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“There is, quite

simply, no one

else who couldproduce this set

of compelling

essays.”—Edward Linenthal,

author of

The Unfinished Bombing:Oklahoma City in

American Memory

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin.

Inside cover: Memorial to the Martyrs of the

Deportation, Paris. Both from The Stages of Memory, p. 1.

The University of Massachusetts Press is a proud memberof the Association of American University Presses.

New Books 1

Books about the Commonwealth 22

Recently Published 23

Best of Backlist 24

Award Winners 27

About the Series 28

About the Press 30

Contact Information 30

Ordering Information 30

Digital Editions 30

Sales Information 31

Books for Courses 32

Bagg and Bagg, Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur 6

Bronstein and Strub, Porno Chic and the

Sex Wars 4

Burgin, Performing Life 21

Clingman, Birthmark 19

Downey, Levi Strauss 2

Lennox, Remapping Black Germany 11

Lopenzina, Through an Indian’s Looking Glass 3Harris and Lowe, From Page to Place 18

Matthews, Reading America 13

Neuenfeldt, Wild Horse 7

Ostrowski, Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America 16

Raden, When I Came to Die 20

Roses, Black Bostonians and the Politicsof Culture, 1920–1940 10

Rubinson, Redefining Science 14

Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad 8Senechal de la Roche, “Our Aim Was Man” 17

Soto, Measuring the Harlem Renaissance 5

Thuy and Karlin, In Whose Eyes 12

Whalen, Material Politics 15

Wright, Pedagogues and Protesters 9

Young, The Stages of Memory 1

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AUTHOR INDEX

CONTENTS

COVER ART:

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ON THE ARCHITECTURE AND ART

OF IRREPARABLE LOSS

The Stages of MemoryReflections on Memorial Art, Loss,and the Spaces Between

JAMES E. YOUNG

From around the world, whether for New

York City’s 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits

devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory,

or throughout Norway’s memorial process

for the murders at Utøya, James E. Young

has been called on to help guide the grief

stricken and survivors in how to mark

their losses. This poignant, beautifully

written collection of essays offers personal

and professional considerations of what

Young calls the “stages of memory,” acts of

commemoration that include spontaneous

memorials of flowers and candles as well

as permanent structures integrated into sites of tragedy.As he traces an arc of memorial forms that spans continents

and decades, Young returns to the questions that preoccupy

survivors, architects, artists, and writers: How to articulate

a void without filling it in? How to formalize irreparable

loss without seeming to repair it?

Richly illustrated, the volume is essential reading for

those engaged in the processes of public memory and

commemoration and for readers concerned about how

we remember terrible losses.

JAMES E. YOUNG is Distinguished University Professor

of English and Judaic Studies at the University of

Massachusetts Amherst. He served on the design selection

committee for the Berlin Denkmal and was a member of

the jury of New York City’s September 11 Memorial design

competition.

Memory Studies / Art and Architecture / Jewish Studies

256 pp., 115 color illus.

$32.95 jacketed cloth edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-257-7

September 2016

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Public History in Historical Perspective

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS · fall / winter 2016–2017 1-800-537-5487 · 1

“This is a marvelous collec-tion of superb historical and

aesthetic analyses of actual

monuments and memorials,

and of the vexing, almost

always deeply controversial

process by which cities,

museums, peoples, and

nations determine how to

remember.”

—David Blight, authorof Race and Reunion: The

Civil War in American

Memory

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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES if there is one

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· www.umass.edu/umpress fall / winter 2016–2017 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

American History / Biography / Jewish Studies

288 pp., 8 color illus. and 13 black-and-white illus.

$34.95t jacketed cloth edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-229-4

October 2016

THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF AN

EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN

Levi StraussThe Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

LYNN DOWNEY

Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American.

They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-

culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models

wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than

Levi Strauss & Co., the creator of this classic American garment.

As a young man Levi Strauss left his home in Germany and

immigrated to America. He made his way to San Francisco and by

1853 had started his company. Soon he was a leading businessman

in a growing commercial city that was beginning to influence the

rest of the nation. Family-centered and deeply rooted in his Jewish

faith, Strauss was the hub of a wheel whose spokes reached into

nearly every aspect of American culture: business, philanthropy,

politics, immigration, transportation, education, and fashion.

But despite creating an American icon, Levi Strauss is a mystery.

Little is known about the man, and the widely circulated “facts”

about his life are steeped in mythology. In this first full-length biography, Lynn Downey sets the record straight about

this brilliant businessman. Strauss’s life was the classic

American success story, filled with lessons about craft

and integrity, leadership and innovation.

LYNN DOWNEY is an independent scholar and writer.

She was the first in-house historian for Levi Strauss &

Co., where for twenty-five years she built the company’s

archive, traveled as its global ambassador, and thoroughly

researched the life of its founder.

“Riveting!”— Robert J. Chandler,

author of San FranciscoLithographer: African

American Artist

Grafton Tyler Brown

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Native American Studies / Biography

320 pp.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-259-1

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-258-4

January 2017

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Native Americans of the Northeast

NEW INSIGHTS ON AN IMPORTANT

NATIVE AMERICAN WRITER

Through an Indian’sLooking GlassA Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot

DREW LOPENZINA

The life of William Apess (1789–1839), a Pequot Indian,

Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer,

provides a lens through which to comprehend the

complex dynamics of indigenous survival and resistance

in the era of America’s early nationhood. Apess’s life

intersects with multiple aspects of indigenous identityand existence in this period, including indentured

servitude, slavery, service in the armed forces, syncretic

engagements with Christian spirituality, and Native

struggles for political and cultural autonomy. Even

more, Apess offers a powerful and provocative voice for

the persistence of Native presence in a time and place

that was long supposed to have settled its “Indian question” in favor

of extinction.

Through meticulous archival research, close readings of Apess’s

key works, and informed and imaginative speculation about his

largely enigmatic life, Drew Lopenzina provides a vivid portrait of

this singular Native American figure. This new biography will sit

alongside Apess’s own writing as vital reading for those interested in

early America and indigeneity.

DREW LOPENZINA is assistant professor of English at Old Dominion

University and author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen

in the Colonial Period.

“The author brings

Apess nearly fully to life,

which no one else, among

many scholars, has. I

know of no better reader

of Apess’s own writing.

Again and again, by close

and insightful attention,

the author illuminates

Apess’s language, often

employing it as a basis for

persuasive surmises about

his whereabouts, about

whom he is with, and the

possible larger meanings

of his often compressed or

flat statements.”

—Barry O’Connell,editor of On Our Own

Ground: The CompleteWritings of William

Apess, a Pequot


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American Studies / Gender & Sexuality

352 pp., 27 illus.

$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-226-3

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-225-6

December 2016

PLACING PORNOGRAPHY AT THE CENTER OF THE 1970S

Porno Chic and the Sex WarsAmerican Sexual Representation in the 1970s

EDITED BY CAROLYN BRONSTEIN ANDWHITNEY STRUB

For many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture

provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by

attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic

magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment

was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism

and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.

This volume places pornography at the heart of the 1970s

American experience, exploring lesser-known forms of pornog-

raphy from the decade, such as a new, vibrant gay porn genre;

transsexual/female impersonator magazines; and pornography

for new users, including women and conservative Christians. The

collection also explores the rise of a culture of porn film auteurs

and stars as well as the transition from film to video. As the corpus

of adult ephemera of the 1970s disintegrates, much of it never

to be professionally restored and archived, these essays seek to

document what pornography meant to its producers and con-sumers at a pivotal moment.

In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Peter

Alilunas, Gillian Frank, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Lucas

Hilderbrand, Nancy Semin Lingo, Laura Helen Marks,

Nicholas Matte, Jennifer Christine Nash, Joe Rubin,

Alex Warner, Leigh Ann Wheeler, and Greg Youmans.

CAROLYN BRONSTEIN is professor of media studies at

DePaul University and author of Battling Pornography:

The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976–

1986. WHITNEY STRUB is associate professor of history

and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers

University–Newark and author of, most recently,

Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle

over Sexual Expression.

“This much-needed

collection takes films,

publications, and people

that have previously

existed on the periphery

of porn history andplaces them front and

center with essays

that are rigorously

researched and well

written.”

—Lynn Comella,coeditor of

New Views on

Pornography: Sexuality,Politics, and the Law

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African American Studies / American Literature

224 pp., 15 illus.

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-250-8

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-249-2

November 2016

HOW RACIST GOVERNMENT POLICIES

HELPED DEFINE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

LITERATURE

Measuring the HarlemRenaissanceThe U.S. Census, African American Identity,and Literary Form

MICHAEL SOTO

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines

African American cultural forms through the lens

of census history to tell the story of how U.S. official-

dom—in particular the Census Bureau—placed personsof African descent within a shifting taxonomy of racial

difference, and how African American writers and

intellectuals described a far more complex situation of

interracial social contact and intra-racial diversity. What

we now call African American identity and the literature

that gives it voice emerged out of social, cultural, and

intellectual forces that fused in Harlem roughly one century ago.

Measuring the Harlem Renaissance sifts through a wide range

of authors and ideas—from W. E. B. Du Bois, Rudolph Fisher,

and Nella Larsen to Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes,

and Wallace Thurman, and from census history to the Great

Migration—to provide a fresh take on late nineteenth- and

twentieth-century literature and social thought. Soto reveals

how Harlem came to be known as the “cultural capital of black

America,” and how these ideas left us with unforgettable fiction

and poetry.

MICHAEL SOTO is associate professor of English at Trinity

University and author of The Modernist Nation: Generation,

Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature.

“Measuring the Harlem

Renaissance takes Har-

lem Renaissance studies

in a valuable new direc-

tion, offering a reading

of the metaphorical

meaning of the New

Negro movement

and Black Modernism

through the way in

which not only the

U.S. state recorded and

determined racial iden-

tity, but, more import-

ant, how New Negro

intellectuals articulated

blackness and African

American identity during

the interwar, modernistperiod.”

—Gary Holcomb, authorof Claude McKay, Code

Name Sasha: Queer Black

Marxism and the

Harlem Renaissance


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Biography / American Literature

352 pp., 15 illus.

$32.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-224-9

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-223-2

February 2017

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF A MAJOR

TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POET

Let Us Watch Richard WilburA Biographical Study

ROBERT BAGG AND MARY BAGG

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a

notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence

in the mid-twentieth century. Wilbur’s verse is esteemed for its

fluency, wit, and optimism; his ingeniously rhymed translations of

French drama by Molière, Racine, and Corneille remain the most

often staged in the English-speaking world; his essays possess a

scope and acumen equal to the era’s best criticism. This biography

examines the philosophical and visionary depth of his world-

renowned poetry and traces achievements spanning seventy years,

from political editorials about World War II to war poems written

during his service to his theatrical career, including a contentious

collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman.

Wilbur’s life has been mistakenly seen as blessed, lacking the

drama of his troubled contemporaries. Let Us Watch Richard

Wilbur corrects that view and explores how Wilbur’s perceived

“normality” both enhanced and limited his achievement. Theauthors augment the life story with details gleaned from access to

his unpublished journals, family archives, candid interviews they

conducted with Wilbur and his wife, Charlee, and his

correspondence with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop,

John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, James Merrill,

and others.

ROBERT BAGG is professor emeritus of English at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst, a poet, and a

translator. MARY BAGG is a freelance editor.

“The authors enrich

our understanding

of Wilbur’s poems by

discussing them in the

context of his life—

how his experiencesshed light on particular

lines.”

—Scott Knickerbocker,author of Ecopoetics:

The Language of

Nature, the Nature of

Language

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Fiction

200 pp.

$24.95t jacketed cloth edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-236-2

October 2016

WINNER OF THE GRACE PALEY PRIZE

IN SHORT FICTION

Wild HorseStories

ERIC NEUENFELDT

FromWild Horse

I happened to be up early checking on the screw jack

underneath the house when Dutch jabbed my flank

with the tip of his cane and told me to get a move

on already. I brushed him off because I had felt the

house drop during the night and was sure the cold

had snapped the rod’s threads. I nudged a cinderblockunderneath a carrying beam so I wouldn’t lose the

corner of the house.

“Get your shit together,” Dutch said. He had helped

himself to the squirrel pelt hat my dead father wore

when he went ice fishing. “Beverly does not tolerate the

tardy.”

Beverly was going to be my new boss, the woman

responsible for straightening me out.

Winner of the prestigious Grace Paley Prize,Wild Horse explores

human experience in forgotten places of America’s industrial

decline. Interweaving images of remarkable natural beauty with

neglected homes and trashed streets, Neuenfeldt writes fully to

life characters who have been dealt losing hands. With a pathos

both heartrending and fascinating, he offers stories that pull read-

ers completely into the landscapes of loss, daring them to keep

looking despite the squalor because there is something about thecharacter—the grit he displays or the hopefulness he maintains—

that makes readers want to see how it ends.

ERIC NEUENFELDT’s work has appeared in The Paris Review

“Daily,” Confrontation, REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters, and

elsewhere. His chapbook of stories, Fall Ends Tomorrow, won

the 2010 Iron Horse Literary Review Single-Author

Competition. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

“The prose is sparse,

but the universe the

author creates is deepand full of underlying

reverberations of ques-

tions and sometimes

answers, as the charac-

ters move through days

filled with obstacles

and tragedies.”

—Nahid Rachlin, authorof Jumping over Fire

Published in cooperation withAssociation of Writers and

Writing Programs


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Biography / African American History / Women’s Studies

232 pp., 2 illus.

$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-246-1

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-245-4

November 2016

THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY

AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPATRIATE

An Abolitionist AbroadSarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

SIRPA SALENIUS

Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community

of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of

the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across the

United Kingdom. Remond eventually moved to Florence, Italy,

where she earned a degree at one of Europe’s most prestigious

medical schools. Her language skills enabled her to join elite salons

in Florence and Rome, where she entertained high society with

musical soirees even while maintaining connections to European

emancipation movements.

Remond’s extensive travels and diverse acquaintances demon-

strate that the nineteenth-century grand tour of Europe was not

exclusively the privilege of white intellectuals but included African

American travelers, among them women. This biography, based

on international archival research, tells the fascinating story of

how Remond forged a radical path, establishing relationships with

fellow activists, artists, and intellectuals across Europe.

“Salenius effectively draws on archival research of

Remond and her contemporaries to showcase Remond’s

activism and demonstrate that African Americans were

critically and intimately engaged in transatlantic political

and social activities.”

—DoVeanna Fulton, author of Speaking Power: BlackFeminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery

SIRPA SALENIUS is project assistant professor at the

University of Tokyo and docent in English-language

literature and culture at the University of Eastern

Finland.

“This first book-length

study of black abolitionist

Sarah Parker Remond is a

valuable, broad-ranging

book, which contains

a great deal of originalresearch. Salenius locates

Remond within a cosmo-

politan world and recov-

ers her interactions with

other African American

expatriates.”

—Mia Bay, author of

To Tell the Truth Freely:The Life of Ida B. Wells

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Early American History / Education

272 pp., 18 illus.

$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-256-0

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-255-3

January 2017

A STUDENT ACTIVIST’S VIEW OF HARVARD

COLLEGE IN COLONIAL TIMES

Pedagogues and ProtestersThe Harvard College Student Diary of

Stephen Peabody, 1767–1768

EDITED BY CONRAD EDICK WRIGHT

On April 4, 1768, about one hundred angry Harvard

College undergraduates, well over half the student body,

left school and went home, in protest against new rules

about class preparation. Their action constituted the

largest student strike at any colonial American college.

Many contemporaries found the cause trivial and the

students’ decision inexplicable, but in the undergrad-

uates’ own minds it was the culmination of months of

tensions with the faculty.

Pedagogues and Protesters recounts the year in daily

journal entries by Stephen Peabody, a member of the

class of 1769. The best surviving account of colonial

college life, Peabody’s journal documents relationships

among students, faculty members, and administrators, as well as

the author’s relationships with other segments of Massachusettssociety. To a full transcription of the entries, Conrad Edick Wright

adds detailed annotation and an introduction that focuses on the

journal’s revealing account of daily life at America’s oldest college.

“I would recommend this book to anyone doing research in the politics

or religion of the late colonial or early Revolutionary era; to anyone

studying the history of American higher education; and to students of

American social and intellectual history, including leisure activities.”

—Ronald Story, author of Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love

CONRAD EDICK WRIGHT is Worthington C. Ford Editor and

Director of Research at the Massachusetts Historical Society. His

other publications include Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and

the Consequences of Independence (University of Massachusetts Press,

2005).

“This is a rare view of

early American college

life from the bottom—and what an extraor-

dinary view it is. One

hopes that Wright’s

book will lead to further

work on this subject.”

—Robert Allison, authorof The Crescent Obscured:The United States and the

Muslim World, 1776–1815

Published in associationwith Massachusetts

Historical Society


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African American Art & Literature / New England Art & Literature

240 pp., 11 illus.

$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-242-3

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-241-6

February 2017

RECOVERING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN

RENAISSANCE IN BOSTON

Black Bostonians and the Politicsof Culture, 1920–1940LORRAINE E. ROSES

In the 1920s and 1930s Boston became a rich and distinctive site of

African American artistic production, unfolding at the same time

as the Harlem Renaissance and encompassing literature, theater,

music, and visual art. Owing to the ephemeral nature of much of

this work, many of the era’s primary sources have been lost.

In this book, Lorraine E. Roses employs archival sources and

personal interviews to recover this artistic output, examining the

work of celebrated figures such as Dorothy West, Helene Johnson,

Meta Warrick Fuller, and Allan Rohan Crite, as well as lesser-

known artists including Eugene Gordon, Ralf Coleman, Gertrude

“Toki” Schalk, and Alvira Hazzard. Black Bostonians and the Politics

of Culture, 1920–1940 demonstrates how this creative community

militated against the color line not solely through powerful acts of

civil disobedience but also by way of a strong repertoire of artistic

projects.

“Few scholars have so diligently and coherently brought

together information about the productivity of African

Americans in Boston and New England. Learning about

this specific history is exciting and rewarding.”

—Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

LORRAINE E. ROSES is professor emerita of Spanish at

Wellesley College. She is coeditor of Harlem’s Glory: Black

Women Writing, 1900–1950 and Harlem Renaissance and

Beyond: Literary Biographies of One Hundred Black Women

Writers, 1900–1945.

“The scholarly need for

this well-researched

and intensive analysis

cannot be overstated,

as scholars working

on African AmericanBostonians and/or New

England–affiliated writ-

ers have had to haphaz-

ardly cobble together

material, histories, and

interviews located in

disparate and often

inaccessible archives.”

—Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, author of

Dorothy West’s

Paradise: A Biography of

Class and Color

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Black German Studies / Cultural Studies

376 pp., 16 illus.

$31.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-231-7

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-230-0

January 2017

A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO

BLACK GERMAN STUDIES

Remapping Black GermanyNew Perspectives on Afro-German History,

Politics, and Culture

EDITED BY SARA LENNOX

In 1984 at the Free University of Berlin, the African

American poet Audre Lorde asked her Black, German-

speaking women students about their identities. The

women revealed that they had no common term to

describe themselves and had until then lacked a way

to identify their shared interests and concerns. Out of

Lorde’s seminar emerged both the term “Afro-German”

(or “Black German”) and the 1986 publication of the

volume that appeared in English translation as Show-

ing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out . The book

launched a movement that has since catalyzed activism

and scholarship in Germany.

Remapping Black Germany collects fourteen pieces that consider

the wide array of issues facing Black German groups and individu-

als across turbulent periods, spanning the German colonial period,National Socialism, divided Germany, and the enormous outpour-

ing of Black German creativity after 1986.

In addition to the editor, the contributors include Robert

Bernasconi, Tina Campt, Maria I. Diedrich, Maureen Maisha

Eggers, Fatima El-Tayeb, Heide Fehrenbach, Dirk Göttsche,

Felicitas Jaima, Katja Kinder, Tobias Nagl, Katharina Oguntoye,

Peggy Piesche, Christian Rogowski, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, and

Andrew Zimmerman.

SARA LENNOX is professor emerita of German studies at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Cemetery of

the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).

“The chapters assem-

bled here will have a

significant impact on

understandings of

Black diasporic history

and culture in North

America and will

reshape the contours

of how German history

and culture are taught

here.”

—Katrin Seig, author ofEthnic Drag: Performing

Race, Nation, Sexuality

in West Germany


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Vietnam War / Asian Studies

224 pp., 11 illus.

$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-252-2

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-251-5

November 2016

A VIETNAMESE PERSPECTIVE ON THE VIETNAM WAR

AND ITS LEGACIES

In Whose Eyes?The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace

TRẦN VA ˘ N THUY AND LÊ THANH DU ˜ NG;TRANSLATED BY ERIC HENRY AND NGUYÊ ˜ N QUANGDY; EDITED, ADAPTED, AND INTRODUCED BYWAYNE KARLIN

Trâ `n Văn Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than

twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the

People’s Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on

to achieve international fame as the director of films that address

the human costs of the war and its aftermath.

Thuy’s memoir, when published in Vietnam in 2013, immedi-

ately sold out. In this translation, English-language readers are now

able to learn in rich detail about the life and work of this preemi-

nent artist. Written in a gentle and charming style, the memoir is

filled with reflections on war, peace, history, freedom of expression,

and filmmaking. Thuy also offers a firsthand account of the war in

Vietnam and its aftermath from a Vietnamese perspective, adding a

dimension rarely encountered in English-language literature.

TRẦN VĂN THUY is a filmmaker and director.

LÊ THANH DŨNG is a writer and translator. WAYNE

KARLIN is an author and professor of languages and

literature at the College of Southern Maryland. ERIC

HENRY is former senior lecturer in the Asian Studies

Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel

Hill. NGUYỄN QUANG DY is a former Harvard Nieman

Fellow and independent journalist in Hanoi.

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“A significant and

poignant memoir

that offers a dramatic

glimpse into the politics

of making films during

the country’s wartimeand postwar periods.”

—Lan P. Duong, authorof Treacherous Subjects:

Gender, Culture, and

Trans-Vietnamese

Feminism

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

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Print Culture Studies / American Literature

288 pp., 8 color illus.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-235-5

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-234-8

December 2016

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

HOW LITERATURE AND READING PRACTICES

REFLECTED COLD WAR PARANOIA

Reading AmericaCitizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature

KRISTIN L. MATTHEWS

During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine

declared, “A good citizen is a good reader.” As postwar

euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to

reading to understand their place in the changing world.

Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did

reading make you a good citizen?

In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into

conversation a range of political, educational, popu-

lar, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how

Americans from across the political spectrum—including

“great works” proponents, New Critics, civil rights

leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and

multiculturalists—celebrated particular texts and advo-

cated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make

their vision of “America” a reality. She situates the fiction of J. D.

Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and MaxineHong Kingston within these debates, illustrating how Cold War

literature was not just an object of but also a vested participant in

postwar efforts to define good reading and citizenship.

“Reading America offers an illuminating account of a still incompletely

known and important political history, and it provides valuable criti-

cal insight into several monuments of literary expression.”

—Sean McCann, author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government

KRISTIN L. MATTHEWS is associate professor of English and

coordinator of the American Studies Program at Brigham Young

University.

“Matthews has a truly

astonishing command

of the discourse

surrounding reading

in Cold War America.

She makes a smart

and ambitious

argument.”

—Greg Barnhisel,author of Cold War

Modernists: Art,

Literature, and American Cultural

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American History / Political Science

320 pp.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-244-7

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-243-0

December 2016

THE CLASH OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS

IN THE ATOMIC AGE

Redefining ScienceScientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear

Weapons in Cold War America

PAUL RUBINSON

The Cold War forced scientists to reconcile their values of interna-

tionalism and objectivity with the increasingly militaristic uses of

scientific knowledge. For decades, antinuclear scientists pursued

nuclear disarmament in a variety of ways, from grassroots activism

to transnational diplomacy and government science advising. The

U.S. government ultimately withstood these efforts, redefining

science as a strictly technical endeavor that enhanced national

security and deeming science that challenged nuclear weapons on

moral grounds “emotional” and patently unscientific. In response,

many activist scientists restricted themselves to purely technical

arguments for arms control. When antinuclear protest erupted in

the 1980s, grassroots activists had moved beyond scientific and

technical arguments for disarmament. Grounding their stance in

the idea that nuclear weapons were immoral, they used the

“emotional” arguments that most scientists had abandoned. Redefining Science shows that the government achieved its Cold War

“consensus” only by active opposition to powerful dissenters and helps

explain the current and uneasy relationship between sci-

entists, the public, and government in debates over issues

such as security, energy, and climate change.

PAUL RUBINSON is assistant professor of history at

Bridgewater State University.

“Rubinson offers an

illuminating depiction

of the efforts of scien-

tists to influence the

potentially existential

debates surroundingthe development and

use of nuclear weap-

ons. In so doing, he

insightfully analyzes

the ways the national

security state either

coopts, marginalizes, or

discredits scientists whoare potential critics of

the government’s use of

science and technology

to pursue global

hegemony.”

—Peter Kuznick,author of Beyond the

Laboratory: Scientistsas Political Activists in

1930s America

“Through a series of well-chosen case studies, Rubinson

puts a very human face on the scientists who shaped

debates over the very nature of humanity in the nuclear

age.”

—Edwin A. Martini, author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

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American History / Public History / Material Culture

280 pp., 29 illus.

$32.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-254-6

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-253-9

February 2017

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Public History in Historical Perspective

THE LIFE STORY OF AN ART COLLECTOR AND

HIS IDEOLOGICAL AMBITIONS

Material PoliticsFrancis P. Garvan, American Antiques, and

the Alchemy of Collecting in the InterwarUnited States

CATHERINE L. WHALEN

Francis Patrick Garvan (1875–1937) knew how to wield

the power of Americana. In 1930 he donated his out-

standing collection of early American decorative arts to

Yale University with an explicit goal: to instill patriotism

as a bulwark against socialism and communism. Garvan

believed his treasures would shore up political fealty in

the face of subversive ideologies, and his ambitions for

his collection and his political beliefs were fueled by his

government work. As Alien Property Custodian during

World War I, he seized enemy-owned property in the

United States, including hundreds of valuable German

chemical patents. As an assistant attorney general in the U.S.

Department of Justice, Garvan relentlessly persecuted anarchists

and “Bolsheviks” during the postwar Red Scare.In this book, Catherine Whalen demonstrates how this out-

spoken ideologue’s political and business dealings informed his

collecting practices and unpacks the hefty symbolic freight that he

believed American antiques carried in the service of an ambitious

nationalist project. Whalen shows how objects can represent politi-

cal agendas and operate as important forms of cultural power, par-

ticularly when those objects, like Garvan’s, are housed at academic

institutions and are interpreted and reinterpreted by scholars with

shifting points of view.

CATHERINE WHALEN is associate professor at the Bard Graduate

Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.

“While the book is

about Garvan, it has

larger implications—

namely establishing

that collecting itself is

not a politically neutral

activity, but one with

significant cultural

power, in this case

employed for cultural

and economic

nationalism.”

—Briann Greenfield,author of Out of the

Attic: Inventing

Antiques in Twentieth-

Century New England

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American Literature

256 pp.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-238-6

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-237-9

October 2016

RETHINKING AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE

LENS OF CRIMINAL NARRATIVES

Literature and Criminal Justice inAntebellum AmericaCARL OSTROWSKI

The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal jus-

tice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative,

expanding print culture afforded authors and publishers unprece-

dented opportunities to reflect on these important social develop-

ments. Carl Ostrowski traces the impact of these related historical

processes on American literature, identifying a set of culturally res-

onant narratives that emerged from criminal justice–related

discourse to shape the period’s national literary expression.

Drawing on an eclectic range of sources including newspaper

arrest reports, prison reform periodicals, popular literary magazines,

transatlantic travel narratives, popular crime novels, anthologies of

prison poetry, and the memoirs of prison chaplains, Ostrowski

analyzes how authors as canonical as Nathaniel Hawthorne and as

obscure as counterfeiter/poet/prison inmate Christian Meadows

adapted, manipulated, or rejected prevailing narratives about crim-

inality to serve their artistic and rhetorical ends. These narrativesled to the creation of new literary subgenres while also ushering in

psychological interiority as an important criterion by which serious

fiction was judged. Ostrowski joins and extends recent

scholarly conversations on subjects including African

American civic agency, literary sentimentalism, outsider

authorship, and the racial politics of antebellum prison

reform.

CARL OSTROWSKI is professor of English at Middle

Tennessee State University and author of Books, Maps,

and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress,

1783–1861 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).

“This book is

thoughtful, often

insightful, and brings

useful attention

to little known or

undervalued ante-bellum texts, relating

to various aspects of

the American criminal

justice system and

the experience of

incarceration and

release.”

—Laura Korobkin,author of Criminal

Conversations:

Sentimentality and

Nineteenth-Century

Legal Stories of

Adultery

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American History / Military History / Civil War

320 pp., 14 illus.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-248-5

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-247-8

November 2016

FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS FROM

CIVIL WAR SNIPERS

“Our Aim Was Man”Andrew’s Sharpshooters in the American Civil War

EDITED BYROBERTA SENECHAL DE LA ROCHE

One was a father who worried about his fellow soldiers’

swearing. Another hoped to enter Harvard College. The

third was a farmer whose letters home depict the later

stages of the war. The fourth had turned to boot making

when he did not inherit land. Based on the letters, diaries,

and memoirs of four members of the First Company Mas-

sachusetts Sharpshooters, known as Andrew’s Sharpshoot-

ers, this book provides a rare glimpse into the experiences

of Union Army snipers. The company was one of the first

units in American military history to be equipped with

telescope-sighted rifles to enable long-distance targeting.

Despite complaints that snipers violated codes of honorable combat,

the members of Andrew’s Sharpshooters generally expressed quiet

pride in being an elite unit of highly skilled soldiers—“cool blooded

sharpshooters,” as one of them said.Introduced and edited by Roberta Senechal de la Roche, these

primary accounts include new details about the equipment, train-

ing, and deployment of snipers in the Army of the Potomac. They

also reveal the challenges of covert warfare and include rich detail

on the everyday problems of Civil War soldiers, including bad food,

disease, punishing marches, and homesickness. The collected docu-

ments also convey the trials of those left on the home front.

ROBERTA SENECHAL DE LA ROCHE is professor of history

at Washington and Lee University.

“This volume presents

primary, personal

accounts that actually

discuss in detail the

type of weapons used

and more importantly

the procedure and

experience of genuine

sniping in the Civil

War. It is a rare find, of

special interest to all

who want to know the

nuts and bolts of how

sharpshooters lived,

worked, and fought in

the Civil War.”

—Earl J. Hess,Stewart W. McClelland

Chair in History,Lincoln Memorial

University


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American Literature / American Studies

272 pp., 20 illus.

$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-233-1

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-232-4

February 2017

A WIDE-RANGING EXAMINATION OF AUTHOR HOMES,

LITERARY REPUTATIONS, AND FAN CULTURE

From Page to PlaceAmerican Literary Tourism and the

Afterlives of Authors

EDITED BY JENNIFER HARRIS ANDHILARY IRIS LOWE

Literary tourism has existed in the United States since at least the

early nineteenth century, and now includes sites in almost every

corner of the country. From Page to Place examines how Americans

have taken up this form of tourism, offering an investigation of the

places and practices of literary tourism from literary scholars, his-

torians, tour guides, and collectors. The essays here begin to trace

for the first time the histories of some of these sites, the rituals

associated with literary tourism, and the ways readers and visitors

consume popular literature through touristic endeavors.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Rebecca Rego

Barry, Susann Bishop, Ben de Bruyn, Erin Hazard, Caroline Hellman,

Michelle McClellan, Mara Scanlon, and Klara-Stephanie Szlezák.

JENNIFER HARRIS is associate professor of literature at

the University of Waterloo and coeditor of the Norton

Critical edition of The Coquette and the Boarding School .

HILARY IRIS LOWE is director of the Center for Public

History and assistant professor of history at Temple

University. She is author of Mark Twain Houses and

American Literary Tourism.

“From Page to Place

reminds readers that the

reputations of works

of literature (like the

mythologies that often

inspire them) are notstatic or concretized

once they have gone

out of print or their

authors have passed

away but rise and fall

with the vicissitudes

of altering interpretive

paradigms in accordancewith changing cultural

priorities.”

—Gregory Pfitzer, authorof History Repeating

Itself: The Republication

of Children’s Historical

Literature and the

Christian Right

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Memoir / Jewish Studies / Postcolonial Studies / South Africa

256 pp.

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-228-7

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-227-0

October 2016

A MEMOIR OF DIVIDED VISION SET IN A

DIVIDED SOUTH AFRICA

BirthmarkSTEPHEN CLINGMAN

When Stephen Clingman was two, he underwent an

operation to remove a birthmark under his right eye.

The operation failed, and the birthmark returned, but in

somewhat altered form. In this captivating book, Cling-

man takes the fact of that mark—its appearance, disap-

pearance, and return—as a guiding motif of memory.

Not only was the operation unsuccessful, it affected

his vision, and his eyes came to see differently from

each other. Birthmark explores the questions raised by

living with divided vision in a divided world—the world

of South Africa under apartheid, where every view

was governed by the markings of birth, the accidents

of color, race, and skin. But what were the effects on

the mind? Clingman's book engages a number of ques-

tions. How, in such circumstances, can we come to a deeper kind of

vision? How can we achieve wholeness and acceptance? How can

we find our place in the midst of turmoil and change?

In a beguiling narrative set on three continents, this is a story

that is personal, painful, comic, and ultimately uplifting: a book not

so much of the coming of age but the coming of perspective.

STEPHEN CLINGMAN is Distinguished Professor of English

at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“Birthmark is a pro-

found reflection on

vision and identity.

Clingman examines his

own perspectives and

their origins. How did I

come to see this way?

How does this way

of seeing shape the

person I am? Can it be

changed?”

—Ivan Vladislavić,author of Portrait with

Keys: The City of

Johannesburg

Unlocked and winnerof the WindhamCampbell Award


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American Literature

184 pp.

$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-240-9

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-239-3

January 2017

A CAREFUL READING OF THE MEANING OF DEATH IN

THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU

When I Came to DieProcess and Prophecy in Thoreau’s Vision of Dying

AUDREY RADEN

Scholars have long considered the elegiac characteristics of

Thoreau’s work. Yet few have explored how his personal views

on death and dying influenced his philosophies and writings. In

beautiful prose, Audrey Raden places Thoreau’s views of death

and dying at the center of his work, contending that it is crucial

to consider the specific historical and regional contexts in which

he lived—nineteenth-century New England—to fully appreciate

his perspectives. To understand death and dying, Thoreau drew

on Christian and Eastern traditions, antebellum Northern culture,

Transcendentalism, and his personal relationship with nature. He

then suffused his writings with these understandings, through

what Raden identifies as three key approaches—the sentimental,

the heroic, and the mystical.

When I Came to Die suggests that throughout his writings,

Thoreau communicated that knowing how to die properly is an

art and a lifelong study, a perspective that informed his ideas aboutpolitics, nature, and individualism. With this insight, Raden opens

a dialogue that will engage both Thoreauvians and those interested

in American literature and thought.

“Audrey Raden prompts us to confront the significance of

death and dying in Thoreau’s life and writings and there-

by to rethink his ideas about nature, time, divinity, and

the self. The result is powerful and unprecedented.”—Robert Gross, author of The Transcendentalists

and Their World

AUDREY RADEN is an independent scholar currently

working toward a master of divinity degree at New York

Theological Seminary.

“An elegantly written

book and a must-read

for anyone interested

in nineteenth-century

American literature

and culture.”—David S. Reynolds,

author of WakingGiant: America in the

Age of Jackson

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THE BIOGRAPHY OF A WORLD-RENOWNED

MUSICIAN

Performing LifeThe Story of Ruth Posselt, American Violinist

DIANA LEWIS BURGIN

Performing Life is a richly illustrated biography of the

internationally renowned violinist Ruth Posselt (1911–

2007), tracing her career from her debut as a child

prodigy at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1923 to her last

appearances in the late seventies. This first-ever biog-

raphy details Posselt’s struggles with the widespread

gender bias against female violinists as well as the lesser-

known prejudice of American audiences and managers

against American- born virtuosos. But Performing Life

focuses on Posselt’s achievements, especially her pio-

neering work in premiering and popularizing important

works for the violin by twentieth-century composers

such as E. B. Hill, Walter Piston, Samuel Barber, Paul

Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinu, Aaron Copland, Vladimir Dukelsky

(Vernon Duke), and others. Special attention is also given to

Posselt’s decades-long record of performances with the BostonSymphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky and Charles

Munch, as well as her musical partnership and marriage with

Richard Burgin, concertmaster and associate conductor of the

BSO for almost half a century.

Drawing from written and oral narratives, published and

unpublished sources, personal reminiscences, conversations, and

anecdotes, Diana Lewis Burgin, Posselt’s daughter, tells this exhil-

arating story of a trail- blazing female musician, through which an

imagined mother–daughter dialogue murmurs continuously in the

background.

DIANA LEWIS BURGIN is professor of Russian at the University

of Massachusetts Boston. A translator of Russian literature, she

is author of Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho.

Biography / Music

224 pp., 80 illus.

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-61468-339-1

November 2016

Distributed forThe Troy Book Makers

“Miss Posselt played

with fiery virtuosity,

with bravura and ex-

ceptional accuracy, a

vibrant and sensuous

tone and a style that

went well with the

nature of the music.”

—Olin Downes,The New York Times

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Investment Management in BostonA History

DAVID GRAYSON ALLEN”A fresh—and original—treatment of the multitude of activities by

individuals and business firms in the Boston region over the lastcentury. A highly valuable study.”—Edwin Perkins

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-103-7

448 pp., 15 illus., 2015Published in association with Massachusetts Historical Society.

Boston’s Cycling Craze, 1880–1900A Story of Race, Sport, and Society

LORENZ J. FINISONBoston Globe Best New England Books of 2014

“Finison chronicles the early debates associated with wheeling,

which included issues of race, gender, and class. . . . References to

contemporary Boston locations may be of interest to local historians. Rec-

ommended.”—Choice

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0312 pp., 17 illus., 2014

A People’s History of the New BostonJIM VRABEL”A must-read for a new generation of community activists, politicians,

government officials, students of cities, and the media.”

—Commonwealth Magazine

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4

288 pp., 16 illus., 2014

The New BostoniansHow Immigrants Have Transformedthe Metro Area since the 1960s

MARILYNN S. JOHNSON

”A very strong piece of work.”—Paul Watanabe$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-147-1304 pp., 20 illus., 2015

B O O K S A B O U T T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H

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R E C E N T L Y P U B L I S H E D

Sex Science SelfA Social History of Estrogen,Testosterone, and Identity

Bob Ostertag$23.95t paper, 978-1-62534-213-3

History of Science & Technology /Gender & Sexuality

Artful LivesThe Francis Watts Lee Familyand Their Times

Patricia J. Fanning$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-207-2

American Studies / Biography

For a Short Time OnlyItinerants and the Resurgence ofPopular Culture in Early America

Peter Benes$49.95 jacketed cloth, 978-1-62534-199-0

Early American History / American Studies

WINNER OF THE JUNIPER PRIZEIN POETRY

Body Distances(A Hundred Blackbirds Rising)Mark Wagenaar

$19.95t paper, 978-1-62534-220-1Poetry

WINNER OF THE JUNIPER PRIZEIN FICTION

The Other OneStories

Hasanthika Sirisena$22.95t paper, 978-1-62534-218-8

Fiction

The Labor of LiteratureDemocracy and Literary Culturein Modern Chile

Jane D. Griffin$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-209-6Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies

Bending the FutureFifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Yearsof Historic Preservation in theUnited States

Edited by Max Page and Marla R. Miller$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-215-7

Public History

Unconventional PoliticsNineteenth-Century WomenWriters and U.S. Indian Policy

Janet Dean$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-203-4

American Literature / Women’s Studies

In the NeighborhoodWomen’s Publication in Early America

Caroline Wigginton$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-222-5

American Literature / Women’s Studies


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We Gotta Get Out of This PlaceThe Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

Doug Bradley and Craig Werner$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-162-4

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

American History / Music

A Manner of BeingWriters on Their Mentors

Edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-182-2

Creative Writing

SOS—Calling All Black PeopleA Black Arts Movement Reader

Edited by John H. Bracey Jr., SoniaSanchez, and James Smethurst$34.95 paper, 978-1-62534-031-3

African American Studies / Cultural Studies

Robert Lowell in LoveJeffrey Meyers$34.95t jacketed cloth, 978-1-62534-186-0

Biography

WINNER OF THE GRACE PALEY PRIZEIN SHORT FICTION

A Curious LandStories from Home

Susan Muaddi Darraj$24.95t jacketed cloth, 978-1-62534-187-7

Published in cooperation with Association of Writersand Writing Programs

Fiction

WINNER OF THE JUNIPER PRIZE INFICTION

The Agriculture Hall of FameStories

Andrew Malan Milward$22.95t paper, 978-1-55849-948-5

Fiction

Audre Lorde’s TransnationalLegaciesEdited by Stella Bolaki andSabine Broeck$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-139-6

African American Studies / Gender& Sexuality

Kent StateDeath and Dissent in the Long Sixties

Thomas M. Grace$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-111-2Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

American History

“The Most Dangerous Communistin the United States”A Biography of Herbert Aptheker

Gary Murrell$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-154-9

American History / African American History

B E S T O F B A C K L I S T

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African American TravelNarratives from AbroadMobility and Cultural Work inthe Age of Jim Crow

Gary Totten$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-161-7

African American Studies / American Literature

The Translations of NebrijaLanguage, Culture, and Circulationin the Early Modern World

Byron Ellsworth Hamann$22.95 paper, 978-1-62534-170-9Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies / Translation Studies

Commercializing ChildhoodChildren’s Magazines, Urban Gentility,and the Ideal of the Child Consumer inthe United States, 1823–1918

Paul B. Ringel$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-191-4Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies / Journalism& Media Studies

What Middletown ReadPrint Culture in an American Small City

Frank Felsenstein andJames J. Connolly$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-141-9Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies / American History

Not Free, Not for AllPublic Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

Cheryl Knott$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-178-5Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies / Journalism & MediaStudies

Picturing ClassLewis W. Hine PhotographsChild Labor in New England

Robert Macieski$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-184-6

New England History / Labor Studies

Country Comes to TownThe Music Industry and theTransformation of Nashville

Jeremy Hill$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-172-3

American Popular Music

American Studies / Music

The New BostoniansHow Immigrants Have Transformedthe Metro Area since the 1960s

Marilynn S. Johnson$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-147-1

American History / New England History

A People’s History of theNew BostonJim Vrabel$24.95 paper, 978-1-62534-076-4

Urban History / New England History



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Cultivating Environmental JusticeA Literary History of U.S. GardenWriting

Robert S. Emmett$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-205-8

Environmental Criticism / American Literature

Landscapes of ExclusionState Parks and Jim Crow in theAmerican South

William E. O’Brien$39.95 jacketed cloth, 978-1-62534-155-6Published in association with Library of AmericanLandscape History

American Studies / Landscape Architecture

The Harlem Renaissance and theIdea of a New Negro ReaderShawn Anthony Christian$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-201-0Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

African American Art & Literature

The Riot Report and the NewsHow the Kerner Commission ChangedMedia Coverage of Black America

Thomas J. Hrach$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-211-9

Journalism / American History

Not a Catholic NationThe Ku Klux Klan ConfrontsNew England in the 1920s

Mark Paul Richard$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-189-1

American History / Religion

Younger Than That NowThe Politics of Age in the 1960s

Holly V. Scott$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-217-1Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

American Studies / Political Science

What We Have DoneAn Oral History of the DisabilityRights Movement

Fred Pelka$29.95 paper, 978-1-55849-919-5

Disability Studies / American History

For Jobs and FreedomSelected Speeches and Writingsof A. Philip Randolph

Edited by Andrew E. Kerstenand David Lucander$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-116-7

African American History / Labor History

I Am Because We AreReadings in Africana Philosophy

REVISED EDITION

Edited by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee LasanaOkpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-176-1

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2015 JAMES P. HANLANBOOK AWARD$24.95 paper, 978-1-62534-066-5

2015 NATIONAL COUNCIL ONPUBLIC HISTORY BOOK AWARD$25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-035-1

2015 JOHN LYMAN BOOK AWARDNAVAL AND MARITIME REFERENCE WORKSAND PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES

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ROLLING STONE #1 BESTMUSIC BOOK OF 2015

PASTE BEST NONFICTIONBOOKS OF 2015$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-162-4

2015 HENRY FORD HERITAGEASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD

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AMERICAN POPULAR MUSICEdited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of

Massachusetts Boston), this series includes concise, well

written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to

general readers.

CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THECOLD WAREdited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachu-

setts Amherst) and Edwin A. Martini (WesternMichigan University), this highly regarded series

has produced a wide range of books that reexamine

the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing

on the relationship between culture and politics.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THENORTHEASTThe aim of this series is to explore, from different

critical perspectives, the environmental history of the

Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada,

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series

editors are Anthony N. Penna (NortheasternUniversity) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).

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winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competi-

tion, now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $5,500award is sponsored by the Association of Writers &

Writing Programs (AWP), an organization that

includes over 500 colleges and universities with a

strong commitment to teaching creative writing.

JUNIPER LITERARY PRIZESTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Juniper Prize

for Poetry, the MFA program at the University of

Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Massa-

chusetts Press expanded this prize series. Now there

are two annual awards for poetry and two awards for

fiction. For more information please go to www.umass

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THE AMHERST SERIES INLAW, JURISPRUDENCE,AND SOCIAL THOUGHTEdited by Austin Sarat, Martha

Umphrey, and Lawrence Douglas,

(Amherst College), books in the

series examine law from an inter-

disciplinary perspective. Each book

considers a theme crucial to the understanding of law

as it confronts intellectual currents in the humanities

and social sciences and considers contemporary chal-

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LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPEHISTORYIn addition to the series Designing the American Park,

edited by Ethan Carr (University of Massachusetts

Amherst), the Press publishes a range of titles in associ-

ation with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organi-

zation that develops books and exhibitions about North

American landscapes and the people who created them.

MASSACHUSETTS STUDIES IN EARLYMODERN CULTUREEdited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts

Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and

scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure

our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.

NATIVE AMERICANS OF THENORTHEASTBooks in this series examine the diverse cultures and

histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the

Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the

Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway

(Dartmouth College), Jean M. O’Brien (University of

Minnesota), and Lisa T. Brooks (Amherst College).

PUBLIC HISTORY IN HISTORICALPERSPECTIVEEdited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts

Amherst), this series explores how representations of

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political, cultural, and social ends.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/CULTUREThis interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engagingbooks that illuminate the role of science and technol-

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Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut),

Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester),

and Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin).

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