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Title Index
The Accidental Slaveowner / Auslander
12
The Adventures of Roderick Random / 36
Smollett and Basker, ed.
Alter Ego / Goicolea 29
The Artful Table / Telfair Museums
29
At-Risk / Gautier
5
Bear Down, Bear North / Moustakis
4
Blue Ridge Commons / Newfont
26
A Brief History of Male Nudes in America / Nelson 37
Brothers of a Vow / Pflugrad-Jackisch
40
The Civil War in Georgia / Inscoe, ed.
28
The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell / 39
Courtney and Messent, eds.
Close-Ups / Thompson
37
Compression Scars / Wells
37
Conserving Southern Longleaf / Way
27
Contentious Liberties / Kenny
40
Damn Good Dogs! / Seiler and Hannon
30
Deluxe Jim Crow / Thomas
16
Drifting into Darien / Ray
1
Elbert Parr Tuttle / Emanuel
17
Enduring Territorial Disputes / Wiegand
10
In Search of Brightest Africa / Jones
41
Invasive Pythons in the United States / 6
Dorcas and Wilson
John Oliver Killens / Gilyard
38
Jury Discrimination / Waldrep
42
Last Day on Earth / Vann
3
Local Matters / Waldrep and Nieman, eds.
42
A Mess of Greens / Engelhardt
32
Missing Links / Rich
21
My Paddle to the Sea / Lane
2
Nervous Dancer / Lorenzo
37
Phillis Wheatley / Carretta
13
The Prestige of Violence / Bachner
35
Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition
41
of 1895 / Perdue
Reconstructing the Native South / Taylor
33
Redeeming the Southern Family / Stephan
40
Righteous Violence / Reynolds
25
Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics / Musgrove 15
Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition / Oltman
41
Sounds American / Ostendorf
22
Southern Civil Religions / Remillard
24
Southern Prohibition / Willis
20
Spirit Seizures / Pritchard 37
Stuck / Sommers
9
Suffering Childhood in Early America / Duane
39
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of 34
History / Cowart
The Trial of Democracy / Wang
42
UnCivil Wars series 18
Walden by Haiku / Marshall
38
The War on Poverty / Orleck and Hazirjian, eds. 14
Wars of Disruption and Resilience / Demchak 11
Weirding the War / Berry, ed.
19
“What Virtue There Is in Fire” / Arnold
39
Winter Sky / Barks
38
Women, Gender, and Terrorism / Sjoberg and
8
Gentry, eds.
The Year of the Lash / Reid-Vazquez
23
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Cover: Rural Rwanda. Photo by Marc Sommers. See page 9.
Drifting into Darien
A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Janisse Ray
“Every endangered ecosystem should have such an eloquent
spokesman.”—Bailey White
Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction
cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a
life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That
first baptism began a lifelong relationship with a stunning and powerful
river that almost nobody knows.
The Altamaha rises dark and mysterious in southeast Georgia. It is deep
and wide, bordered by swamps. Its corridor contains an extraordinary biodiversity, including many rare and endangered species, which led the Nature
Conservancy to designate it as one of the world’s last great places.
The Altamaha is Ray’s river, and from childhood she dreamed of paddling
its entire length to where it empties into the sea. Drifting into Darien
begins with an account of finally making that journey, turning to meditations on the many ways we accept a world that contains both good and evil.
With praise, biting satire, and hope, Ray contemplates transformation and
attempts with every page to settle peacefully into the now.
Though commemorating a history that includes logging, Ray celebrates “a
culture that sprang from the flatwoods, which required a judicious use of
nature.” She looks in vain for an ivorybill woodpecker but is equally eager
to see any of the imperiled species found in the river basin: spiny mussel,
American oystercatcher, Radford’s mint, Alabama milkvine. The book
explores both the need and the possibilities for conservation of the river
and the surrounding forests and wetlands.
As in her groundbreaking Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Ray writes an
account of her beloved river that is both social history and natural history,
understanding the two as inseparable, particularly in the rural corner of
Georgia that she knows best. Ray goes looking for wisdom and finds a
river.
Praise for Janisse Ray
“Janisse Ray is a strong and imaginative writer.”—Peter Matthiessen
“More than her passion for the wilderness, her activism or her
outrage, it is her capacity for wonder that wins us to her fervent
environmentalism.”—Amy Godine, Orion
“Janisse Ray is a role model for countless future rural writers to
come.”—Wes Jackson
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Nancy Marshall
September
5.5 x 8.5 | 256 pp.
19 b&w photos | 1 map
Cloth, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3815-6
Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4186-6
Praise for Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“Ray’s passion for preserving and restoring this unsung landscape is
heartfelt and refreshing.”—Tony Horwitz, New York Times Book Review
“Ray magically conveys the need for conservation juxtaposed with the
perverse beauty of the wasteland of her youth. In Janisse Ray, the
region has found a worthy and eloquent advocate, perhaps a savior for
its hundreds of endangered species.”—E: The Environmental Magazine
“The forests of the southeast find their Rachel Carson. . . . In Ecology of
a Cracker Childhood, part memoir, part clarion call to save the longleaf
pine, [Ray] casts a loving but unflinching eye on growing up poor and
fundamentalist in southeast Georgia. . . . Sometimes a book is so powerful, it holds its writer hostage.”—Anne Raver, New York Times
Also of interest
“Ray’s genre-busting look melds subjects and styles to create an
unusually moving document of life—human and otherwise—on the
coastal plains of South Georgia. . . . The author writes about nature
as lovingly and as effectively as she does the ups and downs of her
struggling clan. . . . Consider the effectiveness of Ecology of a Cracker
Childhood as an argument for all of us to think beyond our lives.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Liquid Land
Beyond Katrina
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Natasha Trethewey
Cloth, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3381-6
Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3752-4
A Sara Mills Hodge Fund Publication
A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Ted Levin
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2672-6
Nancy Marshall
Janisse Ray is the author of three works of nonfiction, Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a
Fragmented Land, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, and the bestselling Ecology
of a Cracker Childhood. She is also the author of a poetry collection, A House of Branches,
and coeditor of Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf. She lives in the
Altamaha Community in Reidsville, Georgia.
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My Paddle to the Sea
November
5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pp. | 1 map
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3977-1
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4131-6
Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
John Lane
A journey through South Carolina’s Santee River watershed
Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when
two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out
with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm
his nerves and to paddle to the sea.
Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike
Twain’s character, Lane isn’t escaping. He’s getting intimate with the river
that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane’s threehundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake
Marion before continuing down the Santee River. Along the way Lane
recounts local history and spars with streamside literary presences such as
Mind of the South author W. J. Cash; Henry Savage, author of the Rivers of
America Series volume on the Santee; novelist and Pulitzer Prize–winner
Julia Peterkin; early explorer John Lawson; and poet and outdoor writer
Archibald Rutledge. Lane ponders the sites of old cotton mills; abandoned
locks, canals, and bridges; ghost towns fallen into decay a century before;
Indian mounds; American Revolutionary and Civil War battle sites; nuclear
power plants; and boat landings. Along the way he encounters a cast of
characters Twain himself would envy—perplexed fishermen, catfish cleaners, river rats, and a trio of drug-addled drifters on a lonely boat dock a
day’s paddle from the sea.
By the time Lane and his companions finally approach the ocean about
forty miles north of Charleston they have to fight the tide and set a furious
pace. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why
life and rivers have always been wedded together.
Also by John Lane
“I love John Lane’s work. Before I picked up My Paddle to the Sea I
was reading another book—a classic, I am told—that was putting me to
sleep. Then I turned to Lane’s book, and—zook—I was wide awake and
floating down the river. Three qualities exist in his writing that are
rarely compatible in an author: an intense readability, a deep thoughtfulness, and a largeness of spirit. ‘Largeness is a lifelong matter,’ said
Wallace Stegner. John Lane has taken that to heart. Join him on this
beautiful trip—full of contemplation and life-and-death and humor and
derring-do—and you will find yourself growing larger.”
—David Gessner, author of Return of the Osprey
Circling Home
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3348-9
Chattooga
Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2775-4
Waist Deep in Black Water
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2621-4
“Countless readers across the South, and well beyond, will profit from
trekking right along with Lane, who is a very gifted natural teacher
and a great literary companion.”
—Bland Simpson, coauthor of The Coasts of Carolina
Carroll Foster
John Lane’s books include Waist Deep in Black Water, The Woods Stretched for Miles,
Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River, and Circling Home (all Georgia);
several volumes of poetry; and The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph, a selection of his columns.
Lane is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College.
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Last Day on Earth
October
5.5 x 8.5 | 184 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3839-2
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4210-8
A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing
Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
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David Vann
Full access to all the police files. A school shooter’s e-mails, mental
health records, sexual history, family history, everything.
For sale in North America only
On Valentine’s Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded
eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an
A student, a Deans’ Award winner. How could this happen?
CNN could not get the story. The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and
all others came up empty because Steve’s friends and professors knew very
little. He had reinvented himself in his final five years. But David Vann,
investigating for Esquire, went back to Steve’s high school and junior high
friends, found a life perfectly shaped for mass murder, and gained full
access to the entire 1,500 pages of the police files. The result: the most
complete portrait we have of any school shooter. But Vann doesn’t stop
there. He recounts his own history with guns, contemplating a school
shooting. This book is terrifying and true, a story you’ll never forget.
“I hated reading Last Day on Earth, but I kept coming back to it. Each
chapter was taut, mysterious, and compelling. . . . What makes this
book especially appealing is the parallel narrative—the writer living a
screwed-up childhood, who, like Steve, finds himself in the possession
of many guns and the urge to use them and potentially do harm. . . .
It is riveting reading.”
—Lee Gutkind, founding editor of Creative Nonfiction
Praise for David Vann
Also in the series
“Takes us someplace darker, older, more powerful than the daylit
world.”—New York Times
Ghostbread
Sonja Livingston
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3687-9
Cloth, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3398-4
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3750-0
“Vann looks into the dark and isolated heart of the American soul.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Vanished Gardens
“Transfixing and unflinching . . . full of finely realized moments . . .
Comparison with Cormac McCarthy is fully justified.”
—Times Literary Supplement
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Sharon White
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3782-1
Cloth, $28.95t | 978-0-8203-3156-0
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3973-3
David Vann is the internationally bestselling author of Caribou Island, A Mile Down, and
Legend of a Suicide, published in seventeen languages and winner of ten prizes, including
France’s Prix Médicis for best foreign novel, selected for the New Yorker Book Club, The
Times Book Club, BBC’s Book at Bedtime, TV book shows in eight countries, and more
than forty “best books of the year” lists worldwide. Currently a Guggenheim Fellow,
Vann has also been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a Wallace Stegner
Fellow. He’s taught at Stanford, Cornell, and Florida State University and is currently an
associate professor at the University of San Francisco.
Diana Matar
“Vann’s people are hurtling irretrievably toward a dark outcome, and
while putting the book down might save you from it, you can’t stop
reading, just as you can’t unlearn its truths.”—Los Angeles Times
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Bear Down, Bear North
September
5.5 x 8.5 | 144 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3893-4
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4189-7
Alaska Stories
Melinda Moustakis
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-andtumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories.
Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis
examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that
are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to
larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
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The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path
of destruction—sometimes a harsh snowstorm, sometimes each other—and
live to tell the tale. While backtrolling for kings on the Kenai River or
filleting the catch of the Halibut Hellion with marvelous speed, these characters recount the gamble they took that didn’t pay off, or they expound on
how not only does Uncle Too-Soon need a girlfriend, the whole state of
Alaska needs a girlfriend. A story like “The Mannequin at Soldotna” takes
snapshots: a doctor tends to an injured fisherman, a man covets another
man’s green fishing lure, a girl is found in the river with a bullet in her
head. Another story offers an easy moment with a difficult mother, when
she reaches out to touch a breaching whale.
This is a book about taking a fishhook in the eye, about drinking cranberry
lick and Jippers and smoking Big-Z cigars. This is a book about the one
good joke, or the one night lit up with stars, that might get you through
the winter.
“Bear Down, Bear North has a tooth-and-claw sensibility that brings
to mind Jim Harrison and Elwood Reid. Immediately I was lost in the
hard poetry of the sentences, lost in the wilds of Alaska, lost under
the whiskey spell of a writer who knows how to wield a knife, a rifle,
a fishing reel as well as she does her sharply honed language. I am
completely in love with the stories of Melinda Moustakis.”
—Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh
Also in the series
The Bigness of the World
Lori Ostlund
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3688-6
Cloth, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3409-7
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3745-6
Black Elvis
Geoffrey Becker
“Here is a writer who truly has everything—clean and radiant prose;
unforgettable characters; formal designs for story after story that are
innovative yet utterly readable. . . . Moustakis’s women are brave
and tough, but full of heart in every sense of the term. Her men can
do everything the wilderness asks of them, except love themselves
enough to stop drinking. Bear Down, Bear North will be an indispensable collection, not only to read but to teach.”
—Jaimy Gordon, winner of the National Book Award for Lord of Misrule
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3410-3
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4028-9
Emily Stinson
Melinda Moustakis received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD in English and
creative writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has appeared in journals
including Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review, and New England
Review. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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At-Risk
September
5.5 x 8.5 | 160 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3888-0
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4132-3
Stories by Amina Gautier
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
In Amina Gautier’s Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don’t, but
not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier’s stories explore the
lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,”
yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular
neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different
family experiences.
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Gautier’s focus is on quiet daily moments, even in extraordinary lives; her
characters do not stand as emblems of a subculture but live and breathe as
people. In “The Ease of Living,” the young teen Jason is sent down south
to spend the summer with his grandfather after witnessing the double
murder of his two best friends, and he is not happy about it. A season of
sneaking into as many movies as possible on one ticket or dunking girls at
the pool promises to turn into a summer of shower chairs and the smell of
Ben-Gay in the unimaginably backwoods town of Tallahassee. In “Pan Is
Dead,” two half-siblings watch as the heroin-addicted father of the older
one works his way back into their mother’s life; in “Dance for Me,” a girl
on scholarship at a posh Manhattan school teaches white girls to dance in
the bathroom in order to be invited to a party.
As teenagers in complicated circumstances, each of Gautier’s characters is
pushed in many directions. To succeed may entail unforgiveable compromises, and to follow their desires may lead to catastrophe. Yet within these
stories they exist and can be seen as they are, in the moment of choosing.
“In this wonderful collection Amina Gautier writes with exhilarating
insight and confidence about the lives of teenagers who are indeed
at risk from themselves, their families, and their friends. These are
urgent and important stories.”
—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
Also in the series
The Dance Boots
Linda LeGarde Grover
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3580-3
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3748-7
Please Come Back To Me
Jessica Treadway
Amina Gautier is an assistant professor of English at DePaul University. Her work has
appeared in the anthologies Best African American Fiction and New Stories from the South
and in numerous literary journals including Antioch Review, North American Review,
Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and Southern Review.
Dayo Nicole Mitchell
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3584-1
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3751-7
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Invasive Pythons
in the United States
Ecology of an Introduced Predator
Michael E. Dorcas and John D. Willson
Foreword by Whit Gibbons
The first detailed, comprehensive study of this invasive predator
Most people think of pythons as giant snakes in distant tropical jungles,
but Burmese pythons, which can reach lengths of over twenty feet and
weigh over two hundred pounds, are now thriving in southern Florida.
Bob DeGross
These natives of Asia are commonly kept as pets and presumably escaped
or were released in the Everglades. Pythons are now common in this region;
widespread throughout hundreds of square miles, they are breeding and
appear to be expanding their range. Pythons are voracious predators that
feed on a variety of native wildlife including wading birds, bobcats, whitetailed deer, and even alligators. Their presence has drawn dramatic media
attention and stoked fears among the public that pythons may threaten not
just native species but humans as well.
Pythons have been found with increasing
regularity in Everglades National Park
since the late 1990s.
Mike Rochford
Despite this widespread concern, information on pythons has been limited
to a few scientific publications and news coverage that varies widely in
fact and accuracy. With Invasive Pythons in the United States, Michael E.
Dorcas and John D. Willson provide the most reliable, up-to-date, and
scientifically grounded information on invasive pythons. Filled with over
two hundred color photographs and fifteen figures and maps, the book will
help general readers and the scientific community better understand these
fascinating animals and their troubling presence in the United States.
Cris Hagen
A high reproductive rate is one of the traits that make
pythons successful invaders.
Several male pythons kept in an outdoor enclosure in South Carolina (above) spent a lot of time
in trees.
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October
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188 color photos | 8 maps
1 table | 7 figures
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Burmese pythons more than sixteen feet long have been found in the Everglades.
Features information on
• general python biology
• biology of Burmese pythons in their native range
• research on pythons in the United States
• history and status of introduced pythons in Florida
• risks pythons pose in Florida and elsewhere
• methods to control python populations
• other boas and pythons that may become or are already established in
the United States
Also of interest
Snakes of the Southeast
Whit Gibbons and Michael E. Dorcas
Flexibind, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-2652-8
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
“Dorcas and Willson provide a much-needed examination of the growing impact of Burmese pythons as an invasive species in the United
States. By highlighting the many dangers and detrimental effects the
introduction of nonnative pythons has caused in the Everglades, this
book documents the mounting threat that invasives pose to ecosystems everywhere. The first book to focus solely on this issue, Invasive
Pythons in the United States is well researched, well illustrated, and
well timed.”—Edward O. Wilson
Frogs and Toads of the Southeast
Whit Gibbons and Michael E. Dorcas
Flexibind, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-2922-2
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Tony Mills
Michael E. Dorcas (left) is a professor of biology at Davidson College. He is the author
of six previous books including, with coauthor Whit Gibbons, Snakes of the Southeast and
Frogs and Toads of the Southeast (both Georgia). John D. Willson (right) is a postdoctoral
research associate at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. He has published extensively on snake ecology and serves as a section editor for Snake Natural History notes in
the journal Herpetological Review.
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December
224 pp. | 1 table
978-0-8203-4038-8
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Women, Gender, and Terrorism
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In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation
in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship
with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural
dynamics of the contemporary world.
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How women participants in terrorism are received and portrayed
in gendered ways
Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about
women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have increasingly taken active roles in carrying out suicide bombings, hijacking airplanes, and taking hostages in such places as Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and Chechnya. These women terrorists have been the
subject of a substantial amount of media and scholarly attention, but the
analysis of women, gender, and terrorism has been sparse and riddled with
stereotypical thinking about women’s capabilities and motivations.
In the first section of this volume, contributors offer an overview of women’s
participation in and relationships with contemporary terrorism, and a
historical chapter traces their involvement in the politics and conflicts of
Islamic societies. The next section includes empirical and theoretical analysis
of terrorist movements in Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, and Sri Lanka.
The third section turns to women’s involvement in al Qaeda and includes
critical interrogations of the gendered media and the scholarly presentations
of those women. The conclusion offers ways to further explore the subject of
gender and terrorism based on the contributions made to the volume.
Contributors
Miranda Alison
Katherine E. Brown
Grace D. Cooke
Caron E. Gentry
Stacey Reiter Neal
Swati Parashar
Katherine Patillo
Farhana Qazi
Laura Sjoberg
Alisa Stack-O’Connor
Jennie Stone
Contributors to Women, Gender, and Terrorism expand our understanding of
terrorism, one of the most troubling and complicated facets of the modern
world.
“This provocative collection will be of genuine value to anyone trying
to be smart about gender, conflict, media, and political mobilization.”
—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist
Sense of the Iraq War
Laura Sjoberg is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. She is the editor or author of numerous
books including Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory. Caron E. Gentry is a lecturer
in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Together they coauthored Mothers, Monsters, Whores:
Women’s Violence in Global Politics.
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Stuck
February
6 x 9 | 288 pp.
18 b&w photos | 2 maps | 9 tables
Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3891-0
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3890-3
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Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Marc Sommers
Insight into a vexing problem faced by countless youth
in the Middle East and Africa
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Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for
achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by
genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights
record, the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting
for grasping new challenges to the world’s youth.
Published in association with the
United States Institute of Peace
Spotlighting failed masculinity, urban desperation, and forceful governance,
Marc Sommers tells the dramatic story of young Rwandans who are “stuck,”
striving against near-impossible odds to become adults. In Rwandan culture,
female youth must wait, often in vain, for male youth to build a house before
they can marry. Only then can male and female youth gain acceptance as
adults. However, Rwanda’s severe housing crisis means that most male youth
are on a treadmill toward failure, unable to build their house yet having no
choice but to try. What follows is too often tragic. Rural youth face a future
as failed adults, while many who migrate to the capital fail to secure a stable
life and turn fatalistic about contracting HIV/AIDS.
Featuring insightful interviews with youth, adults, and government officials,
Stuck tells the story of an ambitious, controlling government trying to govern an exceptionally young and poor population in a densely populated and
rapidly urbanizing country. This pioneering book sheds new light on the
struggle to come of age and suggests new pathways toward the attainment
of security, development, and coexistence in Africa and beyond.
Also of interest
“An incisive, thoroughly researched, and empathic inquiry into how
the youth in Rwanda cope with survival, adulthood, the legacy of
genocide, and an oppressive state.”
—Filip Reyntjens, author of The Great African War: Congo and
Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006
The Lost Boys of Sudan
An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Mark Bixler
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2883-6
Begging as a Path to Progress
Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle
for Ecuador’s Urban Spaces
“A must read for policy makers, aid officials, and leaders of postwar
societies who are concerned about youth. . . . It is to be hoped that
Sommers’s insightful critique of Rwandan policies will be met not with
defensiveness but with an open and comprehensive review of government assumptions and practices.”
—Howard Wolpe, former U.S. presidential envoy to Africa’s Great
Lakes region
Kate Swanson
Marc Sommers, an internationally recognized youth expert, teaches at the Fletcher
School of Tufts University and is a visiting researcher with Boston University’s African
Studies Center. Sommers was a USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in 2009–2010.
He is the author of six previous books including Islands of Education: Schooling, Civil War,
and the Southern Sudanese (1983–2004) and Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban
Tanzania, which received the Margaret Mead Award in 2003.
Luke Kelly
Paper, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3465-3
Cloth, $64.95y | 978-0-8203-3180-5
Ebook, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3703-6
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
I n t e r n at i o n a l R e l at i o n s / H um a n R i gh t s
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Enduring Territorial Disputes
September
6 x 9 | 376 pp.
12 tables | 4 maps
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3946-7
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3738-8
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4190-3
Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy,
and Settlement
Krista E. Wiegand
Why some states may benefit from a continuation
of territorial disputes
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Of all the issues in international relations, disputes over territory are the
most salient and most likely to lead to armed conflict. Understanding their
endurance is of paramount importance. Although many states have settled
their disagreements over territory, seventy-one disputes involving nearly 40
percent of all sovereign states remain unresolved.
In this study, Krista E. Wiegand examines why some states are willing and
able to settle territorial disputes while others are not. She argues that states
may purposely maintain disputes over territory in order to use them as
bargaining leverage in negotiations over other important unresolved issues.
This dual strategy of issue linkage and coercive diplomacy allows the challenger state to benefit from its territorial claim. Under such conditions, it
has strong incentive to pursue diplomatic and militarized threats and very
little incentive to settle the dispute over territory.
Wiegand tests her theory in four case studies, three representing the major
types of territorial disputes: uninhabited islands and territorial waters, as
seen in tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku and Diaoyu
Islands; inhabited tracts of territory, such as the North African enclaves of
Ceuta and Melilla affecting Morocco and Spain; and border areas, like the
Shebaa Farms dispute between Lebanon and Israel. A fourth case study of
a dispute between China and Russia represents a combination of all three
types; settled in 2008, it serves as a negative example. All these disputes
involve areas that have key strategic and economic importance both regionally and globally.
Also in the series
Understanding Life in the Borderlands
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion
I. William Zartman, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3407-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3385-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3614-5
“Enduring Territorial Disputes is a very original study that makes an
important and lasting contribution to international relations. It is of
the highest caliber and will quickly establish itself among those who
study territory as a key book to read.”
—John A. Vasquez, author of The War Puzzle Revisited
Nonproliferation Norms
Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint
Maria Rost Rublee
Courtesy of the author
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3235-2
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3003-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3589-6
Krista E. Wiegand is an associate professor of political science at Georgia Southern
University. She is the author of Bombs and Ballots: Governance by Islamic Terrorist and
Guerrilla Groups.
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The University of Georgia Press
Fall & Winter 2011
Wars of Disruption and
Resilience
September
6 x 9 | 304 pp.
1 table | 10 figures
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4067-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3834-7
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4137-8
Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security
Chris C. Demchak
A new form of conflict for an intensely cybered age
and its challenges to our national security
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/SSIA
Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United
States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, Chris
C. Demchak presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected,
ever-messier, more surprising cybered world and examines the institutional
adaptations required of our defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical
sectors for national security.
Demchak introduces a strategy of “security resilience” against surprise
attacks for a cybered world that is divided between modern, digitally vulnerable city-states and more dysfunctional global regions. Its key concepts build
on theories of international relations, complexity in social-technical systems,
and organizational-institutional adaptation. Demchak tests the strategy for
reasonableness in history’s few examples of states disrupting rather than
conquering and being resilient to attacks, including ancient Athens and
Sparta, several British colonial wars, and two American limited wars. She
applies the strategy to modern political, social, and technical challenges and
presents three kinds of institutional adaptation that predicate the success
of the security resilience strategy in response. Finally, Demchak discusses
implications for the future including new forms of cyber aggression like the
Stuxnet worm, the rise of the cyber-command concept, and the competition
between the U.S. and China as global cyber leaders.
Also in the series
Combating Weapons
of Mass Destruction
Wars of Disruption and Resilience offers a blueprint for a national cyberpower strategy that is long in time horizon, flexible in target and scale,
and practical enough to maintain the security of a digitized nation facing
violent cybered conflict.
The Future of International
Nonproliferation Policy
Nathan E. Busch and Daniel H. Joyner, eds.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3221-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3010-5
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate
“An important contribution to the cyber field, with both theoretical
and policy implications. It will begin the debate on an issue important
to the national security field.”—Gale Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy
Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
Charles Horner
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3878-1
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3588-9
Chris C. Demchak is an associate professor in the Strategic Research Department at the
U.S. Naval War College. She is the author of Military Organizations, Complex Machines:
Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services, coauthor of Lessons of the Gulf War: Ascendant
Technology and Declining Capability, and coeditor of Designing Resilience: Preparing for
Extreme Events. She writes about cybered conflict on the New Atlanticist blog.
Courtesy of the author
“Essential reading for any academic engaged in the issue of cyber
conflict and for civilian and government officials involved in managing
this very modern security problem.”
—Terry Terriff, coeditor of Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed
Conflict: Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare
S e cur i t y S t ud i e s / I n t e r n at i o n a l R e l at i o n s
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The Accidental Slaveowner
October
6 x 9 | 376 pp.
11 b&w photos | 12 figures
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4043-2
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4042-5
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4192-7
Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an
American Family
Mark Auslander
A divided church, a southern university, and our ongoing efforts to
grapple with slavery’s meaning
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our
difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story,
The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how
different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about
slavery.
For over a century and a half, residents of Oxford, Georgia (“the birthplace
of Emory University”), have told and retold stories of the enslaved woman
known as “Kitty” and her owner, Methodist bishop James Osgood Andrew,
first president of Emory’s board of trustees. Bishop Andrew’s ownership
of Miss Kitty and other enslaved persons triggered the 1844 great national
schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church, presaging the Civil War. For
many local whites, Bishop Andrew was only “accidentally” a slaveholder,
and when offered her freedom, Kitty willingly remained in slavery out of
loyalty to her master. Local African Americans, in contrast, tend to insist
that Miss Kitty was the Bishop’s coerced lover and that she was denied her
basic freedoms throughout her life.
Mark Auslander approaches these opposing narratives as “myths,” not as
falsehoods but as deeply meaningful and resonant accounts that illuminate
profound enigmas in American history and culture. After considering
the multiple, powerful ways that the Andrew-Kitty myths have shaped
perceptions of race in Oxford, at Emory, and among southern Methodists,
Auslander sets out to uncover the “real” story of Kitty and her family. His
years-long feat of collaborative detective work results in a series of discoveries and helps open up important arenas for reconciliation, restorative justice,
and social healing.
Also of interest
The Horrible Gift of Freedom
Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of
Emancipation
Marcus Wood
Paper, $29.95s | 978-0-8203-3427-1
Cloth, $74.95y | 978-0-8203-3426-4
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Here, George Washington Was Born
“A beautifully written account of the complex ways in which family
and institutional histories and memories of slavery are told and retold
by blacks and whites in this country. . . . With a detective’s attention
to detail and a novelist’s love of people and their stories, Auslander
has written a lucid, passionate work.”
—Leslie M. Harris, Emory University
Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History
of a National Monument
Seth C. Bruggeman
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3178-2
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3177-5
Ellen Schattschneider
Mark Auslander is director of the interdisciplinary master’s program in cultural produc-
tion and an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Brandeis University.
Starting September 2011, he will be associate professor of anthropology and director
of the Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University in
Ellensburg, Washington.
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The University of Georgia Press
Fall & Winter 2011
Phillis Wheatley
November
6 x 9 | 304 pp.
34 b&w photos | 1 map
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3338-0
Biography of a Genius in Bondage
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Vincent Carretta
Revealing a founding figure of
American and African American literature
With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley
(1753?–1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to
publish a book and only the second woman—of any race or background—
to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and
when she was still a slave, Wheatley’s work was an international sensation.
In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography
of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her
iconic status.
A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literature and history,
Carretta uncovers new details about Wheatley’s origins, her upbringing,
and how she gained freedom. Carretta solves the mystery of John Peters,
correcting the record of when he and Wheatley married and revealing what
became of him after her death. Assessing Wheatley’s entire body of work,
Carretta discusses the likely role she played in the production, marketing, and distribution of her writing. Wheatley developed a remarkable
transatlantic network that transcended racial, class, political, religious, and
geographical boundaries. Carretta reconstructs that network and sheds new
light on her religious and political identities. In the course of his research
he discovered the earliest poem attributable to Wheatley and has included
it and other unpublished poems in the biography.
Carretta relocates Wheatley from the margins to the center of her eighteenthcentury transatlantic world, revealing the fascinating life of a woman who rose
from the indignity of enslavement to earn wide recognition, only to die in
obscurity a few years later.
Also by the author
Equiano, the African
Biography of a Self-Made Man
Vincent Carretta
“An extraordinary achievement. Carretta’s groundbreaking research
and sensitive readings greatly enrich our understanding of Wheatley’s
life and work.”
—John Wood Sweet, author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the
American North, 1730–1830
Cloth, $34.95s | 978-0-8203-2571-2
The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque,
the First African Anglican Missionary
Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese, eds.
Cloth, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-3319-9
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
“Phillis Wheatley is a much too little-known figure, but at last she has
found the right biographer. . . . His deep knowledge of both shores of
the eighteenth-century Atlantic makes Carretta the perfect person to
bring alive this remarkable woman and the world of bondage and wary
freedom in which she lived.”
—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in
the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
author or editor of more than ten books, including scholarly editions of the writings
of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and Ottobah Cugoano. His
most recent books are Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, winner of
the Annibel Jenkins Prize, and The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African
Anglican Missionary, coedited with Ty M. Reese (both Georgia).
Patricia Carretta
Vincent Carretta is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the
H i s tory / B i ogr a phy
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November
6 x 9 | 480 pp.
13 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3949-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3101-0
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4184-2
The War on Poverty
A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980
Edited by Annelise Orleck and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
The long War on Poverty as it was fought in communities across
America, from Los Angeles to the Bronx
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most
potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives
deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of “poverty
pimps,” and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining
the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a
controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success,
reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as
enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal.
The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass
roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling
cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans
in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from
New York to California built social programs based on Johnson’s vision of
a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these
vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws
and failings of the movement—including inadequate funding, co-optation
by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their
children made up most of the poor.
Contributors
Susan Youngblood Ashmore
Adina Back
Robert Bauman
William Clayson
Daniel M. Cobb
Greta de Jong
Laurie B. Green
Christina Greene
Amy Jordan
Thomas Kiffmeyer
Guian A. McKee
Annelise Orleck
Wesley G. Phelps
Marc Rodriguez
Karen M. Tani
Rhonda Y. Williams
In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food
stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system
in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us
to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains
so controversial to this day.
“The essays in this exciting collection bring to life the War on Poverty
at the grassroots, where it was really fought. . . . Orleck’s introduction provides one of the best overviews of the War on Poverty ever
written, and her stunning conclusion offers a measured, reasoned
defense of the program’s achievements and legacy—a message needed
now more than ever.”—Michael B. Katz, University of Pennsylvania
“This book makes an extremely significant intervention into several
literatures—on social movements, on domestic policy, and on local
government and power structures. It shares both a strong point of
view and a clear commitment not to oversimplify or romanticize the
grassroots activism it depicts, and this combination makes it convincing and, at times, gripping.”
—Linda Gordon, winner of the Bancroft Prize for Dorothea Lange: A
Life beyond Limits
Annelise Orleck is a professor of history at Dartmouth College. She is the author or editor of four previous books including Storming
Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Lisa Gayle Hazirjian is an activist and independent scholar.
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The University of Georgia Press
Fall & Winter 2011
Rumor, Repression,
and Racial Politics
February
6 x 9 | 312 pp.
15 b&w photos | 2 charts
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4121-7
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3459-2
How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials
Shaped Post–Civil Rights America
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George Derek Musgrove
A powerful new framework for making sense
of America’s recent political history
Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained
access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what
happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath
of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power
era. In Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics, George Derek Musgrove
pushes much further, examining black elected officials’ allegations of state
and news media repression—what they called “harassment”—to gain new
insight into the role of race in U.S. politics between 1965 and 1995.
Drawing from untapped sources, including interviews he conducted with
twenty-five sitting and former black members of Congress, Musgrove tells
new stories and reinterprets familiar events. His cast of characters includes
Julian Bond, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Alcee Hastings, Ronald Dellums,
Richard Arrington, and Marion Barry, as well as white political figures
like Newt Gingrich and Jefferson Sessions. Throughout, Musgrove connects patterns of surveillance, counterintelligence, and disproportionate
investigation of black elected officials to the broader political culture. In so
doing, he reveals new aspects of the surveillance state of the late 1960s, the
rise of adversary journalism and good government reforms in the wake of
Watergate, the official corruption crackdown of the 1980s, and the allure of
conspiracy theory to African Americans seeking to understand the harassment of their elected leadership.
Also of interest
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family,
and the Rise of the Religious Right
J. Brooks Flippen
Paper, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3770-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3769-2
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3955-9
Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America
Moving past the old debate about whether there was a conscious conspiracy
against black officials, Musgrove explores how the perception of harassment
shaped black political thought in the post–civil rights era. The result is a
field-defining work by a major new intellectual voice.
Liberalism, Black Power, and the
Making of American Politics,
1965–1980
Devin Fergus
“A real gem. Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics provides fresh
insight into African American political thought and behavior, illuminates the role of rumor and conspiracy theory in post–1960s racial
politics, and makes clear African Americans’ changing relationship
with the state. Written in accessible prose, it is perfect for use in the
classroom and should also find an audience among general readers
with an interest in black politics.”
—Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and
Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
Michelle Musgrove
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3324-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3323-6
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
George Derek Musgrove is an assistant professor of history at the University of the
District of Columbia.
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Deluxe Jim Crow
December
6 x 9 | 328 pp.
14 b&w photos | 17 tables | 4 charts
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4044-9
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3016-7
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4178-1
Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935–1954
Karen Kruse Thomas
Examining the roots of federal policy to address racial disparities
in health care
Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health
professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon
General Thomas Parran “the nation’s number one health problem.” The
improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the U.S. Public Health Service during the Roosevelt and Truman
administrations.
Karen Kruse Thomas details how NAACP lawsuits pushed southern states
to equalize public services and facilities for blacks just as wartime shortages
of health personnel and high rates of draft rejections generated broad support
for health reform. Southern Democrats leveraged their power in Congress
and used the war effort to call for federal aid to uplift the South. The language of regional uplift, Thomas contends, allowed southern liberals to aid
blacks while remaining silent on race. Reformers embraced, at least initially,
the notion of “deluxe Jim Crow”—support for health care that maintained
segregation. Thomas argues that this strategy was, in certain respects, a success, building much-needed hospitals and training more black doctors.
By the 1950s, deluxe Jim Crow policy had helped to weaken the legal basis
for segregation. Thomas traces this transformation at the national level and
in North Carolina, where “deluxe Jim Crow reached its fullest potential.”
This dual focus allows her to examine the shifting alliances—between blacks
and liberal whites, southerners and northerners, activists and doctors—that
drove policy. Deluxe Jim Crow provides insight into a variety of historical
debates, including the racial dimensions of state building, the nature of
white southern liberalism, and the role of black professionals during the long
civil rights movement.
Also of interest
Sitting In and Speaking Out
Student Movements in the American South,
1960–1970
Jeffrey A. Turner
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3599-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3593-3
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3759-3
“Deluxe Jim Crow will become the authoritative book on health policy
and race in the twentieth century. Thomas’s breadth of research is
astounding. Historians, health policy analysts, politicians, and consumers will have much to learn here.”
—Susan M. Reverby, author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous
Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Carry It On
The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights
Movement in Alabama, 1964–1972
Susan Youngblood Ashmore
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3051-8
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3007-5
Chris Hartlove
“It is now conventional wisdom that the premises and policies of the
New Deal were irretrievably racial; legislative concessions and local
administration sustained Jim Crow in the shadow of an emerging welfare state. Thomas’s careful study of health policy in the South complicates this picture. . . . Deluxe Jim Crow is a strong book that should find
a wide audience among historians of the South and health scholars.”
—Colin Gordon, author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care
in Twentieth-Century America
Karen Kruse Thomas is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of
Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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The University of Georgia Press
Fall & Winter 2011
Elbert Parr Tuttle
October
6 x 9 | 424 pp. | 51 b&w photos
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-3947-4
Ebook, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-4179-8
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Studies in the Legal History of the South
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Anne Emanuel
The previously untold life story of a remarkable civil rights champion
This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle
(1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most
of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights
revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he had already led an exceptional
life. He had cofounded a prestigious law firm, earned a Purple Heart in the
battle for Okinawa in World War II, and led Republican Party efforts in the
early 1950s to establish a viable presence in the South. But it was the intersection of Tuttle’s judicial career with the civil rights movement that thrust
him onto history’s stage.
When Tuttle assumed the mantle of chief judge in 1960, six years had
passed since Brown v. Board of Education had been decided but little had
changed for black southerners. In landmark cases relating to voter registration, school desegregation, access to public transportation, and other
basic civil liberties, Tuttle’s determination to render justice and his swift,
decisive rulings neutralized the delaying tactics of diehard segregationists—
including voter registrars, school board members, and governors—who were
determined to preserve Jim Crow laws throughout the South.
Author Anne Emanuel maintains that without the support of the federal
courts of the Fifth Circuit, the promise of Brown might have gone unrealized. Moreover, without the leadership of Elbert Tuttle and the moral
authority he commanded, the courts of the Fifth Circuit might not have
met the challenge.
Also in the series
Double Character
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern
Courtroom
“The role of federal judges in the civil rights movement has been
studied thoroughly, but Emanuel has a larger story to tell about
the man who served as chief judge of the largest appeals court in
the South during the heyday of court-ordered racial desegregation.
Emanuel knew the judge, has mined his working papers, and writes
with a sure feel for this modest man who cast such a large shadow
over his adopted South.”
—Dennis J. Hutchinson, William Rainey Harper Professor in the College
and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Ariela J. Gross
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2860-7
Fathers of Conscience
Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South
Bernie D. Jones
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3251-2
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2980-2
“Emanuel admirably describes the career—in war, politics, and law—
of a judge who was at the center of enforcing civil rights law in the
1960s. This biography tells us much about how one person’s life can
shape the law.”
—Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard
Law School
Anne Emanuel is a professor of law at Georgia State University. She clerked for Judge
Jerome Walker
Tuttle during his tenure on the Fifth Circuit. In addition, Emanuel has practiced in
a private law firm and clerked for Chief Justice Harold Hill of the Georgia Supreme
Court.
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Announcing a new series
The University of Georgia Press announces UnCivil Wars, a series dedicated to new ways of seeing and telling the American Civil War. Building
on the press’s strengths in the fields of gender, environment, and culture,
authors in the series are encouraged to focus on unconventional social types
and to think deeply about narrative strategy, telling their stories through
memory, reverse chronology, snapshots and glimpses, multiple perspectives,
or microhistory.
Series advisory board
The series takes its spirit from Walt Whitman’s insistence that the war was
not singular but plural—a “many-threaded drama”—and from Thomas
Mann’s conclusion that “out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight
thing was ever made.”
Edward L. Ayers
University of Richmond
Catherine Clinton
Queen’s University Belfast
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J. Matthew Gallman
University of Florida
Elizabeth Leonard
Colby College
Series Editors
James Marten
Marquette University
Dan Sutherland
University of Arkansas
Elizabeth Varon
University of Virginia
Steve Exum
Scott Nelson
College of William & Mary
Stephen Berry is associate professor of history at
the University of Georgia. He is the author of House
of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided
by War and All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition
in the Civil War South and the editor of Princes of
Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 18481860 (Georgia).
Amy Murrell Taylor is an associate professor of
Mark Schmidt
history at the University at Albany, SUNY. She
is coeditor of Major Problems in the Civil War and
Reconstruction and author of The Divided Family in
Civil War America.
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Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges
Edited by Stephen Berry
Understanding the Civil War by investigating
the characters and events at its margins
October
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“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we
would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that
we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each
contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to
cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind
us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when
certain people and things deserve to be damaged.
Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than
occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who
lost by it—and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost
their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters,
and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are
dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war.
“Saying something truly new about the American Civil War seems
impossible, but here is a book that offers an explosion of new perspectives and insights, often surprising and sometimes disturbing.
Read this book and you will never be able to imagine again whatever
Civil War you imagined before.”
—Edward L. Ayers, winner of the Bancroft Prize for In the Presence of
Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863
“Weirding the War is an eclectic mix of absorbing essays on the
American Civil War. It shatters conventional paradigms, asking new
questions and offering fresh insights into a war that continues to fascinate, even obsess, both academic and popular audiences.”
—Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War:
Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
Contributors
Paul Christopher Anderson
Stephen Berry
Peter S. Carmichael
Joan E. Cashin
Michael DeGruccio
Michael Fellman
Lesley J. Gordon
Anya Jabour
Brian Craig Miller
Barton A. Myers
Steven E. Nash
Megan Kate Nelson
Kenneth W. Noe
Andrew L. Slap
Diane Miller Sommerville
Rodney J. Steward
Daniel E. Sutherland
Amy Murrell Taylor
Emory M. Thomas
LeeAnn Whites
Stephen Berry is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of House of Abraham: Lincoln and
the Todds, a Family Divided by War and All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South and the editor of Princes of
Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (Georgia).
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Southern Prohibition
October
6 x 9 | 224 pp.
6 maps | 7 tables
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Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida,
1821–1920
Lee L. Willis
A case study of prohibition across a classic southern frontier
Southern Prohibition examines political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movements in Middle Florida. Scholars have
long held that liquor reform was largely a northern and mid-Atlantic phenomenon before the Civil War. Lee L. Willis takes a close look at the Florida
plantation belt to reveal that the campaign against alcohol had a dramatic
impact on public life in this portion of the South as early as the 1840s.
Race, class, and gender mores shaped and were shaped by the temperance movement. White racial fears inspired prohibition for slaves and free
blacks. Stringent licensing shut down grog shops that were the haunts of
common and poor whites, which accelerated gentrification and stratified
public drinking along class lines. Restricting blacks’ access to alcohol was a
theme that ran through temperance and prohibition campaigns in Florida,
but more affluent African Americans also supported prohibition, indicating that the issue was not driven solely by white desires for social control.
Women in the plantation belt played a marginal role in comparison to
other locales and were denied greater political influence as a result.
Beyond alcohol, Willis also takes a broader look at psychoactive substances
to show the veritable pharmacopeia available to Floridians in the nineteenth century. Unlike the campaign against alcohol, however, the tightening regulations on narcotics and cocaine in the early twentieth century
elicited little public discussion or concern—a quiet beginning to the state’s
war on drugs.
Also of interest
Flashes of a Southern Spirit
Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South
Charles Reagan Wilson
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Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3829-3
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“A sophisticated and nuanced examination of an important yet understudied region of the country. Willis tells an interesting story that
will contribute substantially to the growing literature on prohibition’s
relationship to religion, gender, and reform in southern history.”
—James M. Denham, professor of history and director of the Lawton
M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College
Entrepreneurs in the
Southern Upcountry
Commercial Culture in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, 1845-1880
Bruce W. Eelman
Tom Charlesworth
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“Using highly unusual sources as well as very clever detective work,
Willis has explored the history of alcohol in Middle Florida from early
white settlement in the 1820s to Prohibition in 1917. Shrewdly conceived and skillfully executed, this informative and entertaining book
is finely tuned local history at its best.”
—W. J. Rorabaugh, author of The Alcoholic Republic: An American
Tradition
Lee L. Willis is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens
Point. He is the coauthor of At the Water’s Edge: A Pictorial and Narrative History of
Apalachicola and Franklin County.
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Missing Links
January
6 x 9 | 200 pp.
8 b&w photos | 1 map
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Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-4181-1
The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner,
Primate Collector
Jeremy Rich
A biography that exposes the transatlantic connections
among evolutionary science, colonial rule,
and the turn-of-the-century ape trade
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Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848–1920) to examine
the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the
Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African
wildlife, race, and evolution.
Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia.
Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most
prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of primates. Garner brought
some of the first live primates to America, launching a traveling demonstration in which he claimed to communicate with a chimpanzee named
Susie. He was often mocked by the increasingly professionalized scientific
community, who were wary of his colorful escapades, such as his ill-fated
plan to make a New York City socialite the queen of southern Gabon, and
his efforts to convince Thomas Edison to finance him in Africa.
Yet Garner did influence evolutionary debates, and as with many of his era,
race dominated his thinking. Garner’s arguments—for example, that chimpanzees were more loving than Africans, or that colonialism constituted
a threat to the separation of the races—offer a fascinating perspective on
the thinking and attitudes of his times. Missing Links explores the impact
of colonialism on Africans, the complicated politics of buying and selling
primates, and the popularization of biological racism.
Also in the series
We Are the Revolutionists
“When he died in 1920, the Virginia-born Richard Garner was famous
for his evolution-inspired studies of African apes, monkeys, and peoples. In this important and impressive book, Jeremy Rich uses Garner’s
story to throw new light on his times—and on ours. The individual
chapters are fascinating, and collectively they make a compelling case
for Garner as an instructive figure for cultural historians.”
—Gregory Radick, author of The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate
about Animal Language
German-Speaking Immigrants and American
Abolitionists after 1848
Mischa Honeck
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Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3960-3
The American Dreams of
John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
Kari J. Winter
“A stunning story about Richard Lynch Garner and the gorillas he
simultaneously befriended, loved, displayed, and exploited. Rich’s
book is an exciting and significant contribution to scholarship at the
intersection of African studies, the history of science, and the interdisciplinary field of animal studies.”
—Georgina Montgomery, Michigan State University
Jeremy Rich is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.
He is the coeditor of Navigating African Maritime History and author of A Workman Is
Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary.
Jennifer Granger
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Sounds American
September
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National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower
Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860
Ann Ostendorf
How a polyglot region complicated the quest for an American music
Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between
nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled
with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.
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During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American
music culture emerged as a way to bind together the varied, changing, and
uncertain components of the new nation. This played out with particular
intensity in the lower Mississippi River valley, and New Orleans especially.
Ann Ostendorf argues that this region, often considered an exception to
the nation—with its distance from the center of power, its non-British
colonial past, and its varied population—actually shared characteristics of
many other places eventually incorporated into the country, thus making it
a useful case study for the creation of American culture.
Ostendorf conjures the territory’s phenomenally diverse “music ways”
including grand operas and balls, performances by church choirs and
militia bands, and itinerant violin instructors. Music was often associated
with “foreigners,” in particular Germans, French, Irish, and Africans. For
these outsiders, music helped preserve collective identity. But for critics
concerned with developing a national culture, this multitude of influences
presented a dilemma that led to an obsessive categorization of music with
racial, ethnic, or national markers. Ultimately, the shared experience of categorizing difference and consuming this music became a unifying national
phenomenon. Experiencing the unknown became a shared part of the
American experience.
“A much needed and deeply researched book. Ostendorf’s valuable
study adds much to our understanding of the role music played in
regional and national formation.”
—Jeffrey H. Richards, author of Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the
American New Republic
Also in the series
On Slavery’s Border
Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding
Households, 1815–1865
Diane Mutti Burke
“Sounds American is an excellent study of the role of music in the
formation of national identity on the southern borderlands in the
early nineteenth century. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and
predict that it will interest a wide range of cultural historians of early
America.”—Andrew McMichael, author of Atlantic Loyalties: Americans
in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810
Richard Lambert
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Ann Ostendorf is an assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University.
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The Year of the Lash
November
6 x 9 | 208 pp.
2 b&w photos | 3 maps
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4068-5
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3575-9
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Free People of Color in Cuba and the
Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez
Race, freedom, politics, and resistance
in the wake of the Conspiracy of La Escalera
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Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave
of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in
the next two decades.
At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana executed ten accused
ringleaders of the Conspiracy of La Escalera, an alleged plot to abolish
slavery and colonial rule in Cuba. The condemned men represented prominent members of Cuba’s free community of African descent, including the
acclaimed poet Plácido (Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés). In an effort
to foster a white majority and curtail black rebellion, Spanish colonial
authorities also banished, imprisoned, and exiled hundreds of free blacks,
dismantled the militia of color, and accelerated white immigration projects.
Scholars have debated the existence of the Conspiracy of La Escalera for
over a century, yet little is known about how those targeted by the violence
responded. Drawing on archival material from Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and
the United States, Reid-Vazquez provides a critical window into understanding how free people of color challenged colonial policies of terror and
pursued justice on their own terms using formal and extralegal methods.
Whether rooted in Cuba or cast into the Atlantic World, free men and
women of African descent stretched and broke colonial expectations of
their codes of conduct locally and in exile. Their actions underscored how
black agency, albeit fragmented, worked to destabilize repression’s impact.
Also of interest
Christian Ritual and the Creation of
British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
“Reid-Vazquez’s book signals a major accomplishment in deepening
our knowledge of free-colored life in the Americas during the first
half of the nineteenth century. Using Cuba as a focal point, and by
revealing new aspects of black agency in the aftermath of the repressive Escalera Conspiracy, Reid-Vazquez opens tantalizing windows into
black politics, military service, gender relations, imperial identity,
Atlantic connections, and social formation processes in the years
prior to independence. A ‘must-read’ for all interested in the Black
Atlantic, The Year of the Lash demonstrates the need to take seriously
the racial crucible of Latin America’s early national period, and its
repercussions on the socio-political dynamics of lingering colonies like
Cuba. Indeed, there is much to learn from this example for students
of Cuba, Latin America, and the African Diaspora writ large.”
—Ben Vinson III, Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American
History, Johns Hopkins University
Nicholas M. Beasley
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Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Atlantic Loyalties
Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810
Andrew McMichael
Michele Reid-Vazquez is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University.
Courtesy of the author
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Southern Civil Religions
December
6 x 9 | 248 pp.
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Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Arthur Remillard
Revealing the many voices of southern civil religion
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners
a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of
the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to
explain how this powerful memory gave the white South a unique sense of
national meaning, purpose, and destiny. The civil religious perspectives of
everyone else, meanwhile, have gone unnoticed.
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Arthur Remillard fills this void by investigating the civil religious discourses of a wide array of people and groups—blacks and whites, men and
women, northerners and southerners, Democrats and Republicans, as well
as Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Focusing on the Wiregrass Gulf South
region—an area covering north Florida, southwest Georgia, and southeast
Alabama—Remillard argues that the Lost Cause was but one civil religious
topic among many. Even within the white majority, civil religious language
influenced a range of issues, such as progress, race, gender, and religious
tolerance. Moreover, minority groups developed sacred values and beliefs
that competed for space in the civil religious landscape.
Southern Civil Religions uses a rich collection of primary sources to bring
a new perspective to an established discussion. Remillard explains that
civil religion is not the property of any single faction but instead is a sea of
competing voices, each defining, idealizing, and defending an ideal vision of
society. This decentered application of civil religion bears significance not
only on the telling of the South’s past but on America’s history as well.
Also in the series
“An exciting, revisionist study that is clear in argument. Anyone
interested in how a variety of people in the South have understood
its spiritual and moral meanings will like this book.”
—Charles Reagan Wilson, author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of
the Lost Cause, 1865–1920
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Riché Richardson
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2890-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3667-1
Grounded Globalism
“By focusing on a diverse set of characters in a relatively understudied
subregion, peering through the lens of people talking about a ‘good
society,’ and using a number of vivid examples, this book makes a
significant contribution to post–Civil War southern history.”
—Paul Harvey, author of Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the
Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
James L. Peacock
James F. Gerraughty
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3472-1
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4156-9
Arthur Remillard is an assistant professor of religious studies at Saint Francis University.
He has served as the managing editor and book review editor for the Journal of Southern
Religion since 2002.
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Righteous Violence
December
6 x 9 | 264 pp.
8 b&w photos
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Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance
Larry J. Reynolds
Positioning righteous violence
at the center of the American Renaissance
Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery
and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenthcentury American writers—Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the
Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful
revolts, insurrections, riots, and strikes that resulted in bloodshed and
death. Rather than position these writers for or against the struggle for
liberty, Larry J. Reynolds examines the profoundly contingent and morally
complex perspectives of each author. Tracing the shifting and troubled
moral arguments in their work, Reynolds shows that these writers, though
committed to peace and civil order, at times succumbed to bloodlust, even
while they expressed ambivalence about the very violence they approved.
For many of these authors, the figure of John Brown loomed large as an
influence and a challenge. Reynolds examines key works such as Fuller’s
European dispatches, Emerson’s political lectures, Douglass’s novella The
Heroic Slave, Thoreau’s Walden, Alcott’s Moods, Hawthorne’s late unfinished
romances, and Melville’s Billy Budd.
In addition to demonstrating the centrality of righteous violence to the
American Renaissance, this study deepens and complicates our understanding of political violence beyond the dichotomies of revolution and murder,
liberty and oppression, good and evil.
Also of interest
The Transcendentalists
Barbara L. Packer
“Building on his seminal European Revolutions and the American
Literary Renaissance, Reynolds shows how writers ranging from
Emerson to Louisa May Alcott wrestled with the moral complexities
of responding to and representing political violence. Among the great
virtues of this excellent book is its close attention to overlapping
national, transatlantic, and hemispheric contexts.”
—Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in
Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
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Hawthorne and Melville
Writing a Relationship
Jana L. Argersinger and
Leland S. Person, eds.
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“Makes a compelling case for basic tensions between pacifism and
violence . . . Reynolds cogently shows how these writers ambivalently
respond to the turmoil about slavery and the advent of the Civil War,
as well as to the fascinating spectre of European revolutions.”
—David Leverenz, author of Manhood and the American Renaissance
Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is author or editor of
eight previous books including Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s Damned
Politics and European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.
Susan Egenolf
Larry J. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin
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Blue Ridge Commons
February
6 x 9 | 400 pp.
12 b&w photos
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Environmental Activism and Forest History
in Western North Carolina
Kathryn Newfont
Three hundred years of Appalachian environmental history
In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in
western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts,
even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont
examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three
hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism—a
cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely
unexplored.
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Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and
Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain
residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound,
historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people’s sense
of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they
viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that
removed large tracts from use were perceived as “enclosure” and resisted.
These battles often pitted industrialists against environmentalists. Newfont
argues that the side that most effectively hitched its cause to local residents’
commons culture usually won. A few perceptive activists realized that the
same cultural ground that yielded wilderness opposition could also produce
ambitious protection efforts, such as Blue Ridge residents’ opposition to
petroleum exploration and clearcut timber harvesting.
Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations
with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of
people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms.
Also in the series
My Work Is That of Conservation
“The Blue Ridge forests, and the human communities they have sustained, have found in Newfont an historian who deftly captures their
cultural significance and environmental import. Blue Ridge Commons
provides a close reading of local aspirations and needs and suggests
how what has happened in these particular mountains also has been
manifest across the nation and globe. It is an inspired contribution to
the writing of American environmental history.”
—Char Miller, author of Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture
An Environmental Biography of George
Washington Carver
Mark D. Hersey
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3870-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3088-4
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3965-8
The Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland
Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Christine Keiner
Joshua Doby
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3718-0
“Breaks new ground in Appalachian history and in our broader understanding of the politics of environmental movements. Newfont’s central
premise, the idea of commons environmentalism, is timely both for
historians and for environmental activists, and her book will be recognized down the road, I believe, as a seminal publication that helped
to change the way we understand Appalachian culture and its complex
relationship to the land.”
—Ronald D. Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
Kathryn Newfont is an associate professor of history and faculty chair for the Ramsey
Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill College.
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Conserving Southern Longleaf
November
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
12 b&w photos | 1 map
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Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3466-0
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-4129-3
Herbert Stoddard and the
Rise of Ecological Land Management
Albert G. Way
An American conservation story set in the southern coastal plain
The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of
the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf
pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of
unparalleled plant life. At first glance, the longleaf woodlands at plantations
like Greenwood, outside Thomasville, Georgia, seem undisturbed by market economics and human activity, but Albert G. Way contends that this
environment was socially produced and that its story adds nuance to the
broader narrative of American conservation.
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The Red Hills woodlands were thought of primarily as a healthful refuge
for northern industrialists in the early twentieth century. When notable
wildlife biologist Herbert Stoddard arrived in 1924, he began to recognize
the area’s ecological value. Stoddard was with the federal government, but
he drew on local knowledge to craft his land management practices, to the
point where a distinctly southern, agrarian form of ecological conservation
emerged. This set of practices was in many respects progressive, particularly
in its approach to fire management and species diversity, and much of it
remains in effect today.
Using Stoddard as a window into this unique conservation landscape,
Conserving Southern Longleaf positions the Red Hills as a valuable center
for research into and understanding of wildlife biology, fire ecology, and
the environmental appreciation of a region once dubbed simply the “pine
barrens.”
Also of interest
“A fascinating and enlightening environmental history of a critically
endangered ecosystem, its modest champion, and the incendiary ideas
that formed the basis of management for species diversity.”
—Frederick R. Davis, author of The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie
Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology
The Art of Managing Longleaf
A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach
Leon Neel with Paul S. Sutter and
Albert G. Way
Cloth, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-3047-1
Ebook, $39.95s | 978-0-8203-4075-3
Environmental History and
the American South
“Tells the gripping story of a remarkable place—the Red Hills of Florida
and Georgia—and the improbable naturalist—Herbert Stoddard—who
solved the mystery surrounding the survival of the ancient longleaf
pines that once dominated not only that particular region but also
much of the southeastern coastal plains. Using vivid, engaging prose,
Way shows how Stoddard’s appreciation for local knowledge and practices led him to fundamentally challenge the forestry establishment of
his day, help lay the foundations for modern wildlife management, and
ultimately point the way to the development of conservation biology.”
—Mark V. Barrow Jr., author of Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction
from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
A Reader
Paul S. Sutter and
Christopher J. Manganiello, eds.
Albert G. Way is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He
is coauthor of The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel
Approach (Georgia).
Maury Gortemiller
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3322-9
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3280-2
Environmetal History and the American South
E n v i ro n m e n ta l H i s tory
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September
6 x 9 | 312 pp.
25 b&w photos | 3 maps
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Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4138-5
Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4182-8
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Edited by John C. Inscoe
A concise, up-to-date introduction and guide to the Civil War in
Georgia
A Project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia;
Published in Association with the
Georgia Humanities Council and the
University System of Georgia/GALILEO
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of
ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia
(www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of
Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship
in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and
analyzed.
The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course
of the war in 1864, in terms both of the upheaval and destruction inflicted
on the state and the life span of the Confederacy. While the dramatic
events of 1864 are fully documented, this companion gives equal coverage
to the many other aspects of the war—naval encounters and guerrilla warfare, prisons and hospitals, factories and plantations, politics and policies—
all of which provided critical support to the Confederacy’s war effort. The
book also explores home-front conditions in depth, with an emphasis on
emancipation, dissent, Unionism, and the experience and activity of African
Americans and women.
Historians today are far more conscious of how memory—as public commemoration, individual reminiscence, historic preservation, and literary and
cinematic depictions—has shaped the war’s multiple meanings. Nowhere
is this legacy more varied or more pronounced than in Georgia, and a substantial part of this companion explores the many ways in which Georgians
have interpreted the war experience for themselves and others over the
past 150 years. At the outset of the sesquicentennial these new historical
perspectives allow us to appreciate the Civil War as a complex and multifaceted experience for Georgians and for all southerners.
Also of interest
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Companion to Georgia Literature
An enhanced ebook edition of the Civil War in Georgia provides live links
to additional, related articles on the New Georgia Encyclopedia website.
Hugh Ruppersburg
and John C. Inscoe, eds.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2876-8
Explore Georgia online
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
John C. Inscoe is Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at the University of Georgia. His nine books
include Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography and Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on
Unionists in the Civil War South (both Georgia). Inscoe is the editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and secretary-treasurer of
the Southern Historical Association.
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Fall & Winter 2011
The Artful Table
Alter Ego
Foreword by Steven High
Essays by Linda Johnson Dougherty and Holly
Koons McCullough
Menus and Masterpieces from Telfair Museums
October
8.5 x 9.75 | 160 pp.
80 color illus. and photos
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-933075-16-0
A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea
Available now
12 x 10 | 128 pp.
47 color and 2 b&w illus.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-933075-15-3
All the pleasures of an artful table come together in this
unique collection of masterpiece-inspired menus for every
season, illustrated throughout with selections from Telfair
Museums permanent collection of fine and decorative art.
Historical facts on the collection combined with mouthwatering recipes will satisfy the art historian as well as the
gourmet.
Savannah’s talented chefs, strolling through the Telfair
Museums’ galleries, have conjured up occasions suggested
by the works and created menus to tantalize the senses.
In addition to menus and masterpieces, The Artful Table
contains bits of history from the museums’ archives to satisfy
the art historian as well as the gourmet. Delicately chased
champagne glasses from the Owens family and a gleaming
silver tea service belonging to the Telfair family are discussed
alongside mouthwatering recipes for special occasions.
Published by the North Carolina Museum of Art and Telfair Museums
Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea documents the artist’s first retrospective exhibition, presenting
nearly fifty compelling works of art representing the bold
and varied scope of Goicolea’s career to date. Born in 1971
in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Goicolea is a first-generation
Cuban American artist now working in Brooklyn, New York.
Employing a variety of media, Goicolea explores themes
ranging from personal history and identity, to alienation and
displacement, to environmental destruction and globalization.
His diverse oeuvre encompasses black-and-white and color
photography, sculpture and video installations, and multilayered drawings and paintings on Mylar. Goicolea’s ability to
move with ease between traditional media, such as painting
and drawing, to video and digital photography, has put him
at the forefront of contemporary art.
Exhibition Itinerary
North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, North Carolina
April 17–July 24, 2011
Telfair Museums: Jepson Center
Savannah, Georgia
September 2, 2011–January 8, 2012
21c Museum
Louisville, Kentucky
January 27–July 15, 2012
F i n e Art
F i n e Art
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Damn Good Dogs!
The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia’s
Bulldog Mascots
Sonny Seiler and Kent Hannon
A sports classic, updated to include new
material on Uga VI, Uga VII, Uga VIII, and Russ
The name Uga is synonymous with the Georgia Bulldogs, a perennial
powerhouse among the top college football teams in the country. These
English bulldogs are so revered that when they die, they are buried in a
mausoleum at Sanford Stadium. But Uga is also a family pet, and Damn
Good Dogs! gives readers a rare glimpse into the personal history of these
nationally acclaimed mascots.
Filled with colorful anecdotes—such as Uga V’s famous lunge at an Auburn
player, his appearance in several Hollywood films, and Sports Illustrated’s
decision to put him on the cover of its 1997 college sports issue—Damn
Good Dogs! provides the backstory to more than fifty years of collegiate
sports history.
Georgia assistant coach Jon Fabris and Sonny Seiler pose
with three No.1s: David Pollack, who swept all the top
defensive awards (Hendricks, Lombardi, Bednarik, Lott)
in 2003–4; David Greene, who set what in 2004 was an
NCAA record for the most career victories by a quarterback;
and Uga VI, the nation’s perennial No. 1 mascot.
Wherever Georgia plays football, its famous mascot is there. At home games
he stays cool in an air-conditioned doghouse or sits perched atop a bag of ice.
When Herschel Walker won the Heisman Trophy in 1982, Uga IV became
the only four-legged attendee at the Heisman banquet. And that—believe it
or not—is just a small part of the history of the Georgia mascots.
Lavishly illustrated with more than five hundred photos and images of
memorabilia from the Seilers’ private collection, this edition features more
than eighty new pages of material on Uga VI, Uga VII, Uga VIII, and Russ,
the super sub—including an Uga VIII photo album that is sure to be a fan
favorite.
“Our mascot represents everything we want our players to be—proud,
loyal, tenacious, fierce, relentless, and a great representative of the
university. This book captures all of these attributes.”
—Mark Richt, head football coach at the University of Georgia
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Regional Trade
September
10 x 10 | 280 pp.
Approx 525 b&w and color photos
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-4088-3
Publication of this book was made possible, in
part, by the President’s Venture Fund through
generous gifts of the University of Georgia
Partners.
A portion of the proceeds from sales of this
book benefits the University of Georgia College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Uga I waited patiently for the start of his retirement ceremony on October 22, 1966, and
then—just as the P.A. announcer told the crowd that this would be his last game—the patriarch
of the mascot line sat down on the field, as if he knew it was finally time to rest.
“There are certain things in sports that need no explanation . . . Uga’s
one of them. He’s an icon.”
—Greg McGarity, athletic director at the University of Georgia
“If I ever got in trouble down South, first thing I’d do is call Sonny
Seiler. If I ever got bored, I’d ask Sonny to pull up a chair. Pick up
Damn Good Dogs! and you’ll see what I mean. It’s a damn good read!”
—John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Also of interest
A Pictorial History of
the University of Georgia
F. N. Boney
Foreword by Michael Adams
Cloth, $34.95t | 978-0-8203-2198-1
We Shall Not Be Moved
The Desegregation of the University of Georgia
Robert A. Pratt
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-2780-8
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-2632-0
Sharron Hannon
Sonny Seiler (right) is an attorney in Savannah. He is the owner of the English bulldogs who have served as the University of Georgia’s mascot since 1956. He was the
victorious attorney in the murder trial made famous in the best-selling book Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil. He later appeared with Uga V in Clint Eastwood’s film
version of that book. Kent Hannon (left) is editor of Terry Magazine at UGA’s Terry
College of Business. He has been a staff writer at Sports Illustrated, a bureau chief for the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and editor of Georgia Magazine.
S ports
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A Mess of Greens
September
6 x 9 | 248 pp.
5 b&w photos
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4037-1
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3471-4
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-4187-3
Southern Gender and Southern Food
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
How women used food to negotiate their changing southern and
American identities
Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using perspectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies,
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women’s choices about
food tell us about race, class, gender, and social power.
Shaken by the legacies of Reconstruction and the turmoil of the Jim Crow
era, different races and classes came together in the kitchen, often as
servants and mistresses but also as people with shared tastes and traditions.
Generally focused on elite whites or poor blacks, southern foodways are
often portrayed as stable and unchanging—even as an untroubled source of
nostalgia. A Mess of Greens offers a different perspective, taking into account
industrialization, environmental degradation, and women’s increased role in
the work force, all of which caused massive economic and social changes.
Engelhardt reveals a broad middle of southerners that included poor
whites, farm families, and middle- and working-class African Americans,
for whom the stakes of what counted as southern food were very high.
Five “moments” in the story of southern food—moonshine, biscuits versus
cornbread, girls’ tomato clubs, pellagra as depicted in mill literature, and
cookbooks as means of communication—have been chosen to illuminate
the connectedness of food, gender, and place. Incorporating community
cookbooks, letters, diaries, and other archival materials, A Mess of Greens
shows that choosing to serve cold biscuits instead of hot cornbread could
affect a family’s reputation for being hygienic, moral, educated, and even
godly.
Also of interest
Savage Barbecue
Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s
First Food
Andrew Warnes
Paper, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3109-6
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2896-6
Ebook, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-4018-0
“A Mess of Greens is a landmark text for the study of southern foodways. Engelhardt adds immeasurably to the canon of food studies
by bringing the best practices of the discipline of American studies
informed by the analysis of feminist studies.”
—Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of
the Jewish South
The Southern Foodways Alliance
Community Cookbook
Sara Roahen and John T. Edge, eds.
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3275-8
University of Georgia Press Friends Fund
“Elizabeth Engelhardt brings fresh perspective and insightful arguments to the emergent foodways field. Her work is a model of interdisciplinary accomplishment, drawing on oral histories, community
cookbooks, club meeting minutes, and traditional texts alike.”
—John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance
Marsha Miller
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt is an associate professor in the Department of American
Studies and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
She is author or editor of three previous books, most recently Republic of Barbecue: Stories
Beyond the Brisket.
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Reconstructing
the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
January
6 x 9 | 248 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4066-1
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3884-2
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-4188-0
Melanie Benson Taylor
Exploring intersections of region and tribe
in contemporary Native American literature of the South
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/TNSS
In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the
diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S.
South—literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal
and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing
Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S.
South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than
mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by
separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments
when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to
be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share
preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation,
purity, and violence.
Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal
and colonial devastation, what remains—for Native and non-Native southerners—to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian “lost cause”?
Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent
way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And
in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism
emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the
Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.
“Many scholars in ethnic studies generally, and Native American
Studies in particular, have been mired in some fairly old debates over
nationalism and cosmopolitanism, sovereignty and globalization. Taylor
ever so gracefully takes the most recent and nuanced work on these
issues, acknowledges the stakes therein, and shows us how we can
explore productive new affiliations.”
—Siobhan Senier, associate professor of English at the University of
New Hampshire
Also in the series
American Cinema and the
Southern Imaginary
Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee, eds.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3710-4
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3380-9
Ebook, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3724-1
Disturbing Calculations
The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial
Southern Literature, 1912–2002
Melanie R. Benson
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3112-6
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2972-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3672-5
“In the newly emerging field of southeastern Indian literary studies,
Reconstructing the Native South does a wonderful job of laying out
important groundwork, contributing significant original insights, and
raising some difficult questions to stimulate further exchange and
debate.”—Ellen Arnold, East Carolina University
Alan C. Taylor
Melanie Benson Taylor is an assistant professor of Native American studies at
Dartmouth College. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of
Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002 (Georgia).
L i t e r a ry S t ud i e s / n at i v e a m e r i c a n s t ud i e s
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Thomas Pynchon and the
Dark Passages of History
January
6 x 9 | 224 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4063-0
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Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3709-8
David Cowart
The work of an American master assessed fifty years after publication
of his first novel, V.
Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that
anticipate—with humor, insight, and cogency—much that has emerged in
the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart,
Pynchon’s most profound teachings are about history—history as myth, as
rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as
seedbed of national and literary identities.
In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized
historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon’s
entire body of work, Cowart offers an engaging, metahistorical reading of
V.; an exhaustive analysis of the influence of German culture in Pynchon’s
early work, with particular emphasis on Gravity’s Rainbow; and a critical
spectroscopy of those dark stars, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He
defends the California fictions The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent
Vice as roman fleuve chronicling the decade in which the American tapestry
began to unravel. Cowart ends his study by considering Pynchon’s place in
literary history.
Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of
historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling—not to mention
the relations of both story and history to myth. Thomas Pynchon and the
Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history
as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of
Pynchon’s historical vision.
Back in print
Literary Symbiosis
The Reconfigured Text in
Twentieth-Century Writing
David Cowart
“Soon it will be fifty years since the debut of Pynchon’s award-winning
first novel V. During those decades this famous writer has succeeded
doggedly and amazingly in the task of secreting himself and his private
life from the public eye and has published six more novels, a collection of short fiction, and various bits and blurbs of prose. With that
anniversary Pynchon will turn seventy-six. The time is nigh, then, for
critics to reckon with the body of his work, as well as its place in the
history of American literature and of the novel. Cowart is certainly the
one to do that work.”
—Steven Weisenburger, author of A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4122-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4208-5
Available January 2012
Michael Brown
David Cowart is Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South
Carolina. He has taught Pynchon for over thirty years and is the author of numerous
books including Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America, Thomas
Pynchon: The Art of Allusion, and Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language (Georgia).
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The Prestige of Violence
American Fiction, 1962–2007
Sally Bachner
September
6 x 9 | 184 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3910-8
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3889-7
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-4135-4
Rethinking representations of violence in postwar American fiction
In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s,
American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violence at the heart of its mission and then insisting that this violence could
not be represented.
Bachner demonstrates how many of the most influential novels of this
period are united by the dramatic opposition they draw between a debased
and untrustworthy conventional language, on the one hand, and a violence
that appears to be prelinguistic and unquestionable, on the other. Genocide,
terrorism, war, torture, slavery, rape, and murder are major themes, yet the
writers insist that such events are unspeakable. Bachner takes issue with the
claim made within trauma studies that history is the site of violent trauma
inaccessible to ordinary representation. Instead, she argues, both trauma
studies and the fiction to which it responds institutionalize an inability to
address violence.
“The Prestige of Violence is poised to become a major study of
post–World War II U.S. fiction. This is a remarkable account of how
prominent fiction writers’ formal engagement with violence provides
the terms by which otherwise very disparate works of fiction come in
this period to be considered serious literature.”
—Andrew Hoberek, author of The Twilight of the Middle Class:
Post–World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work
“Provides an in-depth and compelling examination of a crucial yet
underanalyzed trend in American literature from the second half of
the twentieth century. Combining meticulous close readings of the literature with shrewd analyses of the historical and theoretical happenings that undergirded its practice, Bachner reveals how the so-called
unrepresentability of violence in literary language counterintuitively
only elevated its prestige as a subject for literary representation.”
—Abigail Cheever, author of Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in
Post–World War II America
Also of interest
Neo–Segregation Narratives
Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature
Brian Norman
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3597-1
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3596-4
Ebook, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3735-7
Wilderness into Civilized Shapes
Reading the Postcolonial Environment
Laura Wright
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3568-1
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3396-0
Izzy Greenberg
Examining such works as Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Thomas Pynchon’s
The Crying of Lot 49, Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night, Margaret
Atwood’s Surfacing, and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, Bachner
locates the postwar prestige of violence in the disjunction between the
privileged security of wealthier Americans and the violence perpetrated by
the United States abroad. The literary investment in unspeakable and often
immaterial violence emerges in Bachner’s readings as a complex and ideologically varied literary solution to the political geography of violence in our time.
Sally Bachner is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University.
Literary Studies / American Studi e s
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6 x 9 | 640 pp.
27 b&w illus.
Cloth, $89.95y | 978-0-8203-2165-3
Ebook, $89.95y | 978-0-8203-4128-6
The Works of Tobias Smollett
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The Adventures of
Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett
Edited by James G. Basker, Nicole Seary, and Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Alexander Pettit, general editor; text edited by O M Brack Jr.
This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’s first novel,
widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The
Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the
chief rival to Henry Fielding’s comic novel Tom Jones.
Surging with verbal, sexual, and martial energy, The Adventures of Roderick
Random opens a window on life, love, and war in the eighteenth century.
The hero battles his way from poverty and neglect to make his mark as a
doctor, writer, fighter, and lover. His adventures take us across the world,
from England and France to the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America.
One of the first truly global novels, it casts light on nearly every aspect of
its time—imperialism, gender relations, slavery, urban life, colonial warfare,
commerce, politics, the professions, high society, and the Hogarthian
underworld.
Complete with illustrations and comprehensive annotations, this is the
first edition to include Smollett’s long-forgotten antiwar pamphlet, An
Account of the Expedition against Carthagene in the West Indies, which was
drawn from his own war experience and on which key sections of the novel
are based. The editors also provide a detailed biographical and historical
introduction, based on the most recent scholarship, mapping the novel’s
enormous impact in its own time and its influence on the history of literature over the centuries since.
Also in the series
The Adventures of
Gil Blas of Santillane
Alain René Le Sage
Translated by Tobias Smollett
O M Brack Jr. and Leslie A. Chilton, eds.
Cloth, $99.95y | 978-0-8203-3572-8
Ebook, $99.95y | 978-0-8203-3732-6
The History and Adventures
of the Renowned Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translated by Tobias Smollett
Martin C. Battestin and
O M Brack Jr., eds.
Cloth, $109.95y | 978-0-8203-2430-2
James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist and Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810.
Nicole Seary is a researcher at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The late Paul-Gabriel Boucé, professor at the
University of Paris, wrote and edited many books, including Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
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To see more winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
visit www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/FOC
New in paperback
Spirit Seizures
Melissa Pritchard
October | 5.5 x 8.5 | 192 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4105-7
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4193-4
“All are set apart, a Diane Arbus–like gallery whose personalities
remain elusive, receding more completely as their deformities are
more cunningly displayed. . . . [Pritchard] is a promising short-story
writer”—New York Times Book Review
Nervous Dancer
Carol Lee Lorenzo
October | 5.5 x 8.5 | 184 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3995-5
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4199-6
“Lorenzo has a sharp and generous vision. . . . Nervous Dancer is a
book full of pleasures for the ear and mind and heart.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Close-Ups
Sandra Thompson
October | 5.5 x 8.5 | 116 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4082-1
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4207-8
“A deft and vivid account of the emotional stages in a woman’s life
. . . All in all, a strong, sometimes devastating but ultimately hopeful
collection by an exciting and gifted writer.”—The Nation
Compression Scars
Kellie Wells
October | 5.5 x 8 | 208 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4046-3
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4209-2
“Sometimes dark, frequently droll, by turns heartbreaking and
humorous, Wells’s phantasmal stories shimmer with a dreamlike
vibrancy that continues to haunt long after the last word has been
read.”—Booklist
A Brief History of Male Nudes
in America
Dianne Nelson
October | 5.5 x 8.5 | 152 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3997-9
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4200-9
“There is talent and insight at work throughout this collection . . .
each tale is marked by a polished, meditative narrative, rich detail
and emotional impact.”—Publishers Weekly
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Winter Sky
New and Selected Poems,
1968–2008
Coleman Barks
January
6 x 9 | 336 pp.
Paper, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4086-9
Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4202-3
A Brown Thrasher Books Original
As the foremost translator of the mystic
poet Rumi, Coleman Barks reaches a
devoted, inspired, and ever-widening
international audience. Yet the foundation for his work as a translator is his
own significant body of work as a poet.
Winter Sky offers a selection from seven
previous books combined with new
poems.
“Barks is a master of the complicated
human poem. Some poets open their
poems to what is Significant. Barks
sets down the remarks that a waitress
said to him one night in a late-night
restaurant. There is a great unfolding
of the world here.”—Robert Bly
Coleman Barks is the bestselling trans-
lator of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of
Rumi, and Rumi: The Book of Love. He
taught creative writing and American
poetry at the University of Georgia
for thirty years and currently lives in
Athens, Georgia.
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Walden by Haiku
Ian Marshall
Winner of the Mildred Kanterman
Memorial Merit Book, Haiku Society
of America
John Oliver Killens
A Life of Black Literary Activism
Keith Gilyard
Honor Book for Nonfiction,
BCALA Literary Awards
January
5.5 x 9 | 272 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4065-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3615-2
November
6 x 9 | 456 pp.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4031-9
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4195-8
In this intriguing literary experiment,
Ian Marshall presents a collection of
nearly three hundred haiku that he
extracted from Walden and documents
the underlying similarities between
Thoreau’s prose and the art of haiku.
This is the first major biography of
Killens, an influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher who was
the founding chair of the Harlem
Writers Guild and mentor to a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard,
Columbia, and elsewhere.
“A highly interesting and innovative
book that will stand out for scholars
of Thoreau and students of haiku
alike. No one else has done anything
quite like it.”
—David Landis Barnhill, translator of
Basho–’s Haiku and Basho–’s Journey
Ian Marshall is professor of English
and environmental studies at Penn State
Altoona. He is the author of numerous books including Peak Experiences:
Walking Meditations on Literature,
Nature, and Need.
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Fall & Winter 2011
“I congratulate Gilyard for bringing
to life, in the pages of this absorbing
book, a figure of genuine importance
who certainly deserves a full-scale
biography.”
—Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph
Ellison: A Biography
Keith Gilyard is Distinguished
Professor of English at Pennsylvania
State University.
literary studies / biography
New in paperback
Suffering Childhood “What Virtue
in Early America
There Is in Fire”
The Civil War
Letters of Joseph
Hopkins Twichell
Violence, Race, and the
Making of the Child Victim
Cultural Memory and the
Lynching of Sam Hose
Anna Mae Duane
Edwin T. Arnold
November
6 x 9 | 228 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4058-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4198-9
January
6 x 9 | 264 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4064-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3616-9
Duane goes back to the nation’s violent
beginnings to examine how the ideal of
childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity,
race, and gender.
Arnold offers the first in-depth examination of the 1899 lynching of Sam
Hose in Newnan, Georgia. Analyzing
newspapers, letters, and speeches,
Arnold traces how different groups
interpreted and co-opted the story for
their own purposes, and he documents
a present day community’s efforts to
remember its painful past.
“A nuanced and sophisticated account
of the early American cultural landscape and the ways children engaged
with cultural anxieties and concerns.
The project offers many useful
insights into early American writing.”
—Caroline F. Levander, author of
Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child,
and National Belonging from Thomas
Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
Anna Mae Duane is an associate pro-
fessor of English at the University of
Connecticut.
A Chaplain’s Story
“A provocative and groundbreaking
study of one of the most important
spectacle lynchings in American history. The only thing more impressive
than Arnold’s scholarship is his courage. This story needed to be told, and
it needed a bold and careful writer to
tell it.”
—Christopher Metress, editor of
The Lynching of Emmett Till: A
Documentary Narrative
Edwin T. Arnold is professor emeritus of
English at Appalachian State University.
He is the author or editor of nine books
on southern literature and culture.
L i t e r a ry s t ud i e s /
cu lt ur a l s t ud i e s
H i s tory / L i t e r a ry S t ud i e s
www.ugapress.org
Edited by Peter Messent and
Steve Courtney
January
6.125 x 9.25 | 352 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4087-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4204-7
This is a collection of Civil War correspondence from the Union Army
chaplain who would later become the
closest friend of Mark Twain.
“An extraordinarily literate collection
that rises far above the usual quality
of such correspondence. The letters
make enjoyable reading in their own
right in addition to being of considerable value for researchers.”
—George C. Rable, author of
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
Peter Messent is professor of modern
American literature at the University
of Nottingham. He is author of Mark
Twain and Male Friendship, which
focuses in part on the relationship
between Twain and Twichell. Steve
Courtney is the author of Joseph Hopkins
Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark
Twain’s Closest Friend (Georgia). A journalist for more than thirty years, he now
works at the Mark Twain House and
Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.
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New in paperback
Brothers of a Vow
Secret Fraternal Orders and
the Transformation of White
Male Culture in Antebellum
Virginia
Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch
November
6 x 9 | 192 pp.
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4047-0
Brothers of a Vow examines secret fraternal organizations in antebellum Virginia
to offer fresh insight into masculinity
and the redefinition of social and political roles of white men in the South. Ami
Pflugrad-Jackisch examines all aspects of
the secret orders, showing how they ultimately established a civic brotherhood
among white men that marginalized the
role of women in the public sphere and
bolstered the respectability of white men
regardless of class status.
“Pflugrad-Jackisch offers a nuanced
and powerful reconsideration of
how class and masculinity were
constructed in the Old South. Her
imaginative exploration of a rich array
of sources brings to light the secret
world of Virginia’s fraternal societies.”
—Lorri Glover, author of Southern
Sons: Becoming Men in the New
Nation
Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch is an assistant
Contentious
Liberties
Redeeming the
Southern Family
Gale L. Kenny
Scott Stephan
December
6 x 9 | 272 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4045-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4197-2
December
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3980-1
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3641-1
American Abolitionists in
Post-Emancipation Jamaica,
1834–1866
Evangelical Women and
Domestic Devotion in the
Antebellum South
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Gale L. Kenny’s illuminating study of
the Oberlin College mission in Jamaica
examines the differing ideas of freedom
held by white evangelical abolitionists
and freed people in Jamaica and explores
the consequences of their encounter for
both American and Jamaican history.
“Contentious Liberties is nuanced and
intelligible and adds considerably to
the literature on emancipation and
the meaning of freedom. The writing
is sharp and the scholarly content
significant.”
—Trevor Burnard, author of Mastery,
Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas
Thistlewood and His Slaves in the
Anglo-Jamaican World
In the years leading up to the Civil War,
southern evangelical denominations
moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott
Stephan argues that female Baptists,
Methodists, and Presbyterians played a
crucial role in this transformation.
“Stephan has provided an excellent
look into the spiritual responsibility
and ownership of the home assumed
by evangelical women of the antebellum South. . . . Anyone interested in
the spiritual undercurrents of daily
life in the antebellum evangelical
South would benefit greatly from
reading Scott Stephan’s contribution.”
—Journal of the Early Republic
Scott Stephan is an associate professor
Gale L. Kenny is an ACLS New Faculty
Fellow in the Religion Department at
Barnard College.
of history at Ball State University.
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professor of history at the University of
Michigan-Flint.
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Fall & Winter 2011
New in paperback
Sacred Mission,
Worldly Ambition
Black Christian Nationalism in
the Age of Jim Crow
Adele Oltman
January
6.125 x 9.25 | 264 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4126-2
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3661-9
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case
study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition
tells the story of the rise and decline
of Black Christian Nationalism and
advances a bold, revisionist interpretation of black religion at the eve of the
civil rights movement.
“A groundbreaking work . . . a compelling narrative for the concurrent
lives of those African Americans who
did not migrate [north] and who
indeed, within a few short years,
would provide the main force for a
new transformative southern freedom
movement. Every scholar who studies
twentieth-century African American
history and religion needs to read
this book and to weigh Oltman’s
arguments.”
—American Historical Review
Adele Oltman is a historian living in
New York City.
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In Search of
Brightest Africa
Race and the Atlanta
Cotton States
Exposition of 1895
Reimagining the Dark
Continent in American
Culture, 1884–1936
Theda Perdue
Jeannette Eileen Jones
November
6 x 9 | 316 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4029-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4196-5
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to
recovering the emergence of a belief in
“Brightest Africa”—a tradition that runs
through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its “Dark
Continent” counterpart.
“Written in a lively and convincing
style, In Search of Brightest Africa
offers significant new insights derived
from a close reading of primary
materials. It will unquestionably be
a major contribution to the study of
African identity in America.”
—Graham Hodges, author of Root and
Branch: African Americans in New
York and East Jersey, 1613–1863
Jeannette Eileen Jones is an associate
professor of history and ethnic studies at
the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
H i s tory
October
5.5 x 8.5 | 220 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4035-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4201-6
Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D.
Averitt Lecture Series
The Cotton States Exposition of 1895
was a world’s fair in Atlanta held to
stimulate foreign and domestic trade
for a region in an economic depression.
Theda Perdue uses the exposition to
examine the competing agendas of white
supremacist organizers and the peoples
of color who participated.
“Perdue offers amazingly detailed
descriptions of the exhibits presented
at the fair, walking readers through
the sights and sounds of the attractions as fairgoers would have seen
them in 1895, except with the addition of perceptive interpretations
of the cultural significance of the
displays.”
—Journal of American History
Theda Perdue is the Atlanta
Distinguished Professor of Southern
Culture at the University of North
Carolina. Her eight books include The
Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears and
“Mixed Blood” Indians (Georgia).
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New in paperback
Local Matters
Race, Crime, and Justice in
the Nineteenth-Century South
Edited by Christopher Waldrep
and Donald G. Nieman
December
6 x 9 | 264 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4081-4
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4205-4
Studies in the Legal History of the South
Much of the current reassessment of
race, culture, and criminal justice in
the nineteenth-century South has been
based on intensive community studies.
Drawing on previously untapped sources,
the nine original papers collected here
represent some of the best new work on
how racial justice can be shaped by the
particulars of time and place.
“A valuable contribution to the study
of the nineteenth-century South.
. . . [Does] much to demonstrate
the relevance of that history to our
understanding of the larger complexities of the region and of the nation as
a whole.”
—Journal of American History
Christopher Waldrep (see bio for Jury
Discrimination). Donald G. Nieman is
Jury Discrimination
The Supreme Court, Public
Opinion, and a Grassroots
Fight for Racial Equality in
Mississippi
Christopher Waldrep
December
6 x 9 | 344 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4030-2
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4194-1
Studies in the Legal History of the South
How Dabney Marshall and his allies
were able to force the court to overturn
state law and precedent, if only for a
brief period, at the behest of the U.S.
Supreme Court is the subject of Jury
Discrimination, a book that explores
the impact of the Civil War and
Reconstruction on America’s civil rights
history.
“Technically impressive, convincingly
argued, and engagingly written . . .
should be read by lawyers and historians as well as by the broader public.
It is a fascinating, and sometimes
surprising, story.”
—Michael Perman, author of Pursuit
of Unity
The Trial of
Democracy
Black Suffrage and Northern
Republicans, 1860–1910
Xi Wang
January
6 x 9 | 480 pp.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4084-5
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4206-1
Studies in the Legal History of the South
After the Civil War, Republicans
teamed with activist African Americans
to protect black voting rights through
innovative constitutional reforms—a
radical transformation of southern and
national political structures. The Trial of
Democracy is a comprehensive analysis of
both the forces and mechanisms that led
to the implementation of black suffrage
and the ultimate failure to maintain a
stable northern constituency to support
enforcement on a permanent basis.
“The Trial of Democracy covers this
time period like no other work and
provides a better context for discussion of Republican efforts to enfranchise African Americans.”
—Michael Les Benedict, author
of A Compromise of Principle:
Congressional Republicans and
Reconstruction, 1863–1869
a professor of history and dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at Bowling
Green State University. His numerous
books include The Constitution, Law,
and American Life: Critical Aspects of the
Nineteenth-Century Experience (Georgia).
Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and
Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at
San Francisco State University. His
books include Roots of Disorder: Race and
Criminal Justice in the American South,
1817–80, winner of the McLemore Prize.
Xi Wang is a professor of history at
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The University of Georgia Press
Fall & Winter 2011
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Principles and
Compromises: The Spirit and Practice of the
American Constitution.
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Atlanta and Environs, Volume 1
A Chronicle of Its People and Events,
1820s–1870s
Franklin M. Garrett
Paper, $64.95s | 3903-0
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Atlanta and Environs, Volume 2
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Franklin M. Garrett
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Atlanta and Environs, Volume 3
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Harold H. Martin
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Common Birds of Greater Atlanta
Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins
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A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Common Birds of Coastal Georgia
Jim Wilson
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A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Cornbread Nation 5
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Edited by Fred W. Sauceman
General editor, John T. Edge
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Crossroads of Conflict
A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia
Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell
Paper, $22.95t | 3730-2
A publication of the Georgia Civil War Commission
Published in association with the Georgia Department of
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From Mounds to Megachurches
Georgia’s Religious Heritage
David S. Williams
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The Folk Potters and Pottery of
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John A. Burrison
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Philip Juras
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Jessica Treadway
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Charles Joyner
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Danielle Cadena Deulen
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Southern Foodways Alliance Community
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Sarah Roahen and John T. Edge, eds.
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Vanished Gardens
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Sharon White
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Tania June Sammons
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John Casteen
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The VQR Poetry Series
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Kyle Dargan
Fiction & Creative
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A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Natasha Trethewey
The Dance Boots
Linda LeGarde Grover
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Philip Lee Williams
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Sonja Livingston
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David Hurst Thomas
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Carole L. Glickfeld
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Daniel Groves
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Iain Haley Pollock
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William Billiter
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Dave Lucas
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Allen Tullos
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Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
American Dreams of John B. Prentis,
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Kari J. Winter
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Joseph Smith
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Gene Waddell
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Student Movements in the American South,
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Mark D. Hersey
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Diane Mutti Burke
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Eileen Ka-May Cheng
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The Origins of the Scholarly Study of
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James Turner
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Don H. Doyle
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James J. Lorence
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