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contentsNew Books 1

Selected Backlist 21

Series 30

About the Press 31

Digital Editions (E-Books) 31

Contact Information 31

Art Credits 31

Sales Information 32

ordering Information 32

author indexCannon, The Saloon and the Mission 18

Cornell & Kozuskanich, The Second Amendment on Trial 4

Gilbert, Expanding the Strike Zone 5

Henderson, Street Fight 6

Hicks, Lessons from Sarajevo 2

Hoffman, Lies About My Family 3

Kennedy, The Wired City 1

Kowsky, The Best Planned City in the World 7

La Follette, Negotiating Culture 16

Lamson, Starship Tahiti 11

Page, Memories of Buenos Aires 13

Powers, Writing the Record 9

rubin, Cultural Considerations 8

Sarat & Umphrey, Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird 17

Scanlon, The Pro-War Movement 12

Schell, “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men” 19

tiner, Tidal Wetlands Primer 20

tyson, The Wages of History 14

Walker, A Living Exhibition 15

Yates, Some Kinds of Love 10

Cel ebr ating 5 0 Y e ars As the University of Massachusetts marks its 150th anniversary in 2013, we are pleased to be celebrating 50 years of publishing at the University of Massachusetts Press. the technology of book production and distribution continues to evolve at a rapid pace, but our goal remains the same—to produce significant, well written, peer-reviewed books that please the eye and stimulate the mind. We appreciate your interest in our publishing program.

title indexThe Best Planned City in the World, Kowsky 7

“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men,” Schell 19

Cultural Considerations, rubin 8

Expanding the Strike Zone, Gilbert 5

Lessons from Sarajevo, Hicks 2

Lies About My Family, Hoffman 3

A Living Exhibition, Walker 15

Memories of Buenos Aires, Page 13

Negotiating Culture, La Follette 16

The Pro-War Movement, Scanlon 12

Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird, Sarat & Umphrey 17

The Saloon and the Mission, Cannon 18

The Second Amendment on Trial, Cornell & Kozuskanich 4

Some Kinds of Love, Yates 10

Starship Tahiti, Lamson 11

Street Fight, Henderson 6

Tidal Wetlands Primer, tiner 20

The Wages of History, tyson 14

The Wired City, Kennedy 1

Writing the Record, Powers 9

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A vivid, on-the-ground account of the changing face of contemporary journalism

The Wired CityReimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper AgeDan Kennedy

In The Wired City, Dan Kennedy tells the story of the

New Haven Independent, a nonprofit community web-

site in Connecticut that is at the leading edge of rein-

venting local journalism. Through close attention to city

government, schools, and neighborhoods, and through

an ongoing conversation with its readers, the Indepen-

dent’s small staff of journalists has created a promising

model of how to provide members of the public with

the information they need in a self-governing society.

Although the Independent is the principal subject of

The Wired City, Kennedy examines a number of other

online news projects as well, including nonprofit orga-

nizations such as Voice of San Diego and the Connecticut

Mirror and for-profit ventures such as the Batavian,

Baristanet, and CT News Junkie. Where legacy media

such as major city newspapers are cutting back on cov-

erage, entrepreneurs are now moving in to fill at least

some of the vacuum.

The Wired City includes the perspectives of jour-

nalists, activists, and civic leaders who are actively

re-envisioning how journalism can be meaningful in

a hyperconnected age of abundant news sources. Ken-

nedy provides deeper context by analyzing the decline

of the newspaper industry in recent years and, in the

case of those sites choosing such a path, the uneasy

relationship between nonprofit status and the First

Amendment.

At a time of pessimism over the future of journal-

ism, The Wired City offers hope. What Kennedy docu-

ments is not the death of journalism but rather the un-

certain and sometimes painful early stages of rebirth.

“This is the first effort that I’m aware of anywhere

to do a book-length profile of an emerging

genre—the local online news community. . . .

Kennedy does a wonderful job of illustrating this

story through people, incidents, anecdotes, and

then rolling back into the theory and policy

implications. The Wired City is important to

participatory democracy and community.”

—Bill Densmore, director, The Media

Giraffe Project

DAN KeNNeDy is assistant professor of

journalism at Northeastern University and has

been a working journalist for nearly forty years.

He currently contributes to the Huffington Post

and the Nieman Journalism Lab.

Journalism / American History

192 pp.$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-004-7

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What can we learn from thinking about war stories?

Lessons from SarajevoA War Stories PrimerJim Hicks

In today’s world, our television screens are filled with

scenes from countless conflicts across the globe—

commanding our attention and asking us to choose

sides. In this insightful and wide-ranging book,

Jim Hicks treats historical representation, and even

history itself, as a text, asking questions such as Who

is speaking?, Who is the audience?, and What are the

rules for this kind of talk? He argues that we must

understand how war stories are told in order to arm

ourselves against them. In a democracy, we are each

responsible for policy decisions taken on our behalf.

So it is imperative that we gain fluency in the diverse

forms of representation (journalism, photography,

fiction, memoir, comics, cinema) that bring war to us.

Hicks explores the limitations of the sentimental

tradition in war representation and asks how the work

of artists and writers can help us to move beyond

the constraints of that tradition. Ranging from Walt

Whitman’s writings on the Civil War to the U.S. wars

in Iraq and Afghanistan, and focusing on the innovative

and creative artistic expressions arising out of the wars

of the former Yugoslavia, Hicks examines how war has

been perceived, described, and interpreted. He analyzes

the limitations on knowledge caused by perspective and

narrative position and looks closely at the distinct yet

overlapping roles of victims, observers, and aggressors.

In the end, he concludes, war stories today should be

valued according to the extent they make it impossible

for us to see these positions as assigned in advance, and

immutable.

“Lessons from Sarajevo introduces such a variety

of war stories in such vivid terms that almost all

readers will find themselves—as I did—heading

straight for the Internet to look up films and

order books. Hicks has written a book that

should stimulate much discussion about a topic

that is—unfortunately—not about to go away.”

—Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional

Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of

Decolonization

“I found Hicks’s book engaging, provocative, well

researched, and incredibly useful. His sense of

history is both deeply informed and extremely

nuanced. . . . He is quite adept at choosing

exemplary moments or texts to concisely and

efficiently illustrate complex arguments. . . . This

is a book whose claims and arguments deserve

attention.”

—Ammiel Alcalay, author of After Jews and Arabs:

Remaking Levantine Culture

JIM HICKS is editor of The Massachusetts Review

and teaches comparative literature at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Cultural Studies / Literary Studies

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With humor, insight, and honesty, a Jewish lesbian explores her family history

Lies About My FamilyA MemoirAmy Hoffman

This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories

that are told and the ones that are not told, and about

the ways the meanings of the stories change down the

generations. It is about memory and the spaces between

memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.

All of Amy Hoffman’s grandparents came to the

United States during the early twentieth century from

areas in Poland and Russia that are now Belarus and

Ukraine. Like millions of immigrants, they left their

homes because of hopeless poverty, looking for better

lives or at the least a chance of survival. Because of

the luck, hard work, and resourcefulness of the earlier

generations, Hoffman and her five siblings grew up in

a middle-class home, healthy, well fed, and well educat-

ed. An American success story? Not quite—or at least

not quite the standard version. Hoffman’s research

in the Ellis Island archives along with interviews with

family members reveal that the real lives of these rela-

tives were far more complicated and interesting than

their documents might suggest.

Hoffman and her siblings grew up as observant

Jews in a heavily Catholic New Jersey suburb, as politi-

cal progressives in a town full of Republicans, as read-

ers in a school full of football players and their fans.

As a young lesbian, she distanced herself from her par-

ents, who didn’t understand her choice, and from the

Jewish community, with its organization around family

and unquestioning Zionism. However, both she and

her parents changed and evolved, and by the end of this

engaging narrative, they have come to new understand-

ings, of themselves and one another.

“The tales in this book, replete with conflicting ver-

sions and impeccable comic timing, have clearly

been refined over multiple generations. Hoffman is

at her hilarious best. Who would have thought that

a memoir about a functional family could be so

wrenching, and so hysterically funny?”

—Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother?:

A Comic Drama

“An all-American coming-of-age story about a

nice Jewish lesbian and her large family. Amy

Hoffman’s wise memoir embraces three genera-

tions and the ‘lies’ (mostly true) they tell about

themselves and each other.”

—Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent

AMy HoffMAN is editor in chief of the

Women’s Review of Books and a faculty member

in the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing at Pine

Manor College. She is author of An Army of

Ex-Lovers: My Life at the “Gay Community News”

and Hospital Time.

Autobiography / Jewish Studies / LGBT Studies

168 pp., 12 illus.$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-003-0

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-002-3

April 2013


Leading scholars reassess a landmark Supreme Court decision on guns and gun control

The Second Amendment on TrialCritical essays on District of Columbia v. Heller Edited by Saul Cornell and Nathan Kozuskanich

On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S.

Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down

the District of Columbia’s stringent gun control laws as

a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost

seventy years of settled precedent, the high court rein-

terpreted the meaning of the “right of the people to keep

and bear arms” to affirm an individual right to own a

gun in the home for purposes of self-defense. The land-

mark ruling not only opened a new chapter in the con-

tentious history of gun rights and gun control but also

revealed both the strengths and problems of originalist

constitutional theory and jurisprudence.

This volume brings together some of the best scholar-

ship on the Heller case, with essays by legal scholars and

historians representing a range of ideological viewpoints

and applying different interpretive frameworks. Follow-

ing the editors’ introduction, which describes the issues

involved and the arguments on each side, the essays are

organized into four sections. The first includes two of the

most important historical briefs filed in the case, while

the second offers different views of the role of originalist

theory. Section three presents opposing interpretations of

the ruling and its relationship to modern constitutional

doctrine. The final section explores historical research

post-Heller, including new findings on patterns of gun

ownership in colonial and Revolutionary America.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Nelson

Lund, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Jack Rakove, Reva B. Siegel,

Cass R. Sunstein, Kevin M. Sweeney, and J. Harvey

Wilkinson III.

“The Second Amendment on Trial should appeal

not only to legal scholars and law students, but

also to historians, political scientists, and sociolo-

gists with an interest in the constitutional aspects

of firearms. The essays represent a variety of

perspectives, some of which are sympathetic

to the Court’s decision, and some of which

are quite critical. The quality of the scholarship

is uniformly very high.”

—Lawrence Rosenthal, Chapman University

Law School

“A welcome addition to the ongoing debate

about the role of guns in American history

and in contemporary American culture.”

—Jan Dizard, coeditor of Guns in America:

A Historical Reader

SAUL CoRNeLL is Paul and Diane Guenther

Chair in American History at Fordham

University. NATHAN KozUSKANICH is

associate professor of history at Nipissing

University.

Legal Studies / American History

376 pp.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-995-9$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-55849-994-2

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explores the cultural impact of the global expansion of baseball in the postwar era

Expanding the Strike ZoneBaseball in the Age of free AgencyDaniel A. Gilbert

With its iconic stars and gleaming ballparks, baseball

has been one of the most captivating forms of modern

popular culture. In Expanding the Strike Zone, Daniel A.

Gilbert examines the history and meaning of the sport’s

tumultuous changes since the mid-twentieth century,

amid Major League Baseball’s growing global influence.

From the rise of ballplayer unionism to the emergence

of new forms of scouting, broadcasting, and stadium

development, Gilbert shows that the baseball world has

been home to struggles over work and territory that

resonate far beyond the playing field.

Readers encounter both legendary and unheralded

figures in this sweeping history, which situates Major

League Baseball as part of a larger culture industry.

The book examines a labor history defined at once

by the growing power of big league stars—from Juan

Marichal and Curt Flood to Fernando Valenzuela and

Ichiro Suzuki—and the collective struggles of players

working to make a living throughout the baseball world.

It also explores the territorial politics that have defined

baseball’s development as a form of transnational

popular culture, from the impact of Dominican baseball

academies to the organized campaign against stadium

development by members of Seattle’s Asian American

community.

Based on a rich body of research along with new

readings of popular journalism, fiction, and film,

Expanding the Strike Zone highlights the ways in which

baseball’s players, owners, writers, and fans have

shaped and reshaped the sport as a central element

of popular culture from the postwar boom to the

Great Recession.

“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—and by

implication the larger world—by focusing on

events laden with contested cultural meaning.”

—Daniel A. Nathan, author of Saying It’s So: A

Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal

DANIeL A. GILBeRT is assistant professor in

the School of Labor and Employment Relations

at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

American Studies / Sports

224 pp., 15 illus.$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-997-3

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-55849-996-6

August 2013


What the experience of San francisco reveals about the debate over urban transportation

Street FightThe Struggle over Urban Mobility in San franciscoJason Henderson

Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution,

cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on

automobiles. In the United States a loosely organized

livability movement seeks to reduce car use by reconfig-

uring urban space into denser, transit-oriented, walkable

forms, a development pattern also associated with smart

growth and new urbanism. Through a detailed case

study of San Francisco, Jason Henderson examines how

this is not just a struggle over what type of transportation

is best for the city, but a series of ideologically charged

political fights over issues of street space, public policy,

and social justice.

Historically San Francisco has hosted many activist

demonstrations over its streets, from the freeway revolts of

the 1960s to the first Critical Mass bicycle rides decades

later. Today the city’s planning and advocacy establishment

is changing zoning laws to limit the number of parking

spaces, encouraging new car-free housing near transit

stations, and applying “transit first” policies, such as

restricted bus lanes. Yet Henderson warns that the city’s

accomplishments should not be romanticized. Despite

significant gains by livability advocates, automobiles con-

tinue to dominate the streets, and the city’s financially

strained bus system is slow and often unreliable.

Both optimistic and cautionary, Henderson argues

that ideology must be understood as part of the struggle

for sustainable cities and that three competing points of

view—progressive, neoliberal, and conservative—have

come to dominate the contemporary discourse about ur-

ban mobility. San Francisco offers a compelling example

of how the debate over sustainable urban transportation

may unfold both in the United States and globally.

“Henderson does a first-rate job of situating

San francisco within the larger transportation/

mobility politics, both historically and contemp-

orarily. . . . He considers the politics of challeng-

ing and replacing automobility in a rigorous and

well-informed way.”

—Lisa Benton-Short, coeditor of City & Nature

and Migrants in the Metropolis

“Street Fight addresses a timely and important

topic: mobility in contemporary cities. And it

offers insight into the complex and convoluted

political machinations surrounding urban

development questions as well as transportation

policy.”

—Louise Nelson Dyble, author of Paying the Toll:

Local Power, Regional Politics, and the

Golden Gate Bridge

JASoN HeNDeRSoN is associate professor of

geography at San Francisco State University.

Geography / Urban History


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The definitive account of the creation and development of the country’s first urban park system

The Best Planned City in the Worldolmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park SystemFrancis R. Kowsky

New photography by Andy Olenick

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert

Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo,

New York, that drew national and international attention.

The improvements carefully augmented the city’s origi-

nal plan with urban design features inspired by Second

Empire Paris, including the first system of “parkways”

to grace an American city. Displaying the plan at the

Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Olmsted declared

Buffalo “the best planned city, as to streets, public places,

and grounds, in the United States, if not in the world.”

Olmsted and Vaux dissolved their historic partner-

ship in 1872, but Olmsted continued his association

with the Queen City of the Lakes, designing additional

parks and laying out important sites within the grow-

ing metropolis. When Niagara Falls was threatened by

industrial development, he led a campaign to protect

the site and in 1885 succeeded in persuading New York

to create the Niagara Reservation, the present Niagara

Falls State Park. Two years later, Olmsted and Vaux

teamed up again, this time to create a plan for the

area around the Falls, a project the two grand masters

regarded as “the most difficult problem in landscape

architecture to do justice to.”

In this book Francis R. Kowsky illuminates this

remarkable constellation of projects. Utilizing original

plans, drawings, photographs, and copious numbers

of reports and letters, he brings new perspective to this

vast undertaking, analyzing it as a cohesive expression

of the visionary landscape and planning principles that

Olmsted and Vaux pioneered.

“The Best Planned City in the World is well

organized, very well written, and has the advan-

tage of the author’s long acquaintance with

frederick Withers, Calvert Vaux, and frederick

Law olmsted. It is an invaluable study.”

—David Schuyler, author of Sanctified

Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson

River Valley, 1820–1909

fRANCIS R. KoWSKy is SUNY Distinguished

Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus.

Landscape Architecture / Urban History

304 pp., 100 color and 100 black-and-white illus., 8 1/2" x 11" format$39.95 jacketed hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1

June 2013

A volume in the series Designing the American Park, published in association with Library of American Landscape History


A wide-ranging exploration of the complexities of cultural mediation

Cultural Considerationsessays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar AmericaJoan Shelley Rubin

A highly regarded scholar in the fields of American

cultural history and print culture, Joan Shelley Rubin

is best known for her writings on the values, assump-

tions, and anxieties that have shaped American life, as

reflected in both “high” culture and the experiences of

ordinary people. In this volume, she continues that work

by exploring processes of mediation that texts undergo

as they pass from producers to audiences, while eluci-

dating as well the shifting, contingent nature of cultural

hierarchy.

Focusing on aspects of American literary and musical

culture in the decades after World War II, Rubin exam-

ines the contests between critics and their readers over

the authority to make aesthetic judgments; the effort of

academics to extend the university outward by bringing

the humanities to a wide public; the politics of setting

poetic texts to music; the role of ideology in the practice

of commissioning and performing choral works; and

the uses of reading in the service of both individualism

and community. Specific topics include the 1957 attack

by the critic John Ciardi on the poetry of Anne Morrow

Lindbergh in the Saturday Review; the radio broadcasts

of the classicist Gilbert Highet; Dwight Macdonald’s vit-

riolic depiction of the novelist James Gould Cozzens as a

pernicious middlebrow; the composition and reception

of Howard Hanson’s “Song of Democracy”; the varied

career of musician Gunther Schuller; the liberal human-

ism of America’s foremost twentieth-century choral

conductor, Robert Shaw; and the place of books in the

student and women’s movements of the 1960s.

“Rubin’s is a distinctive scholarly voice that pro-

vides a bridge between the print culture scholars

and the broader field of American intellectual and

cultural history. Her concerns with cultural hierar-

chy and mediation tie her more firmly to the first

group; her concerns with cultural tensions, am-

bivalences, and modes of middlebrow thinking

and belief link her to the second. Neither group

is, I suspect, aware of the full range of her writ-

ings, and this collection will prove invaluable in

bringing the entire spectrum of her work to the

attention of diverse groups of scholars.”

—Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas at Dallas

“A masterful blending of big-picture historical

synthesis with vividly rendered debates and

episodes related to the higher registers of the

culture industry.”

—Thomas Augst, New york University

JoAN SHeLLey RUBIN is professor of history

at the University of Rochester. She is author of

The Making of Middlebrow Culture and Songs of

Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America.

American History / Print Culture / Music


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examines the intellectual contributions and lasting impact of pioneering rock critics

Writing the RecordThe Village Voice and the Birth of Rock CriticismDevon Powers

During the mid-1960s, a small group of young journal-

ists made it their mission to write about popular music,

especially rock, as something worthy of serious intel-

lectual scrutiny. Their efforts not only transformed the

perspective on the era’s music but revolutionized how

Americans have come to think, talk, and write about

popular music ever since.

In Writing the Record, Devon Powers explores this

shift by focusing on The Village Voice, a key publication

in the rise of rock criticism. Revisiting the work of early

pop critics such as Richard Goldstein and Robert Christ-

gau, Powers shows how they stood at the front lines of

the mass culture debates, challenging old assumptions

and hierarchies and offering pioneering political and

social critiques of the music. Part of a college-educated

generation of journalists, Voice critics explored connec-

tions between rock and contemporary intellectual trends

such as postmodernism, identity politics, and critical

theory. In so doing, they became important forerunners

of the academic study of popular culture that would

emerge during the 1970s.

Drawing on archival materials, interviews, and in-

sights from media and cultural studies, Powers not only

narrates a story that has been long overlooked but also

argues that pop music criticism has been an important

channel for the expression of public intellectualism. This

is a history that is particularly relevant today, given the

challenges faced by criticism of all stripes in our current

media environment. Powers makes the case for the value

of well-informed cultural criticism in an age when it is

often suggested that “everyone is a critic.”

“This book is sure to create quite a stir, particu-

larly vis-à-vis its persuasive claims about Robert

Christgau and Richard Goldstein as major figures

in postwar intellectual history. Through a focus

on The Village Voice, Powers makes it clear that

the institutionalization of popular music criticism

carried with it some significant claims not only

about the music itself, but also about the

commentary upon it.”

—Jeffrey Melnick, author of 9/11 Culture

DeVoN PoWeRS is assistant professor

of culture and communication at Drexel

University.

Journalism / American Studies / Music

176 pp.$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-011-5

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Winner of the Juniper Prize for fiction

Some Kinds of LoveStoriesSteve Yates

Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but deprav-

ity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks,

New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers

clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obses-

siveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and

yet find new barriers, realizing true love may not be

at all what they imagined. Pioneers, limestone quarry

owners, young German American Civil War survivors,

bankers, sex toy catalog designers, highway engineers,

Pakistani terrorists, attorneys, missile guidance master-

minds, and furniture factory workers (who can see the

future) populate these pieces. From the Ozarks of the

1830s, when locals perceive doomsday in a historic star-

fall, to the near future at an all-night slow-pitch softball

tournament when Armageddon looms yet again, these

stories chart the dark side of love, the ties that bind

families, and the sweet complications of human desire.

“Some Kinds of Love is a richly entertaining book—inven-

tive, irreverent, and, finally, moving. Steve yates’s well-

drawn cast of characters tracks love into its darkest cor-

ners with astonishing results. This wildly imagined, wise

book surprises—in the best way possible—until the very

last page.”

—Sabina Murray, Juniper Prize contest judge and author

of The Caprices and Tales of the New World

“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 yates’s range of

subject, setting, mood, and effect, from the quiet,

ghastly intrigue of ‘Hunter, Seeker’ to the blowout

hilarity of the Green Tomato Marquesa’s triumph.

In Steve yates’s stories, pigs really do fly. He is a

brilliant, and brilliantly inventive, writer, and this

book is sheer delight from beginning to end.”

—Ben fountain, author of Brief Encounters with

Che Guevara: Stories and Billy Lynn’s Long

Halftime Walk

“Steve yates’s stories have that far-underrated

quality: range. yates writes across genres,

cultures, sexual borders, and always brings it

home. The stories are funny, sad, sometimes

wonderfully odd, always inventive and intelligent.

yates is a truly fresh and interesting voice in a

time when too often we seem to celebrate the

flashy fiction of me, me, me.”

—Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of

Their Lives: Stories and The Heaven of Mercury

STeVe yATeS is the author of the novel Morkan’s

Quarry. His short stories have appeared in

many journals, including Missouri Review,

Southwest Review, and TriQuarterly. A graduate

of the MFA program at the University of

Arkansas, he is assistant director/marketing

director at the University Press of Mississippi.

fiction

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Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Starship TahitiPoemsBrandon Dean Lamson

The poems in Brandon Dean Lamson’s first volume,

Starship Tahiti, explore imprisoned bodies and the

tension between captivity and imagination. Beginning

on Rikers Island, the book traces a creation myth in

reverse, moving from prison to the spacious arches of

Grand Central Station to the shores of the Chesapeake

Bay.

Lamson examines themes of violence, gender, and

identity in various real and imagined settings where

inmates read Antigone, Howlin’ Wolf sings in a black

barbershop, and Metallica records burn on a Viking

altar. Throughout these shifts, the poems construct

fractured narratives that subvert linear storytelling.

The layering of voice and imagery in this collection

transgresses boundaries between the secular and the

sacred, and between the communal and the personal.

As the speaker of “Portland Bardo” says,

The fragile, in between state of larvae hatching

is no less desirable than full bloom in a city of roses,

if such a city can ever be found.

“To be a teacher in a prison, as Brandon Lamson

shows us in these grave and unsettling poems,

is to take on something akin to the role of Virgil

in the Divine Comedy. Like that earlier illustrious

guide, Lamson views the inhabitants of inferno

and purgatory with neither horror nor pity,

and this terse objectivity pervades his position

toward contemporary urban culture in general.

Like Thom Gun, whom he often resembles,

Lamson finds a way to view our cityscapes and

their squalor as places of gritty amazement

and serendipitously discovered wonders. Still,

these poems insist that the Panopticon, the

metal detector, and the searing light of history

watch and scan our every move, indicting us all.

Starship Tahiti is an outstanding debut.”

—David Wojahn, author of World Tree and

Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems,

1982–2004

BRANDoN DeAN LAMSoN is assistant professor

of English at Bethany College. Before earning a PhD

in literature and creative writing at the University of

Houston, he taught for three years at an alternative

school on Rikers Island in New York. He is the author

of a chapbook titled Houston Gothic, and his poems

have appeared in many places, including Brilliant

Corners, Nano Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, and Hunger.

Poetry

72 pp.$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-2

March 2013


How the Vietnam War altered the trajectory the American conservative movement

The Pro-War MovementDomestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American ConservatismSandra Scanlon

In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been

written about the antiwar movement and its influence

on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon

shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war

and explores the war’s impact on the burgeoning conser-

vative political movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Believing the Vietnam War to be a just and neces-

sary cause, the pro-war movement pushed for more

direct American military intervention in Southeast Asia

throughout the Kennedy administration, lobbied for in-

tensified bombing during the Johnson years, and offered

coherent, if divided, endorsements of Nixon’s policies

of phased withdrawal. Although its political wing was

dominated by individuals and organizations associated

with Barry Goldwater’s presidential bids, the movement

incorporated a broad range of interests and groups united

by a shared antipathy to the New Deal order and liberal

Cold War ideology.

Appealing to patriotism, conservative leaders initially

rallied popular support in favor of total victory and later

endorsed Nixon’s call for “peace with honor.” Yet as the

war dragged on with no clear end in sight, internal divi-

sions eroded the confidence of pro-war conservatives in

achieving their aims and forced them to reevaluate the

political viability of their hardline Cold War rhetoric. Con-

servatives still managed to make use of grassroots patri-

otic campaigns to marshal support for the war, particu-

larly among white ethnic workers opposed to the antiwar

movement. Yet in so doing, Scanlon concludes, they al-

tered the nature and direction of the conservative agenda

in both foreign and domestic policy for years to come.

“A definitive history of how the pro-war argument

was constructed in America during the Vietnam

War, and also how the conservative movement

developed a complex and variegated response to

the conflict.”

—Gregory L. Schneider, author of Cadres for

Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and

the Rise of the Contemporary Right

SANDRA SCANLoN is lecturer in American

history at University College, Dublin.

American History / American Politics / Vietnam War


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An interpretive guide to sites of terror and the grassroots memorials to victims of Argentina’s “Dirty War”

Memories of Buenos AiresSigns of State Terrorism in ArgentinaEdited with an introduction by Max Page. Epilogue by Ilan Stavans

In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the “Dirty

War,” a violent campaign by authoritarian South

American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any

others who were deemed subversive. Over the course

of a decade, Argentina’s military rulers tortured and

murdered upwards of 30,000 citizens. Even today, after

thirty years of democratic rule, the horror of that time

continues to roil Argentine society.

Argentina has also been in the vanguard in deter-

mining how to preserve sites of torture, how to remem-

ber the “disappeared,” and how to reflect on the causes

of the Dirty War. Across the capital city of Buenos Aires

are hundreds of grassroots memorials to the victims,

documenting the scope of the state’s reign of terror.

Although many books have been written about this era

in Argentina’s history, the original Spanish-language

edition of Memories of Buenos Aires was the first to iden-

tify and interpret all of these sites. It was published by

the human rights organization Memoria Abierta, which

used interviews with survivors to help unearth that

painful history.

This translation brings this important work to an

English-speaking audience, offering a comprehensive

guidebook to clandestine sites of horror as well as in-

novative sites of memory. The book divides the 48

districts of the city into 9 sectors, and then proceeds

neighborhood-by-neighborhood to offer descriptions

of 202 known “sites of state terrorism” and 38 addition-

al places where people were illegally detained, tortured,

and killed by the government.

MAx PAGe is professor of architecture and

history at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst. ILAN STAVANS is Lewis-Sebring

Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture

at Amherst College.

Latin American History / Public History

304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8

August 2013

A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective


An illuminating look inside the world of “living history” museum workers

The Wages of Historyemotional Labor on Public History’s front Lines Amy Tyson

Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at

a living history museum may well have wondered

what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing

muskets while dressed in period clothing. In The

Wages of History, Amy Tyson enters the world of the

public history interpreters at Minnesota’s Historic

Fort Snelling to investigate how they understand their

roles and experience their daily work. Drawing on

archival research, personal interviews, and participant

observation, she reframes the current discourse on

history museums by analyzing interpreters as laborers

within the larger service and knowledge economies.

Although many who are drawn to such work initially

see it as a privilege—an opportunity to connect with

the public in meaningful ways through the medium of

history—the realities of the job almost inevitably alter

that view. Not only do interpreters make considerable

sacrifices, both emotional and financial, in order to

pursue their work, but their sense of special status can

lead them to avoid confronting troubling conditions on

the job, at times fueling tensions in the workplace.

This case study also offers insights—many drawn

from the author’s seven years of working as an

interpreter at Fort Snelling—into the way gendered

roles and behaviors from the past play out among

the workers, the importance of creative autonomy to

historical interpreters, and the ways those on public

history’s front lines both resist and embrace the site’s

more difficult and painful histories relating to slavery

and American Indian genocide.

“A sophisticated analysis that brings together the

politics of gender with the aesthetics of historical

performance and the materialist sensibilities of

political economy—truly a multifaceted approach

that adds something quite new to the critical

literature on public history.”

—Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell

Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City

AMy TySoN is assistant professor of history at

DePaul University.

American History / Public History / Labor Studies


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How the evolution of the Smithsonian Institution has mirrored broader changes in American culture

A Living ExhibitionThe Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum William S. Walker

Since its founding in 1846 “for the increase and diffu-

sion of knowledge,” the Smithsonian Institution has

been an important feature of the American cultural

landscape. In A Living Exhibition, William S. Walker

examines the tangled history of cultural exhibition at

the Smithsonian from its early years to the chartering

of the National Museum of the American Indian in

1989. He tracks the transformation of the institution

from its original ideal as a “universal museum” intend-

ed to present the totality of human experience to the

variegated museum and research complex of today.

Walker pays particular attention to the half century

following World War II, when the Smithsonian signifi-

cantly expanded. Focusing on its exhibitions of cultural

history, cultural anthropology, and folk life, he places

the Smithsonian within the larger context of Cold War

America and the social movements of the 1960s, ’70s,

and ’80s. Organized chronologically, the book uses the

lens of the Smithsonian’s changing exhibitions to show

how institutional decisions become intertwined with

broader public debates about pluralism, multicultural-

ism, and decolonization.

Yet if a trend toward more culturally specific muse-

ums and exhibitions characterized the postwar history of

the institution, its leaders and curators did not abandon

the vision of the universal museum. Instead, Walker

shows, even as the Smithsonian evolved into an extensive

complex of museums, galleries, and research centers, it

continued to negotiate the imperatives of cultural conver-

gence as well as divergence, embodying both a desire to

put everything together and a need to take it all apart.

“A Living Exhibition offers new insight into

the workings of the Smithsonian Institution,

putting it into the context of the history of ideas.

William Walker provides a new coherence to the

institution’s history, making sense of its recent

decades as a part of a century-long debate

over the proper balance of universalism and

specificity.”

—Steven Lubar, coauthor of Legacies: Collecting

America’s History at the Smithsonian

WILLIAM S. WALKeR is assistant professor of

history, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY

Oneonta.

American History / Public History / Museum Studies

304 pp., 20 illus.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-025-2

July 2013A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective


A wide-ranging collection that asks the question, Who owns culture?

Negotiating CultureHeritage, ownership, and Intellectual Property Edited by Laetitia La Follette

Rival claims of ownership or control over various

aspects of culture are a regular feature of our

twenty-first-century world. Such debates are shaping

disciplines as diverse as anthropology and archaeology,

art history and museum studies, linguistics and

genetics.

This provocative collection of essays—a series of

case studies in cultural ownership by scholars from a

range of fields—explores issues of cultural heritage

and intellectual property in a variety of contexts, from

contests over tangible artifacts as well as more abstract

forms of culture such as language and oral traditions

to current studies of DNA and genes that combine

nature and culture, and even new, nonproprietary

models for the sharing of digital technologies. Each

chapter sets the debate in its historical and disciplinary

context and suggests how the approaches to these

issues are changing or should change.

One of the most innovative aspects of the volume is

the way each author recognizes the social dimensions

of group ownership and demonstrates the need for

negotiation and new models. The collection as a whole

thus challenges the reader to reevaluate traditional

ways of thinking about cultural ownership and to

examine the broader social contexts within which

negotiation over the ownership of culture is taking

place.

In addition to Laetitia La Follette, contributors

include David Bollier, Stephen Clingman, Susan

DiGiacomo, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, Margaret Speas, Banu

Subramaniam, Joe Watkins, and H. Martin Wobst.

“The essays in this collection take on the subject

of ownership and culture in an innovative inter-

disciplinary context that challenges the reader and

forces a reevaluation of thinking about cultural

disputes.”

—Patty Gerstenblith, author of Art, Cultural

Heritage, and the Law

LAeTITIA LA foLLeTTe is associate professor

of art history at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst.

Anthropology / Art History / Legal Studies


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Reevaluates the legal and cultural significance of an iconic American film

Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbirdfamily, Community, and the Possibility of equal Justice under LawEdited by Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey

Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper

Lee’s acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collec-

tion of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text

in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and ex-

amine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community,

and the events that occur there through the interdisci-

plinary lens of law and humanities scholarship.

The readings in this volume peel back the film’s

visual representation of the many-layered social world

of Maycomb, Alabama, offering sometimes counter-

intuitive insights through the prism of a number of

provocative contemporary theoretical and interpretive

questions. What, they ask, is the relationship between

the subversion of social norms and the doing of justice

or injustice? Through what narrative and visual devices

are some social hierarchies destabilized while others

remain hegemonic? How should we understand the

sacrifices characters make in the name of justice, and

comprehend their failures in achieving it?

Asking such questions casts light on the film’s

eccentricities and internal contradictions and suggests

the possibility of new interpretations of a culturally

iconic text. The book examines the context that gave

meaning to the film’s representation of race and how

debates about family, community, and race are played

out and reframed in law.

Contributors include Colin Dayan, Thomas L.

Dumm, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Linda Ross Meyer,

Naomi Mezey, Imani Perry, and Ravit Reichman.

“Reimagining ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ will have a

wide audience. As the editors make clear, this

beloved story is beloved for a reason. It resonates

with each American generation of schoolchildren

and college students. This is because of both the

richness of the story and the failure of the United

States to substantially move beyond the civil

rights paradigm of individualized racial justice.

The contributors to this volume write well—

clearly, directly, and engagingly—and each chap-

ter stands on its own, which will make the book

teachable.”

— Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School

AUSTIN SARAT is William Nelson Cromwell

Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science

at Amherst College. MARTHA MeRRILL

UMPHRey is professor of law, jurisprudence,

and social thought at Amherst College.

Legal Studies / American Studies / film Studies

208 pp., 9 illus.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-016-0

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-015-3

June 2013


A fresh look at the roles that recovery stories have played in American culture

The Saloon and the MissionAddiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American CultureEoin Cannon

Since the middle of the nineteenth century, sobriety

movements have flourished in America during periods

of social and economic crisis. From the boisterous

working-class temperance meetings of the 1840s to the

quiet beginnings of Alcoholics Anonymous in the

1930s, alcoholics have banded together for mutual sup-

port. Each time they have developed new ways of telling

their stories, and in the process they have shaped how

Americans think about addiction, the self, and society.

In this book Eoin Cannon illuminates the role that

sobriety movements have played in placing notions of

personal and societal redemption at the heart of mod-

ern American culture. He argues against the dominant

scholarly perception that recovery narratives are private

and apolitical, showing that in fact the genre’s conven-

tions turn private experience to public political purpose.

His analysis ranges from neglected social reformer

Helen Stuart Campbell’s embrace of the “gospel rescue

missions” of postbellum New York City to William

James’s use of recovery stories to consider the regenera-

tive capabilities of the mind, to writers such as Upton

Sinclair and Djuna Barnes, who used this narrative

form in much different ways.

Cannon argues that rather than isolating recovery

from these realms of wider application, the New Deal–

era Alcoholics Anonymous refitted the “drunkard’s

conversion” as a model of selfhood for the liberal era,

allowing for a spiritual redemption story that could ac-

commodate a variety of identities and compulsions. He

concludes by considering how contemporary recovery

narratives represent both a crisis in liberal democracy

and a potential for redemptive social progress.

“The Saloon and the Mission offers a unique con-

tribution for historians of numerous specialties

(cultural, literary, religious) as well as those

specializing in alcohol or drug studies. I know

of no other work that offers such a sweeping

synthesis of the evolution of the addiction recov-

ery narrative and how it emerged from and has

evolved within particular historical contexts.”

—William L. White, author of Slaying the Dragon:

The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery

in America

eoIN CANNoN serves as assistant director of

Studies for the America Field in History and

Literature at Harvard University.

American Studies / Addiction Studies

320 pp., 8 Illus.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-993-5$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-55849-992-8

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Why whaling narratives have had such a significant place in the American imagination

“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”The Lives and Literature of American WhalemenJennifer Schell

In his novel Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fishermen

(1834), Joseph C. Hart proclaimed that his characters

were “a bold and hardy race of men,” who deserved the

“expressive title of American Whale-Fishermen.” Hart

was not the only American author to applaud these

physical laborers as the embodiment of national man-

hood. Heroic portraits of whalers first appeared in

American literature during the 1780s, and they prolif-

erated across time. Writers as various as Lydia Howard

Huntley Sigourney, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whit-

man celebrated the talents of the seafarers who trans-

formed the New England whale fishery into a globally

dominant industry. But these images did not go un-

challenged. Alternative visions—some of which under-

mined the iconic status of the trade and its workers—

began to proliferate. Even so, these depictions did very

little to dismantle the notion that whaling men were

prime exemplars of a proud American work ethic.

To explain why this industry had such a widespread

and enduring impact on American literature, Jennifer

Schell juxtaposes and analyzes a wide array of eigh-

teenth- and nineteenth-century whaling narratives.

Drawing on various studies of masculinity, labor his-

tory, and transnationalism, Schell shows how this par-

ticular type of maritime work, and the traits and values

associated with it, helped to shape the American liter-

ary, cultural, and historical imagination. In the process,

she reveals the diverse, flexible, and often contradictory

meanings of gender, class, and nation in nineteenth-

century America.

“Schell identifies an extensive, distinct, and yet

diverse body of literature on whaling and clearly

establishes its significance in the early nationalist

discourse of the United States. . . . The book

is poised to make a significant contribution to

the important, emerging body of scholarship

termed ‘oceanic’ studies.”

—James Salazar, author of Bodies of Reform: The

Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

“Jennifer Schell has written a rich and intriguing

book that brings a different perspective to our

understanding of American whalemen.”

—Mary K. Bercaw edwards, author of Cannibal

Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works

JeNNIfeR SCHeLL is assistant professor of

English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

American Literature / American Studies

296 pp.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-020-7

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-019-1

August 2013


An authoritative guide to the ecology of tidal wetlands in North America

Tidal Wetlands PrimerAn Introduction to Their ecology, Natural History, Status, and ConservationRalph W. Tiner

At a time when more than half of the U.S. population

lives within fifty miles of the coast, tidal wetlands are a

critical and threatened natural resource. The purpose of

this book is to introduce the world of tidal wetlands to

students and professionals in the environmental fields

and others with an interest in the subject.

Illustrated with maps, photographs, and diagrams,

this volume provides a clear account of the factors that

make these habitats unique and vulnerable. It discusses

their formation, the conditions affecting their plant

and animal life, and the diversity of types across North

America, as well as their history, use by wildlife and

humans, current status, conservation, restoration, and

likely future. The emphasis is on vegetated wetlands—

marshes and swamps—with additional discussion of

eelgrass meadows, rocky shores, beaches, and tidal flats.

Ralph Tiner’s previous field guides to coastal wet-

land plants in the Northeast and Southeast have been

widely praised. Tidal Wetlands Primer joins Tiner’s

earlier publications as an authoritative and user-friendly

guide that should appeal to anyone with a serious

interest in coastal habitats.

RALPH W. TINeR is regional wetland coordinator for

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and has served as

an adjunct professor in the Department of Plant, Soil,

and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst. He is a nationally recognized wetland

ecologist and author of more than two hundred

publications.

Praise for Ralph Tiner’s Field Guide to Tidal

Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States

and Neighboring Canada:

“A delight to read and a pleasure to use. . . .

Whether you are a botanist, a wetland ecologist,

or someone with an interest in wetland plants,

this useful and attractive book should be on your

bookshelf.” —Science Books and Films

“Very suitable for its intended audience of ‘non-

technical’ persons interested in coastal habitats

such as conservation commissioners, environ-

mental consultants, and students in botany,

ecology, and environmental science.”—Choice

“The only text of its kind. . . . Recommended for

all coastal enthusiasts and will be an excellent

guide for visits to any coastal site in the area of

coverage.” —Wildlife Review

Botany / environmental Studies

560 pp., 166 illus., 7" x 10" format$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1

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BACKLISTSelected

Listed below are recent titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional information on more than 1,000 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE A Kind of ArcheologyCollecting American Folk Art, 1876–1976Elizabeth Stillinger“In her always lucid prose, Stillinger identi-fies the players and their key contributions to the field’s evolution. . . . It is hard to con-ceive of a more thoughtful or thorough guide.”—Antiques and the Arts Weekly$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-744-3464 pp., 223 color & 139 black-and-white illus., 2011

Creating a World on PaperHarry Fenn’s Career in ArtSue RaineyThe first biography of a widely popular nineteenth-century illustrator. “Clearly written and packed with new information. The author has mined a great variety of primary sources to excellent advantage.” —Katherine Manthorne$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9516 pp., 43 color and 150 black-and-white illus., February 2013

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Frederic CrowninshieldA Renaissance Man in the Gilded AgeGertrude de G. Wilmers and Julie L. Sloan“This beautifully produced biography of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century American artist, author, and arts adminis-trator Frederic Crowninshield was meticu-lously researched and written. . . . [It] offers an extensive description and analysis of Crowninshield’s stained glass windows, murals, and paintings and places them in social, artistic, and historical context.” —Choice$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-864-8352 pp., 76 color & 27 black-and-white illus., 2010

Community by DesignThe Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, MassachusettsKeith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. ReedA beautifully produced volume on Frederick Law Olmsted’s firm and the coming of age of suburban development. $39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8384 pp., 130 illus., February 2013

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Graceland CemeteryA Design HistoryChristopher Vernon“Thanks to this well-researched and illuminating book, Graceland cemetery comes into view as a masterpiece of American landscape design.” —Chicago History Museum Blog$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-926-3272 pp., 12 color and 125 black-and-white illus., 2012


Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy WarholAllen GuttmannForeword by Carol Clark“This book is a treasure. The writing is full of wonderful brush strokes with just enough controversial narrative to generate lively future exchanges in the field of sport history.”—Journal of Sport History $39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-874-7 336 pp., 51 color & 45 black-and-white illus., 2011

Meetinghouses of Early New EnglandPeter BenesWinner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer America Society

“An indispensable guide to the relationship between religion and material culture in early America.”—Choice$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2456 pp., 130 illus., 2012


AMERICAN HISTORYJonathan Edwards and the Gospel of LoveRonald StoryA fresh look at one of America’s greatest theologians. “One of the most elegantly written books on Edwards I have ever encountered.”—Gerald R. McDermott$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6184 pp., 2012

One Colonial Woman’s WorldThe Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler CoitMichelle Marchetti Coughlin “This book will be a stunning development, the first deep examination of an unknown diary that affords a very rare glimpse into women’s lives in this time and place.” —Marla R. Miller $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6288 pp., 14 illus., 2012

New Israel / New EnglandJews and Puritans in Early AmericaMichael Hoberman“An extremely important book for early American and Jewish studies, based on extensive scholarship, clearly and interestingly written, and suitable for general readers as well as scholars interested in either of those topics.” —William Pencak$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-920-1296 pp., 13 illus., 2011

Sisters in the FaithShaker Women and Equality of the SexesGlendyne R. Wergland“This work offers a major contribution to Shaker history and to the study of women’s struggle for equality.”—Choice $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-863-1264 pp., 23 illus., 2011

Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early AmericaSusan Reynolds Williams“Williams demonstrates that Earle was a pivotal figure in the popularization of the colonial revival and its values—a fine contribution to the field.”—Dona Brown$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-988-1328 pp., 39 illus., February 2013

Public History in Historical Perspective

The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine LoyalistFor God, King, Country, and for SelfJames S. Leamon“An informative, engaging study. . . . A worthy successor to Leamon’s award-winning Revolution Downeast.” —Joseph A. Conforti$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3272 pp., 10 illus., 2012

Remembering the Forgotten WarThe Enduring Legacies of the U.S.–Mexican WarMichael Scott Van Wagenen“An important book with implications for both American foreign policy and U.S.–Latin America relations today.” —Amy S. Greenberg $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0368 pp., 30 illus., August 2012


From Liberation to ConquestThe Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898Bonnie M. Miller“A remarkable feat of archival research. . . . This will be an important book that will further our understanding of this complicated moment in American history.”—David Brody$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-924-9344 pp., 88 illus., 2011

Missionaries in Hawai‘iThe Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797–1883Clifford Putney“Will be most appreciated by the general public and scholars of missionary history in Hawai‘i.”—Hawaiian Journal of History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-991-1248 pp., 25 illus., 2012

Uneasy AlliesWorking for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century BostonDavid A. Zonderman“A remarkably expansive organizational history of the labor reform movement in nineteenth-century Boston.” —Journal of American History $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-866-2328 pp., 2011

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Museums, Monuments, and National ParksToward a New Genealogy of Public HistoryDenise D. Meringolo“A valuable contribution to uncovering the roots of public history in nineteenth-century science and archaeology and to illuminating the key role of the National Park Service in shaping the field.” —Anne Mitchell Whisnant$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9256 pp., 12 illus., 2012


Born in the U.S.A.Birth, Commemoration, and American Public MemoryEdited by Seth C. Bruggeman“Born in the U.S.A. will appeal to almost any-one interested in public history. The scholar-ship is exceptional.”—Kenneth C. Turino$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6296 pp., 12 illus., 2012


Everybody’s HistoryIndiana’s Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President’s PastKeith A. Erekson“Should be required reading for any public history program as it sheds light not only on the evolution of the field but also on the occasional ‘disconnect’ between public his-tory and academia.”—Timothy P. Townsend $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7272 pp., 10 illus., 2012


Domestic FrontiersGender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East Barbara Reeves-Ellington“A fine-grained analysis of efforts to spread American culture and religion to a region that has been neglected in studies of U.S. empire. . . . An important book.” —Mary A. Renda$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-981-2224 pp., 12 illus., January 2013

The Battle for the MindWar and Peace in the Era of Mass CommunicationGary S. Messinger“This is an interesting read, well researched and well written. . . . The book is richest in its discussion of WWII and the years through the first war in the Persian Gulf. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-853-2312 pp., 2011

Measuring AmericaHow Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth CenturyAndrew L. Yarrow“Other scholars have characterized postwar American culture in similar ways, but none have done so in such a comprehensive and compelling fashion. . . . I applaud Yarrow’s invocation of history and hope his superb book wins both wide readership and influence.”—Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-835-8256 pp., 1 illus., 2010

Perfectly AverageThe Pursuit of Normality in Postwar AmericaAnna G. Creadick“A compelling, fascinating study of the centrality of the value of normality as defining so many aspects of post-WWII U.S. culture. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-806-8208 pp., 28 illus., 2010

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Not Yet a Placeless LandTracking an Evolving American GeographyWilbur Zelinsky“Zelinsky creates a sometimes maddening but ultimately rewarding experience. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-871-6376 pp., 1 map, 2011

When Roosevelt Planned to Govern FranceCharles L. RobertsonAn Alternate Selection of the History Book Club

“The personality clashes and complex interplay of diplomatic and military events alone make for fascinating reading.” —Daily Hampshire Gazette$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-881-5248 pp., 2011

Upstaging the Cold WarAmerican Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960Andrew J. FalkHonorable Mention, Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize

“Offers a fascinating new window onto the early Cold War that goes far beyond the relatively familiar old stories of the Hollywood hearings and blacklists.” —Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize Committee$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-903-4280 pp., 2011



Modernizing RepressionPolice Training and Nation-Building in the American CenturyJeremy 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 978-1-55849-917-1400 pp., 2012


The Dragon’s TailAmericans Face the Atomic AgeRobert A. Jacobs“Jacobs subjects atomic narratives in postwar U.S. culture to cogent analysis in this succinct, well researched, readable book. Highly recommended.”—Choice$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-727-6168 pp., 17 illus., 2010


Liberty and Justice for All?Rethinking Politics in Cold War AmericaEdited by Kathleen Donohue“An excellent, well-written, and very fresh look at the long 1950s from a variety of different and interesting perspectives.” —James B. Gilbert$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-913-3400 pp., 2012


Framing the SixtiesThe Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. BushBernard von Bothmer“A smart, important, and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichés by the left and the right.”—Tom Brokaw $28.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-732-0320 pp., 2010

President of the Other AmericaRobert Kennedy and the Politics of PovertyEdward R. Schmitt“A superb study of a key aspect of Robert F. Kennedy’s public life: his commitment to alleviating the suffering of the nation’s most poverty-stricken people.” —Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-904-1344 pp., 15 illus., 2011

Agent OrangeHistory, Science, and the Politics of UncertaintyEdwin A. Martini“One of the boldest and most impressive books on the Vietnam War that I have read in the last few years. It is deeply researched, innovative in scope, and fundamentally challenging to many points of conventional wisdom on the conflict.”—Jeremi Suri $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1320 pp., 14 illus., 1 map, 2012

The Vietnam War in American MemoryVeterans, Memorials, and the Politics of HealingPatrick HagopianA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Sophisticated and ambitious. . . . As Hagopian so brilliantly shows in this wide-ranging and strikingly original book, healing and reconciliation came at a steep cost.”—Diplomatic History$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-902-7576 pp., 100 illus., 2011


Hanoi JaneWar, Sex, and Fantasies of BetrayalJerry Lembcke“Lembcke probes the way in which political dissent combined with American anxieties about class, gender, and celebrity to vilify a woman who followed her political conscience.”—Women’s Review of Books$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-815-0224 pp., 12 illus., 2010


A Call to ConscienceThe Anti–Contra War CampaignRoger Peace“An important contribution to recording the true history of the era, unsullied by U.S. government and media lies and disin-formation.”—Alliance for Global Justice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-932-4328 pp., 1 map, 2012


The Dance of the Comedians The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America Peter M. Robinson “Robinson’s overview of comedic performance at the core of political culture is at once comprehensive, incisive, and vital.”—American Historical Review$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-785-6272 pp., 9 illus., 2010

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Buying the FarmPeace and War on a Sixties CommuneTom FelsThe long, winding history of a counter- cultural commune. “Elegantly written. An informative and worthwhile read.” —Tom Hayden$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-971-3240 pp., 25 illus., 2012

Famous Long AgoMy Life and Hard Times with Liberation News ServiceRaymond MungoA 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 first floor.” —Tom Robbins$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-947-8232 pp., 20 illus., 2012

Beyond VietnamThe Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990 Robert Surbrug Jr. “Focusing on the activists and the political leaders, as well as the issues, Surbrug traces a ‘political continuity’ from the movement against nuclear energy in the 1970s to the nuclear freeze movement and the Central American solidarity movement of the 1980s.”—Boston Globe$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-712-2320 pp., 2009


Derelict ParadiseHomelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, OhioDaniel Kerr“Covers 130 years and astutely places homelessness in the context of urban development, labor and housing markets, and the criminal justice system.”—Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-849-5312 pp., 24 illus., 2011

Shadows in the ValleyA Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840–1916Alan C. Swedlund“Quite simply a remarkable work. . . . In this meticulously researched, gracefully written, and poignantly illustrated work, Swedlund weaves the strands of life and death in small communities into the larger fabric of cultural and medical history.” —Historical Journal of Massachusetts$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-720-7264 pp., 50 illus., 2010

What We Have DoneAn Oral History of the Disability Rights MovementFred 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 978-1-55849-919-5656 pp., 33 illus., 2012

The Girls and Boys of BelchertownA Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-MindedRobert Hornick“Hornick’s 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

The Manliest ManSamuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American ReformJames 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 978-1-55849-959-1336 pp., 10 illus., 2012

What Adolescents Ought to KnowSexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century AmericaJennifer Burek Pierce“[Pierce] has meticulously integrated this study about sex, health, and gender with a study of print and publishing, and scholars and students alike will appreciate the complexity of her insights.”—Choice$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-892-1 256 pp., 8 illus., 2011


The Solemn Sentence of DeathCapital Punishment in Connecticut Lawrence B. Goodheart Winner of the Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History

“A sweeping, highly readable, organized analysis of all the state’s 158 executions from 1639 to 2005. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-847-1336 pp., 2011


BLACK STUDIESThe Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of TomorrowThe Story of the PrisonairesJohn Dougan“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 978-1-55849-969-0144 pp., 2012

Tragic No MoreMixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity Caroline A. Streeter“An exciting project, with great potential to impact the fields of mixed-race studies, African American studies, gender studies, and popular cultural studies.” —Heidi Ardizzone$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-985-0176 pp., 5 illus., 2012

Exhibiting BlacknessAfrican Americans and the American Art MuseumBridget R. Cooks“An important and original contribution to the study of the history of American art museums and American culture. . . . develops a useful perspective for studying the history of the deeply troubled relationship between African Americans and American art museums.” —Alan Wallach$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4240 pp., 22 color & 31 black-and-white illus., 2011

Ralph Ellison and the Genius of AmericaTimothy Parrish“Refreshes our view of Ellison, challenging critics who dismiss him as the author of ‘just’ one big novel.”—Library Journal$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-922-5272 pp., 2012

Burnt CorkTraditions and Legacies of Blackface MinstrelsyEdited 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 978-1-55849-934-8280 pp., 90 illus., 2012

The World of W.E.B. Du BoisA Quotation SourcebookEdited by Meyer Weinbergwith a new Introduction by John H. Bracey Jr.“Most valuable to students seeking to sample the wealth of ideas in Du Bois’s vast body of writing. Scholars will also benefit by easily locating sources for Du Bois’s views on an impressive variety of topics.” —Journal of American History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4296 pp., 2012

The Insistent CallRhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 1929–1937Aric PutnamHow black America’s relationship with Africa changed at a key point in history. “Well grounded in current scholarship.” —Jacqueline Bacon$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-978-2168 pp., 2012

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIESMaking War and Minting ChristiansMasculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New EnglandR. Todd Romero“A nuanced and lively rereading of a time period that can often feel well traveled. As Romero convincingly shows, gendered language appeared everywhere, from the opening moments of English colonization of New England through King Philip’s War and even beyond.”—Catholic History Review$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-888-4272 pp., 11 illus., 2011

Native Americans of the Northeast

The People of the Standing StoneThe 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 978-1-55849-890-7256 pp., 15 illus., 2011

Native Americans of the Northeast

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FICTION AND POETRYMy EscapeeStoriesCorinna VallianatosWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

“With the spare, definitive strokes of Matisse’s 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, defiant, passionate.”—Jhumpa Lahiri$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7176 pp., 2012

Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

The Agriculture Hall of Fame StoriesAndrew Malan MilwardWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction Winner of the ForeWord Firsts Award

“The 10 gorgeous stories . . . offer unique glimpses into Midwestern calamities and the folks who find themselves affected by them. . . . In Milward’s world, there’s nary a sunny sky in sight . . . but this gloominess is greatly buoyed by the author’s 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 978-1-55849-948-5160 pp., 2012

Girls in TroubleStoriesDouglas LightWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

“In this kaleidoscopic collection of thirteen short stories . . . Light deftly explores the rocky terrain of human emotion. . . . [He] probes beneath complex layers of what it means to be alive, revealing the occasionally magnificent terrain of selfhood.” —ForeWord$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-923-2144 pp., 2011

Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

Goodbye, FlickerPoemsCarmen Giménez SmithWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

“Less Wonderland than looking glass, a gateway into which our reluctant storyteller must escape but in which, also, we can’t help but see ourselves.”—Booklist$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-280 pp., 2012

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIESCovering AmericaA Narrative History of a Nation’s JournalismChristopher B. Daly“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 978-1-55849-911-9544 pp., 73 illus., 2012

Literary Journalism across the GlobeJournalistic Traditions and Transnational InfluencesEdited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds“Makes a major contribution to literary jour-nalism scholarship, with a pathbreakingly broad international focus.”—Nancy Roberts$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-877-8320 pp., 3 illus., 2011

Pressing the FightPrint, Propaganda, and the Cold WarEdited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner“An accessible, engaging collection with a commendable geographic, political, and thematic diversity of perspectives.”—Choice $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-960-7296 pp., 16 illus., 2012


Mashed UpMusic, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable CultureAram Sinnreich“A deeply engaging text. . . . It asks excellent questions about the role of art and music in society.”—American Studies$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-829-7240 pp., 10 illus., 2010

Science/Technology/Culture

BounceRap Music and Local Identity in New OrleansMatt Miller“Bounce uses the tools of the historian, the musicologist, and the sociologist as it works to create a portrait of rap music in New Orleans that . . . places bounce in a legible history of African American cultural life.”—Jeffrey Melnick$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-936-2232 pp., 8 illus., 2012

American Popular Music


Expanding the American MindBooks and the Popularization of KnowledgeBeth Luey“A fine and fascinating study of populariza-tion. . . . Luey is a formidably knowledgeable scholar and, one sees also in these pages, a wise one.”—Publishing Research Quarterly$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-817-4232 pp., 2010

From Codex to HypertextReading at the Turn of the Twenty-First CenturyEdited by Anouk LangInterdisciplinary essays that reframe how we think about reading, selling, sharing, and publishing books.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-953-9272 pp., 18 illus., 2012


“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Reading RevolutionRace, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911Barbara HochmanWinner of the DeLong Book History Book Prize

“A thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly written account of the changes in the reception—the transformation in “the cultural meaning”—of Uncle Tom’s Cabin over six decades.”—Journal of American Studies $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-894-5400 pp., 40 illus., 2011


Right Here I See My Own BooksThe Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian ExpositionSarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand“The brief but glorious history of the Wom-an’s Building Library is a fascinating story in itself, yet Wadsworth and Wiegand perceive a larger significance within the very pages of the library’s books.”—American Libraries$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-928-7288 pp., 2 illus., 2012


Reading PlacesLiteracy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War AmericaChristine PawleyWinner of the E. Jennifer Monaghan Book Award

“Provides a model for future scholars and policymakers to determine why localities put differing value on literacy.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-822-8272 pp., 2010


Translation, Resistance, ActivismEdited by Maria Tymoczko“An important read for those interested in translation and/or political and social movements, past and present. Highly rec-ommended.”—Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-833-4312 pp., 2010

American OrientImagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth CenturyDavid Weir“The book seems to me a monumental achievement. It is timely, wise, idiosyn-cratic in only good ways, lively, well in-formed, fun to read.”—Christopher Benfey$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-879-2304 pp., 2011

To Fight Aloud Is Very BraveAmerican Poetry and the Civil WarFaith Barrett“This is a very exciting work—original, sophisticated, magisterial, and important. It is a ground-breaking analysis of poetry in the Civil War.”—Elizabeth Young$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-963-8328 pp., 10 illus., 2012

Reading in Time Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth CenturyCristanne Miller “An excellent book. . . . Anyone who cares about Dickinson, the lyric, or how one reads will be indebted to Miller’s research, judgments, and clear-eyed sifting of current scholarship.”—Thomas Gardner$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-951-5296 pp., 7 illus., 2012

Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers Janet Badia“Badia’s prose is clear and engaging; her argument is sophisticated and complex. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-896-9216 pp., 2011

Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King LearChristopher MartinA probing exploration of old age in Elizabethan England.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-973-7240 pp., 3 illus., 2012

Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture

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NEW ENGLANDNorthern HospitalityCooking by the Book in New EnglandKeith 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 England’s food heritage. . . . Well done and highly recommended for foodies and historians.”—Library Journal$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7488 pp., 22 illus., 2011

Town MeetingThe Practice of Democracy in a New England TownDonald 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 978-1-55849-855-6288 pp., 18 illus., 6 maps, 2011

BostonVoices and VisionsEdited by Shaun O’ConnellA rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essay-ists, and diarists. “It will be the very rare reader who won’t find [at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar.”—Boston Globe$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4352 pp., 2010

Gateway to VacationlandThe Making of Portland, MaineJohn F. Bauman“An extremely well researched overview of Portland’s history. The author does a particularly good job connecting that history to the larger national narrative.” —Michael J. Rawson$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6304 pp., 22 illus., 2012

UMass RisingThe University of Massachusetts Amherst at 150Katharine GreiderA lively, well-illustrated history of the university on its sesquicentennial.$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8240 pp., 135 color illus. February 2013

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESPeril in the PondsDeformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologist’s 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 978-1-55849-946-1256 pp., July 2012

Global Warming and Political IntimidationHow Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated UpRaymond S. Bradley“Ray Bradley is one of the scientific heroes of the fight 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 978-1-55849-869-3184 pp., 7 illus., 2011

This Ecstatic NationThe American Landscape and the Aesthetics of PatriotismTerre 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 978-1-55849-873-0192 pp., 6 illus., 2011

Binocular VisionThe Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field GuidesSpencer Schaffner“This book forced me to take a more critical look at field guides and what their role can and should be. And that made it very much worth reading.”—The Birder’s Library$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-886-0216 pp., 7 illus., 2011

The Native Landscape ReaderEdited by Robert E. Grese“The relevance of these writings to the current issues of biodiversity, native plants, and sustainability cannot be overemphasized.”—Robert L. Ryan$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-884-6 336 pp., 40 illus., 2011



AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC Edited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series seeks brief, well written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers.

CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE COLD WAREdited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this highly regarded series has pro-duced 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 NORTHEASTThe 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 PRIZESince 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 PRIZESEstablished 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 HISTORYThe Press publishes a range of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit 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 CULTUREEdited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.

NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEASTBooks 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. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), and Barry O’Connell (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/CULTUREThis 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 Peña (University of California, Davis) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia).

STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKA substantial list of books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and pub-lishing. The series editorial board includes Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University), Robert A. Gross (Uni-versity of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin).

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ArT creDiTsPage 2: Waffa Bilal in the Domestic Tension gallery space, 2007. Courtesy the artist.

Page 3: The Hoffman siblings, ca. 1968. Clockwise from left: Rebecca, Judith, David, Priscilla, Joshua, Amy.

Page 4: Dick Anthony Heller speaking outside U.S. Supreme Court, June 26, 2008. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.

Page 6: Critical Mass San Francisco, August 2007. Courtesy Chris Carlsson, photographer.

Page 8: William Michael Harnett, Music and Literature, oil on canvas, 1878. Courtesy Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Page 9. Photo of record turntable. Courtesy Ernst Rose.

Page 10. Milky Way and Fairview Church, McFall, Missouri, 2009. Photo © Dan Bush.

Page 11: Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, oil on canvas, 1853. Courtesy E. G. Bührle Collection.

Page 12. Garry Winogrand, Hard-Hat Rally, New York, gelatin silver print, 1969. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery.

Page 14. Photo taken at Fort Snelling State Park, Hennipin County, Minn. Courtesy Barbara Jacobs-Smith.

Page 15. Army Air Corps, aerial view of Smithsonian Institution and Natural History Building, 1932. Courtesy Smithsonian Archives.

Page 16. Eirene (Peace) bearing Plutus (Wealth), Roman copy after Greek votive statue by Kephisodotos (ca. 370 BC). Glyptothek, Munich.

Page 17. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962. © Associated Press.

Page 18. “All my drinks three cents” from Helen Stuart Campbell, Darkness and Daylight, or, Lights and shadows of New York life (1892).

Page 19. Mike Mazur, Whaleman Statue, New Bedford (detail), watercolor, 1999. Courtesy New Bedford Free Public Library.


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CovEr Art: Martin Johnson Heade, Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes, ca. 1871–1875, near Newburyport, Mass. John Wilmerding Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. From Tidal Wetlands Primer, p. 20.

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contentsNew Books 1

Selected Backlist 21

Series 30

About the Press 31

Digital Editions (E-Books) 31

Contact Information 31

Art Credits 31

Sales Information 32

ordering Information 32

author indexCannon, The Saloon and the Mission 18

Cornell & Kozuskanich, The Second Amendment on Trial 4

Gilbert, Expanding the Strike Zone 5

Henderson, Street Fight 6

Hicks, Lessons from Sarajevo 2

Hoffman, Lies About My Family 3

Kennedy, The Wired City 1

Kowsky, The Best Planned City in the World 7

La Follette, Negotiating Culture 16

Lamson, Starship Tahiti 11

Page, Memories of Buenos Aires 13

Powers, Writing the Record 9

rubin, Cultural Considerations 8

Sarat & Umphrey, Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird 17

Scanlon, The Pro-War Movement 12

Schell, “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men” 19

tiner, Tidal Wetlands Primer 20

tyson, The Wages of History 14

Walker, A Living Exhibition 15

Yates, Some Kinds of Love 10

Cel ebr ating 5 0 Y e ars As the University of Massachusetts marks its 150th anniversary in 2013, we are pleased to be celebrating 50 years of publishing at the University of Massachusetts Press. the technology of book production and distribution continues to evolve at a rapid pace, but our goal remains the same—to produce significant, well written, peer-reviewed books that please the eye and stimulate the mind. We appreciate your interest in our publishing program.

title indexThe Best Planned City in the World, Kowsky 7

“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men,” Schell 19

Cultural Considerations, rubin 8

Expanding the Strike Zone, Gilbert 5

Lessons from Sarajevo, Hicks 2

Lies About My Family, Hoffman 3

A Living Exhibition, Walker 15

Memories of Buenos Aires, Page 13

Negotiating Culture, La Follette 16

The Pro-War Movement, Scanlon 12

Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird, Sarat & Umphrey 17

The Saloon and the Mission, Cannon 18

The Second Amendment on Trial, Cornell & Kozuskanich 4

Some Kinds of Love, Yates 10

Starship Tahiti, Lamson 11

Street Fight, Henderson 6

Tidal Wetlands Primer, tiner 20

The Wages of History, tyson 14

The Wired City, Kennedy 1

Writing the Record, Powers 9


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