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Easter 1916The Irish Rebellion- By Charles Townshend

978-1-56663-965-1 $18.95, PaperImprint: Ivan R. DeeAugust 2011480ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (Europe/General)

The Book:Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the handful of modern historical events that instantly created its own mythology and changed millions of lives forever. Charles Townshend’s remarkable new book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when, as Irish insurgents rose up and occupied Dublin, as British artillery retaliated ferociously and flattened the city center, as the last haggard rebels surrendered and their leaders were shot, a powerful narrative was born and Ireland was launched into a new world.

Scraping away layer upon layer of myth, Easter 1916 reveals an Ireland polarized, confused, and fearful, hovering on the brink of war between Nationalists and Unionists, and presenting Britain with a seemingly insoluble problem. With the world’s attention on the First World War, a group of exceptional Irish men and women—from the eloquent intellectual Patrick Pearse to the revolutionary socialist James Connolly—decided to take the actions that turned a peaceful provincial city into a bloody battleground and then into a national capital. The repercussions of these events we still feel today. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

The Author:Charles Townshend is professor of international history at the University of Keele in England, where he has built a reputation as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of Ireland and especially the relationship between Ireland and Britain. His books include The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919–1921; Political Violence in Ireland; Ireland: The Twentieth Century; Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction; and Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia.

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The Human Tradition in Modern Africa- Edited by Dennis D. Cordell

978-0-7425-3732-3 $79.00, Cloth978-0-7425-3733-0 $29.95, PaperImprint: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2011288ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (Africa/General)

The Book:This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two centuries have been a time of enormous change on the continent, and these life stories show how people survived by resisting European conquest and colonial rule, by collaborating with colonial powers, or by finding a middle way to live their lives through tumultuous times. Bringing the story to the present, the book traces the era of independence since the 1960s through challenges to the rule of African dictators, struggles for the rights of women and mothers, the exploitation of youth and child soldiers, and economic booms and busts. By recounting the lives of real, identifiable people from societies across Africa south of the Sahara and from African communities in Europe, this unique book underscores the importance and power of individual agency in understanding the recent African past, a vital complement to analyses of broader, impersonal social and economic factors.

The Editor:Dennis D. Cordell is professor of history and associate dean at Southern Methodist University, Texas.











The Making of Urban America, 3rd

Edition- Edited by Raymond A. Mohl and Roger Biles

978-0-7425-5234-0 $90.00, Cloth978-0-7425-5235-7 $49.95, PaperImprint: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2011416ppSize: 6 X 9Category: American History (U.S. Urban History)

The Book:The process by which a group of small colonial settlements in an untamed wilderness grew into a highly industrialized and urbanized nation is one of the central and most important themes of American history. The updated Making of Urban provides a superb collection of essays for students and teachers on the many facets of urban development through history.

This detailed and well-researched study traces urban development from the pre-industrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that brought about modern-day urban life. In his extensive analysis of urban America, Professor Mohl introduces the reader to current literature and perspectives on urban history. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban Americais the only book available covering all of U.S. urban history and includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

The EditorsRaymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.











Historical Dictionary of the PhilippinesThird Edition-By Artemio R. Guillermo

978-0-8108-7246-2 $99.00, ClothImprint: The Scarecrow PressDecember 2011656ppSize: 6 x 9Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle EastCategory: History (Asian Studies)Includes: Bibliography; Chronology; 2 Illustrations (Line Art)

The Book:Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world, and knowledge of the individual countries is crucial for our understanding of the area. The Republic of the Philippines, composed of a chain of islands in Southeast Asia, became a Spanish colony during the 16th century and was then ceded to the United States following the Spanish-American War. After independence in the 20th century, the Filipino people suffered under the 20-year rule of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, which ended as a result of a “people power” movement in 1986. Since then, the history of the Philippines has been marked by several more political coups, but a growing economy and democratic elections are increasing stability in the country. Artemio R. Guillermo covers more than four centuries of Filipino history in this newly expanded and updated third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, which contains more than four hundred entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions. An updated introduction with a detailed chronology precedes the dictionary and lays out the current situation in the region, while a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the dictionary leads the reader to additional sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Philippines.

The Author:Artemio R. Guillermo, a Filipino-American, is a retired communications professor, Fulbright scholar, and principal author of the first edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Philippines.











Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry-By Kenneth J. Blume

978-0-8108-5634-9 $99.00, ClothImprint: The Scarecrow PressDecember 2011624ppSize: 6 x 9Category: Naval History (World History)Includes: Bibliography; Chronology; 15 Illustrations (Photos)

The Book:From the Spanish galleons of the 16th century to the cruise ships and crude oil tankers of the 21st, maritime industries have been central to American economic, political, and cultural life. Great American fortunes were built in the maritime industries and the workers in that industry—both the sailors on board the ships and the dockworkers at the port—contributed significantly to the nation’s growing economy. The development of interior waterways, especially the canal system, paved the way for a transformation of inland North America. In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the maritime industry in the United States.

The Author:Kenneth J. Blume is professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Albany College of Pharmacy, New York.







From Prairie to Corn Belt, 2nd EditionFarming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century- By Allan G. Bogue

978-1-56663-879-1 $25.00, PaperImprint: Ivan R. Dee01/08/11352ppSize: 6 X 9Category: History (General)

The Book:In From Prairie to Corn Belt Allan G. Bogue examines the history of farming in Iowa and Illinois, as the geography of the mid-west transformed from tall grass prairies into its current role as America’s “Corn Belt.” The author focuses on the individual farmers and the decisions they were forced to make as the nature of farming changed over the course of the nineteenth century. The second edition of From Prairie to Corn Belt includes an updated preface from the author in which he briefly describes the initial reception of the book in the mid-west and the changes in farming in the prairie states in the forty years since the book’s original publication.

The Author:Allan G. Bogue became a professor emeritus in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991, after serving since 1968 at that institution as the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History. His other publications in agricultural history include Money at Interest: The Farm Mortgage on the Middle Border and many articles and book chapters. He is also the author of The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate, Clio and the Bitch Goddess: Quantification in American Political History, and other books and articles in American history and historiography.










Nazis after HitlerHow Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth- By Donald M. McKale

978-1-4422-1316-6 $39.95, ClothImprint: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2011432ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (Holocaust)

The Book:This informative book traces the biographies of thirty “typical” perpetrators of the Holocaust — some well known, some obscure — who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished for their crimes, and nearly all alleged their innocence in Germany’s extermination during the war of nearly six million European Jews. He highlights the bitter contrasts between the comfortable postwar lives of many war criminals with the enduring suffering of their victims. The author shows how immediately after the war’s end in 1945, Hitler’s minions, whether the few placed on trial or the many living in freedom, carried on what amounted to a massive and relentless postwar ideological, even propaganda, campaign against Jews. To be sure, the perpetrators didn’t challenge the fact that the Holocaust happened. But in the face of massive evidence showing their culpability, nearly all declared they had done nothing wrong, they had not known about the Jewish persecution until the war’s end, and they had little or no responsibility or guilt for what had happened. But in making these and other claims denying their involvement in the Holocaust, they defended the Nazi atrocities and anti-Semitism. Nearly every fabrication of these war criminals found its way into the mythology of postwar Holocaust deniers, who have used, in one form or another, the numerous falsehoods of the perpetrators to buttress the deniers’ biggest lie — that the Holocaust did not happen. The perpetrators, therefore, helped advance Holocaust denial without having denied the Holocaust happened. Written in a compelling narrative style, this book is the first to provide an overview of the lives of Nazis who escaped justice. The author provides a unique and accessible synthesis of the massive research on the Holocaust and Nazi war criminals that will be invaluable for all readers interested in World War II.

The Author:Donald M. McKale is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor and professor emeritus of history at Clemson University.

Table of Contents:Allied Promises; Four Faces of Genocide: What Happened in World War II; Leaving Auschwitz; A Liberation of Contrasts; Soviet “Liberators”; In the Custody of Leniency; Nuremberg, Number Two, and the Substitute; Nuremberg: “King Frank” the Jumping Jack; Nuremberg: “Fred” the “Endowed Seer” and Verdicts and Sentences; Poland: Occasional Trials amid a Continuing Holocaust; Memory in West Germany: Long and Short; Pseudo-Purges and Politics; Other Trials and Amnesty; Eichmann, Jerusalem, and His Henchmen; Hunting the Comfortable; Four Faces Long after the War: What Didn’t Happen; The Post-Holocaust World











My Stripes Were Earned in HellA French Resistance Fighter’s Memoir of Survival in a Nazi Prison Camp- By Jean-Pierre Renouard - Translated by Mimi Horne

978-1-4422-1399-9 $29.95, ClothImprint: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2011160ppSize: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2Category: History (Holocaust)

The Book:This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. In this spare, compelling memoir of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive — physically, emotionally, and morally.

In May 1944, just a month before D-Day, Renouard, then a teenaged French underground fighter, was captured by the Gestapo, crammed into a cattle wagon with a hundred others, and sent to Neuengamme in Germany. After two months, he was transferred to the Misburg subcamp. In both camps he suffered, as did all his fellow inmates, from insufficient food and shelter and no medicine while being forced to do long hours of hard labor. Renouard vividly depicts the labor camps’ brutal daily life and social hierarchies, his personal struggles, the friendships gained and lost, and, of course, his incredible and primary task of survival. When he was finally transferred to the infamous Bergen-Belsen death camp, a typhus epidemic had already spread, and he helplessly watched his last surviving comrades die. Even after Allied troops liberated the camp on April 15, 1945, he had to wait painful months before he could return to France.

Written in a deliberately neutral tone, without hatred or even resentment, Renouard’s memoir is a memorial to those murdered and powerful testimony to the human capacity to commit, and to survive, mass atrocity.

The Author:Jean-Pierre Renouard, a former member of the French Resistance, is a commander of the Legion of Honor. He was awarded the Medal of Resistance and the Croix de Guerre.

Table of Contents:Introduction; Chapter One: Compiegne; Chapter Two: Neuengamme; Chapter Three: Misburg; Chapter Four: Bergen-Belsen; Chapter Five: The Fall; Chapter Six: Aftermath; Epilogue











Munich 1972Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games- By David Clay Large

978-0-7425-6739-9 $27.95, ClothImprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.March 2012384ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (German History)

The Book:Munich 1972 tells the compelling story of the most controversial of all modern Olympiads within the context of the Cold War, political posturing between the two Germanys, seemingly endless warfare in Indochina, lingering recriminations surrounding decolonization in Africa, and the cauldron of religious and ethnic hatred known euphemistically as the “Middle East Conflict.” It was, of course, this last conflict that spilled over so tragically into the Munich festival, which will forever be remembered for the murder of eleven Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists. Crucial as the Munich Massacre is to the story of the ‘72 Games, however, it is by no means the only story. There was plenty of high drama in the athletic competitions as well, which were themselves hardly free of unsportsmanlike acrimony. Controversies over biased judging, commercialization, political posturing, and (above all) doping helped to make this Olympic festival very much a mirror of its contentious times. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including recently opened files in the German and Olympic archives, eminent historian David Clay Large offers a comprehensive exploration of the 1972 festival. He interweaves the political drama surrounding the Games with the athletic spectacle in the arena of play, itself hardly free of political controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for telling detail, the author brings to life the stories of the characters who epitomized the Games, ranging from the city itself to the visionaries who brought the Games to Munich against all odds to the athletes. With the Olympic movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is timelier than ever.

The Author:David Clay Large is professor of history at Montana State University and the author of several acclaimed histories, including Berlin, Nazi Games, and Where Ghosts Walked.

Table of Contents:Introduction; Chapter One: The Decision for Munich; Chapter Two: “We Just Slid Into It”: Planning and Building for Munich ‘72; Chapter Three: On the Eve of the Games; Chapter Four: Let the Games Begin; Chapter Five: Invasion of the Sanctuary; Chapter Six: Battlefield Fürstenfeldbruck; Chapter Seven: The Games Go On











The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmell, Ambulance and Infantry CorpsA Very Disagreeable War- Edited by Jim Malcolm

978-1-61147-040-6 $75.00, ClothImprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressJune 2011150ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (United States / Civil War Period (1850-1)

The Book:On October 1, 1861, nineteen-year-old Heyward Emmell took the first step that led him onto the front lines of the American Civil War for the next three years. He served, first, as an infantryman in the 7th Regiment, New Jersey, Volunteers, for twenty-two months and, then, as a stretcher bearer in the Ambulance Corps for fourteen months. Emmell witnessed and recorded virtually all the major events and battles of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula Campaign to Gettysburg to the Siege of Petersburg. This book presents what he saw in his own words – sometimes emotional, sometimes humorous, and always forthright. Emmell’s account of his experiences is rich in detail, often noting aspects that are not reported in other Civil War diaries. He describes a wide variety of events, from the Southern sympathizers’ attempt to poison Union soldiers with a gift of arsenic-laden cake, the suicides of a general accused of cowardice and a soldier too exhausted to continue, to the technologies employed in the war effort such as observation balloons and trip-wire mines. Emmell’s description of the gruesome realities of war-slaking his thirst by drinking water from a puddle contaminated with the blood of the wounded and boiling water on a fire made from the dried bones of casualties-present a chilling picture of life in war-torn Northern Virginia. Emmell describes not only the life of a soldier, but also the world such men lived in as around them life moved on. Emmell’s older brother, George, a frequent visitor to the front, dies. A young lady from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, weary of waiting for her fiancée to come home on furlough, travels with her wedding party and marries in the Virginia wilderness. Balls are held between battles. Young men play practical jokes on each other. This journal, which has never been previously published, is the only known day-to-day eyewitness account of life as a stretcher bearer in the Ambulance Corps.

The Author:Jim Malcolm is a retired electrical engineer and computer scientist who has studied American history for the past twenty years.

Table of Contents:Preface; Introduction; 1. Marching as to War; 2. Winter Quarters 1861-1862; 3. The Peninsula Campaign; 4. Hospitalized; 5. Second Bull Run; 6. In Camp around Washington; 7. On the March to Fredericksburg; 8. A March in the Mud, Winter Camp, and a Wedding; 9. Chancellorsville; 10. The Calm between the Storms; 11. Gettysburg and Beyond; 12. Ambulance Corps; 13. A Tall Tale; 14. Along the Rappahannock; 15. Furlough; 16. Winter Camp 1863-1864; 17. Battles: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and North Anna; 18. Cold Harbor to Petersburg; 19. Homeward Bound; Epilog











Somewhere in France, Somewhere in GermanyA Combat Soldier’s Journey Through the Second World War- By Francis P. Sempa

978-0-7618-5608-5 $23.95, PaperImprint: Hamilton BooksSeptember 2011112ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (Military / World War II)

The Book:In Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany, Francis P. Sempa tells the story of his father’s journey through the Second World War. Frank F. Sempa entered military service as part of the 29th Infantry Division in April 1941, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day-plus one, fought in the treacherous hedgerows of Normandy, participated in the capture of St. Lo and the siege of Brest, assaulted the fortifications of the Siegfried Line, crossed the Rhine River, and reached the west bank of the Elbe River. He earned the Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Arrowhead, four campaign ribbons, and the Good Conduct Medal. Throughout, Sempa dutifully wrote letters home to his parents and brother. Using those letters, local newspaper articles, the 29th Division’s After Action Reports, and several books about the history of the 29th Division in World War II, Francis Sempa traces his father’s steps from training camps in the United States and England to the battlefields of France and Germany.

The Author:Francis P. Sempa is the author of Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century and America’s Global Role: Essays and Reviews on National Security, Geopolitics and War. He is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, an adjunct professor of political science at Wilkes University, and a contributing editor to American Diplomacy.

Table of Contents:Introduction; Chapter 1: Letters in a Shoebox; Chapter 2: Stateside Training; Chapter 3: England; Chapter 4: Somewhere in France; Chapter 5: Somewhere in Germany; Chapter 6: Home; Appendix











History as PreludeMuslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean- Edited by Joseph V. Montville

978-0-7391-6814-1 $60.00, ClothImprint: Lexington BooksOctober 2011214ppSize: 6 x 9Category: History (History of Religion)

The Book:This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History as Prelude is a major contribution to the Israeli-Arab peace process because it undermines the efforts of propagandists who serve governments or political movements to negate the reality of the Arab-Jewish relationship in the medieval Mediterranean. The contributors, in unassuming, well-researched scholarship have erected a wall protecting historical reality from distortion, providing irrefutable, and often delightful, examples of creative coexistence.

The Editor:Joseph Montville is director of Toward the Abrahamic Family Reunion, (abrahamicfamilyreunion.org). He is Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University and is Chair of the Board & Senior Fellow for the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He is also a senior associate in the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents:Preface: Recovering History: A Psychodynamic Approach to Peacemaking by Joseph V. Montville; 1. Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages: Through the Window of the Cairo Geniza by Mark R. Cohen; 2. Sharing Science: Jews, Muslims and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World by Thomas F. Glick; 3. “The Battle of Alfuente” by Samuel the Nagid by Raymond P. Scheindlin; 4. On Muslim Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen by Ahmad Dallal; 5. Doctors without Borders: Medicine in the Mediterranean World by Kathryn A. Miller; 6. Merchants and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Olivia Remie Constable; 7. Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean World by Diana Lobel











Panic in the LoopChicago’s Banking Crisis of 1932- By Raymond B. Vickers

978-0-7391-6640-6 $80.00, ClothImprint: Lexington BooksOctober 2011364ppSize: 6 x 9Category: American History (U.S. Economic History)

The Book:Relying on a broad array of records used together for the first time, Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers - and the complicity of corrupt politicians - that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932. It provides a new interpretation of the role played by bankers who turned the nation’s financial crisis of the early 1930s into the decade-long Great Depression. It also calls for the abolition of secrecy that still permeates the bank regulatory system, which would have prevented the Enron fiasco and the financial meltdown of 2008. During Chicago’s panic in June 1932, bank failures reached epidemic proportions when forty-two banks collapsed. Panic in the Loop proves that each bank that failed did so because of massive insider abuse and fraud. Bank officers and directors engaged in illegal and unsound practices that encumbered every one of the banks with reckless loans and unsafe securities investments, which no prudent management would have made. This book focuses on the recurrent failures of the financial system – the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, the Enron debacle of the early 2000s, and finally the financial collapse of 2008. Knowing what happened in Chicago in 1932 is critical to understanding the glaring problems in the regulation of American finance, in particular the lack of transparency, the abuse of financial institutions by insiders, and the capture of public institutions by those going through the revolving door between the private and public sectors.

The Author:Raymond B. Vickers is an attorney who has represented more than a hundred financial institutions and an investor in real estate and financial institutions.



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