Fall 2016 - Syracuse University Press

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Past Director’s Choice
In the Wake of the Poetic
Palestinian Artists after Darwish
Najat Rahman
Director’s Choice for Fall 2015
“The author beautifully shows how these
artists express their belonging to Palestine
despite many forces aiming at their erasure
and how they have done so in aesthetically
accepted ways.”—Issa J. Boullata, World
Literature Today
Hardcover $29.95s 978-0-8156-3408-9
Ebook 978-0-8156-5341-7
Reading the Wampum
Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual
Code and Epistemological Recovery
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality
and continuance of wampum traditions in
Iroquois art, literature, and community as
they persist and reappear in new guises
with each new generation.
Hardcover $29.95s 978-0-8156-3366-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5299-1
Sylvia Porter
America’s Original Personal
Finance Columnist
Tracy Lucht
Director’s Choice
Discovered in Syracuse University Libraries’
Special Collections, William Osborne Dapping’s previously unpublished manuscript,
The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters
Club (ca. 1900–1910), is this season Director’s
Choice. The Muckers is a long-lost and singular firsthand account of the author’s youth as
a member of a boys’ street gang in 1890s New
York City. Colorfully and wittily told in the argot of the city’s slums, it portrayed the boys’
mischievous and criminal escapades in a way
that challenged the conventions of writing
about children and the poor. The publication
of Dapping’s story represents the commitment
of Syracuse University Press to preserve the
history, literature, and culture of our region,
as well as our mission to promote the scholarship of the university. I’m delighted to add
this book to our New York State collection and
showcase one of the many treasures Syracuse
University has to offer.
“With everyone mad about Mad Men,
this book shows how Porter successfully
—Alice Randel Pfeiffer, director
played the gender game in the 1950s.”
—Carol Kolmerten, Hood College
Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-1029-8
Ebook 978-0-8156-5249-6
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Books for the Trade
HISTORICAL FICTION
The Muckers
A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club
William Osborne Dapping
Edited and with an Introduction by Woody Register
Hardcover $59.95s 978-0-8156-3440-9
Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1063-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5362-2
6 x 9, 272 pages, 10 black-and-white photographs, annotations, index
October 2016
Written in the vernacular of the streets, a firsthand account of the
author’s youth as a member of a boys’ gang in 1890s New York City.
“Provides the point of view of street kids
or gang members, something heretofore
very hard to have access to in the primary
documents of the period, except in tiny
bits and snatches. Here, we have a booklength insider’s account.”
—Keith Gandal, professor of English, City College of
New York
“Dapping’s book is a welcome addition to
Progressive Era books on the culture of
the streets and, more particularly, street
children, the objects of much moralistic,
philanthropic, and official attention in this
period.”
—Amy Schrager Lang, author of The Syntax of Class:
Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when
he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of
New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the
Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping’s life in a
gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform literature and
a rejoinder to the era’s alarming exposés of the “dangerous classes,” The Muckers
stands as an important reform era primary document.
The thinly disguised autobiographical narrative is told in the slangy, profane
voice of the gang’s leader, Spike, who describes life through the eyes of the
young boys who thronged the city’s streets, hawking newspapers, playing baseball, shooting craps, pilfering beer, and tormenting any and all adult authorities. These muckers are dirty and insubordinate, and prefer to steal rather than
to work, but they also possess a high-spirited zest for life and mischief, a wily
intelligence, and a sturdy code of honor that help them exploit the good intentions of social reformers and survive in a darkly violent and hypocritical world.
Historian Woody Register’s introduction explores the book’s documentary
value as a social history of 1890s tenement life; as a literary work that challenged the conventions of writing about children and the poor; and as a window
through which to observe the remarkable story of the author’s transformation
from slum mucker to Harvard man. Destined to become a classic of Progressive
Era literature, The Muckers reads with the lively cadence of a novel, told in the
voice of an unforgettable narrator of wit, grit, and heart.
William Osborne Dapping (1880–1969) was an American journalist and editor from Auburn, New York. In 1930, the Pulitzer Prize Committee awarded him a special prize for his
reportorial work in connection with the outbreak at Auburn prison in December 1929.
Woody Register is the Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History at Sewanee, the
University of the South. He is the author of The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the
Rise of American Amusements, and he is coauthor of the two-volume series Crosscurrents in
American Culture: A Reader in United States History.
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TELEVISION | LINGUISTICS
Watching TV with a Linguist
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten
Hardcover $65.00s 978-0-8156-3493-5
Paper $34.95 978-0-8156-1081-6
Ebook 978-0-8156-5395-0
6 x 9, 352 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, notes, references, index
Series: Television and Popular Culture
September 2016
An introduction to the study of linguistics, using popular and critically acclaimed television series to explain and illustrate language in use.
“A book like this ought to be available for instruction in linguistics
and television studies, media studies, and cultural studies.”
—Michael Adams, professor of English, Indiana University
“This is an excellent book, which is innovative in its conceptualization, and expertly edited. . . . A must-read for the budding
linguist and TV-enthusiast.”
—Monika Bednarek, senior lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney
Also available . . .
Reading Joss Whedon
Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran,
Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery
“Cuts new ground as a collection, just as its many contributions individually examine various elements of Whedon’s work with nuance
and precision.”—Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cloth $59.95L 978-0-8156-3364-8
Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1038-0
Ebook 978-0-8156-5283-0
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of
television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she
champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the
same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the
role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters. The essays gathered in this volume explore specific areas of
linguistics, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the study
of language. Through programs such as Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Sherlock, and
The Wire, contributors deftly illustrate key linguistic concepts and terminology
using snippets of familiar dialogue and examples of subtle narration. In addition, contributors aim to raise linguistic awareness among readers by identifying linguistics in action, encouraging readers to recognize additional examples
of concepts on their own. To this end, each chapter provides suggestions for
viewing other television series or specific episodes, where further examples of
the linguistic concepts in focus can be found. Invaluable as a resource in linguistics and communication courses, Watching TV with a Linguist is the first book to
use the familiar and compelling medium of television to engage students with
the science of language.
Kristy Beers Fägersten is associate professor of English linguistics at Södertörn University in
Sweden. She is the author of Who’s Swearing Now? The Social Aspects of Conversational
Swearing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM | MEMOIR
Literary Awakenings
Personal Essays from the Hudson Review
Edited by Ronald Koury
With an Introduction by William H. Pritchard
Hardcover $55.00s 978-0-8156-3487-4
Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1078-6
Ebook 978-0-8156-5385-1
6 x 9, 312 pages, notes
November 2016
A collection of deeply personal essays musing on literature from the
Hudson Review.
“The collection makes a strong case for the centrality of reading
to human life . . . to argue for literature’s importance in an increasingly post-literate age.”
—Jeff Porter, associate professor of English, University of Iowa
Poets Translate Poets
A Hudson Review Anthology
Edited by Paula Deitz
“There are poems and plays here that will positively delight read-
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed
a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their
criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over
time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist
writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over the last
three decades that celebrate the writer’s relationship with literature, one that is
deeply shaped by experience and remembrance.
The essays gathered here recall disparate awakenings to the influence of
literature and discoveries of the many ways in which it enriches nearly every
aspect of our lives. Antonio Muñoz Molina describes his education as a writer
and a citizen as a form of protest against Franco’s totalitarian regime in Spain.
Drawing upon Huckleberry Finn, Wendell Berry meditates on the impulse to
escape that literature often invokes, and Judith Pascoe’s tribute to Clarissa confesses to the appeal of reading select literature that initiates one into an exclusive coterie of people. What unites these diverse contributions is the joy of
appreciation, the pleasures of engaging with literature.
Contributors include:
to do justice to a work of genius in another language.”—Brian M.
Wendell Berry
Dana Gioia David Mason
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Reed, author of Hart Crane: After His Lights
Seamus Heaney
Clara Claiborne Park
ers, inform them, and make them think about what it means to try
Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1027-4
Ebook 978-0-8156-5247-2
Ronald Koury has been managing editor of the Hudson Review since 1985.
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FICTION
The Elusive Fox
Muhammad Zafzaf
Translated from the Arabic by Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen
Paper $18.95 978-0-8156-1077-9
Ebook 978-0-8156-5381-3
5 x 7, 120 pages
Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
August 2016
The first English translation of Muhammad Zafzaf’s novel of a coastal
Moroccan city and its gritty underbelly.
“The Elusive Fox is an indelible portrait of a man in transit and a
country in transition. Zafzaf writes without indulgence, yet with
sympathy and humor, about life in the coastal town Essaouira,
where locals and tourists mingle, mutually exposing their hypocrisies. A gritty, powerful novel by one of Morocco’s greatest writers.”
—Laila Lalami, author of The Moor’s Account
“A key novel by one of Morocco’s most important Arabic novelists. . . . Represents the neglected Arabic perspective on the characters Beat generation writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and
Burroughs encountered during their stay in Morocco.”
—Jonathan Smolin, associate professor of Arabic, Dartmouth College
“A welcome addition to the canon of works of Moroccan literature
in translation.”
—William Hutchins, translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy
Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi
An Ottoman Novel
Ahmet Midhat Efendi
Translated from the Turkish by Melih Levi and Monica M. Ringer
“An enchanting read. . . . A unique, entertaining and enlightening
book.”—The Jordan Times
Paper $14.95 978-0-8156-1064-9
Ebook 978-0-8156-5363-9
Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox,
Zafzaf’s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher visits the
coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European
bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society.
More than a novel, The Elusive Fox is a portrait of a city during a time of fluid
cultural and political mores in Morocco.
Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most prominent writers of the Maghreb. The
author of dozens of novels and short stories, Zafzaf was celebrated for his innovative, modernist, and aesthetic literature rooted in the detailed daily anxieties of the ordinary Moroccan.
Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. His translations have appeared in
CELAAN, Metamorphoses, World Literature Today, and Banipal.
Roger Allen is the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor Emeritus of Social Thought and
Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor emeritus of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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FICTION
Wins and Losses
Stories
Peter Makuck
Hardcover $49.95s 978-0-8156-3494-2
Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1082-3
Ebook 978-0-8156-5391-2
5 x 8, 200 pages
September 2016
A collection of compassionate stories filled with humor, heartbreak, and
grace.
“I enjoyed these stories very much and felt their implicit connection to one another. . . . There’s much to admire in the surety and
maturity of this writer’s voice and prose. Never showy or overwrought in any way, the writing has the best kind of near-invisibility. There are also moments of lyrical surprise.”
—Suzanne Greenberg, author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories
“The stories in Wins and Losses observe
steadily the details of ordinary American
lives. They are surprising in the strength
of their revelations. Easily recognizable
figures change before our eyes, discarding
appearances and exposing truths they may
not be aware of. Only the most perceptive
of authors can claim such insight. Are winners losers in purposeful disguise? Or is it
the other way round? Here is a book I read
through eagerly.”
—Fred Chappell, award-winning author of Dagon
“It was a pleasure to read Makuck’s collection of stories. The
characters are believable; the stories are tight; the scenes have
purpose; everything about the collection is clear and readable.
. . . His world was well observed, and I enjoyed my stay within it.”
—Gary Fincke, author of Sorry I Worried You
In Makuck’s fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile
territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable. The stories in Wins and Losses are set in
a car, a courtroom, a university English department, a sports bar, a jetliner, a
laundromat. Characters struggle with regret, desire, expectations, and a need
to win when loss is inevitable. A high school student whose father was killed in
a car crash and who can speak openly only to his girlfriend delivers prescriptions for a pharmacy and learns much about people and values in the course
of his deliveries. A lawyer recalls a dubious family friend, an undercover cop,
who pressured him as a young boy toward guns and football. A recent widow
finds a cardboard box on her front porch only to discover it contains the body
of her dog. A young woman takes her mother to a cardiologist and, while in
the waiting room, gets into an argument with a wealthy political conservative
at great cost to both of them. In the tradition of Cheever and Updike, Makuck's
stories give us characters struggling with questions of what really matters.
Peter Makuck is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University. He is the author of Long Lens: New and Selected Poems and three collections of short stories, including
Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in the Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, the Nation, and Gettysburg Review.
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POETRY
They Rule the World
Samuel Hazo
Hardcover $45.00s 978-0-8156-3492-8
Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1080-9
Ebook 978-08156-5390-5
51/2 x 8, 120 pages
August 2016
A new collection of poems musing on mortality and love from one of the
most enduring poets of our time.
“Hazo speaks in these poems with impressive clarity, honesty, intelligence and courage. By turns philosophical and political, Hazo
does not suffer fools gladly. . . . Here is a poet who understands
not only language, but silence. We would do well to listen to the
words and silences of Samuel Hazo.”
—Martín Espada, award-winning poet and author of
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems
“These poems are engaging, personally warm, and stylistically
poised, cultured and full of concern for family and friends. The
candid voice of a man preoccupied with mortality and delighted
with the details of a life among those he loves is an exemplary
pleasure.”
—Brooks Haxton, author of They Lift Their Wings to Cry
Praise for Like a Man Gone Mad
“This is poetry of maturity, of wisdom. . . . A beautiful book—
distilled from years and years of living and writing.”
—Adam Zagajewski, author of Without End: New and Selected Poems
“Hazo’s poems advance with wit, irony, and insightful commentary
on many subjects, aphoristic thinking a key trait of his signature.”
Like a Man Gone Mad
Poems in a New Century
Samuel Hazo
Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Like a Man Gone
Mad embody a rich intellectual and emotional curiosity.
Cloth $16.95 978-0-8156-0957-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5099-7
—The Hudson Review
For over fifty years, Hazo’s poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and
love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his
own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage
of time and the tenderness of the present moment.
By turns convivial and introspective, these poems explore the complex synchronicity between life and art, and the connections between the personal and
the political. With sharp clarity and deep emotion, Hazo continues his pursuit
of wisdom and discovery through the act of expression.
Samuel Hazo is founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he
is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His books
include And The Time Is, Stills, and This Part of the World. Among his translations are Adonis’s
The Pages of Day and Night and Nadia Tuéni’s Lebanon: Poems of Love and War.
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“Captures the essence of what it is to be a community.”
REGIONAL
—Jason Emerson, author of Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln
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THE SOUL OF
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CENTRAL
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NEW YORK
| SYR ACUSE STORIES BY |
SEAN KIRST
The Soul of Central New York
Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst
With a Foreword by Eric Carle
›
Hardcover $59.95s 978-0-8156-3483-6
Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1083-0
Ebook 978-0-8156-5380-6
6 x 9, 352 pages, 45 black-and-white photographs
December 2016
Nationally celebrated columnist Sean Kirst offers a deeply moving collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of the everyday men and
women who define Syracuse.
“Kirst demonstrates an extraordinary connection with his readers
and subjects. How wonderful it would be for any community to
have such an artful chronicler of its poignant moments.”
“Kirst not only shares with readers his love
and passion for the people, places, and
voices of his hometown, but captures the
essence of what it is to be a community.”
—Jason Emerson, author of Giant in the Shadows:
The Life of Robert T. Lincoln
—Janice Bullard Pieterse, author of Our Work Is But Begun: A History
of the University of Rochester, 1850–2005
A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown,
of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and Syracuse.
The impossible account of how Eric Carle, one of the world’s great children’s
authors, found his way to a childhood friend through a photograph taken in
Syracuse more than eighty years ago.
All these tales can be found in The Soul of Central New York, a collection of
columns by Sean Kirst that spans almost a quarter-century. During his long career
as a writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Kirst won some of the most prestigious
honors in journalism, including the Ernie Pyle Award, given annually to one American writer who best captures the hopes and dreams of everyday Americans.
For Kirst, his canvas is Syracuse, an upstate city of staggering beauty and
profound struggle. In this book, readers will find a nuanced explanation of
how Syracuse is intertwined with the spiritual roots of the Six Nations, as well
as a soliloquy from a grieving father whose son was lost to violence on the
streets. In these emotional contradictions—in the resilience, love, and heartbreak of its people—Kirst offers a vivid portrait of his city and, in the end, gives
readers hope.
Sean Kirst is an award-winning columnist who retired from the Syracuse Post-Standard after
nearly three decades. He is the author of The Ashes of Lou Gehrig and Other Baseball Essays
and the coauthor of Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd.
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MYCOLOGY | FIELD GUIDES
Boletes of Eastern
North America
Alan E. Bessette, William C. Roody, and Arleen R. Bessette
Hardcover $150.00s 978-0-8156-3482-9
Paper $69.95 978-0-8156-1074-8
Ebook 978-0-8156-5394-3
7 x 10, 528 pages, 362 color photographs, appendixes, glossary, references, indexes
November 2016
A comprehensive field guide to the identification, study, and preparation
of boletes.
“This book fills an important need, enabling the many interested
amateur and professional mycologists to identify the boletes that
occur in the eastern US and Canada; a ‘must have’ book for people
seriously interested in mushrooms.”
—Gregory M. Mueller, chief scientist and Negaunee Foundation Vice President
of Science, Chicago Botanic Garden
“A state of the art, comprehensive treatment
of the diversity of bolete fungi found in eastern North America, admirable in its degree
of coverage, and reflecting an authoritative
knowledge of the subject.”
—Todd Osmundson, assistant professor, Department
of Biology, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Of all the groups of wild mushrooms, none have engendered more enthusiasm and affection than the boletes. Their inherent beauty, abundance, and, for
many, culinary appeal have firmly established boletes in the hearts of mushroom hunters around the world. The habitats, geographic distribution, and ecology of boletes—including the intriguing relationships they have with trees and
shrubs—only add to their interest.
Boletes of Eastern North America offers readers a comprehensive field guide,
including extensive descriptions and more than 350 rich color photographs. Each
species listing includes the most recent scientific name with existing synomyms;
common names when applicable; and an overview that includes field impressions, similar species, and detailed information about habitat, fruiting frequency,
and geographic distribution. Because boletes are one of the most sought-after
wild mushrooms, the authors have also included a section with information on
collecting, cooking, and preserving them. Advanced students and professional
mycologists, as well as amateur mushroom hunters, will find this field guide an
indispensable resource.
Alan E. Bessette is a mycologist and professor emeritus of biology at Utica College of Syracuse University. He has published numerous papers in the field of mycology and has authored
or coauthored more than twenty books, including Mushrooms of Northeastern North America
and Milk Mushrooms of North America.
William C. Roody is a mycologist and wildlife diversity biologist. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States.
Arleen R. Bessette is a mycologist and an award winning botanical photographer. She is the
author or coauthor of more than fifteen books, including The Tricholomas of North America.
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NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
An Oneida Indian
in Foreign Waters
The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah,
1870–1953
Laurence M. Hauptman
Hardcover $55.00s 978-0-8156-3489-8
Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1079-3
Ebook 978-0-8156-5387-5
6 x 9, 232 pages, 31 black-and-white illustrations, 4 maps, 1 chart,
notes, bibliography, index
Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
October 2016
Chronicles the extraordinary life of Chapman Scanandoah and the indelible impact he had on Oneida history.
“In this book, we have that very rare thing:
the biography of a Native American figure
who moved through what I have called
‘the many worlds of the Iroquois.’”
—Michael Leroy Oberg, author of Peacemakers:
The Iroquois, the United States, and the
Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
“Widely admired for combining meticulous
research with deep sympathy for his subject, Hauptman is the foremost historian of
recent Iroquois history. Now he has given
us a work illuminating the notable life of
Chapman Scanandoah. . . . This book casts
new light on neglected chapters of the
Oneida land claims story.”
—Anthony Wonderley, author of Oneida Iroquois
Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narrative
from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others
Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870–1953) was a decorated Navy veteran
who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prizewinning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York
State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of the
Oneida land claims movement. However, his fame among the Oneida people
and among many of his Hodinöhsö:ni’ contemporaries today rests with his
career as an inventor.
In the era of Thomas Edison, Scanandoah challenged the stereotypes of the
day that too often portrayed Native Americans as primitive, pre-technological,
and removed from modernity. In An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters, Hauptman
draws from Scanandoah’s own letters; his court, legislative, and congressional
testimony; military records; and forty years of fieldwork experience to chronicle
his remarkable life and understand the vital influence Scanandoah had on the
fate of his people. Despite being away from his homeland for much of his life,
Scanandoah fought tirelessly in federal courts to prevent the loss of the last remaining Oneida lands in New York State. Without Scanandoah and his extended Hanyoust family, Oneida existence in New York might have been permanently
extinguished. Hauptman’s biography not only illuminates the extraordinary life of
Scanandoah but also sheds new light on the struggle to maintain tribal identity in
the face of an increasingly diminished homeland.
Laurence M. Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. He is the author
of numerous books on the Iroquois, including Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The
Six Nations since 1800, which was awarded the Herbert Lehman book prize by the New
York Academy of History, and In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians since
World War II, which was awarded the annual book prize by the American Association for
State and Local History.
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MEMOIR | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
New in Paper . . .
A Child from the Village
Sayyid Qutb
Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by John Calvert
and William Shepard
Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1075-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-0807-3
6 x 9, 184 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography
September 2016
This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of
Egypt’s most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“The child’s eye, feelings, emotions, as well as the comments of
a grown-up writer present valuable information for students who
are interested in the modern history of Egypt as well as those who
are interested in the history of Egyptian culture. In addition, the
book provides scholars of Qutb’s ideology with the texture of life
that produced, and still produces, such an ideology, in which the
cry for social and political justice is mixed with a utopian adherence to a divine law.”
—Nasr Abu-Zayd, author of Rethinking the Qur’an:
Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics
John Calvert is professor of history at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the
author of numerous books, including Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism.
William Shepard was professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of Canterbury
in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of The Faith of a Modern Muslim Intellectual:
The Religious Aspects and Implications of the Writings of Ahmad Amin and Sayyid Qutb and
Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of "Social Justice in Islam."
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BIOGRAPHY | IRISH STUDIES
New in Paper . . .
Compassionate Stranger
Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
Maureen O’Rourke Murphy
Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1076-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5289-2
6 x 9, 400 pages, 36 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography, index
Series: Irish Studies
July 2016
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.
“Murphy’s beautifully written book is a fitting tribute to the kindness and compassion of Asenath Nicholson. It is also the work of
an accomplished historian who has devoted five decades in pursuit
of her fascinating—if at times shadowy—subject.”
—Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
“Compassionate Stranger is a landmark
work of historical exploration and scholarship. Murphy has succeeded in rescuing from undeserved obscurity a woman
of fierce determination and extraordinary
compassion.”
—Peter Quinn, best-selling author of Dry Bones
“A splendid biography of a remarkable
woman.”
—Dublin Review of Books
“[Nicholson’s] sharp, compassionate, first-hand accounts of the human dimension of Irish poverty were rooted in direct experience.
For this reason her evidence is of exceptional value. Her life and
work have found an exceptional chronicler.”
—Irish Literary Supplement
“Compassionate Stranger is not only a notable academic achievement but is also a readable and tantalizing story of one powerful
woman’s drive to bring justice to the marginalized.”
—Irish America
“Meticulously researched, beautifully written, Compassionate
Stranger is a gift to scholarship, literature, Ireland, and to readers
everywhere who seek to understand both the hardship and nobility
of the poor.”
—Roger Rosenblatt, essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour
Maureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is coeditor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama,
the editor of Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847,
1848, and 1849, and the director of New York State’s Great Irish Famine Curriculum.
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A Last Loving
Collected Poems
Bainne Gear :
Spoilt Milk
Maeve Kelly
Rogha Dánta : Selected Poems
Kelly’s poetry gives voice to the ordinary,
everyday lives of Irish women. She writes
out of her own experience as a woman,
wife, mother, nurse, farmer, and feminist
who over the past fifty years has been an
astute witness to the narrow confines of
home and the limitations imposed by Irish
society on women.
A Lantern in the Dark for Gerard
I have shut the shutters,
clipped the locks
and put the cat out,
kissed your beard
and helped you to your bed.
Eighty now and the years
bend you like a bow,
a sprung arch,
a willow wand,
bone chiselled to a new arc.
Sweetheart I know
the way you grow
not old but with your old
lightness still showing,
a lantern swinging in the dark.
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-48-3
51/2 x 8, 146 pages
Distributed for Arlen House
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Distributed Titles
Opening Time
Mick Delap
With their stylistic assurance and wildly
imaginative flair, Nic Aodha’s poems are
invigorating the Irish language. Many
of her poems are visionary meditations;
meeting places where the inner being can
commune with the outer world. This is an
essential volume of modern Irish poetry,
presented in a bilingual edition.
In Opening Time there is a sense of a life
richly lived and imaginatively examined.
Time in both historical and personal terms
is central to these poems that meditate on
life, creation, and continuity. Delap is an
experienced sailor, and the sea is ever
present. The insights of a lone sailor, especially along the west coast of Ireland,
are presented within a multigenerational
family context and an informed historical
perspective.
Swallows
Sweeney
Colette Nic Aodha
A swallow line on telephone wire,
strokes of Payne’s grey,
vertical daubs
These weeks of Aprilmay spring to life
rinsed and over-rung by song.
Blackbirds are calling everywhere
in more than thirteen ways.
It cannot last. Yesterday
I dreamt glad thoughts,
but when I came to speak them,
birdsong came from my mouth.
Mine, but sweeter, more true
than any of my words.
wait to fly south
under the wing of their patron
who has just painted in
this ochre sunshine.
Their feet tap telegraphs
to southern cousins.
I travel east
feel a blast of coolness,
icicles of mistrust,
stalactites
in the cave of my mind.
I emerge into opposite light.
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-16-2
51/2 x 8, 120 pages
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-53-7
51/2 x 8, 160 pages
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Other Routes
Mary Turley-McGrath
In the Space Between
POETRY
POETRY
Distributed Titles
Gerry Boland
In this new collection, acclaimed Donegal writer
Mary Turley-McGrath explores the magic and
mystery of destination and destiny; of meetings
and misses; of what might have happened. The
poems range widely through time and space,
and are keyed to the music and chaos of interconnection.
Poet, short story writer, and children’s author,
Boland was born and lived for much of his life in
Dublin before moving to Roscommon, where he
was appointed writer-in-residence by Roscommon County Council. In the Space Between is
his second poetry collection.
Paper $19.95 978-1-851321-14-8
51/2 x 8, 64 pages
Paper $19.95 978-1-851321-33-9
51/2 x 8, 94 pages
On a Turning Wing
Paddy Bushe
Gondla; or, The Salvation of the Wolves
PLAY
POETRY
Translated by Philip McDonagh
Bushe’s latest collection of poems opens with a
stirring meditation on music and art, viewing
them not as rarefied experiences but as fundamental and nourishing encounters for both their
makers and their audience. On a Turning Wing
contains some of Bushe’s finest sketches of the
natural world, as well as touching lyrics on the
birth of a grandchild and the joy and consolation of companionship and love.
Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was one of the
most celebrated Russian poets of the twentieth
century and a decorated war hero. His autobiographical play Gondla is the tale of a
visionary poet who chooses between escape
and self-sacrifice. This translation, with an introduction by the poet Philip McDonagh, makes
Gumilyov’s work available to a wider audience.
Paper $14.95 978-1-910251-14-0
Paper $19.95 978-1-851321-26-1
51/2 x 8, 94 pages
51/2 x 8, 76 pages
Ger Reidy
In Ger Reidy’s debut short story collection, he
offers a series of powerful, chiseled tales by
ESSAYS
turns funny, bleak, and compassionate. The
Rosie
WOMEN’S HISTORY
Jobs for a Wet Day
Essays in Honour of
Rosanna ‘Rosie’ Hackett (1893–1976):
Revolutionary and Trade Unionist
Edited by Mary McAuliffe
recipient of several national literary competi-
In this collection, historians and activists pay
tions, Reidy has also been awarded residencies
tribute to Hackett by bringing to light the little-
sponsored by the Irish Arts Council and Mayo
known history of Irish women’s political, mili-
County Council.
tant, and trade union activism.
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-39-1
51/2 x 8, 164 pages
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-42-1
51/2 x 8, 124 pages
Two Cigarettes Coming
Down the Boreen
Fear na Rosann
ESSAYS
SHORT FICTION
Distributed for Dedalus Press
Saol agus Saothar Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill
Oral Narratives from a
South Galway Community
Edited by Nollaig Mac Congáil
Edited by Pauline Bermingham Scully
tribution to the emerging Revivalist Gaelic litera-
Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen collects
oral histories from the people of Ardrahan and the
surrounding areas of south Galway. These beautiful stories capture the simplicity and innocence of
life in the first half of the twentieth century.
ture in the last century. In this book, the biography
Native Donegal writers made a considerable con-
of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a prolific and influential
member of that school, is meticulously presented
along with an edited collection of his essays.
Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-19-3
Paper $29.95 978-1-851321-49-0
6 x 9, 302 pages 6 x 9, 260 pages
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Notable Books
From Theory to Empowerment
Social Concern and
Left Politics in Jewish
American Art
Nicholas Christos Zaferatos
1880–1940
2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Matthew Baigell
“The author presents ‘comanagement’ as
“A timely reminder to heed and preserve
a way of meeting both tribal and nontribal
this underappreciated past.”—The Forward
concerns.”—Planning
Hardcover $39.95s 978-0-8156-3396-9
Hardcover $39.95s 978-0-8156-3393-8
Ebook 978-0-8156-5321-9
Planning the American
Indian Reservation
Ebook 978-0-8156-5318-9
Captain America,
Masculinity, and Violence
The Evolution of a National Icon
J. Richard Stevens
“Well written and wide-ranging, Stevens’s book will appeal to readers interested in how popular culture has reflected the ongoing national discourse about
America’s role in the world.”—Journal of
American History
Hardcover $44.95s 978-0-8156-3395-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5320-2
Modernizing Marriage
Family, Ideology, and Law in
Nineteenth- and Early TwentiethCentury Egypt
Kenneth M. Cuno
2015 Albert Hourani Book Award Winner
Prelude to Prison
Student Perspectives
on School Suspension
Marsha Weissman
2015 CNY Book Award winner
Draws attention to research findings that
suggest punitive disciplinary policies
and practices resemble criminal justice
strategies of arrest, trial, sentence, and
imprisonment.
Hardcover $44.95s 978-0-8156-3376-1
Ebook 978-0-8156-5298-4
The Moroccan Women’s
Rights Movement
Amy Young Evrard
“A must read for those interested in
women’s issues and women’s rights,
activism, legal reform, family and law,
"A compelling case for a new narrative
gender, and the Middle East and North
in Egyptian family history."—Judith Tucker,
Africa.”—International Journal of Middle
Georgetown University
East Studies
Hardcover $39.95s 978-0-8156-3392-1
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3350-1
Ebook 978-0-8156-5316-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5263-2
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Books for the Scholar
URBAN STUDIES | ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
The Politics of Urban and
Regional Development and the
American Exception
Kevin R. Cox
Hardcover $75.00L 978-0-8156-3456-0
Paper $44.95s 978-0-8156-3439-3
Ebook 978-0-8156-5361-5
6 x 9, 400 pages, 15 figures, 8 tables, notes, bibliography, index
September 2016
An in-depth exploration of the politics of regional urban development,
contrasting the United States with the countries of Western Europe.
“The product of many years of research, theoretical and political
engagement. No one but this author could have written this book,
drawing on a literature that stretches back through the last quarter of a century and reviewing the urban experience across the
same period and longer.”
—Allan Cochrane, author of Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development
policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct
form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of
Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree, states, take the
lead, spurred on by developers and those with interest in rent. This bottom-up
policy creates conflict as one city battles with another for new investments and as
real estate developers fight over the spoils, resulting in highly contentious politics.
In The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception, Cox addresses the question of why US policy is so unique. In doing
so, he illustrates the essential characteristics of American regional development
through a series of case studies including housing politics in Silicon Valley;
the history of the Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport; and a major redevelopment project that was rebuffed in Columbus, Ohio. Cox contrasts these
examples with Western Europe’s tradition of centralized governmental involvement and stronger labor movements that historically have been more concerned
with creating what he calls “the good geography” than profits for developers,
whatever the shortfalls in policy outcomes might be. The differences illuminate
the peculiar nature of political engagement and local competition in shaping
the way US urban development has evolved.
Kevin R. Cox is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Geography at The Ohio State
University. He is the author of numerous books, including Making Human Geography, and
was coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography.
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SPORTS HISTORY | WOMEN’S STUDIES
Invisible Seasons
Title IX and the Fight for Equity
in College Sports
Kelly Belanger
Hardcover $75.00L 978-0-8156-3484-3
Paper $44.95s 978-0-8156-3470-6
Ebook 978-0-8156-5382-0
6 x 9, 448 pages, 18 black-and-white illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
Series: Sports and Entertainment
November 2016
Recounts the remarkable story of a women’s basketball team that challenged the separate-but-unequal world of big-time college sports.
“A fascinating and well-told story, written in a smooth and engaging style. The subtle rhetorical analysis woven into the story
allows the work to blur the boundaries of sport history and communication; it is an exemplar of how the two fields should be interconnected.”
—Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado, Denver
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil
rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college
students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By
the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics
the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same
time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges
and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between
men’s and women‘s separate but obviously unequal sports programs.
In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU
women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics.
They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not
self-executing. This behind-the‐scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice,
especially in the money-driven world of college sports.
Kelly Belanger is associate professor in the English Department at Valparaiso University. She
is the coauthor of Second Shift: Teaching Writing to Working Adults.
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SPORTS
Sports Business Unplugged
Leadership Challenges from the World
of Sports
Rick Burton and Norm O’Reilly
With a Foreword by David Stern
Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-3476-8
Ebook 978-0-8156-5392-9
6 x 9, 160 pages, 10 color photographs, 4 tables, index
July 2016
Two of the world’s leading sports business scholars share their views on a
variety of provocative topics in this wide-ranging collection.
“Rick and Norm are among the top analysts in the sports business, and I always
look forward to their column in SBJ. This
compilation of their work will be a handy
and welcome resource for anyone looking
for shrewd insights about the issues of the
day in the sports world.”
—Val Ackerman, Commissioner,
Big East Conference
“I look forward to the monthly columns
by Rick and Norm, as they always provide
thought-provoking commentary surrounding topics we all face in this business. Having a collection of their work in a single book
makes this a must-have for any reader.”
“We live at a fascinating time in sports history. At the professional
level, virtually every game has become a multi-faceted event that
features an assortment of fan engagement opportunities. Broadcasts provide a wider range of content and access than ever. Social
media reaches corners of the sports world that were unimaginable
a few years ago. Analysis of the industry has grown more sophisticated than ever. Sports Business Unplugged would be a solid
addition to the library of anyone eager to follow and process the
warp-speed developments of this constantly evolving universe.”
—Gary Bettman, Commissioner, National Hockey League
For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O’Reilly
has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry’s leading trade
journal. Now, fifty of their most recent columns are collected in one volume, providing thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable insight into many of the industry’s
most contentious issues. Covering an era in sports that has experienced rapid
change, the authors discuss such topics as gender equity, corporate sponsorship, collegiate athletics, diversity, and the future of sports. As two of the leading scholars in the business of sports, Burton and O’Reilly also draw upon years
of experience to give both students and industry professionals a dual perspective on the role sports play in a healthy, thriving society.
—John Swofford, Commissioner, ACC
Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University. From
2003 to 2007, Burton was commissioner of the Australian National Basketball League. He
also served as the chief marketing officer for the US Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing
Summer Olympics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
and Ad Age, among other journals.
Norm O’Reilly is the Richard P. and Joan S. Fox Professor of Business and is chair of the
Department of Sports Administration at Ohio University. O’Reilly has written seven books and
more than ninety journal articles. Active in industry, he is partner consultant with T1. O’Reilly
has been a member of the mission staff for the Canadian Team at three Olympic Games and
is deputy chef for the 2016 Canadian Paralympic Team.
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WOMEN’S STUDIES | NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Religion, Gender, and Kinship
in Colonial New France
Lisa J. M. Poirier
Hardcover $65.00 978-0-8156-3488-1 Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-3473-7
Ebook 978-0-8156-5386-8
6 x 9, 256 pages, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index
October 2016
Explores the ways in which French and Native men and women reimagine kinship and negotiate cross-cultural encounters in early seventeenthcentury New France.
“The book is an in-depth study of four persons who were emblematic in this complex, violent, and creative history of cultural contestation. It is an ambitious and engaging study of colonial documents
(records of both explorers and missionaries) within which Poirier
reveals the voices of historically muted Wendat peoples. She is not
simply reading between the lines, but also ‘against the text,’ discovering a story that we have not heard before. This book promises to
be the most important (and corrective) study of the period since
Bruce Trigger’s groundbreaking The Children of Aataentsic.”
—Jennifer I. M. Reid, author of Religion and Global Culture
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous
people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters
by reimagining the meaning of kinship. Part micro-history, part biography,
Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France explores the lives of
Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet
Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each
successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings,
enabling them to develop crucial relationships and build communities. Through
the lens of these men and women, both Native and French, Poirier illuminates
the historical process and powerfully illustrates the religious creativity inherent
in relationship-building.
Lisa J. M. Poirier is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul
University.
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IRISH STUDIES | WOMEN’S STUDIES
Political Acts
Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921–2012
Fiona Coffey
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3490-4
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3475-1
Ebook 978-0-8156-5388-2
6 x 9, 304 pages, notes, bibliography, index
November 2016
A social history of women in Northern Irish theatre, examining how sectarian conflict and the ensuing peace process have affected women’s
political voice.
“A genuinely new and significant contribution to Irish theater
history. . . . No other monograph out there that does what this
book does, which is to provide a comprehensive and contextualized history of contemporary women’s contributions to theater in
Northern Ireland.”
—Susan Cannon Harris, author of Gender and Modern Irish Drama
Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often
captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North
has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences and in showing how
women’s social and political status has changed with the transformation of the
state. Throughout the North’s history, women’s dramatic writing and performance have often contradicted mainstream narratives of the sectarian conflict,
creating a rich and daring trove of counternarratives that contest the stories
promoted by the government and media.
Moving beyond the better-known women theatre practitioners of the North
such as Marie Jones, Christina Reid, Anne Devlin, and the Charabanc Theatre
Company, Coffey recovers the lost history of lesser-known, early playwrights
and highlights a new generation of women writing during peacetime. She examines how Northern women have historically used the theatrical stage as a
form of political activism when more traditional avenues were closed off to
them. Tracing the development of women’s involvement in Northern theatre,
Coffey ultimately illuminates how issues such as feminism, gender roles, violence, politics, and sectarianism have shifted over the past century as the North
moves from conflict into a developing and fragile peace.
Fiona Coffey holds a BA from Stanford University, a MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin, and a
PhD from Tufts University. She teaches theatre history and Irish cultural studies.
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IRISH STUDIES
Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain
A Critical Edition
Edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3491-1 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3477-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5389-9
6 x 9, 312 pages, 3 illustrations, glossary, notes
September 2016
A concise, abridged version of the story of Cuculain, the central figure in
Standish O’Grady’s History of Ireland, along with an introduction, glossary, and critical essays, demonstrating its significance for the continued
reimagining of Ireland’s past, present, and future.
“An immensely useful and long-needed critical resource which
combines an edition of Standish O’Grady’s influential writings
on the heroic figure of Cuculain with an excellent scholarly
apparatus.”
“This [edition] makes available one of the
seminal sources of the Irish Literary Revival. Its value is greatly enhanced by a
number of essays which relate O’Grady’s
treatment of Cuculain to the scholarly and
antiquarian sources on which O’Grady
drew.”
—Patrick Maume, researcher for the Royal Irish
Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography
“O’Grady’s work opens discussion into
English literature, historiography, and political writing at large, which makes this
volume provocative and useful for multiple audiences.”
—Nicholas Allen, professor of English,
University of Georgia
—Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama,
University College Dublin
Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the
Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political
upheaval. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the great
mythic hero who would inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries,
from W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory to Patrick Pearse. Despite the
profound influence O’Grady’s writings had on literary and political culture in
Ireland, they are not as well known as they should be, particularly in view of the
increasingly global interest in Irish culture. This critical edition of the Cuculain
legend offers a concise, abridged version of the central story in History of Ireland—the rise of the young warrior, his famous exploits in the Táin Bó Cualinge
(The Cattle Raid of Cooley), and his heroic death. Castle and Bixby’s edition
also includes a scholarly introduction, biography, timeline, glossary, editorial
notes, and critical essays, demonstrating the significance of O’Grady’s writing
for the continued reimagining of Ireland’s past, present, and future. Inviting a
new generation of readers to encounter this work, the volume provides the tools
necessary to appreciate both O’Grady’s enduring importance as a writer and
Cuculain’s continuing resonance as a cultural icon.
Gregory Castle is professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Modernism and the Celtic Revival.
Patrick Bixby is associate professor and director of graduate studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel.
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LITERARY CRITICISM | IRISH STUDIES
Revolutionary Damnation
Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce
to Enright
Sheldon Brivic
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3453-9
Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3435-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5357-8
December 2016
Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O’Brien, Patrick McCabe,
and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou.
“An exciting and challenging rereading of contemporary Irish fiction, and especially of its relation to earlier Irish high modernism.”
—Enda Duffy, professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
“An addition to existing scholarship on the Irish novel, deepening
our knowledge of the form and extending the ways in which it can
be approached.”
—Derek Hand, author of A History of the Irish Novel
In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom—politically, religiously, and creatively—is Joyce’s Stephen
Dedalus. His “non serviam,” though, is not just the profound rebellion of one
frustrated young man, but, as Brivic demonstrates in this sweeping account of
twentieth-century Irish fiction, the emblematic and necessary standpoint for any
artist wishing to envision something truly new.
Because Irish culture was largely dictated by the Catholic Church and its
conservatism, the most ambitious Irish writers, like Joyce, Beckett, and the ten
others Brivic presents here, saw the privileges of damnation and seized them,
rejecting powerful norms of church, state, and culture, as well as of literary
form, voice, and character, to produce some of the most radical work of the
twentieth century. Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O’Brien, Patrick
McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou. His mathematical
procedure for distinguishing what is truly innovative informs the progressive political and philosophical thrust that these writers at their best carry on from Joyce
and Beckett to unfold a fierce tradition that extends into the twenty-first century.
Sheldon Brivic is professor of English at Temple University. He has published widely on modernism and literary history and is known especially for his work on Joyce. He is the author of
numerous books, including Joyce through Lacan and Žižek: Explorations.
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FICTION
The Candidate
A Novel
Zareh Vorpouni
Translated from the Western Armenian by Jennifer Manoukian
and Ishkhan Jinbashian
With an Afterword by Marc Nichanian
Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3468-3 Ebook 978-0-8156--5379-0
6 x 9, 200 pages, 1 illustration, notes
October 2016
A powerful novel by one of the most important twentieth-century writers
of the Armenian diaspora.
The Perception of Meaning
Bilingual Edition
Hisham Bustani
Translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes
"Bustani’s work is experimental, literary fiction with a razor edge,
slicing the tops off of familiar myths, tales, legends, and then,
transforming them into visceral, grotesque fables."—The Literary
Review
Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1059-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5348-6
The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political
awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the
novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and
sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator.
The book opens in 1927 in Paris after Minas has found his friend Vahakn’s
body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells
of his meeting Vahakn in the cafés of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins
them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakn’s murder
of Ziya; and Vahakn’s suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves
Minas to explain the enigma of Ziya’s murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakn’s and his mother’s deportation from their village in the Ottoman
Empire; his mother’s death and Vahakn’s adoption by a Turkish woman, Fatma,
who rapes and abuses him; his feelings of alienation and self-estrangement in
France; and his inability to adapt to life after trauma.
Known for his innovation of the Western Armenian novel, Vorpouni challenges the narrative elements of the conventional novel by playing with subjectivity and linearity. His melding of contemporary French literary and intellectual
currents produces a literary and cultural hybrid unique in Western Armenian
literature.
Zareh Vorpouni (1902–1980) was a prominent Armenian writer. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including The Persecuted, a cycle of four novels published between 1929 and 1974: The Attempt, The Candidate, Asphalt, and A Regular Day.
This is the first of his novels to be translated into English.
Jennifer Manoukian is a translator of Western Armenian literature, most recently The Gardens
of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan.
Ishkhan Jinbashian is the translator of numerous books, including Passage through Hell and
The Fatal Night.
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | REFUGEE STUDIES
Iraqi Migrants in Syria
The Crisis before the Storm
Sophia Hoffmann
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3485-0 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3471-3
Ebook 978-0-8156-5383-7
6 x 9, 264 pages, 3 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
October 2016
Analyzes political transformations brought on by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis into Syria before the outbreak of war.
“Hoffmann’s theoretical deftness and her acute ethnography of
the places, peoples, and organizations she encountered make major contributions to our understanding of Syria, but also of the
conditions of refugees and strangers everywhere.”
—Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“A lucid, theoretically informed, and original analysis of statehood and sovereignty in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria.”
—Laura Ruiz de Elvira, postdoctoral researcher, French National Center
for Scientific Research
Syria from Reform to Revolt, Volume 1
Political Economy and International Relations
Edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Tina Zintl
Hardcover $49.95s 978-0-8156-3377-8
Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3429-4
Ebook 978-0-8156-5302-8
Syria from Reform to Revolt, Volume 2
Culture, Society, and Religion
Edited by Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg
During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi
migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency.
International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised the Syrian government for keeping open borders and providing a safe haven for Iraqis
fleeing the violence in Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces. Only a few
analysts looked beneath the surface to understand how the apparent generosity
toward refugees squared with the ruthless oppression that characterized the
Syrian government. In this volume, Hoffmann offers a richly detailed analysis of
this contradiction, shedding light on Syria’s domestic and international politics
shortly before the outbreak of war.
Drawing on firsthand observations and interviews, Hoffmann provides a
nuanced portrait of the conditions of daily life for Iraqis living in Syria. She
finds that Syria’s illiberal government does not differentiate between citizen and
foreigner, while the liberal politics of international aid organizations do. Based
on detailed ethnographic research, Iraqi Migrants in Syria draws a highly original comparison between the Syrian government’s and aid organizations’ approaches to Iraqi migration, throwing into question many widely held assumptions about freedom, and its absence, in authoritarian contexts.
Hardcover $59.95L 978-0-8156-3425-6
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3415-7
Ebook 978-0-8156-5351-6
Sophia Hoffmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for International and Intercultural
Studies at the University of Bremen in Germany.
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
New in Paper . . .
Becoming Turkish
Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations
in Early Republican Turkey, 1923–1945
Hale Yılmaz
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3467-6
Ebook 978-0-8156-5222-9
6 x 9, 352 pages, 26 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
July 2016
Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in
post–Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens.
“All those who wish to understand the history of modern Turkey
will read the book with pleasure.”
—International Journal of Turkish Studies
“Adds important nuance to scholarship
on the Kemalist reforms and the societal
constraints that framed them. It also offers useful insight for scholars interested
in broader questions about modernist reform efforts in the Middle East.”
—Canadian Journal of History
“Most impressively, she conveys a sense
of the dynamic, contested, and indeterminate quality of the efforts to ‘civilize’ and
homogenize Turkish citizenry, which also
contributes to a much more realistic portrayal of the complexities of contemporary
Turkish society. Recommended.”
—Choice
“By extending the scope of existing studies, by adding nuance and
complexity, and above all by shifting the focus of inquiry from
state to society, [Yılmaz] significantly enhances our understanding
of this seminal period of radical reform, social engineering, and
national identity construction.”
—American Historical Review
“This richly researched book makes an important contribution to
the social history of early republican Turkey.”
—International Journal of Middle East Studies
“An invaluable resource for historians of the Turkish Republic for
some time to come.”
—Middle East Journal
“Yılmaz’s intricate narrative not only helps to broaden our understanding of twentieth-century Turkey; it also provides an original
and dynamic perspective on the problems of modernity in general.”
—Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Hale Yılmaz is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her
work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Toplumsal Tarih,
as well as in the edited volumes Women’s Memory: The Problem of Sources and Transcultural
Localisms: Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World.
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WOMEN’S STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
New in Paper . . .
Performing Democracy in Iraq
and South Africa
Gender, Media, and Resistance
Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3474-4
Ebook 978-0-8156-5256-4
6 x 9, 320 pages, 10 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes,
bibliography, index
July 2016
A groundbreaking exploration of how groups use cultural forms to navigate memories of violation and to create new political identities.
“A bold attempt to re-create the mindscapes of the South African
and Iraqi worlds that were under the jackboot of tyranny and repressive governance.”
—African Studies Quarterly
“Kimberly Segall’s book draws our attention to the use of media, art, and popular culture by ordinary people living through
extraordinary times. She highlights the role of affect and emotion
in resisting, negotiating, understanding, and coping with dramatic
and sometimes violent political change. In so doing, she deconstructs and reconstructs identities both within and across national
boundaries, helping us to think about familiar political events in
unfamiliar ways.”
—Nicola Pratt, coauthor of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq
“A keen listener and observer, Kimberly Wedeven Segall brings
together two decades of engagement with Middle Eastern and African communities that have sought to forge new political imaginaries. Drawing our attention to many forgotten springs beyond
the newly named ‘Arab Spring,’ Segall shows how popular and
artistic expressions in these communities have resulted in ‘hybrid
blooms of democratic voices.’”
—Gaurav Desai, coeditor of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology
of Cultural Theory and Criticism
Kimberly Wedeven Segall is professor of English at Seattle Pacific University and affiliate
faculty of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
New in Paper . . .
Colonial Jerusalem
The Spatial Construction of Identity and
Difference in a City of Myth, 1948–2012
Thomas Philip Abowd
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3469-0
Ebook 978-0-8156-5261-8
6 x 9, 312 pages, 16 black-and-white illustrations, 5 maps,
notes, references, index
Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
July 2016
Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the
decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict and shows how colonialism, far
from being simply a fixture of the past, remains a crucial component of
Palestinian and Israeli realities today.
“Abowd’s anthropological approach brings both color and great
attention to the symbolic and human dimensions of the tensions
in daily life. His apt analysis of signage in public spaces and the
salience and physical condition of sites and objects he studies are
matched by astute observations regarding the tone of voice, body
language, and silences of his interviewees. The city comes alive
with his sympathetic and critical dissection of both the particular
and the general.”
—Journal of Palestine Studies
“A welcome contribution to a growing trend of writings about urbanism and the life in cities of the Middle East. Although more
than half of the population in the Middle East is currently living in urban areas, anthropological writings continue to focus on
small-scale societies and tribal communities. Colonial Jerusalem
helps to align anthropology scholarship with actual demographic
conditions.”
—Aseel Sawalha, Department of Anthropology, Fordham University
“Elegantly and captivatingly written, this ethnographic study of
Jerusalem as a site of colonial rule offers a substantial contribution to studies of colonialism, particularly in its modern, urban
manifestation and over a long period of time.”
—Julie Peteet, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville
Thomas Philip Abowd is a lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures at Tufts University.
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BIOGRAPHY | THEOLOGY
Albert Schweitzer
in Thought and Action
A Life in Parts
Edited by James Carleton Paget and Michael J. Thate
Hardcover $95.00L 978-0-8156-3479-9
Paper $59.95s 978-0-8156-3464-5
Ebook 978-0-8156-5368-4
Series: Albert Schweitzer Library
November 2016
A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the life and work of one of
the twentieth century’s most extraordinary intellectuals.
“Readers will discover a new appreciation for Schweitzer in each
of the domains he helped pioneer, and his timeless and, indeed,
prescient thought will resonate across multiple ethical, theological, and political domains. This volume has the potential to become a landmark in the study of Schweitzer.”
—David K. Goodin, associate researcher at the McGill Centre
for Research on Religion, McGill University
In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures
on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished
figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the great intellectual leaders of his time. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a
man of perennial fascination, and this volume seeks to bring his achievements
across a variety of areas—philosophy, theology, and medicine—into sharper
focus. To that end, international scholars from diverse disciplines offer a wideranging examination of Schweitzer’s life and thought over the course of forty
years. Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action gives readers a fuller, richer,
and more nuanced picture of this controversial but monumental figure of twentieth-century life—and, in some measure, of that complex century itself.
James Carleton Paget is senior lecturer of New Testament studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Jews, Christians, and Jewish Christians in Antiquity.
Michael J. Thate is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. He is the author
of Remembrance of Things Past? Albert Schweitzer, the Anxiety of Influence, and the Untidy
Jesus of Markan Memory.
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JEWISH STUDIES | MEMOIR
With Rake in Hand
Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet
Joseph Rolnik
Translated from the Yiddish by Gerald Marcus
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3495-9
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3478-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5393-6
6 x 9, 280 pages, glossary, notes, index
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
October 2016
Yiddish poet Joseph Rolnik’s vivid memoir, recalling his childhood in a
small village in Belarus and his experience as a Jewish immigrant in New
York.
“A boon to Yiddish studies and American Jewish studies. . . . Anyone with a fondness for Yiddish literature will appreciate these
detailed and evocative vignettes.”
—Josh Lambert, author of Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
“Provides compelling insights into the life of one of the wellknown Yiddish poets, Joseph Rolnik.”
—Agnieszka Legutko, author of Krakow’s Kazimierz: Town of Partings and Returns
Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York
Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that
formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir,
Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his
exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in
New York. Working in garment factories by day and writing poetry by night, he
became one of the most published and influential writers of the Yiddish literary
scene. Unfolding in a series of brief sketches, poems, and vignettes rather than
consistent narrative, Rolnik’s memoir is imbued with the poet’s rich, sensuous
language, which vividly describes the sounds and images of his life. Marcus’s
elegant translation, along with his introduction situating Rolnik’s poetry in its
literary historical context, gives readers a fascinating account of this underappreciated literary treasure.
Joseph Rolnik’s (1879–1955) poetry was published in newspapers, journals, and several
poetry collections.
Gerald Marcus is a painter and printmaker who grew up surrounded by Yiddish-speaking
relatives and friends. He is the translator of From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland.
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JEWISH STUDIES | LITERARY CRITICISM
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and
the Poetics of Jewish Fiction
David Gantt Gurley
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3486-7
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3472-0
Ebook 978-0-8156-5384-4
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
November 2016
A pioneering new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest nineteenthcentury writers as, first and foremost, a Jewish artist.
“With original insight, Gurley demonstrates how Goldschmidt’s
rich literary texts uniquely combine the ideals and aesthetics of
Danish Golden Age romantic literature with older and authentic
narrative traditions rooted in Jewish learning.”
—Marianne T. Stecher, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new
reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating
him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s
relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash. At the same time, he shows that Goldschmidt’s midrashic
style in a secular context predates certain narrative movements within Modernism that are usually associated with the twentieth century and especially Czech
writer Franz Kafka. Goldschmidt was remarkable in his era, both as a writer
who explored his peripheral identity in the mainstream of European culture and
as a writer of the first truly Jewish bildungsroman. In this groundbreaking study
of Goldschmidt’s narrative art, Gurley refashions his position in both the Danish
and Jewish literary canons and introduces his extraordinary work to a wider,
non-Scandinavian audience.
David Gantt Gurley is assistant professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian at
the University of Oregon.
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EDUCATION
The Arkansas Delta
Oral History Project
Culture, Place, and Authenticity
David A. Jolliffe, Christian Z. Goering, Krista Jones Oldham,
and James A. Anderson Jr.
Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3481-2
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3466-9
Ebook 978-0-8156-5378-3
6 x 9, 264 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index
Series: Writing, Culture, and Community Practices
October 2016
A multiyear collaboration between the University of Arkansas and several
high schools in rural Arkansas that encourages students to learn about
and celebrate their region.
“The authors have two goals. The first is
to offer rich qualitative data about what
occurs when rural students, in partnership
with university students, work on extended
projects with topics of their own choosing.
The second is to argue that such self-chosen
and directed projects—authentic literacy
projects—can actually have an effect on rural outmigration and rural residents’ desire
and ability to improve their own communities. Both goals are important and timely.”
—Kim Donehower, coauthor of Rural Literacies
In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the
ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values
that are revered and worth saving in their region. The Arkansas Delta Oral
History Project, a multiyear collaboration between the University of Arkansas
and several public high schools in small, rural Arkansas towns, gives students
that opportunity. Through the project, trained University of Arkansas studentmentors work with high school students on in-depth writing projects that grow
out of oral history interviews. The Delta, a region where the religious roots of
southern culture run deep and the traditions of cooking, farming, and hunting
are passed from generation to generation, provides the ideal subject for oral
history projects.
In this detailed exploration of the project, the authors draw on theories of
cultural studies and critical pedagogy of place to show how students’ work on
religion, food, and race exemplifies the use of community literacy to revitalize
a distressed economic region. Advancing the discussion of place-based education, The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project is both inspirational and instructive in offering a successful model of an authentic literacy program.
David A. Jolliffe is professor of English and the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas.
Christian Z. Goering is associate professor of English education at the University of Arkansas.
Krista Jones Oldham is a special collections librarian at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
James A. Anderson Jr. is assistant professor of English education at Lander University in South
Carolina.
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AMERICAN HISTORY
America in the Teens
Andrew J. Dunar
With a Foreword by John Robert Greene
Cloth $65.00L 978-0-8156-3480-5
Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3465-2
Ebook 978-0-8156-5377-6
6 x 9, 320 pages, 10 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index
Series: America in the Twentieth Century
August 2016
A wide-ranging survey of a remarkable era in American history, one that
thrust the nation into the modern age.
“A significant contribution to our understanding of America
during a pivotal decade in American history. Dunar masterfully
illuminates the key political, diplomatic, military, and social developments of the decade and persuasively explains their intricate
connections and lasting consequences.”
—William A. Taylor, assistant professor of security studies,
Angelo State University, Texas
In the latest addition to the America in the Twentieth Century series, Dunar provides a sweeping account of the twentieth century’s second decade. Beginning
with the social, political, and economic circumstances in the United States in
1910, America in the Teens presents the themes and pivotal events that shaped
America during this tumultuous period. The election of 1912, World War I,
social change in the late Progressive Era, the influence of war on women and
minorities, and changes in the motion picture industry are among the many issues covered in this eminently readable, concise text.
Dunar traces the development of a vibrant society during a time of enormous
change and explores the ways in which Americans reacted. World War I brought
our nation to the forefront of the world’s great powers but also provoked divisions that Americans would confront through the twentieth century and beyond:
racial tensions, immigration issues, and labor-management disputes. At the
same time, there were progressive triumphs: women earned the right to vote;
American industry made great strides, symbolized by the mass production of
Henry Ford’s automobiles; and American cinema and jazz enjoyed international acclaim. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis,
America in the Teens enriches our understanding of that critical era.
Andrew J. Dunar is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
His books include The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality and America in the Fifties.
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The Salome Ensemble
The Travels
of Benjamin Zuskin
Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska,
Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal
Ala Zuskin Perelman
Alan Robert Ginsberg
“A story, an essay, an epic, a tragedy, a com-
“Reads like a novel. Ginsberg has written a thor-
edy and a history told with delicate sensitivity
oughly absorbing work of cultural and feminist
and literary wisdom. This is a gift to the genera-
history that restores to vivid life the lives and in-
tions to come.”—Antonio Attisani, University of
tertwined careers of four compelling and indomi-
Torino, Italy
table women.”—Ross Posnock, author of Color
Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1050-2
and Culture
Ebook 978-0-8156-5324-0
Paper $34.95 978-0-8156-1065-6 *
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Because of Eva
The Children of La Hille
A Jewish Genealogical Journey
Eluding Nazi Capture during World
War II
Susan J. Gordon
Walter W. Reed
“A book of inspiration. . . . With the talents of
a gifted storyteller, Gordon uses language to ap-
”A chilling and courageous experience that
proach the indescribable, and the window she
remains largely unknown today.”—New York
offers readers is very real, often painful, and
Journal of Books
amazingly generous.”—Arthur Kurzweil, author
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of From Generation to Generation
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Literary Hasidism
Travels in Translation
The Life and Works
of Michael Levi Rodkinson
Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction
Ken Frieden
Jonatan Meir
“This book is an important revision to modern
Translated by Jeffrey G. Amshalem
Hebrew literary history, demonstrating how the
“Meir portrays the career of one of the most am-
beginnings of a viable prose style go back to
bivalent characters of the Haskalah, or Jewish
the early nineteenth century and translation
Enlightenment. . . .This look into the world of
played a crucial role.”—Robert Alter, University
the late nineteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment
of California, Berkeley
will be an eye-opener.”—Pinchas Giller, Ameri-
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can Jewish University
Ebook 978-0-8156-5364-6
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Seamus Heaney
as Aesthetic Thinker
Israelites in Erin
A Study of the Prose
Abby Bender
Eugene O’Brien
“A stellar analysis of how and why the Biblical
“O’Brien uses his wide-ranging knowledge of
narrative of Exodus was appropriated, contest-
Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
ed, obscured, and reinvigorated by literary and
critical theory to illuminate Heaney’s positions
political thinkers in Ireland.”—Marjorie Howes,
on ideological and aesthetic issues, and to put
Heaney’s writing in the context of the European
coeditor of Semicolonial Joyce
intellectual tradition.”—Henry Hart, College of
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Gilgamesh’s Snake
and Other Poems
Sahar Mandour
Translated from the Arabic by Nicole Fares
Bilingual Edition
”A fascinating page-turner; universal in its com-
Ghareeb Iskander
ing of age anxieties and everyday activities of a
Translated by John Glenday and Ghareeb Iskander
young woman and her friends, and yet specific
Winner of the 2015 King Fahd Center for Middle
to post-war Beirut in context, ambiance and sen-
East Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award
sitivity.”—Nadje Al-Ali, author of What Kind of
Paper $14.95 978-0-8156-1071-7
Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq
Ebook 978-0-8156-5374-5
Paper $18.95 978-0-8156-1069-4
Ebook 978-0-8156-5370-7
The Perception of Meaning
Shahaama
Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories
Bilingual Edition
Nayra Atiya
Hisham Bustani
”Together, these stories provide deep insight into
Translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes
Egyptian culture, especially the details of domes-
“A set of fascinating experimental works.”
tic and work life that few westerners are able to
—The San Antonio Express
access.”—Pauline Kaldas, professor of English
Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1059-5
and creative writing, Hollins University
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Who Are These People
Anyway?
In the Shadow of Kinzua
The Seneca Nation of Indians since
World War II
Laurence Marc Hauptman
Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Onondaga
Nation
2014 Award of Merit winner from the American
Edited by Lesley Forrester
Association for State and Local History
”In this fascinating book, Powless writes of his
”Well written, with insights gleaned from dozens
experiences living for over eighty years on
of interviews.”—Journal of American History
traditional Onondaga territory.”—Brian Rice,
University of Winnipeg
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The Rotinonshonni
The Thomas Indian School
and the “Irredeemable”
Children of New York
A Traditional Iroquoian History
through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako
and Sawiskera
Brian Rice
Keith R. Burich
”Adds another unique voice to ongoing discus-
”Burich’s exhaustive history significantly contributes to the history of settler colonial schooling
sions and exploration of the Haudenosaunee cos-
by documenting a distinctively different kind of
mological narrative. . . . Highly recommended.”
Indian School: non-federal, state run, horrifically
—Choice
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dian child.”—K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Arizona
Ebook 978-0-8156-5227-4
State University
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Ebook 978-0-8156-5358-5
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a
Slave and as a Freeman
Leveling the Playing Field
The Story of the Syracuse 8
David Marc
Foreword by Jim Brown
A Narrative of Real Life
J. W. Loguen
Edited by Jennifer A. Williamson
“Interviews with the Syracuse Eight about how
this episode changed their lives is central to the
retelling of this long-ago tumultuous period in
Syracuse football history.”—Christian Science
Monitor
“Loguen’s memoir attests to black leadership on
the Underground Railroad and among the increasingly radical foes of slavery on the eve of
the Civil War.”—William L. Andrews, University
Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1030-4
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ebook 978-0-8156-5255-7
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Stone Houses
of Jefferson County
A Taste of Upstate New York
The People and the Stories
behind 40 Food Favorites
Edited by Maureen Hubbard Barros, Brian
W. Gorman, and Robert A. Uhlig
Chuck D’Imperio
“Allows road trip enthusiasts to take a bite out of
Photographs by Richard Margolis
the best New York has to offer.”—The Hudson
“This is a work of great local and anti-
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quarian interest. It is very gratifying to
discover in its pages a region with such a
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fine building heritage.”—Susan Hender-
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son, author of Building Culture
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Gene Basset’s
Vietnam Sketchbook
Watching TV
Eight Decades of American
Television
A Cartoonist’s Wartime Perspective
Third Edition
Thom Rooke
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik
“Gene Basset’s drawings provide a fresh and
“Castleman and Podrazik have put to-
fascinating angle of vision. This book is more
gether a well-researched, tightly written
than a history, it is a meditation on grief in
documentary on the development of the
war.”—Todd DePastino, author of Bill Mauldin:
television industry and the individuals in-
A Life Up Front
volved.”—Publishers Weekly
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From Where We Stand
The St. Lawrence Seaway
and Power Project
Recovering a Sense of Place
Deborah Tall
“A worthy contribution to the growing field
An Oral History of the Greatest
Construction Show on Earth
of landscape studies. . . . Like Thoreau, who
Claire Puccia Parham
claimed to have travelled much in Concord,
“[Parham] resurrects the story of one of the
the author of From Where We Stand has trav-
greatest construction projects of the mid–twen-
elled much—widely and deeply—in the Finger
tieth century, an engineering and building feat
Lakes.”—New York History
that had nearly disappeared from memory.”
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—Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton
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