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Contents
New Books 1
Selected Backlist 20
Series 30
About the Press 31
Contact Information 31
Website and Social Media 31
Digital Editions (E-Books) 31
Ordering Information 32
Sales Information 32
Author Index
Allen, Investment Management in Boston 7
Bracey, Sanchez, and Smethurst, SOSCalling
All Black People 4
Brennessel, The Alewives Tale 11
Cray, Lovewells Fight 9
Cumbler, Cape Cod 10
Grace, Kent State 2
Guthrie, A Kiss from Thermopylae 17
Hemingway and Wallach, Transatlantic Romanticism 18
Kersten and Lucander, For Jobs and Freedom 5
Kinney, Renaissance Reections 19
Laurie, Rebels in Paradise 8
Lennon, Boxcar Politics 13
OGorman, Isaiah Rogers 16
Panciera, Bewildered 12
Ptzer, History Repeating Itself 15
Rohrbach, Thinking Outside the Book 14
Tucher, Happily Sometimes After 1
Vials, Haunted by Hitler 3
Yarrow, Thrift 6
Title Index
The Alewives Tale, Brennessel 11
Bewildered, Panciera 12
Boxcar Politics, Lennon 13
Cape Cod, Cumbler 10
For Jobs and Freedom, Kersten and Lucander 5
Happily Sometimes After, Tucher 1
Haunted by Hitler, Vials 3
History Repeating Itself, Ptzer 15
Investment Management in Boston, Allen 7
Isaiah Rogers, OGorman 16
A Kiss from Thermopylae, Guthrie 17
Kent State, Grace 2
Lovewells Fight, Cray 9
Rebels in Paradise, Laurie 8
Renaissance Reections, Kinney 19
SOSCalling All Black People, Bracey,
Sanchez, and Smethurst 4
Thinking Outside the Book, Rohrbach 14
Thrift, Yarrow 6
Transatlantic Romanticism, Hemingway and Wallach 18
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A gifted writer reconstructs her familys
history from Jamestown through the
twentieth century
Happily Sometimes After
Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations
of an American Family
Andie Tucher
For more than four hundred years, members of
the authors family have been telling stories about
their American lives. They have told of impassioned
elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hair-
breadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists,
changelings, patriots, Indians, res, oods, and how
the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall
married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake.
In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher
considers family stories as another way to look at
history, neither from the top down nor the bottom
up but from the inside out. She explores not just
what happenedeverywhere from Jamestown to
Boonesborough, from the bloody eld at Chickamauga
to the metropolis of the Gilded Agebut also what
the storytellers thought or wished or hoped or feared
happened. She offers insights into what they valued,
what they lost, how they judged their own lives and
found meaning in them. The narrative touches on
sorrow, recompense, love, pain, and the persistent
tension between hope and disappointment in a nation
that by making the pursuit of happiness thinkable also
made unhappiness regrettable.
Based on extensive research in archives, local
history societies, and family-history sources as well as
conversations and correspondence, Happily Sometimes
After offers an intimate and unusual perspective on how
ordinary people used stories to imagine the world they
wished for, and what those stories reveal about their
relationships with the world they actually had.
A highly original and wonderfully written book.
Happily Sometimes After tells the fascinating and
often gruesome stories of the authors many
ancestors, but its larger purpose is to explore the
nature and role of stories in knitting families
together across decades and centuries.
Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary
Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the
First Amendment
ANDIE TUCHER is associate professor of
communications at Columbia Journalism
School. She is author of Froth and Scum: Truth,
Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in Americas
First Mass Medium, winner of the Allan Nevins
Prize of the Society of American Historians.
American History / Literary Journalism
320 pp., 14 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-128-0
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-127-3
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A history of what happened at Kent State
and why, written by one who was there
Kent State
Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties
Thomas M. Grace
On May 4, 1970, National Guard troops opened re on
unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University
in Ohio, killing four students and wounding nine oth-
ers, including the author of this book. The shootings
shocked the American public and triggered a nationwide
wave of campus strikes and protests. To many at the
time, Kent State seemed an unlikely site for the bloodiest
confrontation in a decade of campus unresta sprawl-
ing public university in the American heartland, far from
the coastal epicenters of political and social change.
Yet, as Thomas M. Grace shows, the events of May 4
were not some tragic anomaly but were grounded in
a tradition of student political activism that extended
back to Ohios labor battles of the 1950s. The vast
expansion of the university after World War II brought
in growing numbers of working-class enrollees from
the industrial centers of northeast Ohio, members of
the same demographic cohort that eventually made up
the core of American combat forces in Vietnam. As the
wars rising costs came to be felt acutely in the home
communities of Kents students, tensions mounted
between the growing antiwar movement on campus,
the university administration, and the political conser-
vatives who dominated the surrounding county as well
as the state government.
The deadly shootings at Kent State were thus the cul-
mination of a dialectic of radicalization and repression
that had been building throughout the decade. In the
years that followed, the antiwar movement continued to
strengthen on campus, bolstered by an inux of return-
ing Vietnam veterans. After the war ended, a battle over
the memory and meaning of May 4 ensued. It contin-
ues to the present day.
Tom Grace has written a deep study of one local,
very all-American site of radicalization over the
longue dure from the early 1950s to the mid-
1970s. There is nothing else like it. Its must
reading for anyone concerned with the New Left
and postwar political change.
Van Gosse, author of Rethinking the New Left:
An Interpretative History
A work of genuine scholarly importancethe
most complete account of the Kent State events
to date.
Maurice Isserman, author of If I Had a
Hammer: The Death of the Old Left
and the Birth of the New Left
thomas m. grace is adjunct professor of
history at Erie Community College. A 1972
graduate of Kent State University, he earned a
PhD in history from SUNY Buffalo after many
years as a social worker and union representative.
American History / American Studies
400 pp., 12 illus.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-111-2
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-110-5
February 2015
A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
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A wide-ranging examination of how
Americans have responded to fears about
fascism
Haunted by Hitler
Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against
Fascism in the United States
Christopher Vials
Although fascism is typically associated with Europe,
the threat of fascism in the United States haunted the
imaginations of activists, writers, and artists, spur-
ring them to create a rich, elaborate body of cultural
and political work. Traversing the Popular Front of the
1930s, the struggle against McCarthyism in the 1950s,
the Black Power movement of the 1960s, and the AIDS
activism of the 1980s, Haunted by Hitler highlights the
value of antifascist cultural politics, showing how it
helped to frame the national discourse.
Christopher Vials examines the ways in which
anxieties about fascism in the United States have been
expressed in the public sphere, through American tele-
vision shows, Off-Broadway theater, party news-
papers, bestselling works of history, journalism, popu-
lar sociology, political theory, and other media. He
argues that twentieth-century liberals and leftists were
more deeply unsettled by the problem of fascism than
those at the center or the right and that they tirelessly
and often successfully worked to counter Americas
fascist equivalents.
With insight and grace, Christopher Vials demon-
strates compelling new ways of understanding a
complicated tradition of the Left and U.S. culture.
The steady ow of astute interpretations and
commentary adds up to scholarship of enduring
importance, a treasure trove for the specialist and
general reader alike.
Alan Wald, author of American Night: The
Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
Vialss rehabilitation of the long-standing and abid-
ing American antifascist tradition is a game-changer
for those interested in the f word (fascism) and
for those who want to understand both liberal
and left politics in the American Century.
Doug Rossinow, author of Visions of Progress:
The Left-Liberal Tradition in America
christopher vials is assistant professor
of English at the University of Connecticut and
author of Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular
Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 19351947.
American Studies / American History
304 pp., 7 illus.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-130-3
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-129-7
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A major anthology of readings from the
Black Arts Movement
SOSCalling All Black People
A Black Arts Movement Reader
Edited by John H. Bracey Jr.,
Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst
This volume brings together a broad range of key writ-
ings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and
1970s, among the most signicant cultural movements
in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the
Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in
the form of artists circles, writers workshops, drama
groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, book-
stores, and cultural centers and had a presence in prac-
tically every community and college campus with an
appreciable African American population. Black Arts
activists extended its reach even further through maga-
zines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such
as Soul! and Like It Is, and on radio programs.
Many of the movements leading artists, including Ed
Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti,
Sonia Sanchez, Askia Tour, and Val Gray Ward remain
artistically productive today. Its inuence can also be
seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni
Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson
to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L.
Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and
Chuck D.
SOSCalling All Black People includes works of c-
tion, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings
on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers
topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the
impact of John Coltranes jazz to the tenets of the Black
Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors
have provided a substantial introduction outlining the
nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement
as well as the principles by which the anthology was
assembled.
This book will add immeasurably to our ability to
understand and teach a crucial aspect of modern
African American and American literary history.
Something crucial involving race and art overtook
American culture in the 1960s and 1970s, and the
nation would never be the same againa seismic
shift that had everything to do with the political, cul-
tural, and aesthetic impact of the confrontational
Black Arts and Black Power movements.
Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison:
A Biography
john h. bracey jr. is professor of Afro-
American studies at the University of Massa-
chusetts Amherst. sonia sanchez, poet
and playwright, is professor emerita of English
at Temple University. james smethurst is
professor of Afro-American studies at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
African American Studies / Cultural Studies / American Studies
688 pp., 7" x 10" format
$34.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-031-3
$95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-030-6
September 2014
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The essential writings of a highly respected
civil rights activist and union leader
For Jobs and Freedom
The Selected Speeches and Writings of
A. Philip Randolph
Edited by Andrew E. Kersten and
David Lucander
As the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters and a tireless advocate for civil rights, A. Philip
Randolph (18891979) served as a bridge between
African Americans and the labor movement. During a
public career that spanned more than ve decades, he
was a leading voice in the struggle for black freedom
and social justice, and his powerful words inspired
others to join him.
This volume documents Randolphs life and work
through his own writings. The editors have combed
through the les of libraries, manuscript collections,
and newspapers, selecting more than seventy published
and unpublished pieces that shed light on Randolphs
most signicant activities. The book is organized the-
matically around his major interestsdismantling
workplace inequality, expanding civil rights, confront-
ing racial segregation, and building international coali-
tions. The editors provide a detailed biographical essay
that helps to situate the speeches and writings collected
in the book. In the absence of an autobiography, this
volume offers the best available presentation of Ran-
dolphs ideas and arguments in his own words.
andrew e. kersten is dean of the College of
Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University
of Idaho. david lucander is assistant professor
of Pluralism and Diversity at Rockland Community
College.
This book will go a long way in making easily
accessible the ideas and writings of the person
who sparked both the 1941 and the 1963 Marches
on Washington, and who generally was seen
as the leading gure among Blacks in the trade
union movement from the 1930s until his death.
. . . I give it my strongest endorsement.
John H. Bracey Jr., coeditor of SOSCalling All
Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
A. Philip Randolph is as relevant today as ever.
A volume of his essential writings could not
be more timely. . . . Professors Kersten and
Lucander, both recognized Randolph authorities,
have assembled this collection with care and skill.
All phases of Randolphs remarkable career are
covered.
Jerald E. Podair, author of Bayard Rustin:
American Dreamer
American History / African American History / Labor History
392 pp., 12 illus.
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-116-7
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-115-0
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Traces the role of thrift as a value in
American life
Thrift
The History of an American Cultural Movement
Andrew L. Yarrow
In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow
tells the story of a national movement that promoted
an amalgam of values and practices ranging from self-
control, money management, and efciency to con-
servation, generosity, and planning for the futureall
under the rubric of thrift. Emerging in tandem and
in tension with the rst owerings of consumer society,
the thrift movement ourished during the 1910s and
1920s and then lingered on the outskirts of American
culture from the depression to the prosperous mid-
twentieth century.
The movement brought together a diverse array
of social actors with widely divergent agendasthe
YMCA, the Boy and Girl Scouts, temperance crusad-
ers, and others seeking to strengthen the moral ber
of urban young men and boys in particular, and to
damp down the appeal of radicalism. It also attracted
credit union and other progressive activists wanting
to empower the working class economically, bankers
desiring to broaden their customer base, conservation-
ists and efciency proponents denouncing waste, and
government leaders, school teachers, and economists
who believed that encouraging saving was in the eco-
nomic interests of both individuals and the nation.
A postWorld War II culture that centered on spend-
ing and pleasure made early-twentieth-century thrift
messages seem outdated. Nonetheless, echoes of thrift
can be found in currently popular ideas of sustainabil-
ity, stewardship, and simplicity and in efforts
to curtail public and private debt.
An important and original book. Yarrow does a
terric job of uncovering a wide range of primary
sources and putting them together to tell a
compelling story that hasnt been told before.
Lawrence B. Glickman, author of Buying Power:
A History of Consumer Activism in America
andrew l. yarrow is senior research
adviser for Oxfam America and teaches
twentieth-century U.S. history at American
University. He is a senior fellow at the Institute
for American Values and author of Measuring
America: How Economic Growth Came to Dene
American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).
American History / American Studies
248 pp., 42 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-132-7
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-131-0
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The long history of nancial management
in one of Americas oldest cities
Investment Management
in Boston
A History
David Grayson Allen
Presented here for the rst time is the history of Bos-
tons evolution as a center of American money manage-
ment from early settlement to the twenty-rst century.
Within a few decades after the Revolution, Bostonians
built up an impressive mercantile and industrial econ-
omy, and used wealth accrued from the China trade,
New England mills, and other ventures to establish the
most important stock exchange in America. They also
created the Boston trustee, a unique professional who
managed private fortunes over generations. During the
late nineteenth century, Boston nancial institutions
were renowned as bastions of stability and conserva-
tism in an era of recurrent economic panics and fre-
quent failures.
It was not until the twentieth century that Boston
became better known for its role in investment man-
agement. In 1924, local nanciers created the rst
mutual fund, an innovation almost a century in the
making. After World War II, Boston originated venture
capital with the founding of American Research &
Development. This was soon followed by the develop-
ment of private equity, the growth of the mutual fund
industry, the pension revolution that changed and
strengthened money management, the evolution in
management of institutional endowments, and the rise
of new family ofces and hedge funds. The contribu-
tions of duciaries and investment managers have
played an important part in the rise of the New Bos-
ton and made the city one of the most vibrant nancial
capitals in the world.
Investment Management in Boston is a fresh
and originaltreatment of the multitude of
activities by individuals and business rms in
the Boston region over the last century. A
highly valuable study.
Edwin Perkins, author of Wall Street to Main
Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors
david grayson allen is a principal of
Allen Associates, a historical consulting rm
in Concord, Massachusetts, and the author of
numerous books, including, most recently, The
Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of
Historic Landscape Preservation.
New England History / American History
448 pp., 15 illus.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-103-7
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-102-0
January 2015
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An intimate portrait of regional
abolitionism in the critical decades before
the Civil War
Rebels in Paradise
Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists
Bruce Laurie
Long ago dubbed the Paradise of America, Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts, is also known as the home of
visionariesfrom the Reverend Jonathan Edwards,
father of the First Great Awakening, to George W. Ben-
son, brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison and a
founder of the utopian Northampton Association for
Education and Industry. During the mid-nineteenth
century the town became a center of political abolition-
ism and a hub in the Underground Railroad. In this
book, Bruce Laurie proles ve rebellious gures who
launched Northamptons abolitionist movement
Sylvester Judd Jr., John Payson Williston, David Ruggles,
Henry Sherwood Gere, and Erastus Hopkins. Through
their individual stories he traces the evolution of the
antislavery movement in western Massachusetts and
links it to broader developments in economics, civil life,
and political affairs.
Northamptons abolitionists were a heterodox group,
yet most were intrepid devotees of democracy and racial
equality, idealists who enjoyed genuine friendships
and political alliances with African Americans. Several
even took the bold step of hiring African Americans in
their businesses. They avoided the doctrinal rivalries
that sometimes troubled the antislavery movement
in other places, skillfully steering clear of the xeno-
phobic nativism that infected Massachusetts politics
in the mid1850s and divided the Republican Party at
large. Although a prohibitionist faction disrupted the
Northampton abolitionist movement for a time, the
leaders prevailed on the strength of their personal pres-
tige and political experience, making the seat of Hamp-
shire County what one of them called an abolitionist
stronghold.
A lively, lucid, and eminently readable study.
Succinctly but in well-judged detail, Bruce Laurie
tells the story of antebellum abolitionism through
biographies of some of the movements
prominent local gures in Northampton,
Massachusetts.
Christopher Clark, author of The
Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge
of the Northampton Association
bruce laurie is professor of history
emeritus at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and author of Beyond Garrison:
Antislavery and Social Reform.
American History / New England History / African American Studies
184 pp., 10 illus.
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-118-1
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-117-4
December 2014
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How a failed military operation in early
America became New Englands Alamo
Lovewells Fight
War, Death, and Memory in Borderland
New England
Robert E. Cray
In May 1725, during a three-year conict between
English colonists and the Eastern Abenaki Nation, a
thirty-four-man expedition led by Captain John Lovewell
set out to ambush their adversaries, acquire some scalp
bounties, and hasten the end of the war. Instead, the
Abenakis staged a surprise attack of their own at Pig-
wacket, Maine, that left more than a third of the New
Englanders dead or severely wounded. Although
Lovewell himself was slain in the ghting, he emerged a
martyred hero, celebrated in popular memory for stand-
ing his ground against a superior enemy force.
In this book, Robert E. Cray revisits the clash known
as Lovewells Fight and uses it to illuminate the themes
of war, death, and memory in early New England. He
shows how a military operation plagued from the out-
set by poor decision-making, and further marred by
less-than-heroic battleeld behavior, came to be remem-
bered as early Americas version of the Alamo. The gov-
ernment of Massachusetts bestowed payouts, pensions,
and land on survivors and widows of the battle. William
Henry Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry
David Thoreau kept the story alive for later generations.
Although some nineteenth-century New Englanders
disapproved of Lovewells notoriety as a scalp hunter,
it did not prevent the dedication of a monument in his
honor at the Fryeburg, Maine, battlesite in 1904.
Even as the actual story of Lovewells Fight receded
into obscuritya bloody skirmish in a largely forgotten
warit remained part of New England lore, one of those
rare military encounters in which defeat transcends an
opponents victory to assume the mantle of legend.
Cray not only provides a description of the ght
itself, but uses it as a springboard to explore how
the story of such incidents was transmitted to
the population, how New Englanders viewed
death and the disposal of bodies, how the
government of Massachusetts cared for the
wounded and widows, and how subsequent
generations interpreted, or chose to forget, this
small engagement so long ago.
Steven C. Eames, author of Rustic Warriors:
Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New
England Frontier, 16891748
robert e. cray is professor of history at
Montclair State University.
Early American History / Native American Studies / New England History
224 pp.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-107-5
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-106-8
October 2014
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The history of a beautiful yet vulnerable
New England region
Cape Cod
An Environmental History of a Fragile
Ecosystem
John T. Cumbler
To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an
American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tour-
ists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood,
the Cape has held a place in our national imagination
for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn
to its beauty and resources since Native Americans
wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000
years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau
and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and
allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has
a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident
fragility.
John T. Cumblers book offers an environmental,
social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through
the experiences of residents as well as visitors. He notes
that over the past four hundred years the Cape has
experienced three regimes of resource utilization. The
rst regime of Native Americans who lived relatively
lightly on the land was supplanted by European settlers
who focused on production and extraction. This second
regime began in the age of sail but declined through
the age of steam as the soil and seas failed to yield the
resources necessary to sustain continuing growth. Envi-
ronmental and then economic crises during the second
half of the nineteenth century eventually gave way to
the third regime of tourism and recreation. But this
regime has its own environmental costs, as residents
have learned over the last half century.
Although the Cape remains a special place, its his-
tory of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with
that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing
similar issues around the globe.
No other history of Cape Cod offers the contex-
tually rich interweaving of the regions environ-
mental, economic, social, and cultural transfor-
mations, as Cumbler is doing here. In addition,
Cumbler provides readers with a geological his-
tory of the Cape before human habitation. In this
regard and in others, the book will be a unique
contribution to the discipline of history that tradi-
tionally separates human from natural history.
Anthony N. Penna, author of The Human
Footprint: A Global Environmental History
john t. cumbler is professor of history at
the University of Louisville and spends half
of the year in Welleet, Massachusetts. He
is the author of numerous books, including
From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of
a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century
and Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment,
and the State, New England, 17901930.
Environmental History / New England Natural History
272 pp., 14 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-109-9
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-108-2
November 2014
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The struggle to save a dramatically
declining species
The Alewives Tale
The Life History and Ecology of River Herring
in the Northeast
Barbara Brennessel
While on vacation in 1980, biologist Barbara
Brennessel and her family came across an amazing
sight: hundreds of small silver sh migrating from the
Atlantic Ocean, across a channel connecting two ponds
in the town of Welleet on Cape Cod. She later learned
that these tiny river herring were important for the
ecology and economy of the region and that volunteers
were counting fewer and fewer sh migrating each
year.
The Alewives Tale describes the plight of alewives
and blueback herring, two sh species that have similar
life histories and are difcult to distinguish by sight.
Collectively referred to as river herring, they have been
economically important since colonial times as food,
fertilizer, and bait. In recent years they have attracted
much attention from environmentalists, especially as
attempts are being made, on and beyond Cape Cod, to
restore the rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, and estuaries
that are crucial for their reproduction and survival.
Brennessel provides an overview of the biology of
the shfrom fertilized eggs to large schools of adults
that migrate in the Atlantic Oceanwhile describing
the habitats at different stages of their life history.
She explores the causes of the dramatic decline of
river herring since the mid-twentieth century and the
various efforts to restore these iconic sh to the historic
populations that treated many onlookers to spectacular
inland migrations each spring.
Brennessel has put this book together well. The
reader will nd, in its successive chapters, all the
information that is available, neatly packaged, on
alewives and herring.
Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia

barbara brennessel is professor emerita
of biology at Wheaton College. She is author
of Diamonds in the Marsh: The Natural History
of the Diamondback Terrapin and Good Tidings:
The History and Ecology of Shellsh Farming in
the Northeast.
Environmental Studies / New England Natural History
192 pp., 20 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-105-1
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-104-4
September 2014
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Winner of the Grace Paley Prize
in Short Fiction
Bewildered
Stories
Carla Panciera
This is a world of secret-sharers, a noisy world full of
unimaginable silence, claims one of the characters
in this compelling debut collection. The ten stories in
Bewildered examine small world disruptionsmistimed
infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations
inherent in loss. Characters look up from what they
assumed were ordinary lives amazed to discover where
they nd themselves.
Familiar landscapescity streets, coastal towns
emptied of tourists, suburban neighborhoodsare
backdrops for unfullled dreams: the luckiest man
alive arouses the suspicions of those he most wants to
befriend, a grieving lover invites herself into anothers
life, a young girl discovers her tea leaves reveal nothing
as life-altering as those of her friend, the straying hus-
band pays a debt for his and his sons obsessions.
The stories ask: Can you live any way forever? What
links them is what links all of us: the desire to belong,
the need to heal, the fear of what happens next.
carla panciera is the author of two collections of
poetry, One of the Cimalores and No Day, No Dusk, No
Love. She has published ction, memoir, and poetry in
several journals, including the New England Review,
Nimrod, Chattahoochee Review, and Carolina Quarterly.
A high school English teacher, she lives with her hus-
band and three daughters in Rowley, Massachusetts.
Apart from range in Bewildered, the level of
excellence lies in the ways in which the author
navigates so many different kinds of territories
rst person, second person, third person, the
canted realities of childhood, the accumulating
losses of middle and even old age. The writing is
always economical without ever being minimal.
Pam Houston, Grace Paley Prize judge and
author of Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel and
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
Fiction
184 pp.
$24.95t jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-133-4
October 2014
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How riding the rails became a political act
Boxcar Politics
The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature,
18691956
John Lennon
The hobo is a gure ensconced in the cultural fabric
of the United States. Once categorized as a member of
a homeless army who ought to be jailed or killed, the
hobo has evolved into a safe, grandfatherly exemplar
of Americana. Boxcar Politics reestablishes the hobos
political thorns.
John Lennon maps the rise and demise of the
political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction
of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid
Highway Act of 1956. Intertwining literary, historical,
and theoretical representations of the hobo, he explores
how riders and writers imagined alternative ways
that working-class people could use mobility to create
powerful dissenting voices outside of xed hierarchal
political organizations. Placing portrayals of hobos in
the works of Jack London, Jim Tully, John Dos Passos,
and Jack Kerouac alongside the lived reality of people
hopping trains (including hobos of the IWW, the
Scottsboro Boys, and those found in numerous long-
forgotten memoirs), Lennon investigates how these
marginalized individuals exerted collective political
voices through subcultural practices.
john lennon is assistant professor of English at
the University of South Florida.
By advancing a more nuanced account of the
range of political possibilities on offer in the U.S.
hobo subculture, Lennon certainly develops the
coordinates for a signicant contribution to
Americanist literary and cultural studies.
Mark Simpson, author of Trafcking Subjects:
The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century
America
One shining achievement of this book is the way
Lennon expertly weaves the story of Scottsboro
into the narrative of hobo history and the history
of transience and its representations in Great
Depression America. The author treats the
central issues of race and gender, as well as class,
with great clarity and intelligence.
Todd DePastino, author of Citizen Hobo: How a
Century of Homelessness Shaped America
American Studies / American Literature
232 pp., 3 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-120-4
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-119-8
September 2014
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A searching reconsideration of the terms
we use in talking about books
Thinking Outside the Book
Augusta Rohrbach
In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works
through the increasing convergences between digital
humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning
and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and
cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely
cohort of nineteenth-century women writersJane
Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts,
Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnutto consider the
publishing culture of their period from the perspective
of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly
concepts from both print culture and new media studies.
In nineteenth-century America, women from a
variety of racial and class afliations were bombarding
the print market with their literary productions, taking
advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances
in publishing technology. Their work challenged
prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do
so today. Each chapter of Thinking Outside the Book
positions a focal gure as both paradigmatic and
problematic within the context of key terms that dene
the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as literacy,
authorship, publication, edition, and editor, Rohrbach
develops an alternate typology that includes mediation,
memory, history, testimony, and loss. Recognizing that the
eld spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet,
she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web
2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and
positions to seek out readers without gatekeepers
limiting their exposure.
More than a literary history, this book takes up theo-
ries of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book,
and new media in connection with race, gender, class,
and region.
Rohrbachs readings and archival work demon-
strate how valuable the decentering of authorship
can be for understanding how racialized and
marginalized subjects relate to the literary
marketplace, to be sure, but also simply for
understanding the networked quality of the
marketplace itself in the nineteenth century.
Matt Cohen, author of The Networked
Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England
augusta rohrbach is associate professor
of English at Washington State University. She
is the editor of ESQ: A Journal of the American
Renaissance and author of Truth Stranger than
Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary
Marketplace.
Print Culture Studies / American Literature
184 pp., 15 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-126-6
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-125-9
October 2014
A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and HIstory of the Book
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How antiquated history books have found
a new life among homeschoolers
History Repeating Itself
The Republication of Childrens Historical
Literature and the Christian Right
Gregory M. Ptzer
Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been
reprinting nineteenth-century childrens history books
and marketing them to parents as anchor texts for
homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Ptzer
asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be
presumed suitable for educating twenty-rst-century
children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters
of these recycled works believe that history as a disci-
pline took a wrong turn in the early twentieth century,
when progressive educators introduced social studies
methodologies into public school history classrooms,
foisting upon unsuspecting and vulnerable children
ideologically distorted history books.
In History Repeating Itself, Ptzer tests these asser-
tions by scrutinizing and contextualizing the original
nineteenth-century texts on which these republications
are based. He focuses on how the writers borrowed
from one another to produce works that were similar
in many ways yet differed markedly in terms of peda-
gogical strategy and philosophy of history. Ptzer dem-
onstrates that far from being non-ideological, these
works were rooted in intense contemporary debates
over changing conceptions of childhood.
Ptzer argues that the repurposing of antiquated
texts reveals a misplaced resistance to the idea of a
contested past. He also raises essential philosophical
questions about how and why curricular decisions are
shaped by the past we choose to remember on behalf
of our children.
This is a magnicent piece of historical research
and writing, one that is sure to be well received
by scholars and also to appeal strongly to
journalists and political commentators.
Leslie Howsam, author of Past into Print: The
Publishing of History in Britain, 18501950
gregory m. ptzer is professor of
American studies at Skidmore College and
author, most recently, of Popular History and the
Literary Marketplace, 18401920 (University of
Massachusetts Press, 2008).
Print Culture Studies / American Studies / Public History
336 pp., 25 illus.
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-124-2
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-123-5
October 2014
A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and HIstory of the Book
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This is a substantial book by a major scholar,
and it is original, splendidly written and
interpreted, and lled with the kind of rich
specic detail that will make it a valuable
reference to which historians will turn again
and again. It is a signicant contribution to the
scholarship of American culture.
Michael L. Lewis, author of
American Art & Architecture
james f. ogorman is Grace Slack McNeil
Professor Emeritus in the Wellesley College
Department of Art and a widely acclaimed
lecturer, historian, and author of numerous
books, including Accomplished in All
Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston,
18181874 (University of Massachusetts Press,
1998).
Architecture / American Studies
336 pp., 86 illus., 7" x 10" format
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-122-8
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-121-1
February 2015
The rst biography of one of Americas
most inuential nineteenth-century
architects
Isaiah Rogers
Architectural Practice in Antebellum America
James F. OGorman
When Isaiah Rogers died in 1869, the Cincinnati Daily
Times noted that in his profession he was, perhaps,
better known than any other person in the country.
Yet until now there has been no study that fully exam-
ines his remarkable, inuential, and instructive career.
Based largely on Rogerss own diary, this book tells his
story and adds much to our understanding of architec-
tural practice in the United States before the Civil War.
In 1944 the distinguished historian Talbot Hamlin
wrote of New Yorks Merchant Exchange (183642) that
the building had been so grandly conceived, so simply
and directly planned, and so beautifully detailed . . .
[that] the whole was welded inextricably into one power-
ful organic conception that shows Rogers as a great
architect in the fullest sense of the word. Rogerss
Tremont House in Boston has been called the worlds
rst modern hotel; it spawned many progeny, from his
rst Astor House in New York to his Burnet House in
Cincinnati and beyond.
Rogers designed buildings from Maine to Georgia
and from Boston to Chicago to New Orleans, super-
vising their construction while traveling widely to
procure materials and workmen for the job. He
nished his career as Architect of the Treasury Depart-
ment during the Civil War. In this richly illustrated
volume, James F. OGorman offers a deft portrait of
an energetic practitioner at a key time in architectural
history, the period before the founding of the American
Institute of Architects in 1857.
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How legal reasoning and language
inuenced a brilliant poet
A Kiss from Thermopylae
Emily Dickinson and Law
James R. Guthrie
Born into a family of attorneys, Dickinson absorbed law
at home. She employed legal terms and concepts regu-
larly in her writings, and her metaphors grounded in
law derive much of their expressive power from a com-
paratively sophisticated lay knowledge of the various
legal and political issues that were roiling nineteenth-
century America. Dickinson displays interest in such
areas as criminal law, contracts, equity, property, estate
law, and bankruptcy. She also held in high regard the
role of law in resolving disputes and maintaining civic
order. Toward the end of her life, she cited the Spartans
defense at Thermopylae as an object lesson demonstrat-
ing why societies should uphold the rule of law.
Yet Dickinson was also capable of criticizing, even
satirizing, law and lawyers. Her poetic personae inhabit
various legal roles including those of jurymen, judges,
and attorneys, and some poems simulate courtroom
contests pitting the rights of individuals against the
power of the state. She was keenly interested in legal
matters pertaining to women, such as breach of prom-
ise, dower, and trusts. With her tone ranging from sub-
servient to domineering, from reverential to ridiculing,
Dickinsons writings reect an abiding concern with
philosophic and political principles underpinning the
law, as well as an identication with the plight of indi-
viduals who dared confront authority.
A Kiss from Thermopylae reveals a new dimension of
Dickinsons writing and thinking, one indicating that
she was thoroughly familiar with the legal communitys
idiomatic language, actively engaged with contem-
porary political and ethical questions, and skilled at
deploying a poetic register ranging from high romanti-
cism to low humor.
This book contributes signicantly to Emily
Dickinson scholarship. There is nothing like it.
In addition, Guthrie is superb at explaining
accessibly what legal terms mean and what their
implications are for everyday aspects of peoples
lives.
Cristanne Miller, author of Reading in Time:
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
A Kiss from Thermopylae establishes beyond
doubt the importance of legal reasoning to
Dickinsons poetry, and it also contributes
importantly to the value of the law and literature
subdiscipline.
Gary Stonum, author of The Dickinson Sublime
james r. guthrie is professor of English
at Wright State University. He is author of
Above Time: Emersons and Thoreaus Temporal
Revolutions and Emily Dickinsons Vision: Illness
and Identity in Her Poetry.
American Literature / American Studies
240 pp., 7 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-113-6
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-112-9
January 2015
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Explores the role of cultural exchange in the
rise of the Romantic movement
Transatlantic Romanticism
British and American Art and Literature,
17901860
Edited by Andrew Hemingway
and Alan Wallach
That the Romantic movement was an international
phenomenon is a commonplace, yet to date, historical
study of the movement has tended to focus primarily
on its national manifestations. This volume offers a
new perspective. In thirteen chapters devoted to artists
and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the
international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of
Romanticism in England and the United States.
In the books introduction, Andrew Hemingway
building on the theoretical work of Michael Lowy and
Robert Sayreproposes that we need to remobilize the
concept of Weltanschauung, or comprehensive world
view, in order to develop the kind of synthetic history
of arts and ideas the phenomenon of Romanticism
demands. The essays that follow focus on the London
and New York art worlds and such key gures as
Benjamin West, Thomas Bewick, John Vanderlyn,
Washington Allston, John Martin, J. M. W. Turner,
Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, George Catlin,
Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Herman
Melville. Taken together, these essays plot the rise
of a romantic anti-capitalist Weltanschauung as well
as the dialectic between Romanticisms national and
international manifestations.
In addition to the volume editors, contributors
include Matthew Beaumont, David Bindman, Leo
Costello, Nicholas Grindle, Wayne Franklin, Janet
Koenig, William Pressly, Robert Sayre, William
Truettner, Dell Upton, and William Vaughan.
A cogent and stimulating series of reections on
Anglo-American art and literature associated with
the broad cultural category of Romanticism.
Brian Lukacher, author of Joseph Gandy:
Architectural Visionary in Georgian England
andrew hemingway is professor emeritus
of art history, University College London, and
author of The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist
Painting and Machine Age America.
alan wallach is professor emeritus of art
and art history, The College of William and
Mary, and author of Exhibiting Contradiction:
Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
(University of Massachusetts Press, 1998).
Art History / Literary Studies / Atlantic Studies
312 pp., 23 color illus., 57 b&w illus.
$29.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-114-3
January 2015
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Writings on English Renaissance literature
and culture by a leading scholar
Renaissance Reections
Selected Essays, 19762012
Arthur F. Kinney
Arthur Kinney has made so many contributions to
the study of English literature, in so many different
roles, that it can be difcult to reckon with the true
sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encom-
passes an entire world and all the things in it, the very
world that English Renaissance thinkers inhabited
and approached with the same comprehensive spirit
of inquiry. . . . Every topic to which he turns in these
pages is pursued with impeccable scholarly rigor. . . .
To pursue new approaches as Kinney has done year
after year and decade after decade requires the nerve
to risk failure, even repeated failure. It demands that
the scholar constantly explore unfamiliar ground
where the feet are still unsure and use analytical tools
before they have grown familiar in the hand. It asks the
thinker to move outside the security of expertise, the
writer to advance arguments that may not succeed.
. . . [Kinney] has provided us a wholly different model of
a distinguished scholarly career, spending decades in
pursuit of intellectual risk and adventure.
James J. Marino, author of
Owning William Shakespeare: The Kings Men and
Their Intellectual Property
The essays collected here touch on many of the
topics that have interested and provoked Arthur
Kinney over the course of his fty-year career. . . .
The topical range is remarkable, the erudition on
display extensive. These essays represent a mind
passionately immersed in the plenitude of
Renaissance culture, as well as in the give
and take of scholarly dialogue.
Valerie Traub, author of The Renaissance of
Lesbianism in Early Modern England
arthur f. kinney is Thomas W.
Copeland Professor of Literary History at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. He
is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar
Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the
Renaissance Society of America and the Jean
Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award of the
International Sidney Society.
Renaissance Studies / British and European Literature
500 pp., 27 illus.
$34.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-064-1
September 2014
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ART, ARCHITECTURE,
AND DESIGN
Civic Art
A Centennial History of the U.S.
Commission of Fine Arts
Edited by Thomas E. Luebke
Luebkes book immediately joins the short-
list of essential texts about Washington
design and architecture.Washington Post
$85.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-16-089702-3
636 pp., 424 color & 496 black-and-white illus., 2013
Distributed for U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
A Kind of Archeology
Collecting American Folk Art, 18761976
Elizabeth Stillinger
It is hard to conceive of a more thoughtful
or thorough guide.Antiques and the Arts
Weekly
$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-744-3
Creating a World on Paper
Harry Fenns Career in Art
Sue Rainey
Fenns signicance is fully realized in
this study.William H. Gerdts
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9
408 pp., 58 color and 150 black-and-white illus., 2013
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
A Genius for Place
American Landscapes of the Country
Place Era
Robin Karson
Winner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize
of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
The most important book on American
gardens for at least a decade, this giant tome
spans the rst 40 years of the 20th
century.London Telegraph
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1
456 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2013
Published in association with Library of American
Landscape History
Arthur A. Shurcliff
Design, Preservation, and the Creation
of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape
Elizabeth Hope Cushing
[A] singularly important contribution to
the literature concerning what I believe is still
our least understood period of urban land-
scape architecture.Gary R. Hilderbrand
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-039-9
300 pp., 149 black-and-white illus., August 2014
Landscape History
John Nolen, Landscape
Architect and City Planner
R. Bruce Stephenson
The long overdue and denitive biography
of one of Americas most prominent and
inuential urbanists.Keith N. Morgan
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-079-5
368 pp., 190 illus., November 2014
Landscape History
Community by Design
The Olmsted Firm and the Development
of Brookline, Massachusetts
Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope
Cushing, and Roger G. Reed
Winner of the Ruth Emery Award from the
Victorian Society in America
A beautifully produced volume on Frederick
Law Olmsteds rm and the coming of age
of suburban development.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8
320 pp., 132 illus., 2013
Landscape History
The Best Planned City
in the World
Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System
Francis R. Kowsky
Winner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize
of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
As a physical object, The Best Planned City
in the World has a beauty worthy of its
subject.Site/Lines
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1
272 pp., 118 color and 110 black-and-white illus., 2013
Landscape History
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AMERICAN STUDIES
Medical Encounters
Knowledge and Identity in
Early American Literatures
Kelly Wisecup
Provides a new lens through which we can
see moments of cultural encounter rich with
information.Kristina Bross
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-057-3
272 pp., 7 illus., 2013
The Ocean Is a Wilderness
Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State
Authority, 16881856
Guy Chet
An interesting, well written, and well-
conceived book.Trevor Burnard
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-085-6
176 pp., 2014
Jonathan Edwards and
the Gospel of Love
Ronald Story
Story recognizes that the profundities of
Edwardss theology are what make Edwards
extraordinary.American Historical Review
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6
184 pp., 2012
One Colonial Womans World
The Life and Writings of
Mehetabel Chandler Coit
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
The thoroughness and the thoughtfulness
that she brings to her study are exemplary.
New England Quarterly
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6
288 pp., 14 Illus., 2012
The Reverend Jacob Bailey,
Maine Loyalist
For God, King, Country, and for Self
James S. Leamon
An informative, engaging study. . . . A
worthy successor to Leamons award-winning
Revolution Downeast.Joseph A. Conforti
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3
272 pp., 10 illus., 2012
The Manliest Man
Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of
Nineteenth-Century American Reform
James W. Trent
This is a book that will provide pleasure
and interest to general biography lovers,
not just academics and historians.
Karen Sanchez-Eppler
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-959-1
336 pp., 10 illus., 2012
A Cold War State of Mind
Brainwashing and Postwar AmericanSociety
Matthew W. Dunne
Provides a fascinating framework for
understanding . . . Cold War consensus in
postwar America. Robert A. Jacobs
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-041-2
304 pp., 15 illus., 2013
Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Citizenship in Cold War America
The National Security State and
the Possibilities of Dissent
Andrea Friedman
A very polished, well-argued book.
Laura McEnaney
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-068-9
296 pp., 16 illus., August 2014
American Immunity
War Crimes and the Limits of
International Law
Patrick Hagopian
An impressive, wide-ranging, multi-layered
work.Kendrick Oliver
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-047-4
256 pp., 2013
Agent Orange
History, Science, and the Politics of
Uncertainty
Edwin A. Martini
Agent Orange is a clear example of history at
its best.Journal of American History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1
320 pp., 14 illus., 1 map, 2012
Forever Vietnam
How a Divisive War Changed American
Public Memory
David Kieran
Advances a bold and original argument.
Patrick Hagopian
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6
304 pp., 16 illus., 1 map, July 2014
The Pro-War Movement
Domestic Support for the Vietnam War
and the Making of Modern American
Conservatism
Sandra Scanlon
A denitive history of how . . . the conservative
movement developed a complex and variegated
response to the conict.Gregory L. Schneider
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-018-4
352 pp., 2013
Buying the Farm
Peace and War on a Sixties Commune
Tom Fels
With Tom Felss new book it can safely be
said that Montague Farm has the best
published record of any of the
communes.The Sixties
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-971-3
240 pp., 25 illus., 2012
Famous Long Ago
My Life and Hard Times with Liberation
News Service
Raymond Mungo
A new edition of a classic text of 1960s
America. Ray Mungo is a wild party in the
upstairs apartment of America. He is also
the free mental clinic on the rst oor.
Tom Robbins
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-947-8
232 pp., 20 illus., 2012
A Call to Conscience
The AntiContra War Campaign
Roger Peace
An important contribution to recording
the true history of the era, unsullied by
U.S. government and media lies and
disinformation.Alliance for Global
Justice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-932-4
328 pp., 1 map, 2012
Modernizing Repression
Police Training and Nation-Building
in the American Century
Jeremy Kuzmarov
A splendid contribution to the existing
literatures that will be highly valued and
much quoted by scholars and practitioners
alike.Martha Huggins
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-917-1
400 pp., 2012
The Girls and Boys of
Belchertown
A Social History of the Belchertown State
School for the Feeble-Minded
Robert Hornick
Hornicks excellent and engaging history
provides a welcome context for the wide-
reaching personal and policy impacts of the
Belchertown State School.
Sharon Flanagan-Hyde
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-944-7
224 pp., 17 illus., 2012
What We Have Done
An Oral History of the
Disability Rights Movement
Fred Pelka
Pelka describes the convergence of social
attitudes and legal actions that led to the
emergence of the empowerment of people
with disabilities. . . . So many need this
account that no library or bookseller can
afford to be without it.ForeWord
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5
656 pp., 33 illus., 2012
Expanding the Strike Zone
Baseball in the Age of Free Agency
Daniel A. Gilbert
An interesting, smart, and informative
book. Daniel Gilbert effectively melds a
transnational and multicultural approach
to understanding broad and important
themes in the late twentieth-century
baseball world.Daniel A. Nathan
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-997-3
224 pp., 15 illus., 2013
Street Fight
The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco
Jason Henderson
Henderson does a rst-rate job of
situating San Francisco within the larger
transportation/mobility politics, both
historically and contemporarily.
Lisa Benton-Short
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-999-7
256 pp., 5 illus., 2013
The Second Amendment
on Trial
Critical Essays on District of
Columbia v. Heller
Edited by Saul Cornell and
Nathan Kozuskanich
Should appeal not only to legal scholars
and law students, but also to historians,
political scientists, and sociologists with an
interest in the constitutional aspects of re-
arms . . . .Lawrence Rosenthal
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-995-9
456 pp., 2013
Reclaiming American Cities
The Struggle for People, Place, and
Nature since 1900
Rutherford H. Platt
A sophisticated, thorough, and compre-
hensive history of city planning in the
United States over the last 125 years.
Alex Marshall
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-050-4
312 pp., 41 illus., 2013
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PUBLIC HISTORY
Alice Morse Earle and the
Domestic History of Early
America
Susan Reynolds Williams
[Williams] shows beautifully that Earle had
the power to make change simply through
the act of remembering.Journal of
American History
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-988-1
336 pp., 40 illus., 2013
Public History in Historical Perspective
Remembering the Revolution
Memory, History, and Nation Making
from Independence to the Civil War
Edited by Michael A. McDonnell,
Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke,
and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
How conicting memories of the nations
origins shaped the political culture of the
early American republic.
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-033-7
344 pp., 2013
Remembering the Forgotten War
The Enduring Legacies of the
U.S.Mexican War
Michael Scott Van Wagenen
Honorable Mention, National Council on Public
History Book Award
Van Wagenen reminds readers that the
history of remembering is also the history
of forgetting.H-Net
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0
368 pp., 30 illus., 2012
The Spirit of 1976
Commerce, Community, and the Politics
of Commemoration
Tammy S. Gordon
Raises important issues regarding the study
of public uses of the past.John Bodnar
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-043-6
192 pp., 8 illus., 2013
The Wages of History
Emotional Labor on Public Historys
Front Lines
Amy M. Tyson
Tyson advances a new perspective to consider
when assessing living history interpretation for
appropriateness, effectiveness, and viability. . . .
Essential.Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-024-5
240 pp., 10 illus., 2013
A Living Exhibition
The Smithsonian and the Transformation
of the Universal Museum
William S. Walker
Walkers exploration of the Smithsonians
attempts to balance universality and specic-
ity allow for an insightful discussion of the
debates engaging museum professionals
today. Recommended.Choice
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9
304 pp., 20 illus., 2013
Museums, Monuments, and
National Parks
Toward a New Genealogy of Public History
Denise D. Meringolo
Winner of the National Council on Public History
Book Award
In this richly researched book, Meringolo
situates the birth of a new eldpublic
historydecades before the postwar
emergence of a recognized subeld.
Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9
256 pp., 12 illus., 2012
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American
Public Memory
Edited by Seth C. Bruggeman
This enterprising inquiry deserves readers,
and not only public historians. Its very
engaging.Public Historian
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6
296 pp., 12 illus., 2012
Everybodys History
Indianas Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest
to Reclaim a Presidents Past
Keith A. Erekson
One wishes for more studies like this one
that might link national-level historiography
with the popular construction of American
history.Indiana Magazine of History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7
272 pp., 10 illus., 2012
History Is Bunk
Assembling the Past at Henry Fords
Greeneld Village
Jessie Swigger
What makes this book so original is its
comprehensive sweep.Howard Segal
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-078-8
256 pp., 15 illus., June 2014
From Storefront to Monument
Tracing the Public History of the Black
Museum Movement
Andrea A. Burns
There has been no comparable work that
offers an overarching history of the black
museum movement as an important
political movement.Renee Romano
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-035-1
264 pp., 10 illus., 2013
Memories of Buenos Aires
Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina
Memoria Abierta
Edited with an introduction by Max Page
Epilogue by Ilan Stavans
Translated by Karen Robert
Originally published in Spanish, this book
provides an interpretive guide to sites of
terror and the grassroots memorials to
victims of Argentinas Dirty War.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8
304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps, 2013
BLACK STUDIES
We Ask Only for
Even-Handed Justice
Black Voices from Reconstruction,
18651877
John David Smith
Rich in summary insight.Choice
$18.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-087-0
144 pp., 21 illus., July 2014
Exhibiting Blackness
African Americans and the American
Art Museum
Bridget R. Cooks
Winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell
Book Award in African American Art History
Develops a useful perspective for studying
the history of the deeply troubled relation-
ship between African Americans and
American art museums.Alan Wallach
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4
Tragic No More
Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of
Sex and Celebrity
Caroline A. Streeter
An exciting project, with great potential to
impact the elds of mixed-race studies,
African American studies, gender studies, and
popular cultural studies.Heidi Ardizzone
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-985-0
176 pp., 5 illus., 2012
The World of W.E.B. Du Bois
A Quotation Sourcebook
Edited by Meyer Weinberg
with a new introduction by
John H. Bracey Jr.
Scholars will benet by easily locating sourc-
es for Du Boiss views on an impressive vari-
ety of topics.Journal of American History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4
296 pp., 2013
The Insistent Call
Rhetorical Moments in Black
Anticolonialism, 19291937
Aric Putnam
How black Americas relationship with
Africa changed at a key point in history.
Well grounded in current scholarship.
Jacqueline Bacon
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-978-2
168 pp., 2012
Burnt Cork
Traditions and Legacies of Blackface
Minstrelsy
Edited by Stephen Johnson
I would love to think we lived in a post-
racial culture, but as these essays remind
us, we have a long way to go to get there
and in the meantime, the more we know
about minstrelsy, the more we know about
ourselves.Stephen Railton
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-934-8
280 pp., 90 illus., 2012
The Mistakes of Yesterday,
the Hopes of Tomorrow
The Story of the Prisonaires
John Dougan
Nashville Scene Best Music Book of 2013
With sophistication and nuance, Dougan
demonstrates that the Prisonaires story is
also the story of the American racial obses-
sion, of the judicial system, of the architec-
ture of the prison itself.Rachel Rubin
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-969-0
144 pp., 2012
American Popular Music
Bounce
Rap Music and Local Identity in
New Orleans
Matt Miller
Millers research is more than thorough.
He convincingly establishes bounce as yet
another offshoot of New Orleanss unique
musical culture.PopMatters
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-936-2
232 pp., 8 illus., 2012
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NATIVE AMERICAN
STUDIES
Living with Whales
Documents and Oral Histories of Native
New England Whaling History
Nancy Shoemaker
Demonstrates the importance of whaling, and
connections to the sea generally, among New
England and Long Island Indians from ancient
times up to the present.David J. Silverman
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-081-8
232 pp., 23 illus., 2014
Native Americans of the Northeast
Good News from New England
by Edward Winslow
A Scholarly Edition
Kelly Wisecup
A wonderful selection of texts, nicely placed
in context by an informative editors
introduction.Jenny Pulsipher
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-083-2
200 pp., 8 illus., August 2014
Making War and Minting
Christians
Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism
in Early New England
R. Todd Romero
A nuanced and lively rereading of a time
period that can often feel well traveled. As
Romero convincingly shows, gendered lan-
guage appeared everywhere, from the open-
ing moments of English colonization of New
England through King Philips War and
even beyond.Catholic History Review
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-888-4
272 pp., 11 illus., 2011
The People of the Standing Stone
The Oneida Nation from the Revolution
through the Era of Removal
Karim M. Tiro
Traces the Oneidas struggles with the
American Revolution and its aftermath. . . .
Tiro sees the Oneidas as important actors in
this dark chapter in their history without
denying that American colonialism put
serious restrictions on their options. Tiro
is to be applauded for this balance and
nuance.Journal of the Early Republic
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-890-7
256 pp., 15 illus., 2011
FICTION AND POETRY
The Theme of Tonights Party
Has Been Changed
Poems
Dana Roeser
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
A tour de force, a book of startling, almost
dizzying, juxtapositions, wide in scope and
deep in feeling.Elizabeth Spires
$15.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-097-9
88 pp., 2014
A History of Hands
A Novel
Rod Val Moore
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction
This sad, odd, thrilling novel is unlike
anything Ive ever read.Noy Holland
$19.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-096-2
240 pp., 2014
Everyone Here Has a Gun
Stories
Lucas Southworth
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
Everyone Here Has a Gun took me on a
roller coaster ride that Id never been on
before. . . . Every piece is strikingly differ-
ent, and yet theres also a cohesion to the
collection that plunged me deeply into this
writers alien yet weirdly familiar world, as
if Id been dreaming someone elses dream.
There are images and moments in each of
these stories that have lodged into my brain
like shrapnel. A truly unique and memo-
rable reading experience.Dan Chaon
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-053-5
176 pp., 2013
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers
and Writing Programs
Some Kinds of Love
Stories
Steve Yates
Some Kinds of Love is nothing short of
masterful. You would think this was the
work of not one but a dozen writers, so
impressive is Yatess range of subject,
setting, mood, and effect. . . . He is a
brilliant, and brilliantly inventive, writer,
and this book is sheer delight from
beginning to end.Ben Fountain
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-028-3
272 pp., 6 illus., 2013
My Escapee
Stories
Corinna Vallianatos
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
With the spare, denitive strokes of
Matisses late portraits, the stories in My
Escapee hew precisely to the truth, while
rendering a series of expressive and par-
ticular female lives. The characters are
disoriented, vulnerable, at times depen-
dent on others; they are also determined,
deant, passionate.Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7
176 pp., 2012
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers
and Writing Programs
The Agriculture Hall of Fame
Stories
Andrew Malan Milward
Winner of the ForeWord Firsts Award
The 10 gorgeous stories . . . offer unique
glimpses into Midwestern calamities and the
folks who nd themselves affected by them.
. . . In Milwards world, theres nary a sunny
sky in sight . . . but this gloominess is greatly
buoyed by the authors poetic prose and a
pitch-perfect eye for detail, resulting in one
tender, tragic portrait after another.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5
160 pp., 2012
Starship Tahiti
Poems
Brandon Dean Lamson
To be a teacher in a prison, as Brandon
Lamson shows us in these grave and unset-
tling poems, is to take on something akin
to the role of Virgil in the Divine Comedy.
. . . Starship Tahiti is an outstanding debut.
David Wojahn
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-2
72 pp., 2013
Goodbye, Flicker
Poems
Carmen Gimnez Smith
Less Wonderland than looking glass, a
gateway into which our reluctant story-teller
must escape but in which, also, we cant
help but see ourselves.Booklist
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-2
80 pp., 2012
LITERARY AND
CULTURAL STUDIES
Uncle Toms Cabin and the
Reading Revolution
Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction,
18511911
Barbara Hochman
Winner of the George A. and Jean S. DeLong
Book History Book Prize
Hochman provides a thought-provoking,
meticulously researched, elegantly written
account of the changes in the reception
the transformation in the cultural mean-
ingof Uncle Toms Cabin over six
decades.Journal of American Studies
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-894-5
400 pp., 40 illus., 2011
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the
Book
The Saloon and the Mission
Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics
of Redemption in American Culture
Eoin F. Cannon
This is a fresh approach to familiar
conceptsevangelical Christianity,
alcoholism, individualism, and liberalism.
Recommended.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-993-5
328 pp., 8 illus., 2013
A Bold and Hardy Race
of Men
The Lives and Literature of American
Whalemen
Jennifer Schell
A rich and intriguing book that brings a
different perspective to our understanding
of American whalemen.
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-020-7
280 pp., 2013
To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave
American Poetry and the Civil War
Faith Barrett
Artfully and clearly discusses the way
poetry allowed individuals to speak to
various groups collectivelyfamily, local
communities, and broader populations of
the two opposing sides of the nation.
Highly recommended.Choice
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-963-8
328 pp., 10 illus., 2012
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Reading in Time
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
Cristanne Miller
Millers study foregrounds both Dickinsons
extraordinary gifts and the strength of her con-
nections to the nineteenth century.Legacy
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-951-5
296 pp., 7 illus., 2012
Suburban Plots
Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century
American Print Culture
Maura DAmore
Renes our critical attitudes toward
gendered activities, labor, authorship, and
domesticity.Martin Breckner
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-095-5
208 pp., 12 illus., June 2014
The Art of Prestige
The Formative Years at Knopf, 19151929
Amy Root Clements
This is the rst book-length scholarly study
of Knopf, and it provides an excellent
account of [its] early development.
Gordon Neavill
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1
224 pp., 10 Illus., 2014
A Question of Sex
Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences
That Matter
Kristan Poirot
It is alive to contradictions in feminist
justice projects and their rhetorics.
Lisa Maria Hogeland
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-089-4
184 pp., June 2014
Lessons from Sarajevo
A War Stories Primer
Jim Hicks
I found Hickss book engaging, provocative,
well researched, and incredibly useful. His
sense of history is both deeply informed and
extremely nuanced.Ammiel Alcalay
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-001-6
216 pp., 26 illus., 2013
Negotiating Culture
Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual
Property
Edited by Laetitia La Follette
Forces a reevaluation of thinking about
cultural disputes.Patty Gerstenblith
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-008-5
216 pp., 2013
Cultural Considerations
Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians
in Postwar America
Joan Shelley Rubin
A masterful blending of big-picture histori-
cal synthesis with vividly rendered debates
and episodes related to the higher registers
of the culture industry.Thomas Augst
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-014-6
208 pp., 2013
Underground Movements
Modern Culture on the New York City
Subway
Sunny Stalter-Pace
A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its
interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and
its comprehensive account of New York sub-
way texts provides a model for historically
and geographically grounded literary re-
search.Hsuan Hsu
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-055-9
240 pp., 4 Illus., 2013
Science/Technology/Culture
From Codex to Hypertext
Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-rst
Century
Edited by Anouk Lang
Interdisciplinary essays that reframe how
we think about reading, selling, sharing,
and publishing books.
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-953-9
272 pp., 18 illus., 2012
Lies About My Family
A Memoir
Amy Hoffman
The tales in this book, replete with
conicting versions and impeccable comic
timing, have clearly been rened over
multiple generations. Hoffman is at her
hilarious best.Alison Bechdel
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-003-0
168 pp., 10 illus., 2013
Out of Brownsville
Encounters with Novel Laureates and
Other Jewish Writers: A Cultural Memoir
Jules Chametzky
A raconteurs timing and wit leaven the
authors perceptive literary intelligence. This
combination is so seductive, the stories so
entertaining and engrossing that we only
gradually come to recognize how gracefully
we have been ushered into serious literary
history.Michael Thelwell
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8
160 pp., 2013
JOURNALISM AND
DIGITAL MEDIA
Covering America
A Narrative History of a Nations Journalism
Christopher B. Daly
Winner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and
Cultural Studies
In this scholarly yet readable volume, Daly
presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed
account of American journalism and the
many ways in which the press has impacted
the trajectory of American history, and vice
versa.Publishers Weekly
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9
544 pp., 73 illus., 2012
The Wired City
Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in
the Post-Newspaper Age
Dan Kennedy
Transcends the exhausting debate over
what journalism startups should look like. It
gets at a more fundamental point: that news
startups, both for-prot and nonprot,
matter.Columbia Journalism Review
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4
192 pp., 2013
Writing the Record
The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock
Criticism
Devon Powers
A pioneering work.American Prospect
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2
176 pp., 2013
The Piracy Crusade
How the Music Industrys War on Sharing
Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties
Aram Sinnreich
A fascinating takedown of the corporate anti-
music-piracy movement, packed with history,
interviews and great pop-cultural references.
Steve Knopper
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-052-8
256 pp., 2013
Science/Technology/Culture
From the Dance Hall to Facebook
Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic
in the United States, 19052010
Shayla Thiel-Stern
In this thorough, clear, and very well written
book, Thiel-Stern makes an absolutely convinc-
ing argument that the mainstream news media
has a part in creating and perpetuating moral
panics about girls.Sarah Banet-Weiser
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-091-7
208 pp., 6 Illus., June 2014
NEW ENGLAND
Second Nature
An Environmental History of New England
Richard W. Judd
Beautifully written . . . both scholarly and
accessible.Dona Brown
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-066-5
344 pp., 2014
Meetinghouses of Early
New England
Peter Benes
Winner of the Cummings Prize
of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Winner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer
America Society
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
An indispensable guide to the
relationship between religion and material
culture in early America.Choice
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2
456 pp., 130 illus., 2012
Northern Hospitality
Cooking by the Book in New England
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
In this unexpected gem in the ocean of
works on food, Stavely and Fitzgerald have
crafted a richly contextualized critical
anthology of New Englands food heritage.
. . . Well done and highly recommended for
foodies and historians.Library Journal
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7
488 pp., 22 illus., 2011
Gateway to Vacationland
The Making of Portland, Maine
John F. Bauman
An extremely well researched overview of
Portlands history. The author does a
particularly good job connecting that
history to the larger national narrative.
Michael J. Rawson
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6
304 pp., 22 illus., 2012
Town Meeting
Practicing Democracy in Rural
New England
Donald L. Robinson
An admirable attempt to give insight into
a distinctively American form of local
governance that remains vibrant in the
21st century.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-855-6
288 pp., 24 illus., 2011
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Boston
Voices and Visions
Edited by Shaun OConnell
It will be the very rare reader who wont nd
[at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar.
Boston Globe
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4
352 pp., 2010
Bostons Cycling Craze,
18801900
A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
Lorenz J. Finison
A compelling morality tale.Thomas Whalen
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0
272 pp., 17 illus., June 2014
A Peoples History of the
New Boston
Jim Vrabel
Vrabel tells many stories with economy
and skill.Robert Allison
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4
288 pp., 17 illus., July 2014
UMass Rising
The University of Massachusetts Amherst
at 150
Katharine Greider
A lively, well-illustrated history of the
university on its sesquicentennial.
$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8
240 pp., 135 color illus., 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" format, 2013
Distributed for University of Massachusetts Amherst
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
Grasses of the Northeast
A Manual of the Grasses of New England
and Adjacent New York
Dennis Magee
A denitive guide to the varieties of grasses
growing in the Northeast
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-098-6
320 pp., 269 illus., June 2014
Flora of the Northeast
A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New
England and Adjacent New York
Dennis W. Magee and Harry E. Ahles
Second edition with companion CD-ROM
Comprehensive and fascinatingeven for
readers far outside this manuals targeting
region.American Scientist
$95.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-577-7
1,264 pp., 2,433 range maps, 995 line drawings,
CD-ROM, 2007
Tidal Wetlands Primer
An Introduction to Their Ecology,
Natural History, Status, and
Conservation
Ralph W. Tiner
An authoritative guide to the ecology of
tidal wetlands in North America
$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1
536 pp., 166 illus., 2013
Field Guide to Tidal Wetland
Plants of the Northeastern
United States and
Neighboring Canada
Vegetation of Beaches, Tidal Flats, Rocky
Shores, Marshes, Swamps, and Coastal
Ponds
Ralph W. Tiner
Drawings by Abigail Rorer
A delight to read and a pleasure to use.
Science Books and Films
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-0-87023-538-2
480 pp., 827 black and white illus., 11 maps, 2008
This Ecstatic Nation
The American Landscape and the
Aesthetics of Patriotism
Terre Ryan
An exciting addition to the growing body of
environmental literature. . . . An intimate
and insightful excursion through Americans
landscape idealism.Environmental History
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-873-0
192 pp., 6 illus., 2011
Peril in the Ponds
Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a
Biologists Quest
Judy Helgen
Peril in the Ponds begins with frogs and
travels the world. Its author is brave, its
evidence convincing, its story compelling. . . .
Read what she has to say . . . and then do
something.Sandra Steingraber
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-946-1
260 pp., 2012
Global Warming and Political
Intimidation
How Politicians Cracked Down on
Scientists as the Earth Heated Up
Raymond S. Bradley
Ray Bradley is one of the scientic heroes
of the ght to slow global warming. . . . His
story is both fascinating and cautionary
about not just our planetary climate, but
our political one as well.Bill McKibben
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-869-3
184 pp., 7 illus., 2011
AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC
Edited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series includes
brief, well written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers.
CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE COLD WAR
Edited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Edwin A. Martini (Western
Michigan University), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the
Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics.
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHEAST
The aim of this new series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of
the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series
editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).
GRACE PALEY PRIZE
Since 1990 the Press has published the annual winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competition,
now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $5,500 award is sponsored by the Association of Writers & Writing
Programs (AWP), an organization that includes over 500 colleges and universities with a strong commit-
ment to teaching creative writing.
JUNIPER PRIZES
Established in 1975, the Juniper Prize for Poetry is awarded annually and carries a $1,500 prize in addi-
tion to publication. The Juniper Prize for Fiction was established in 2004 and also carries a $1,500 prize.
Distinguished writers select the winners.
LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
The Press publishes a range of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprot organization
that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them.
Two new series have been added to this program: Designing the American Park, edited by Ethan Carr (Uni-
versity of Massachusetts Amherst), and Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design, edited
by Daniel J. Nadenicek (University of Georgia).
MASSACHUSETTS STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical
and scholarly works that signicantly advance and regure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.
NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEAST
Books in this series examine the diverse cultures and histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the
Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway (Dart-
mouth College), Jean M. OBrien (University of Minnesota), and Lisa T. Brooks (Amherst College).
PUBLIC HISTORY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series explores how representa-
tions of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends.
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/CULTURE
This interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engaging books that illuminate the role of science and tech-
nology in American life and culture. Series editors are Carolyn de la Pea (University of California Davis)
and Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia).
STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
A substantial list of books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and pub-
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