Joe Creech, author of Righteous Indignation: Religion and the
Populist Revolution
Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook, Sr., Chair in History and Professor of
David Wharton
Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Judgment and
Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis and Baptized in Blood: The Religion
of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 (both Georgia) and general editor of The New Encyclopedia
of Southern Culture.
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Alabama Getaway
March
6 x 9 | 376 pp.
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3049-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3048-8
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3961-0
The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie
Allen Tullos
What makes Alabama the “Heart of Dixie”?
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In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the
nation’s most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary—the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity.
From its largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education,
health care, cultural institutions, and social services, Tullos examines why
Alabama appears to be stuck in repetitive loops of uneven development and
debilitating habits of judgment. The state remains tied to fundamentalisms of religion, race, gender, winner-take-all economics, and militarism
enforced by punitive and defensive responses to criticism. Tullos traces the
spectral legacy of George Wallace, ponders the roots of anti-egalitarian
political institutions and tax structures, and challenges Birmingham native
Condoleezza Rice’s use of the civil rights struggle to justify the war in Iraq.
He also gives due coverage to the state’s black citizens who with a minority of whites have sustained a movement for social justice and democratic
inclusion. As Alabama competes for cultural tourism and global industries
like auto manufacturing and biomedical research, Alabama Getaway asks if
the coming years will see a transformation of the “Heart of Dixie.”
“Along with masterworks such as 1934’s Stars Fell on Alabama, this
book stands in the first rank of indispensable books about the ‘strange
country’ that calls itself the Heart of Dixie. No student of Alabamiana
can afford to be without Alabama Getaway. For close to two centuries
now, historians, journalists, novelists, and poets have wrestled
with the maddening paradoxes that Tullos confronts with measured
authority. . . . He deepens our understanding of Alabama even while
convincing us there is little reason for optimism about its governance.
Yet he gives due credit for the civil rights gains that represent
Alabama’s greatest achievement. Bravo! This is a masterful book
about a wounded, neurotic, maddening, and—for those of us born to
its soil—an enduringly lovable place.”—Howell Raines
Also in the series
Who Gets a Childhood?
Race and Juvenile Justice
in Twentieth-Century Texas
William S. Bush
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3719-7
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2983-3
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3762-3
The Culture of Property
Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta,
1880–1950
“American studies at its best, a penetrating reflection on why this
former seat of the Confederacy exists in the national imaginary as
both a political, economic, and cultural backwater and a site where
the Goliath of Jim Crow was slain by humble descendants of slaves.
Alabama Getaway is a rich and surprising journey to which you’ll want
to return.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life
and Times of an American Original
LeeAnn Lands
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3392-2
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2979-6
Cynthia Blakeley
A native of Alabama, Allen Tullos teaches American studies at Emory University. He
is the author of Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina
Piedmont and editor of Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South. Tullos is a cofounder
and senior editor of the Internet journal Southern Spaces and has worked on numerous
documentary films.
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Announcing a new series
Since 1970: Histories of
Contemporary America
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Series Advisory Board
Mary Dudziak
University of Southern California
Devin Fergus
Hunter College,
City University of New York
David Greenberg
Rutgers University
Shane Hamilton
University of Georgia
Jennifer Mittelstadt
Rutgers University
Stephen Pitti
Yale University
Robert Self
Brown University
Siva Vaidhyanathan
University of Virginia
Since 1970 focuses on U.S. history since the 1970s, with a particular
emphasis on books that either connect that decade to a longer trajectory
or focus entirely on the last forty years of American history. The series
welcomes a wide range of topics, but ideal projects address the recent past
and are methodologically innovative. Since 1970 will feature titles in social
and cultural history; the history of science, environment, and technology;
the history of race, immigration, and ethnicity; and political histories that
construe the category of “politics” broadly.
Series Editors
Claire Potter, a professor of history and American Studies at Wesleyan
University, specializes in United States political history, queer studies, and
the history of gender, sex, and feminism. She blogs at Tenured Radical and
also contributes to the group history blog Cliopatria. Potter is the author
of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture. She is
currently at work on a book about the origins of the feminist “sex wars”
and the antipornography campaign waged by the Reagan Administration,
Sexual Revolutions: Feminism, the Reagan Revolution, and the Politics of
Pornography, 1968–1990.
Renee C. Romano, an associate professor of history at Oberlin College, is
a specialist in twentieth-century American history, with research interests
in African American history, civil rights, and historical memory. Romano
is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America
and coeditor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (Georgia).
She is at work on a new book tentatively titled Justice Delayed: Civil Rights
Trials and America’s Racial Reckoning, which explores contemporary prosecutions of civil rights–era crimes.
Judy Wu
Ohio State University
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Jimmy Carter, the Politics of
Family, and the Rise of the
Religious Right
March
6 x 9 | 450 pp.
20 b&w photos
Paper, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3770-8
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Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3955-9
J. Brooks Flippen
A look at the seismic shift in the political landscape
that gave rise to the Religious Right
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As Jimmy Carter ascended to the presidency the heir apparent to Democratic
liberalism, he touted his background as a born-again evangelical. Once in
office, his faith indeed helped form policy on a number of controversial moral
issues. By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting that they
were private matters beyond government interference, J. Brooks Flippen
argues, Carter unintentionally alienated both social liberals and conservative
Christians, thus ensuring that the debate over these moral “family issues”
acquired a new prominence in public and political life.
The Carter era, according to Flippen, stood at a fault line in American culture, religion, and politics. In the wake of the 1960s, some Americans worried that the traditional family faced a grave crisis. This newly politicized
constituency viewed secular humanism in education, the recognition of
reproductive rights established by Roe v. Wade, feminism, and the struggle
for homosexual rights as evidence of cultural decay and as a challenge to
religious orthodoxy. Social liberals viewed Carter’s faith with skepticism
and took issue with his seeming unwillingness to build on recent progressive victories. Ultimately, Flippen argues, conservative Christians emerged
as the Religious Right and were adopted into the Republican fold.
Also of interest
Examining Carter’s struggle to placate competing interests against the
backdrop of difficult foreign and domestic issues—a struggling economy,
the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, disputes in the Middle East,
handover of the Panama Canal, and the Iranian hostage crisis—Flippen
shows how a political dynamic was formed that continues to this day.
Prophet from Plains
Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
Frye Gaillard
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3332-8
Ebook, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3899-6
Liberalism, Black Power, and the
Making of American Politics,1965–1980
“A dramatic and detailed account of the mobilization of the Religious
Right, its battles against feminism and gay rights, and Jimmy Carter’s
futile attempts to placate all sides of the culture wars that exploded
in the late 1970s. Flippen shows how the revolt of conservative
Christians against Carter’s theological belief in the separation of
church and state, not simply a religious versus secular divide, laid the
foundation for the Republican embrace of ‘family values’ politics.”
—Matthew D. Lassiter, author of The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics
in the Sunbelt South
Devin Fergus
J. Brooks Flippen is a professor of history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
He is the author of Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of
American Environmentalism and Nixon and the Environment.
Dan Hoke, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3323-6
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century
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My Work Is That of Conservation
May
6 x 9 | 306 pp.
12 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3870-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3088-4
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3965-8
An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
Mark D. Hersey
An American icon reconsidered
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most
familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That
of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American
scientist who developed a wide variety of uses for the peanut.
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Carver had a truly prolific career dedicated to studying the ways in which
people ought to interact with the natural world, yet much of his work has
been largely forgotten. Hersey rectifies this by tracing the evolution of
Carver’s agricultural and environmental thought starting with his childhood
in Missouri and Kansas and his education at the Iowa Agricultural College.
Carver’s environmental vision came into focus when he moved to the
Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, where his sensibilities and
training collided with the denuded agrosystems, deep poverty, and institutional racism of the Black Belt. It was there that Carver realized his most
profound agricultural thinking, as his efforts to improve the lot of the area’s
poorest farmers forced him to adjust his conception of scientific agriculture.
Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era
agronomy was actually considerably “greener” than is often thought today.
My Work Is That of Conservation uses Carver’s life story to explore aspects of
southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within
the early conservation movement.
“Hersey’s book offers a fresh, insightful, and nuanced interpretation
of George Washington Carver and fills a significant gap in the growing
literature on African American environmental history. The prose is clear
and engaging, and it reads extremely well. This is a really good book.”
—Kimberly K. Smith, author of African American Environmental
Thought: Foundations
Also in the series
Environmental History
and the American South
A Reader
Paul S. Sutter and
Christopher J. Manganiello, eds.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3322-9
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3280-2
“This is a spectacular book, deeply researched and gracefully written,
which will enrich our understanding of the environmental history of
the South and restore George Washington Carver to his rightful place
in the history of environmental thought.”
—Mart A. Stewart, author of “What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life,
Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920
Pharsalia
An Environmental Biography
of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880
Lynn A. Nelson
Kelly Genuardi
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3416-5
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3602-2
Mark D. Hersey is an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
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The Invention of Ecocide
May
6 x 9 | 252 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3827-9
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3826-2
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3978-8
Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who
Changed the Way We Think about the Environment
David Zierler
An environmental and diplomatic history of a man-made disaster
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of
American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and
other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called “ecocide.”
David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer
was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency
were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with
Operation Ranch Hand, the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese mission to use
herbicidal warfare as a means to defoliate large areas of enemy territory.
Driven by the idea that humans were altering the world’s ecology for the
worse, a group of scientists relentlessly challenged Pentagon assurances of
safety, citing possible long-term environmental and health effects. It wasn’t
until 1970 that the scientists gained access to sprayed zones confirming that
a major ecological disaster had occurred. Their findings convinced the U.S.
government to renounce first use of herbicides in future wars and, Zierler
argues, fundamentally reoriented thinking about warfare and environmental
security in the next forty years.
Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently
declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement
to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental
consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies
of the cold war era.
Also of interest
Family of Fallen Leaves
Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers
“Absolutely fascinating: rich in detail, massively researched, and
skillfully narrated . . . Combining the history of science with that of
international affairs, the author skillfully traces the ways in which
states made use of scientific discoveries to create ever more destructive weapons—and describes how scientists followed their conscience
in seeking to stop such practice.”—Akira Iriye, Harvard University
Charles Waugh and Huy Lien, eds.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3714-2
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3600-8
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3749-4
American Wars, American Peace
Notes from a Son of the Empire
Philip D. Beidler
David Zierler is a historian for the U.S. Department of State. He lives in Washington,
D.C., with his wife and daughter.
Benjamin E. Akselrad
Cloth, $28.95s | 978-0-8203-2969-7
Ebook, $28.95s | 978-0-8203-3649-7
“David Zierler’s important, timely book is a welcome addition to
the scholarship on Agent Orange, a glaringly understudied topic.
Impressively researched and well written, it should be accessible to a
broad readership.”
—Edwin A. Martini, author of Invisible Enemies: The American War on
Vietnam, 1975–2000
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Religion Enters the Academy
March
5.5 x 8.5 | 132 pp.
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The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America
George H. Shriver Lecture Series
in Religion in American History, No. 4
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James Turner
The first book-length examination of the early history
of religious studies in the United States
Religious studies—also known as comparative religion or history of
religions—emerged as a field of study in colleges and universities on both
sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century. In Europe, as
previous historians have demonstrated, the discipline grew from longestablished traditions of university-based philological scholarship. But in
the United States, James Turner argues, religious studies developed outside
the academy.
Until about 1820, Turner contends, even learned Americans showed little
interest in non-European religions—a subject that had fascinated their
counterparts in Europe since the end of the seventeenth century. Growing
concerns about the status of Christianity generated American interest in
comparing it to other great religions, and the resulting writings eventually
produced the academic discipline of religious studies in U.S. universities.
Fostered especially by learned Protestant ministers, this new discipline
focused on canonical texts—the “bibles”—of other great world religions.
This rather narrow approach provoked the philosopher and psychologist
William James to challenge academic religious studies in 1902 with his
celebrated and groundbreaking Varieties of Religious Experience.
“This rare gem of a book is as stimulating for scholars as it is accessible for students. In three elegantly crafted chapters, Turner shows
how comparative religion evolved from the parlor game of early
American freethinkers to the academic discipline it is today. As
always, his prose brims with memorable wit and keen insight. His concise new classic turns the birth of religious studies into a remarkably
entertaining story.”
—Peter J. Thuesen, author of Predestination: The American Career of
a Contentious Doctrine
Also of interest
Religion and the American Nation
Historiography and History
John F. Wilson
Cloth, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-2289-6
Autobiographical Reflections on
Southern Religious History
John Boles, ed.
University of Notre Dame
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-2297-1
“With the skill of an accomplished historian, Turner offers a ‘genealogical analysis’ at once distinguishing this academic pursuit from traditional Christian studies while also noting its independence from earlier
and contemporary European inquiries. Turner’s book will be altogether
indispensable in charting how the study of religion has taken its place
among humanities—and social science—disciplines in modern American
colleges and universities.”—John F. Wilson, Princeton University
James Turner is Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at the
University of Notre Dame. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of seven other books
including The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton and The Sacred and the Secular
University.
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Spring & Summer 2011
The Faiths of the Postwar
American Presidents
August
6 x 9 | 296 pp.
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3862-0
Ebook, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3963-4
George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in
American History, No. 5
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From Truman to Obama
David L. Holmes
A compelling look at the role of religion in American politics and culture
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, an acclaimed look at the spiritual beliefs
of such iconic Americans as Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, established David L. Holmes as a measured voice in the heated debate over the
new nation’s religious underpinnings. With the same judicious approach,
Holmes now looks at the role of faith in the lives of the twelve presidents
who have served since the end of World War II.
Holmes examines not only the beliefs professed by each president but
also the variety of possible influences on their religious faith, such as their
upbringing, education, and the faith of their spouse. In each profile close
observers such as clergy, family members, friends, and advisors recall
churchgoing habits, notable displays of faith (or lack of it), and the influence of their faiths on policies concerning abortion, the death penalty,
Israel, and other controversial issues.
Whether discussing John F. Kennedy’s philandering and secularity or
Richard Nixon’s betrayal of Billy Graham’s naïve trust during Watergate,
Holmes includes telling and often colorful details not widely known or long
forgotten. We are reminded, for instance, how Dwight Eisenhower tried to
conceal the background of his parents in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and how
the Reverend Cotesworth Lewis’s sermonizing to Lyndon Johnson on the
Vietnam War was actually not a left- but a right-wing critique.
Also in the series
The Creation-Evolution Debate
National interest in the faiths of our presidents is as strong as ever, as
shown by the media frenzy engendered by George W. Bush’s claim that
Jesus was his favorite political philosopher or Barack Obama’s parting with
his minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Holmes’s work adds depth,
insight, and color to this important national topic.
Historical Perspectives
Edward J. Larson
Paper, $18.95s | 978-0-8203-3106-5
Ebook, $18.95s | 978-0-8203-3654-1
The Protestant Voice in
American Pluralism
Martin E. Marty
Praise for The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
Paper, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-2861-4
“A model of accessible scholarship, and though it addresses a controversial topic, it actually generates more light than heat.”
—Christian Century
“Effectively challenges claims coming from both sides of the culture
wars.”—Houston Chronicle
“Exceptionally insightful guidelines for judging the faith of the founding fathers . . . Read this elegant book.”—New York Times Book Review
William and Mary. His books include the The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, A Brief
History of the Episcopal Church, A Nation Mourns, and The Life of the Rev. Devereux
Jarratt.
Rob Garland
David L. Holmes is Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of
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Writing the South
through the Self
May
6 x 9 | 246 pp.
Paper, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3768-5
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Explorations in Southern Autobiography
John C. Inscoe
Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding
southern history
Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern
history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has
crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in
the life stories of those who lived it. Constantly attuned to the pedagogical value of these narratives, Inscoe argues that they offer exceptional
means of teaching young people because the authors focus so fully on their
confrontations—as children, adolescents, and young adults—with aspects of
southern life that they found to be troublesome, perplexing, or challenging.
Maya Angelou, Rick Bragg, Jimmy Carter, Bessie and Sadie Delany,
Willie Morris, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, and Thomas Wolfe are among
the more prominent of the many writers, both famous and obscure, upon
whom Inscoe draws to construct a composite portrait of the South at its
most complex and diverse. The power of place; struggles with racial, ethnic,
and class identities; the strength and strains of family; educational opportunities both embraced and thwarted—all are themes that infuse the works in
this most intimate and humanistic of historical genres.
Full of powerful and poignant stories, anecdotes, and testimonials,
Writing the South through the Self explores the emotional and psychological
dimensions of what it has meant to be southern and offers us new ways
of understanding the forces that have shaped southern identity in such
multifaceted ways.
Also by the author
Georgia in Black and White
Explorations in Race Relations
of a Southern State, 1865–1950
“Inscoe’s vast knowledge of southern life-writing, his grounding in
southern history, and his insight into the various southern tempers
have resulted in a book that is a significant contribution to the field.”
—Fred Hobson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Inscoe, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3505-6
Enemies of the Country
New Perspectives on Unionists
in the Civil War South
John Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer, eds.
Anne Richmond Boston
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2660-3
“Infused with insights drawn from the vast experiences of an accomplished scholar, a caring teacher, and a passionate and empathetic
reader. Inscoe’s defense of the unique potential that autobiography
has to shape our emotional understanding of the southern past is
lucid, engaging, and utterly convincing.”
—Jennifer Jensen Wallach, author of “Closer to the Truth Than Any
Fact”: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
John C. Inscoe is Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at
the University of Georgia. His nine books include Mountain Masters: Slavery and
the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina and Race, War, and Remembrance in the
Appalachian South. Inscoe is the editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and secretarytreasurer of the Southern Historical Association.
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Spring & Summer 2011
Civil Rights History
from the Ground Up
Local Struggles, a National Movement
March
6 x 9 | 486 pp.
26 b&w photos | 11 illus.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3865-1
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2963-5
Edited by Emilye Crosby
A spirited assessment of the state of civil rights history,
by the leading scholars of the movement
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level,
the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in
the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how
to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of
original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a
rethinking of what and who we think are central to the movement.
The essays examine such locales as Sunflower County, Mississippi;
Memphis, Tennessee; and Wilson, North Carolina; and engage such issues
as nonviolence and self-defense, the implications of focusing on women in
the movement, and struggles for freedom beyond voting rights and school
desegregation. Events and incidents discussed range from the movement’s
heyday to the present and include the Poor People’s Campaign mule train
to Washington, D.C., the popular response to the deaths of Rosa Parks
and Coretta Scott King, and political cartoons addressing Barack Obama’s
presidential campaign.
The kinds of scholarship represented here—which draw on oral history
and activist insights (along with traditional sources) and which bring the
specificity of time and place into dialogue with broad themes and a national
context—are crucial as we continue to foster scholarly debates, evaluate
newer conceptual frameworks, and replace the superficial narrative that
persists in the popular imagination.
“Engaging and accessible for nonspecialists and thought provoking
for scholars, this well-written, feisty book offers cutting-edge historiography, tools for teachers, and insights for all of us. It is a mustread for anyone interested in the freedom struggle and in a just,
democratic society.”
—Julian Bond, founding member of SNCC and former chair of the NAACP
“Provides the single most compelling interpretation of the African
American freedom struggle in the South yet produced. National in
scope, deep and concrete, empirical and analytical, clear and accessible, this collection clarifies virtually all the crucial scholarly debates
while furnishing engaging examples for students and general readers.
Crosby shows us a historic movement as deep as it is long, rooted in
the black South, but speaking to the whole world.”
—Timothy B. Tyson, author of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and
the Roots of Black Power
Contributors
Emilye Crosby
John Dittmer
Laurie B. Green
Wesley Hogan
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Charles W. McKinney Jr.
J. Todd Moye
Charles M. Payne
Judy Richardson
Robyn C. Spencer
Jeanne Theoharis
Amy Nathan Wright
Emilye Crosby is a professor of history at the State University of New
York at Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black
Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi.
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We Are the Revolutionists
March
6 x 9 | 260 pp.
14 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3823-1
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3800-2
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3960-3
German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists
after 1848
Mischa Honeck
Rethinking the struggle to end American slavery
in a transatlantic context
Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass
immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans
came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of
race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking “FortyEighters,” refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled
apprehensions about the nation’s future. Reaching America did not end the
foreign revolutionaries’ pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it.
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In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of
these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group
of beleaguered agitators: America’s abolitionists. Honeck details how
individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to
overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and
Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an
Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest.
Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical
German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how
these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists,
Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of
their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity
in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.
Also in the series
In Search of Brightest Africa
“Extraordinarily well researched . . . Honeck argues persuasively that
these Forty-Eighters drew upon Enlightenment ideology to champion
equality and racial reform by challenging privilege and hierarchy in the
United States, just as they had tried unsuccessfully to do in Europe.”
—John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of
American History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reimagining the Dark Continent in American
Culture, 1884–1936
Jeannette Eileen Jones
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3320-5
Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation
Jamaica, 1834–1866
Gale L. Kenny
Tobias Schwerdt
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3399-1
“Combining German- and English-language sources as few Americanists
can do, Honeck’s smart and ambitious book connects the American
abolitionist movement to immigration, the midcentury revolutions of
central Europe, and the ways activists on both sides of the Atlantic
found to end human bondage in the United States.”
—Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor
of Law, Albany Law School
Mischa Honeck is assistant professor at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
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The American Dreams of
John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
June
6 x 9 | 180 pp.
27 b&w photos
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3837-8
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Kari J. Winter
The first major biography of an unrepentant slave trader
As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788–1848) expressed outrage over
slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved
persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter’s life-and-times
portrayal of a slave trader illuminates the clash between two American
dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality.
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Prentis was born into a prominent Virginia family. His grandfather,
William Prentis, emigrated from London to Williamsburg in 1715 as
an indentured servant and rose to become the major shareholder in
colonial Virginia’s most successful store. William’s son Joseph became a
Revolutionary judge and legislator who served alongside Thomas Jefferson,
Patrick Henry, and James Madison. Joseph Jr. followed his father’s legal
career, whereas John was drawn to commerce. To finance his early business
ventures, he began trading in slaves. In time he grew besotted with the
high-stakes trade, appeasing his conscience with the populist platitudes of
Jacksonian democracy, which aggressively promoted white male democracy
in conjunction with white male supremacy.
Prentis’s life illuminates the intertwined politics of labor, race, class, and
gender in the young American nation. Participating in a revolution in the
ethics of labor that upheld Benjamin Franklin as its icon, he rejected the
gentility of his upbringing to embrace solidarity with “mechanicks,” white
working-class men. His capacity for admirable thoughts and actions complicates images drawn by elite slaveholders, who projected the worst aspects
of slavery onto traders while imagining themselves as benign patriarchs.
This is an absorbing story of a man who betrayed his innate sense of justice
to pursue wealth through the most vicious forms of human exploitation.
Also in the series
“I know of no rival book that reveals so much of the biography and,
more important, the antecedents and social milieu of a slave trader.
This is a striking study of the banality of the slave-trading evil in the
early American Republic.”
—William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Life and Letters of Philip
Quaque, the First African Anglican
Missionary
“Offers an indelible portrait of a Virginia slave trader and the everwidening filial, cultural, and political circles that framed his life. The
book does a very good job of outlining the dimensions of the world
that produced Prentis; it also offers important meditations on the way
that Prentis’s often conflicting dreams and desires impacted the social
world around him.”
—Richard Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet: Richard Allen, the
AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
Marcus Wood
Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese, eds.
Cloth, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-3319-9
The Horrible Gift of Freedom
Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of
Emancipation
Kari J. Winter is a professor of American studies at the State University of New York
at Buffalo. She is the author of Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in
Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790–1865 (Georgia) and editor of The Blind African
Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace.
Dorothy Winter
Paper, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3427-1
Cloth, $74.95y | 978-0-8203-3426-4
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Mary Turner and the Memory
of Lynching
August
6 x 9 | 264 pp.
11 b&w photos | 2 maps
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3766-1
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Julie Buckner Armstrong
The first study of a lynching that galvanized activists and artists
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists,
artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant
woman near Valdosta, Georgia. In 1918, the murder of a white farmer led
to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African
Americans, including Hayes Turner. When his wife Mary vowed to press
charges against the killers, she too fell victim to the mob.
Mary’s lynching was particularly brutal and involved the grisly death of
her eight-month-old fetus. It led to both an entrenched local silence and
a widespread national response in newspaper and magazine accounts,
visual art, film, literature, and public memorials. Turner’s story became
a centerpiece of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign for the 1922
Dyer Bill, which sought to make lynching a federal crime. Julie Buckner
Armstrong explores the complex and contradictory ways this horrific event
was remembered in works such as Walter White’s report in the NAACP’s
newspaper the Crisis, the “Kabnis” section of Jean Toomer’s Cane, Angelina
Weld Grimké’s short story “Goldie,” and Meta Fuller’s sculpture Mary
Turner: A Silent Protest against Mob Violence.
Like those of Emmett Till and Leo Frank, Turner’s story continues to
resonate on multiple levels. Armstrong’s work provides insight into the
different roles black women played in the history of lynching: as victims, as
loved ones left behind, and as those who fought back. The crime continues
to defy conventional forms of representation, illustrating what can, and
cannot, be said about lynching and revealing the difficulty and necessity of
confronting this nation’s legacy of racial violence.
Also of interest
Screening a Lynching
The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
Matthew H. Bernstein
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3239-0
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2752-5
“This book should become the most important study of a single lynching available. In compelling prose, Armstrong traces how different
groups of Americans work to remember and to forget Mary Turner’s
lynching and what these stories can tell us about the relationship of
historical memory and racial violence in America.”
—Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of
Segregation in the South, 1890–1940
“What Virtue There Is in Fire”
Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose
Edwin T. Arnold
Cloth, $28.95t | 978-0-8203-2891-1
Ebook, $28.95t | 978-0-8203-3616-9
“In her gripping account of how one lynching has moved through cultural memory, Armstrong reminds us why we must never be silent in
the face of injustice. This is a groundbreaking book, one that should
be read by anyone interested in the power of art and scholarship to
change the way we talk about race in America.”
—Christopher Metress, editor of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A
Documentary Narrative
Chad Anderson
Julie Buckner Armstrong is an associate professor of English at the University of
South Florida St. Petersburg. She is coeditor of Teaching the American Civil Rights
Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song and editor of The Civil Rights Reader: American
Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation (Georgia).
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John Bachman
Selected Writings on Science, Race, and Religion
Edited by Gene Waddell
Writings from a groundbreaking scientist
July
6 x 9 | 400 pp.
7 color illus.
Cloth, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-3818-7
Ebook, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-3964-1
The Publications of the Southern Texts Society
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John Bachman (1790–1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a
prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on
plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species.
Bachman was the leading authority on North American mammals. He was
responsible for the descriptions of the 147 mammal species included in
Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, a massive work produced in collaboration with John James Audubon. Bachman relied entirely on scientific
evidence in his work and was exceptional among his fellow naturalists for
studying the whole of natural history.
Bachman also relied on scientific evidence in his Doctrine of the Unity of the
Human Race. He showed that human beings constitute a single species that
developed as varieties equivalent to the varieties of domesticated animals.
In this work, perhaps his most significant accomplishment, Bachman stood
nearly alone in challenging the polygenetic views of Louis Agassiz and others that white and black people descended from different progenitors.
Bachman was also an important figure in the establishment of Lutheranism
in the Southeast. He wrote the first American monograph on the doctrines
of Martin Luther and the history of the Reformation. Bachman served
for fifty-six years as minister of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Charleston,
South Carolina, and was one of the founders of Newberry College.
“Waddell’s thoughtful selections from Bachman’s writings offer an
excellent picture of a truly significant figure in the history of natural
history, the defense of all human races as a single species, and the
development of religion in the American South.”
—Lester D. Stephens, author of Science, Race, and Religion in the
American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of
Naturalists: 1815–1895
Also in the series
Pioneering American Wine
Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master
Viticulturist
David S. Shields, ed.
Cloth, $29.95s | 978-0-8203-3233-8
Ebook, $29.95s | 978-0-8203-3640-4
Mary Telfair to Mary Few
Selected Letters, 1802-1844
Betty Wood, ed.
$44.95s | 978-0-8203-2920-8
Gene Waddell is Special Collections Archivist Emeritus at the College
of Charleston and former director of the South Carolina Historical
Society. Waddell is the author of the two-volume Charleston Architecture,
1670–1860.
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The Plain and Noble Garb
of Truth
From a Far Country
Nationalism and Impartiality in American
Historical Writing, 1784–1860
Catharine Randall
Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
March
6 x 9 | 376 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3877-4
American historians of the early national period, argues
Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than
later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of
antebellum historians show that by the 1820s a small but
influential group had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical
practice. Cheng’s work challenges the entrenched notion that
America’s first generations of historians were romantics or
propagandists for a struggling young nation.
“Anyone seeking knowledge of the historiography of the
postrevolutionary and antebellum decades will wish to
read this comprehensive, clearly written study.”
—American Historical Review
“Those interested in the history of American historical
writing—or nineteenth-century American intellectual
history in general—will want to read this extremely wellwritten book.”
—Peter Novick, author of That Noble Dream: The
“Objectivity Question” and the American Historical
Profession
Eileen Ka-May Cheng teaches history at Sarah Lawrence
College.
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March
6 x 9 | 186 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3820-0
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Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known
cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the
important role these French Protestants played in settling the
New World. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in
large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation
of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Atlantic world.
“Provid[es] important insights into the cultural transformations involved in the creation of a New World society.
Her book contributes to the literature of colonial history,
transatlantic history, and the cultural world of early
America.”
—Georgia Cosmos, author of Huguenot Prophecy and
Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century
“A major contribution to the fields of history and religious studies. From a Far Country will elicit long-overdue
interest in a movement that has been marginalized by
historians and may well be more central to modern evangelical Christianity than we had previously suspected.”
—Kathleen P. Long, editor of Religious Differences in
France: Past and Present
Catharine Randall is a professor of French at Fordham
University. She is the author of numerous books including
Earthly Treasures: Material Culture and Metaphysics in the
Heptaméron and Evangelical Narrative and Building Codes:
The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2011
New in paperback
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Marching in Step
The Unemployed People’s
Movement
Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in
Post–World War II America
Alexander Macaulay
Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia,
1929–1941
James J. Lorence
March
6 x 9 | 308 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3821-7
March
6 x 9 | 328 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3876-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3642-8
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/PCTCS
Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the
critical distance of a historian, Alexander Macaulay examines
The Citadel’s reactions to major shifts in postwar life, from
the rise of the counterculture to the demise of the Cold War.
“This is a story that is bigger than one small school in a
southern town. It is, as it should be, the story of America
coming to terms with its past. From the Cold War to
civil rights, from Vietnam to the feminist movement,
The Citadel found itself on the front lines of America’s
culture wars. Thankfully, in Macaulay, we have found a
historian of consummate skill to analyze those conflicts
and their effects on the modern South.”
—Steve Estes, author of Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian
Veterans Speak Out
“In this highly engaging and perceptive study, Macaulay
challenges the characterization of The Citadel as a
hidebound southern anachronism. Macaulay’s post–
World War II Citadel is more a reflection of the larger
society than a reaction against it, an institution forced
to reconsider its gendered and racialized notions of citizenship as the ground shifted beneath its feet.”
—Kari Frederickson, author of The Dixiecrat Revolt and
the End of the Solid South, 1932–1968
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
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During the Great Depression, jobless workers united with
the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they
confronted an unresponsive political and social system and
helped shape government policies. James J. Lorence examines
this movement, which took place far from the northeastern and midwestern sites we commonly associate with
Depression-era labor struggles.
“Well written and deeply researched . . . a significant contribution to the growing literature on the ‘Southern Front’
of social activism and radical political culture during the
New Deal years.”
—Alex Lichtenstein, author of Twice the Work of Free
Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the
New South
“Given current U.S. unemployment rates, the story
of this book could speak to the growing number of
organizers and policy makers looking to again harness
the grassroots.”—American Historical Review
Alexander Macaulay was a cadet at The Citadel when the
first woman enrolled there. He is an assistant professor of
history at Western Carolina University.
James J. Lorence is a professor emeritus of history at
the University of Wisconsin–Marathon County. His books
include A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West and Screening
America: United States History through Film since 1900.
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Spaces of Law in American
Foreign Relations
June
6 x 9 | 378 pp.
6 b&w photos
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3871-2
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Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands
and Beyond, 1877–1898
Daniel S. Margolies
A rising global power and its territorial, spatial, and jurisdictional
assertions
In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase
in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and
transborder abduction and interdiction. In this sweeping history of the
underpinnings of American empire, Daniel S. Margolies offers a new frame
of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in U.S. foreign relations during
an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness.
Whether it was in the Mexican borderlands or in other hot spots around
the globe, Margolies shows that American policy responded to disputes
over jurisdiction by defining the space of law on the basis of a strident
unilateralism. Especially significant and contested were extradition regimes
and the exceptions carved within them. Extradition of fugitives reflected
critical questions of sovereignty and the role of the state in foreign affairs
during the run-up to overseas empire in 1898.
Using extradition as a critical lens, Spaces of Law in American Foreign
Relations examines the rich embeddedness of questions of sovereignty, territoriality, legal spatiality, and citizenship and shows that U.S. hegemonic
power was constructed in significant part in the spaces of law, not simply
through war or trade.
Also of interest
Understanding Life
in the Borderlands
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion
I. William Zartman, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3407-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3385-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3614-5
Studies in Security and International Affairs
“Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations is the first book to
address the legal aspects of late nineteenth-century U.S. foreign relations. It fills a clear historiographical void and, in so doing, not only
significantly enhances our understanding of U.S. foreign relations from
1877 to 1898 but also provides insight into the legal bases for governing the empire acquired after 1898. Based on prodigious and highly
impressive research, it will be of interest to historians of U.S. foreign
relations, of American legal history, and of the Gilded Age.”
—Joseph A. Fry, author of Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S.
Foreign Relations, 1789–1973
Secession as an
International Phenomenon
From America’s Civil War to
Contemporary Separatist Movements
Don H. Doyle, ed.
Rise Delmar Ochsner
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3712-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3008-2
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3737-1
Daniel S. Margolies is a professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the
author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and
Globalization.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2011
Accumulating Insecurity
March
6 x 9 | 318 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3873-6
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Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life
Edited by Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Gayatri A. Menon
Geographies of Justice
and Social Transformation 9
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Rethinking everyday security in a militarized age
Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global
military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic
increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in
health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment.
Contributors to the volume explore how violence is used to maintain
conditions for accumulating capital. Across world regions violence is manifested in the increasingly strained, often terrifying, circumstances in which
people struggle to socially reproduce themselves. Security is often sought
through armaments and containment, which can lead to the impoverishment rather than the nourishment of laboring bodies. Under increasingly
precarious conditions, governments oversee the movements of people,
rather than scrutinize and regulate the highly volatile movements of capital.
They often do so through practices that condone dispossession in the name
of economic and political security.
“An excellent and timely collection of essays written by some of the
most innovative scholars in critical legal and security studies. It will
be of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate students and
researchers in sociology, political science, geography, and law.”
—Janine Brodie, coeditor of Remapping Gender in the New Global Order
Contributors
Aliya Latif
Cornell University Photography, Lindsay France
Shelley Feldman (left) is a professor of sociology and director of the
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University.
She is author or editor of three previous books including Unequal Burden:
Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women’s Work. Charles Geisler
(center) is a professor of sociology at Cornell University. He is the author
or editor of eight previous book including Property and Values: Alternatives
to Public and Private Ownership. Gayatri A. Menon (right) is a visiting
assistant professor of sociology at Franklin and Marshall College.
Cornell University Photography, Robert Barker
Claudia Aradau
Pheng Cheah
Deborah Cowen
Nicholas De Genova
Shelley Feldman
Charles Geisler
Tyrell Haberkorn
Paula Johnson
Martha McCluskey
Julie Nice
Zakia Salime
Amy Siciliano
Melissa Wright
Anna Zalik
“Does a superb job at investigating the diverse practices and contexts
whereby the conditions of social reproduction have been rendered
insecure. It will be of interest to scholars working in critical security studies, legal studies, terrorism studies, international political
economy, critical geography, and sociology.”
—Peter Nyers, author of Rethinking Refugees: Beyond States of
Emergency
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Fitzgerald
Back in print
March
11 x 8.5 | 272 pp.
237 b&w photos | 40 line illus.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3874-3
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3974-0
Geography of a Revolution
William Bunge
Foreword by Nik Heynen and Trevor Barnes
Geographies of Justice
and Social Transformation 8
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A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
An explosive book that helped define the field of critical urban
geography
This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in
collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved
with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. Fitzgerald,
at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the
intensive study of a small, local place.
Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and
the neighborhood’s first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized
imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American
settlement. Historical events are firmly situated in space—a task Bunge
accomplishes through liberal use of maps and frequent references to recognizable twentieth-century landmarks.
More than a work of historical geography, Fitzgerald is a political intervention. By 1967 the neighborhood was mostly African American; Black Power
was ascendant; and Detroit would experience a major riot. Immersed in the
daily life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to
think about local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different
sort of geography led him to create a work that was nothing like a typical
work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book—a major theoretical contribution to urban geography
that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era.
Also of interest
Uneven Development
Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
Third edition
Neil Smith
“There’s nobody like Bill Bunge and there’ll never be anyone like
him again. Fitzgerald is another way of telling a story about city life,
about its horrors and threats, its joys and possibilities. Our cities continue to crumble, disintegrate financially and socially; yet geographers
fret about tenure reviews and research evaluations. How can we not
feel shame reading Bunge’s great book today? He’s our conscience,
he gnaws away inside us, always forcing us to consider who we are as
scholars and what we should do to save life on planet urban.”
—Andy Merrifield, author of Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3099-0
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3590-2
Social Justice and the City
Revised editon
David Harvey
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3403-5
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3604-6
"The reissuing of this classic text in urban geography will excite old
students and new. . . . We must not lose sight of the conviction and
hope of radical possibilities in American cities set forth by Bunge and
his geographical expeditions."
—Alison Mountz, author of Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and
Bureaucracy at the Border
William Bunge lived in the Fitzgerald neighborhood and taught geography at Wayne
State University while writing this book. In 1970 the House Un-American Activities
Committee included Bunge’s name on a list of sixty-five “radical” speakers. Blacklisted
and unable to find academic work, he fled to Canada, where he taught at several universities and (like the founder of critical geography, Henri Lefebvre) drove a cab. He is the
author of three other books.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2011
Roppongi Crossing
March
6 x 9 | 328 pp.
32 b&w photos | 5 maps
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3832-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3831-6
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The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District
and the Reshaping of a Global City
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
Geographies of Justice
and Social Transformation 7
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A leading geographer of Japan assesses the
changing face of Tokyo nightlife
For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure
quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and people.
It was where Japanese and foreigners went to meet and play. With the
crash of Japan’s bubble economy in the 1990s, however, the neighborhood
declined, and it now has a reputation as perhaps Tokyo’s most dangerous
district—a hotbed of illegal narcotics, prostitution, and other crimes. Its
concentration of “bad foreigners,” many from China, Russia and Eastern
Europe, West Africa, and Southeast Asia is thought to be the source of the
trouble.
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky examines how Roppongi’s nighttime economy is
now under siege by both heavy-handed police action and the conservative
Japanese “construction state,” an alliance of large private builders and political interests with broad discretion to redevelop Tokyo. The construction
state sees an opportunity to turn prime real estate into high-end residential
and retail projects that will “clean up” the area and make Tokyo more competitive with Shanghai and other rising business centers in Asia.
Roppongi Crossing is a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most
dynamic district in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Based on extensive fieldwork, it looks at the interplay between the neighborhood’s nighttime rhythms; its emerging daytime economy of office towers and shopping
malls; Japan’s ongoing internationalization and changing ethnic mix; and
Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown, the massive new construction projects
now looming over the old playground.
Also in the series
Making the San Fernando Valley
Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and
White Privilege
Laura R. Barraclough
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3680-0
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3562-9
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3757-9
“Entirely original. Cybriwsky provides a very personal take on the
changes now occurring in Tokyo’s fascinating Roppongi district; the
result is a wonderful book that should find a wide audience in urban
studies.”—David W. Edgington, author of Japan at the Millennium:
Joining Past and Future
Bloomberg’s New York
Class and Governance in the Luxury City
Julian Brash
Courtesy of the author
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3681-7
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3566-7
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3754-8
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky is professor of geography and urban studies and director of
Asian studies at Temple University. He is the author of several books, including Tokyo:
The Shogun’s City at the Twenty-first Century.
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Legba’s Crossing
Transforming Scriptures
Narratology in the African Atlantic
African American Women Writers and the Bible
Heather Russell
Katherine Clay Bassard
April
6 x 9 | 216 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3879-8
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3610-7
May
6 x 9 | 180 pp.
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3880-4
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3613-8
Legba’s Crossing examines literary texts that engage key historical moments of black subjugation and resistance. Invoking
the Haitian loa Papa Legba, who is the “god of the crossroads,” as the sign of African Atlantic narrative intervention,
the works chosen for analysis challenge conventional Western
knowledge structures through innovative use, disruption, and
reconfiguration of form. Formal poetics is framed in light of
the West African aesthetic principle of àshe and linked to the
characteristics of improvisation and flexibility that are central
to jazz, quilting, and other art forms. These modern aesthetic
forms can be productively linked to much older West African
philosophy and its African Atlantic iterations.
This is the first sustained treatment of African American
women writers’ intellectual, even theological, engagements
with the Bible. Katherine Clay Bassard looks at poetry,
novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by Maria W. Stewart,
Frances Harper, Hannah Crafts, Harriet E. Wilson, Harriet
Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Sherley
Anne Williams and discusses how such texts respond as a
collective “literary witness” to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.
“Legba’s Crossing puts Heather Russell among the best of
her generation of scholars, adept in reading both formal
literature and its theory and popular culture. . . . Her
book dislodges the earlier Black Atlantic discourse from
its North Atlantic framing and makes it applicable to a
larger African diaspora understanding.”
—Carole Boyce Davies, author of Left of Karl Marx: The
Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
“Russell arrives resolutely at comprehensively nuanced and
analytical ports of call. Her critical voyage is scintillatingly original, manifestly interdisciplinary, and instructive.
Readers will find themselves renewed by her activist scholarship as well as her formalist analyses. Legba’s Crossing
indisputably pilots Diaspora Studies to the forefront of
contemporary expressive cultural analysis and debate.”
—Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor,
Vanderbilt University
Heather Russell is an associate professor of English at
Florida International University.
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“An important contribution to research on African
American women and their writers’ voices and on the
cross-cultural phenomenon of inventing and using scriptures. In the creative ways in which Bassard brings the
two areas together she broadens and deepens and makes
them more compelling. The book is illuminating, daring,
and, perhaps, most important, suggests new areas of
meaningful transdisciplinary research.”
—Vincent L. Wimbush, editor of Theorizing Scriptures:
New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon
“Brilliant, cogently argued . . . An astute literary critic,
Biblical scholar, and feminist theorist, Bassard here
interweaves diverse methodologies to produce a landmark and field-defining work of scholarship.”—Valerie
Smith, Director, Center for African American Studies
and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Princeton
University
Katherine Clay Bassard is a professor of English at Virginia
Commonwealth University. She is the author of Spiritual
Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early
African American Women’s Writing.
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Spring & Summer 2011
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Rising China and Its
Postmodern Fate
Jack London’s Racial Lives
Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Charles Horner
March
6.125 x 9.25 | 440 pp.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3781-4
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3970-2
A Critical Biography
April
6 x 9 | 240 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3878-1
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3588-9
Studies in Security and International Affairs
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/SSIA
China’s sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both
rooted in the past, says Charles Horner, and we need to
understand that connection. Horner offers a new interpretation of how China’s changed view of its modern historical
experience has also changed China’s understanding of its long
intellectual and cultural tradition. Spirited reevaluations of
history, strategy, commerce, and literature are cooperating—
and competing—to define the future.
“An important and carefully argued book that suggests
new ways of looking at China’s modern history. . . . In
just two hundred pages and eleven crisply organized chapters, Horner manages to pack enough thought-provoking
questions to keep his reader busy re-evaluating his or her
views of China today.”—Jonathan Fenby, Asia Policy
Jeanne Campbell Reesman offers the first full study of the
enormously important issue of race in Jack London’s life and
diverse works, exploring his choices of genre by analyzing
racial content and purpose and judging his literary artistry
against a standard of racial tolerance.
“London’s attitudes toward and treatments of the race
issue in his public statements and in his fiction constitute
one of the most controversial and problematic aspects of
his complex persona. Reesman’s study is both exhaustive
and definitive. She rightly argues that London’s attitudes
defy simplification, not only because he was divided on
the issue in his own mind but also because his attitudes
were dynamic, not static. She has deftly analyzed the
causes of his ambivalence and accurately traced the
course of his significant attitudinal changes through both
his fiction and his nonfiction.”
—Earle Labor, editor of The Portable Jack London
Charles Horner is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
“This is an important book, not only because Jack
London is an important and often underappreciated
writer but because the contradictions and ambiguities
about race that marked London’s work continue, alas,
to mark American society and politics to this very day.
Reading London, as this book so vividly shows, is reading
ourselves.”
—Paul Lauter, general editor of The Heath Anthology of
American Literature
He has served in the Department of State, taught at
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and been
a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
and of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, and the National Interest.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman is a professor of English at
the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author
of numerous books including Jack London, Photographer
(Georgia), American Designs: The Late Novels of James and
Faulkner, and Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction.
I n t e r n at i o n al R e lat i o n s
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“A highly informed and insightful set of reflections on the
question, what are we to make of the much-discussed
‘rise’ of China? . . . This is a unique and marvelous piece
of deep reflection on some of the most important issues
of history of our time.”
—Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International
Relations, University of Pennsylvania
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An Everglades Providence
Shades of Green
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American
Environmental Century
Visions of Nature in the Literature of
American Slavery, 1770–1860
Jack E. Davis
Ian Frederick Finseth
Winner of the Gold Medal in Nonfiction,
Florida Book Awards
May
6 x 9 | 360 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3780-7
April
6.125 x 9.25 | 764 pp.
Paper, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3779-1
Environmental History and the American South
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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to
transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned
swamp into its most beloved wetland. This first comprehensive biography explores the 108-year life of Douglas, environmental activist, suffragist, lifetime feminist and supporter
of the ERA, champion of social justice, and author of diverse
literary talent who came of age literally and professionally
during the American environmental century.
“An impressive look at America during Douglas’s lifetime
and the growth of America’s environmental movement.
This outstanding volume is essential for environmental
and history collections.”—Library Journal
“Davis never met Douglas, but he has given her the serious biography she deserves, capturing her cantankerous
personality and brilliant mind, while at the same time
providing the historical context necessary to fully appreciate her amazing life. It’s a tour de force.”
—St. Petersburg Times
Jack E. Davis is an associate professor of history at the
University of Florida. He is editor of The Wide Brim: Early
Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida.
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Shades of Green offers a creative reimagining of early and
antebellum American literary culture by exploring the complex web of relationships linking racial thought to natural
science and natural imagery. The book charts a dynamic shift
in both polemical and imaginative literature, as scientific,
artistic, and spiritual vocabularies regarding “nature” became
increasingly important for authors seeking to mobilize public
opinion against slavery or to redefine racial identity.
“This is a rich and insightful study that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of debates on
slavery and race, particularly in relation to historically
shifting conceptions of ‘nature’ and the human.”
—Robert S. Levine, associate general editor of The
Norton Anthology of American Literature
“Finseth’s attention to the convergence of antebellum
views of slavery and rising appreciation of the socio­
political import of the natural world (what we have
come nowadays to call ‘ecocriticism’) provides a unique
and welcome new departure in the study of slavery and
abolitionism.”
—Eric J. Sundquist, author of Empire and Slavery in
American Literature, 1820–1865
Ian Frederick Finseth is an associate professor of English
at the University of North Texas. He is the editor of The
American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings.
L i t e rary S t u d i e s
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Also published in association
with the
African American Life
in the Georgia Lowcountry
Democracy Restored
A History of the Georgia State Capitol
Philip Morgan, ed.
Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee
Featuring photographs by Diane Kirkland
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-3064-8
Cloth, $39.95t | 978-0-8203-2911-6
After O’Connor
Georgia Odyssey
Hugh Ruppersburg, ed.
James C. Cobb
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2557-6
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2556-9
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3050-1
Ebook, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3509-4
Crossroads of Conflict
The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
to Georgia Literature
The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Second edition
Stories from Contemporary Georgia
A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia
Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell
Hugh Ruppersburg and John C. Inscoe, eds.
Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3730-2
A Publication of the Georgia Civil War Commission
Published in association with the Georgia Department
of Economic Development
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2876-8
Back in print
Back in print
St. Catherines
Remember Me
An Island in Time
With a new preface
Slave Life in Coastal Georgia
Revised Edition
David Hurst Thomas
Charles Joyner
April
6 x 9 | 96 pp. | 6 b&w photos | 6 maps | 10 illus.
Paper, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-3801-9
Ebook, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-3967-2
March
6 x 9 | 84 pp. | 6 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-3875-0
Ebook, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-3971-9
Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council
Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council
St. Catherines is the story of how a team of archaeologists
found the lost sixteenth-century Spanish mission of Santa
Catalina de Guale on the coastal Georgia island now known
as St. Catherines. The discovery of mission Santa Catalina
has contributed significantly to knowledge about early
inhabitants of the island and about the Spanish presence in
Georgia nearly two centuries before the arrival of British
colonists.
Remember Me is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and
its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers
a rich picture of that culture’s stories, songs, and traditions,
as well as the nineteenth-century plantation life in which it
endured.
David Hurst Thomas is the curator of anthropology at
the American Museum of Natural History. In addition to
his discoveries on St. Catherines, he has completed major
excavations at Gatecliff Shelter in Nevada and of a Spanish
mission south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Charles Joyner is Burroughs Distinguished Professor of
Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University.
His nine books include Shared Traditions: Southern History
and Folk Culture and Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina
Slave Community.
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2011 marks the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War
For a complete list of Civil War titles visit http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/catalogs_newsletters
Recently published
Back in print
Crossroads of Conflict
Atlas of the Civil War,
Month by Month
A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia
Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell
Major Battles and Troop Movements
Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3730-2
Mark Swanson
A Publication of the Georgia Civil War Commission
Published in association with the Georgia Department of Economic
Development and the Georgia Humanities Council
Cloth, $39.95t | 978-0-8203-2658-0
“In the hot summer of 1864, the outcome of the Civil War
was decided right here in Georgia. Crossroads of Conflict
shows you where to find the war today, whether battlefields, historic sites, or museums. It’s the indispensable
guide for the 150th anniversary of the war in Georgia.”
—Gordon L. Jones, senior military historian at the Atlanta
History Center
“There is nothing like this atlas, which illustrates with great
clarity the month-by-month political changes of the Civil
War. It makes a notable contribution in allowing readers to
look at the entire strategic landscape of the war, placing
various events and movements in geographical context.”
—Gary W. Gallagher, author of Lee and His Army in
Confederate History
Other notable Civil War titles
Berry Benson’s Civil War Book
Memoirs of a Confederate Scout
and Sharpshooter
Susan Williams Benson, ed.
Civil War Time
Temporality and Identity in
America, 1861–1865
Cheryl A. Wells
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2943-7
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-2657-3
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune
The Civil War Letters of
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Russell Duncan, ed.
Diehard Rebels
The Confederate Culture
of Invincibility
Jason Phillips
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2174-5
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3433-2
Chickamauga
A Battlefield History in Images
Roger C. Linton
Enemies of the Country
New Perspectives on Unionists
in the Civil War South
John C. Inscoe and
Robert C. Kenzer, eds.
Cloth, $39.95t | 978-0-8203-2598-9
The Civil War Letters of Joseph
Hopkins Twichell
A Chaplain’s Story
Peter Messent and
Steve Courtney, eds.
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-2693-1
The Civil War as a Crisis
in Gender
Augusta, Georgia, 1860–1890
LeeAnn Whites
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2660-3
Guarding Greensboro
A Confederate Company in the
Making of a Southern Community
G. Ward Hubbs
Cloth, $34.95s | 978-0-8203-2505-7
Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia
Survival in a Civil War Regiment
Scott Walker
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2209-4
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2933-8
Civil War Stories
Catherine Clinton
Invisible Southerners
Ethnicity in the Civil War
Anne J. Bailey
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-2074-8
Georgia Southern University Jack N. and
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Never Surrender
Confederate Memory and
Conservatism in the South
Carolina Upcountry
W. Scott Poole
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2508-8
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2507-1
Rebecca Harding Davis’s Stories
of the Civil War Era
Selected Writings from the
Borderlands
Sharon M. Harris and
Robin L. Cadwallader, eds.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3435-6
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3231-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3603-9
Reminiscences of My Life
in Camp
An African American Woman’s
Civil War Memoir
Susie King Taylor
Introduction by Catherine Clinton
Paper, $14.95t | 978-0-8203-2666-5
Sam Richards’s Civil War Diary
A Chronicle of the Atlanta
Home Front
Edited by Wendy Hamand Venet
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-2999-4
Cloth, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-2757-0
The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2011
Secession as an International
Phenomenon
From America’s Civil War
to Contemporary Separatist
Movements
Don H. Doyle, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3712-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3008-2
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3737-1
Voices from Company D
Diaries by the Greensboro Guards,
Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment,
Army of Northern Virginia
G. Ward Hubbs, ed.
Cloth, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-2514-9
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Richard E. Beringer, Herman
Hattaway, Archer Jones, and
William N. Still Jr.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-1396-2
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A Distant Flame
New in paperback
April
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3786-9
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3962-7
Philip Lee Williams
Winner of the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for the best Civil War novel
A young Confederate sharpshooter, Charlie Merrill, has already suffered
many losses in his life, but he must find a way to endure—and to grow—if
he is to survive the battles he and his fellow soldiers face in July 1864 at
the gates of Atlanta. From the opening salvos on Rocky Face Ridge in
northwest Georgia through the trials of Resaca and Kennesaw Mountain,
Charlie faces the overwhelming force of the Union army and a growing
uncertainty about his place in the war.
Framed by a story that finds the elderly Charlie giving a speech on the
fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, A Distant Flame portrays
love, violence, and regret about wrong paths taken. With an attention to
historical detail that brings the past powerfully to the present, Philip Lee
Williams reveals Charlie’s journey of redemption from the Civil War’s
fields of fire to the slow steps of old age.
“The dramatic wartime events of A Distant Flame are written in the
heart of Charlie Merrill—sharpshooter, lover, pilgrim, and friend of
General Cleburne. This intense and memorable story of battlefield and
hearth tells us that it is high time to assess and treasure the work of
Philip Lee Williams.”—Marly Youmans, author of The Wolf Pit
“A must-read . . . a moving and beautifully crafted story that leaves
one with hope for humankind’s redemption.”—Civil War Book Review
“A powerful work that surely will become a classic of Civil War fiction.”
—Robert K. Krick, author of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
Also by the author
“This strikingly fine novel leaves an indelible impression on the reader
long after he puts it down. . . . As Stephen Crane once said about
Civil War historical writing, ‘I want to be there.’ In A Distant Flame,
Williams takes us there, and it’s a landscape that captures the heart.”
—Robert J. Mrazek, author of Unholy Fire: A Novel of the Civil War
Crossing Wildcat Ridge
A Memoir of Nature and Healing
Cloth, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-2090-8
The Heart of a Distant Forest
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-2790-7
The True and Authentic History of
Jenny Dorset
Philip Lee Williams is the author of fifteen books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He
lives in Watkinsville, Georgia, and teaches creative writing at the University of Georgia.
www.philipleewilliams.com
Megan Williams
Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-2334-3
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Common Birds of Greater Atlanta
New edition
April
6 x 9 | 160 pp.
125 color photos | 1 map
Paper, $14.95t | 978-0-8203-3825-5
Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins
An easy-to-use bird identification guide for city dwellers and
suburbanites
Designed for beginning birders and nature enthusiasts alike, this easy-touse guide presents sixty-one of the most common species of birds in the
greater Atlanta area.
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The guide features large color photographs throughout for immediate
identification and is conveniently organized by bird size, starting with
very small birds, such as the ruby-throated hummingbird, and progressing
to larger species, such as the great blue heron. Information for each bird
species includes common and scientific names, distinguishing marks and
characteristics, and descriptions of bird calls, typical habitats, and nesting
and feeding behaviors. Accounts also show variations in plumage according
to sex, age, and season. The perfect companion for every backyard birder,
Common Birds of Greater Atlanta also serves as an excellent introduction to
birding, bird identification, and conservation.
Also of interest
The Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia
Todd M. Schneider, Giff Beaton, Timothy
S. Keyes, and Nathan A. Klaus
Cloth, $64.95s | 978-0-8203-2893-5
Dragonflies and Damselflies of
Georgia and the Southeast
Giff Beaton
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-2795-2
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Kay Wilson
M. Kavanaugh
Male pileated woodpecker.
Jim Wilson is the author of five bird identification guides including Common Birds of
Coastal Georgia (Georgia). He is past president of the Atlanta Audubon Society and
served as Important Bird Areas coordinator for the state of Georgia from 2000 to 2006.
Anselm Atkins edited the Atlanta Audubon Society’s newsletter Wingbars for sixteen
years and is also author of the books Nature Through a Lens Brightly and The Notebooks of
Lana Skimnest.
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Common Birds of Coastal Georgia
New edition
April
6 x 9 | 240 pp.
215 color photos | 1 map
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3828-6
Jim Wilson
An easy-to-use bird identification guide for coastal residents and
visitors
Ideal for amateur birders, nature enthusiasts, and visitors to the Atlantic
coast, this guide presents 103 species of birds commonly seen on the
beaches and in the marsh and inland areas of Georgia’s coastal region. The
guide features large color photographs for easy and immediate identification and is divided into three sections that reflect distinct types of coastal
habitats—backyards, ponds and marshes, and shore and ocean. Within
these three sections, the species are arranged by size of bird, from smaller
birds, such as painted buntings, to larger ones, such as brown pelicans.
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/WFNB
Information for each bird species includes common and scientific names,
distinguishing marks and characteristics, and descriptions of bird calls, typical habitats, and nesting and feeding behaviors. Accounts also show variations in plumage according to sex, age, and season. A perfect companion
for residents and visitors alike, Common Birds of Coastal Georgia also serves
as an excellent introduction to birding, bird identification, and conservation.
Also of interest
Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts of the United States
Carol Ruckdeschel and C. Robert Shoop
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2614-6
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Georgia’s Amazing Coast
Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
David Bryant and George Davidson
Paper, $15.95t | 978-0-8203-2533-0
Jim Wilson is the author or coauthor of five bird guides including Common Birds of
Greater Atlanta (Georgia). He is past president of the Atlanta Audubon Society and
served as Important Bird Areas coordinator for the state of Georgia from 2000 to 2006.
Kay Wilson
The oystercatcher is an unmistakable large shorebird with a completely orange bill, white underparts, and black and brown upperparts.
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Back in Print
April
5.5 x 8.5 | 256 pp.
More than 125 recipes
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3739-5
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3959-7
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Vibration Cooking
or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
With a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson and a new preface
A powerful statement on the meaning of food in its time and place
Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term “soul
food” gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a
proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of
her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride
and validation of black womanhood and black “consciousness raising.”
In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Smart-Grosvenor sailed to Europe, “where
the bohemians lived and let live.” Among the cosmopolites of radical Paris,
the Gullah girl from the South Carolina low country quickly realized that
the most universal lingua franca is a well-cooked meal. As she recounts a
cool cat’s nine lives as chanter, dancer, costume designer, and member of
the Sun Ra Solar-Myth Arkestra, Smart-Grosvenor introduces us to a rich
cast of characters. We meet Estella Smart, Vertamae’s grandmother and
connoisseur of mountain oysters; Uncle Costen, who lived to be 112 and
knew how to make Harriet Tubman Ragout; and Archie Shepp, responsible
for Collard Greens à la Shepp, to name a few. She also tells us how poundcake got her a marriage proposal (she didn’t accept) and how she perfected
omelettes in Paris, enchiladas in New Mexico, biscuits in Mississippi, and
feijoida in Brazil. “When I cook, I never measure or weigh anything,”
writes Smart-Grosvenor. “I cook by vibration.”
Also of interest
The Southern Foodways Alliance
Community Cookbook
Sara Roahen and John T. Edge, eds.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3275-8
Cornbread Nation 5
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Fred W. Sauceman, ed.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3507-0
This edition features a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson placing the
book in historical context and discussing Smart-Grosvenor’s approach to
food and culture. A new preface by the author details how she came to
write Vibration Cooking.
“You will learn from Vibration Cooking something about the anger,
pride, generosity, and will of one black woman. Vertamae’s auto­
biography-travelogue-cookbook has a rare distinction: There’s something in it for everybody—of either sex or any color.”—Washington Post
“The fact that Vibration Cooking is now in its fourth reprinting
bespeaks both its popularity and its necessity. The current scholarly interest in women’s studies, African American studies, African
diasporic studies, and food studies provides no better time for reacquainting readers with Vertamae’s work. Her book is no less important
now than when she first penned it over forty years ago. . . . Black
food is more than kitchen scraps; black women are more than mammy
figures, and black culture is more than a monolith. . . . I like this
book!”—Psyche Williams-Forson, from the foreword
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, and
writer. She is the author of Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic
Rap, Vertamae Cooks in the Americas’ Family Kitchen, and Vertamae Cooks Again:
More Recipes from the Americas’ Family Kitchen. She has served as a correspondent and host for National Public Radio and written for the New York Times,
the Village Voice, the Washington Post, Life, Ebony, and Essence.
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New in paperback
back in print
Georgia’s Religious Heritage
A Chronicle of Its People and Events
Volumes 1-3
David S. Williams
March
From Mounds to
Megachurches
Atlanta and Environs
Published in association with the Atlanta History Center
April
6 x 9 | 240 pp. | 16 b&w photos
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3783-8
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3638-1
From Mounds to Megachurches offers a sweeping overview of
the role religion has played in Georgia’s history, from pre­
colonial days to the modern era.
“Williams has written a masterful and remarkably
concise synthesis of Georgia’s religious odyssey. His
title is no mere artifice of alliteration, for he does
indeed take us from thousand-year-old moundbuilders to
modern megachurches, and from Moravians to Muslims
as well, reminding us of a persistent strain of religious
diversity while placing the emergence and evolution of
a Protestant evangelical ethos at the center of Georgia’s
historical experience.”
—James C. Cobb, author of Away Down South: A History
of Southern Identity
“I know no other book that covers such a range of
material, with such chronological sweep, in such short
compass, for any southern state. Georgia and its citizens
will be privileged to have such an accessible survey of
their religious heritage available.”
—John B. Boles, author of The Great Revival: Beginnings
of the Bible Belt
David S. Williams is director of the Honors Program and
Meigs Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia. He
is the author of two previous books in religious studies.
Volume 1, 1820s–1870s
Franklin M. Garrett | 6.75 x 10 | 992 pp.
Hardcover, $74.95s | 978-0-8203-3902-3
Paper, $64.95s | 978-0-8203-3903-0
Ebook, $64.95s | 978-0-8203-3127-0
Volume 2, 1880s–1930s
Franklin M. Garrett | 6.75 x 10 | 1080 pp.
Hardcover, $74.95s | 978-0-8203-3904-7
Paper, $64.95s | 978-0-8203-3905-4
Ebook, $64.95s | 978-0-8203-3128-7
Volume 3, 1940s–1970s
Harold H. Martin | 6.75 x 10 | 648 pp.
Hardcover, $69.95s | 978-0-8203-3906-1
Paper, $59.95s | 978-0-8203-3907-8
Ebook, $59.95s | 978-0-8203-3136-2
Atlanta and Environs is an exhaustive history from the time
of Atlanta’s settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s.
Volumes 1 and 2 represent a quarter century of research by
Franklin M. Garrett—a man called “a walking encyclopedia
on Atlanta history” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With
the publication of Volume 3, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South’s most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in
recent decades. The work is arranged chronologically, with a
section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year.
“Definitive . . . An exhaustive history of the city, which,
in its faithful attention to minutiae, effectively captures
the flavor of Atlanta.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A boon to the historian, the genealogist and to the
average citizen who wants to fill himself in on the background of the leading Southeastern city.”
—Augusta Chronicle-Herald
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The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is also the official state museum of art. Founded in 1945 by
Alfred Heber Holbrook with a donation of one hundred American paintings, it recently completed an extensive expansion
and remodeling to highlight its permanent collection. Its publications have won awards from the Southeastern Museums
Conference, American Association of Museums, Southeastern College Art Conference, Independent Publisher, and more.
www.georgiamuseum.org
Edwin B. Smith Jr.
(American, active 1815–1841)
Robert Ransome Billups, ca. 1827
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 1⁄8 inches
Georgia Museum of Art, University of
Georgia; Museum purchase with funds
provided by an anonymous donor in
honor of Boone and George-Ann Knox
GMOA 2009.89
One Hundred American
Paintings
Tracing Vision
Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum
of Art
Paul Manoguerra
Edited by Carol Nathanson
With entries by Janice Simon, Lynn Boland,
and William U. Eiland
Available now
9 x 12 | 320 pp.
More than 100 color illus.
Cloth, $59.95t | 978-0-915977-75-8
Available now
9 x 12 | 320 pp.
More than 100 color illus.
Paper, $44.95t | 978-0-915977-74-1
Cloth, $59.95t | 978-0-915977-73-4
This catalogue of the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent
collection is both a tribute to Alfred Heber Holbrook, the
museum’s founder, and a record of his legacy, which began
in 1945 when he gave one hundred works of American art
to the people of Georgia through its flagship university.
These works formed the foundation of the museum’s current collection of more than 8,000 art objects. Published to
coincide with the museum’s grand reopening in January 2011
after a 30,000-square-foot expansion, this catalogue features
one hundred significant American paintings that, for the
first time, will be on continual display in the building’s new
permanent-collection galleries.
Paul A. Manoguerra is chief curator and curator of
American art at the Georgia Museum of Art. He has organized several award-winning exhibitions and written their
companion catalogues, including Amazing Grace: Self-Taught
Artists from the Mullis Collection, Lord Love You: Works by
R. A. Miller from the Mullis Collection, and Classic Ground:
Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian
Encounter.
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David Fredenthal
(American, 1914–1958)
The Athlete, late 1930s–early 1940s
Graphite on paper, 11 x 9 1⁄2 inches
Georgia Museum of Art, University of
Georgia; Gift of the Downtown Gallery
GMOA 1947.176
The latest in the Georgia Museum of Art’s series of publications on drawings from its permanent collection, Tracing
Vision focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century works
by a huge range of artists. Contemporary feminist artists Lenore Tawney and Nancy Grossman are represented
alongside Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Chuck Close is
closely followed by American Scene artist Howard Cook and
turn-of-the-century muralist Kenyon Cox. Carol Nathanson,
who wrote by far the largest number of entries, also supplies
a marvelous introductory essay that highlights the ties among
this diverse selection of drawings and focuses on the importance of the medium throughout art history.
Carol Nathanson is professor emeritus of art history at
Wright State University. Her research interests include earlytwentieth-century modernism, especially American-British
connections, and issues relating to women artists. In 1997,
she served as curator and produced the catalogue for an exhibition of the art of American Fauve Anne Estelle Rice at the
Hollis Taggart Galleries, the first exhibition in the United
States of work by that expatriate painter. Her articles have
appeared in the Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, American
Art Journal, Archives of American Art Journal, Woman’s Art
Journal, and Dreiser Studies.
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Philip Juras:
The Southern Frontier
Available now
11 x 9 | 128 pp.
More than 60 color images
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-933075-14-6
Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s Travels
With essays by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer,
Philip Juras, and Holly Koons McCullough
Foreword by Steven High
Reflection by Janisse Ray
Published by Telfair Books
www.telfair.org
Landscapes that offer a glimpse of the Southeast
before European settlement
Presenting stunning reproductions of oil paintings by landscape artist
Philip Juras, this exhibition catalogue offers a glimpse of the presettlement
southern wilderness as late 18th-century naturalist William Bartram would
have experienced it during his famed travels through the region. Juras’s
work combines direct observation with historical, scientific, and natural
history research to depict, and in some cases reimagine, landscapes as they
appeared in the 1770s. Juras spent years researching Bartram and revisiting
important sites the naturalist wrote about in his celebrated Travels. Juras’s
paintings recreate the lost southern frontier for contemporary viewers in
much the same way that nineteenth century American landscape painters
like Albert Bierstadt
and Thomas Moran
brought the western
frontier to the consciousness of the rapidly
industrializing East.
Exhibition dates
Telfair Museum of Art
January 28 through May 8, 2011
The Morris Museum of Art
May 28 through August 14, 2011
Juras’s work explores
many of the important
and imperiled ecosystems that remain
in the South today.
These little-known,
remnant natural comAnthony Shoals, Broad River, Georgia. Oil on Canvas,
munities, depicted in
40'' x 66'', August 2009.
well-researched and
meticulous paintings,
are further illuminated by essays placing them in the context of Bartram’s
legacy and the American landscape movement. The catalogue features
more than 60 reproductions of Juras’s paintings. Presented with essays by
the artist as well as Dorinda Dallmeyer, director of the Environmental
Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia; Holly Koons
McCullough, director of collections and exhibitions at the Telfair; and
Janisse Ray, lauded poet and environmental advocate, the catalogue provides readers with a rare glimpse of the Southern frontier before its essence
was irrevocably altered by European settlement.
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The Art of Kahlil Gibran at the Telfair
Museums of Art
Tania June Sammons and Suheil Bushrui
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Dutch Utopia
American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
Holly Koons McCullough
Philip Juras, a native of Augusta, Georgia, received a BFA and a master’s degree in
landscape architecture from the University of Georgia. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
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The Riots
May
5.5 x 8.5 | 192 pp.
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Danielle Cadena Deulen
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Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for
Creative Nonfiction
Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and
dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships.
Deulen’s artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender.
In “Aperture,” she considers how she has contributed to her autistic
brother’s isolation from family and from the world. “Theft” investigates
her mother’s romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the
Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen
experiments formally, alternating traditional narrative with “still life” essays
and collages that characterize a particular time, place, and sensibility.
Deulen is remarkable in her ability to present her own confusion and
culpability, and she also writes with compassion for others, such as her own
suicidal and unpredictable father or a boy in her class who sets the teacher’s
hair on fire. In part because she herself so poorly fits the identities she
might be assigned—white in appearance, she is in fact half Latina; raised
in a poor neighborhood, she has acquired an education associated with the
middle class—Deulen sees “otherness” as a useless category and the enemy
of intimacy, which she embraces despite its risks.
The Riots seeks to create what Frost called “a momentary stay against
confusion,” and Deulen investigates her own act of creation even as she
uses the craft of writing to put parentheses around the chaos of continuous
living.
Also in the series
“There are moments of transcendent prose in this manuscript that
elevate it far beyond what we might expect of it at first blush. It
manages to become more profound, and more beautiful, the more
desperate and tragic its trajectory. Finally, it is a triumph of wisdom
and great art.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North
Ghostbread
Sonja Livingston
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Dough
A Memoir
Mort Zachter
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Danielle Cadena Deulen is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Utah. Her
Chris Tanseer
essays are forthcoming in The Iowa Review and American Literary Review. Her poetry
collection Lovely Asunder received the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and will be
published in spring 2011 by the University of Arkansas Press. www.danielledeulen.com
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2011
New in paperback
New in paperback
Vanished Gardens
Drowning Lessons
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Stories by Peter Selgin
Sharon White
March
5.25 x 8 | 250 pp.
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March
5.5 x 8.5 | 216 pp.
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Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3973-3
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
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New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White
begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and
present. White explores Philadelphia’s gardens as a part of
the city’s ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home,
including John Bartram and Mary Gibson Henry.
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
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These stories engage water as both a vital and a potentially
hazardous presence in our lives. “You can touch water,” says
Peter Selgin, “you can taste it and feel its temperature, you
can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, illdefined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it.” With
empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy waters of human relationships.
“White mixes memory and desire in this multilayered
exploration of the archeology of the gardens of old
Philadelphia. Evocative, historical, and sensual all at
once, her book reveals the former diversity and richness
that lies beneath the contemporary city; you can almost
smell the storied vegetation of some of America’s most
important, now lost gardens.”
—John Hanson Mitchell, author of The Paradise of All
These Parts: A Natural History of Boston
“Selgin’s stories are mordantly funny, at times desperately sad, but always full of hard-earned wisdom and
subversive irony. He ranges across time and space in
a way few other writers have. Drowning Lessons is a
book that deserves serious attention from all lovers of
American short fiction.”
—Jess Row, author of The Train to Lo Wu
“A thorough and thoughtful look at the evolution of
Philadelphia gardens . . . The chronology of the growth
and later descent of gardens in the city will charm all,
especially residents. Overall, White’s book is an insightful study into the area’s environmental history and the
fascinating life of one of the city’s most celebrated
families.”—South Philly Review
“[Selgin’s] ability to sling together desire and suffering in complex and moving ways is singular and
memorable.”—Booklist
Sharon White is the author of two collections of poetry,
Bone House and Eve and Her Apple, and a memoir, Field
Notes: A Geography of Mourning. She teaches writing at
Temple University.
C r e at i v e No n f i ct i o n
“Poignant, evocative prose.”—Publishers Weekly
Peter Selgin’s recently published novel, Life Goes to the
Movies, was a finalist for both the AWP Award and the
James Jones First Novel Fellowship. He is the author of two
books on the craft of writing, By Cunning and Craft: Sound
Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers and 179 Ways
to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers.
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Weather
April
5.5 x 8.5 | 112 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3882-8
Poems by Dave Lucas
In this debut collection, Dave Lucas turns and returns to Cleveland, where
he was raised. The weather of these poems arises from both the lush light
of the natural world and the hard rain of industry. Poem by poem, the book
surveys the majesty and ruin of landscape and lakefront, paying tribute to
the shifting seasons of a city, of a terrain, and of those who dwell there.
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At the Cuyahoga Flats
Here, in the river’s oxbow-bend and silt,
the muddy unmarked grave of Republic Steel.
Here is the elegy to ore and pellet:
inertial loaders, the quiet of the mill.
See how deliberate the passing barge—
as if somewhere hotter furnaces are lit.
Rust in the water and reclining drawbridge:
oxide and spall, the color of ash at sunset.
“This book springs fully formed, conceived under the water sign of
Lake Erie, the fire sign of comets and fireflies, the steel sign of midwestern cities and suburbs. In Weather, Dave Lucas gives us the living,
breathing world. This is a memorable, accomplished debut.”
—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Unmentionables
“Horatian in its great good humor and its sympathies, romantic in its
love of place, and postmodern in its vision of human value in an indifferent universe, Weather is a masterful debut collection. Dave Lucas
recognizes, as few poets do, no matter what their age, that praise and
lament are different facets of attachment and that mourning often is
the deepest form of celebration.”
—Alan Shapiro, author of The Dead Alive and Busy
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The Lost Boys
Poems by Daniel Groves
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Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis
Poems by Kyle Dargan
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Molly Nook
Dave Lucas was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the recipient of a Henry Hoyns
Fellowship from the University of Virginia and a “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, and
his poems have appeared in many journals including Paris Review, Poetry, and Slate. He
lives in Cleveland and Ann Arbor, where he is a PhD candidate in English language and
literature at the University of Michigan.
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Spring & Summer 2011
For the Mountain Laurel
March
5.5 x 8.5 | 80 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3799-9
Poems by John Casteen
In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor
and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, Free Union, yet continues
to focus on landscape and human relationships. With poems arranged in
the order in which they were completed (which in large part reflects the
order in which they were first written), Casteen presents a poetic record of
the experiences of solitude, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and recovery. The
Carolina chickadee can be heard in this work, but so can Emmylou Harris
singing with Gram Parsons; these poems dwell in the music of language,
the hard truths of those who are no longer young, and the pleasures of the
reflective life.
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From “For the Mountain Laurel”
Canny scantling. It’s good at what it’s good at.
I’m trying hard to clear my head, to think
without language, to remember that whole life
before the adjective. Don’t forget: the shadow moves
more than you move, and intends less. Overhead,
contrails sinter where jets just passed, just ice
windblown like seed where stars are what belongs.
Praise for Free Union
“Walking the line between modern confessional and a reinvention of
the pastoral, John Casteen’s poems speak to the need of fully living
the one life he’s been given. . . . Casteen conflates tightly woven
lyrics with lyric narratives, and his woodshop’s sounds with honest
experience to build his readers a house in Free Union, where ‘our life
here is poor and full.’”—The Rumpus
Also in the series
A Wreath of Down and Drops of
Blood
Poems by Allen Braden
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In the World He Created According
to His Will
“John Casteen may have a minor audience problem, in that people
who like poetry may not think they like poems about hunting, woodworking and fairly stoic and silent father-son relationships, while stoic
hunters and silent woodworkers may not think they like poetry. But
both kinds of readers will find pleasure here.”—Mobile Press-Register
Poems by David Caplan
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“Free Union should be recommended for its ability to express the joys
and pains of the working, rural life. The collection gives us that life,
in well-wrought language and imagery, with humility and intimacy and
pride.” —Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
Virginia Quarterly Review. He has contributed poems to the Paris Review, Shenandoah,
Ploughshares, and other journals. His first book, Free Union, was published in the VQR
Poetry Series in 2009.
Michael Bailey
John Casteen teaches at Sweet Briar College and serves on the editorial staff of the
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Spit Back a Boy
June
5.5 x 8.5 | 72 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3908-5
Poems by Iain Haley Pollock
The Cave Canem Poetry Prize: Selected by Elizabeth Alexander
Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish
supper to an ancient queen who howls, “Sea, you is ugly,” from the creaking of slave ships launched from Lancaster to gunfire on a contemporary
Philadelphia street. Such lyric moments find grounding in stories woven
through this book—in one story line, a boy with a black mother and white
father wishes he could shed his white skin or carve into what lies beneath:
“I flung my almost white self / into my mother’s embrace—that brown
/ embrace I hoped would swallow me whole / and spit back a boy four
shades darker.” Another thread follows a marriage and a woman intertwined with hunger and the blues, a woman who hears a whale song in a
refrigerator’s hum, who cries hard like the lonely barking of a fox.
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African American poetry and is committed to
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of African American poets.
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Even when these poems soften, they can’t be complacent about good fortune: for all the maple seedpods and snow fluttering down here, the poems
are always aware of wreckage and car bombs there, and they keep conscious
of the mustard gas of old wars and the losses of recent ones. Punctuated
with lives that end early, such as those of Hart Crane and Mikey Clark, a
high-school classmate who once swiped the Communion wine, Pollock’s
collection earns its vitality and romance without closing its eyes to violence
and sorrow.
from “Rattla cain’t hold me”
. . . And all our sadness will be old Arkansas,
rural and misspoken, its roads smudged
by the fog’s blue prints, its pine board shacks
daubed with mud to keep out mosquitoes
and the cold. The kitchens and porches
where we aren’t will cease to exist. We’ll miss
More winners of the
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of
Gathering
rain in autumn dousing the fire of the leaves.
Wind writhing like a water moccasin.
Like convicts we’ll sing, Rattla cain’t hold me
Poems by Dawn Lundy Martin
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The Listening
Rattla cain’t hold me, while outside the fence,
poplars, stripped by gypsy moths, stand bare.
Poems by Kyle Dargan
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths
“Beyond the bracing intelligence in these poems, beyond the surges
of joy and trouble, beyond the poet’s awe in this split second, he
plunges with imagination into the timeless work of loving witness,
resonant with high style and the blues. Wherever Iain Pollock turns,
the search is on, in history, art, family, in things on display and hidden
in himself. What he finds he finds the art to celebrate with tenderness
and wisdom.”—Brooks Haxton, author of They Lift Their Wings to Cry
Iain Haley Pollock lives in Philadelphia and teaches English at Chestnut Hill Academy.
His work has appeared in publications including AGNI, American Poetry Review, Boston
Review, Callaloo, Drunken Boat, and Indiana Review.
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Spring & Summer 2011
Stutter
April
5.5 x 8.5 | 72 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3881-1
Poems by William Billiter
The National Poetry Series
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The National Poetry Series: Selected by Hilda Raz
Billiter’s poems, spaced to stutter on the page, create a compelling yet dark
world of small-town childhood that is disorienting and not all that bucolic.
The town of Shinbone is an intense place: boys set bottles of cheap aftershave on fire, which segues with uncomfortable ease into grandmother’s
killing axe dispatching chickens and Soup’s hand shredded in the corn
dryer.
This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing memory
with myth and lacing narratives of disfigurement, accident, wildness, and
murder with a strange enchantment. Childhood here is no idyll, but rather
the dreamlike entryway to the desires, doubts, and dismay of adulthood.
From “Acolytes at the Altar”
Under the trestle,
them carps are big
on doughballs. It’s cane
Stink says they got
bother to check.
as possums and bite
poles and red pop
all afternoon.
a mud vein like a catfish.
Stink says they’s really
same as you
win at the fair in them
water. They
just be bigger,
I don’t
just giant goldfish,
little bowls of colored
that’s all, he says.
Also in the series
“In William Billiter’s prize-winning book, Stutter, the voices seem to
halt and syncopate. Yet readers never turn away from these voices,
not once. . . . In Stutter, speech itself becomes subject, the pages’
space and breadth giving language itself its holy stutter and magic.
This book is truly divine. I loved it as all readers must.”
—Hilda Raz, Luschei Professor of English at the University of NebraskaLincoln and editor of Prairie Schooner
Here Be Monsters
Poems by Colin Cheney
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If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
Poems by Anna Journey
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William Billiter is Director of Foundation, Corporate, and Government Relations at
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Claudette Ferrone
“Because of Billiter’s Stutter we meet Scooter, Blake, Moses, Stutter,
Stink, Lloyd, Ersel, Willy, Niebuhr, and Gethsemane, and we have seats
reserved for us: Section 3, Row Q, Seats 11 & 12. Meanwhile we learn
that a flinch is a kind of echo and an echo is what one man needs to
register depths of knowledge about family, fathers and sons, confessions, and the future. Stutter’s a shapely, resonant, heartbreaking
book.”—Dara Wier, author of Reverse Rapture
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Armstrong, Julie BucknerMary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
Atkins, Anselm
Common Birds of Greater Atlanta
Bassard, Katherine Clay
Transforming Scriptures
Billiter, William
Stutter
Bunge, William
Fitzgerald
Casteen, John
For the Mountain Laurel
Cheng, Eileen Ka-May
The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth
Crosby, Emilye, ed.
Civil Rights History from the Ground Up
Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian
Roppongi Crossing
Davis, Jack E.
An Everglades Providence
Deulen, Danielle Cadena
The Riots
Feldman, Shelley, ed.
Accumulating Insecurity
Finseth, Ian Frederick
Shades of Green
Flippen, J. Brooks
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family,
and the Rise of the Religious Right
Garrett, Franklin M.
Atlanta and Environs
Geisler, Charles, ed.
Accumulating Insecurity
Georgia Museum of Art
One Hundred American Paintings
Georgia Museum of Art
Tracing Vision
Hersey, Mark D.My Work Is That of Conservation
Hoffius, Stephen G.
Upheaval in Charleston
Holmes, David L.
The Faiths of the Postwar American
Presidents
Honeck, Mischa
We Are the Revolutionists
Horner, Charles
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate
Inscoe, John C.
Writing the South through the Self
Joyner, Charles
Remember Me
Juras, PhilipPhilip Juras: The Southern Frontier
Lorence, James J.
The Unemployed People’s Movement
Lucas, Dave
Weather
Macaulay, AlexanderMarching in Step
Margolies, Daniel S.
Spaces of Law in American Foreign
Relations
Martin, Harold H.
Atlanta and Environs
Menon, Gayatri, ed.
Accumulating Insecurity
Pollock, Iain Haley
Spit Back a Boy
Randall, Catharine
From a Far Country
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell Jack London’s Racial Lives
Russell, Heather
Legba’s Crossing
Selgin, Peter
Drowning Lessons
Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae Vibration Cooking
Smith, Mark M.
Camille, 1969
Sten, Christopher, ed.
Literary Capital
Thomas, David Hurst
St. Catherines
Tullos, Allen
Alabama Getaway
Turner, James
Religion Enters the Academy
Waddell, Gene, ed.
John Bachman
White, Sharon
Vanished Gardens
Williams, David S.
From Mounds to Megachurches
WIlliams, Philip Lee
A Distant Flame
Williams, Susan MillarUpheaval in Charleston
Wilson, Charles Reagan
Flashes of a Southern Spirit
Wilson, Jim
Common Birds of Coastal Georgia
Wilson, Jim
Common Birds of Greater Atlanta
Winter, Kari J.
The American Dreams of John B. Prentis,
Slave Trader
Zierler, David
The Invention of Ecocide
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How the great
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earthquake forever
changed an iconic
southern city
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Announcing
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An American icon
reconsidered
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A leading geographer
of Japan assesses the
changing face of Tokyo
nightlife
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An easy-to-use bird
identification guide
for city dwellers and
suburbanites
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Pioneer America Society
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William Faulkner and the Southern
Landscape
Charles S. Aiken
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-3219-2
Center Books on the American South
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Winner of the Documenting Georgia’s History Award,
Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board
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African American Life in the Georgia
Lowcountry
The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Philip Morgan, ed.
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-3064-8
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council
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Winner of the Award for Outstanding Exhibition
and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials,
Southeastern College Art Conference
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John Portman
Art and Architecture
Paul Goldberger and Robert M. Craig
Paper, $30.00t | 978-1-932543-30-8
Cloth, $45.00t | 978-1-932543-29-2
Distributed for the High Museum of Art
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Winner of the Book Prize,
Forum for the History of Science in America
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Winner of the Heritage Book Award,
Maryland Historical Trust
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Honorable Mention from the Frederick Jackson
Turner Award Committee, Organization of
American Historians
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The Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland
Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Christine Keiner
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Finalist for the Richard Wall Memorial Award,
Theatre Library Association
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Screening a Lynching
The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
Matthew Bernstein
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3239-0
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2752-5
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Winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award for
Biography, Colorado Humanities
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Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy
The Activist Who Saved Nature from the
Conservationists
Dyana Z. Furmansky
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3676-3
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3896-5
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3718-0
Environmental History and the American South
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