2010 Fall-Summer Catalog - Ohio University Press

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Art/comics .......................................1American folk music .................... 2-3Poetry ..............................................4Law & media ...................................5American history .......................... 6-7Africa ..........................................8–9Latin America ..........................10–11ecology ..........................................12African & American history ............13Victorian ...................................14-15Africa .......................................16-17philosophy .....................................18

2010 Publication schedule ..........19

Fall • WinTeRFood & gardening .................... 20-21Civil War ........................................22Quilt history ...................................23Fiction ..................................... 24-25Poetry ...................................... 26-27polish studies ........................... 28-29American history ...................... 30-31Victorian studies ...................... 32-33global & comparative ....................34African studies ..........................35-39Southeast Asia ..........................40-41

BAckLISTFall/Winter 2009 .................... 42-43 Spring/Summer 2009 ...................44 Fall/Winter 2008 ..........................45 Ohio Amish mystery Series ..........46Ohio Quilt Series ..........................47Civil War in the great interior Series ........................48

Sales Information ...................49-50Index .......................................51-52

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the World of a Wayward comic book artistThe Private Sketchbooks of S. Plunkett

Foreword by Michael Wm Kaluta

The World of a Wayward Comic Book Artist: The Private Sketchbooks of S. Plunkett is a fascinating look at the creative processes of Sandy plunkett. A self-taught illustrator and comic book artist, plunkett came of age in new York City during the ‘60s and ‘70s and began draw-ing for marvel Comics at eighteen. Throughout his ongo-ing career he has drawn for several other major publishers, including DC.

Featuring nearly four hundred selections from sketch-books kept over the past twenty years, this collection is an insightful examination of the difficulties and successes plunkett has experienced in keeping his work alive and evolving. The drawings cover a wide range of styles and subject matter, though all are rooted in the visual ver-nacular of illustration, comic, and popular art of America, evincing influences as diverse as Thomas Hart Benton and R. Crumb. images of creatures, both actual and imagined, fabulous characters, and dreamlike worlds are juxtaposed with studies from plunkett’s life. The sketchbook images, along with a foreword by michael Wm Kaluta and an updated interview of plunkett by Comic Book Artist’s Tim Barnes, provide a fascinating insight into artistic process, debate, and fruition.

Sandy Plunkett‘s career began in new York City drawing for DC and marvel Comics. His trademark look can be seen on countless posters, album covers, and political car-toons. He lives in Athens, Ohio.

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AmericAn Folk musicohio, regional, music history, folklore studies

Stories from the anne Grimes collection of American Folk musicCompiled and edited by Sara Grimes, Jennifer Grimes Kay, Mary Grimes, and Mindy Grimes

Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music is a treasury of American traditional music and Ohio’s folklife heritage.

Traveling along the highways and byways of Ohio in the 1950s as a folksinger and collector of traditional music, Anne grimes encountered people from many different backgrounds who opened up their homes to her to share their most precious family heirlooms—their songs. She recorded these treasures for posterity and further preserved them through her lectures and recitals.

After years of performance and research on her material, Anne grimes decided to write about it all. This beautiful book presents her lively portraits of the major contributors with photographs taken by her husband, James W. grimes; lyrics and extensive notes on the songs; and a CD samplerthat includes performances by her contributors, most of whom had not been previously recorded. it also contains selections from Bob gibson, Carl Sandburg, pete Seeger, Jenny Wells Vincent, as well as grimes herself. The Anne grimes Collection is preserved in the Library of Congress.

Anne Grimes, Ohio folksinger and scholar, died at the age of ninety-one in 2004 while working on this book. A classically trained musician who served as music and dance critic for the Columbus Citizen in Columbus, Ohio, before embarking on her career in folk music, she recorded on Folkways, performed at national folk festivals, and served as president of the Ohio Folklore Society. The book was edited by her daughters, Sara grimes, Jennifer grimes Kay, mary grimes, and mindy grimes.

cover portrait of Anne grimes by mac shaffer courtesy, Columbus Dispatch

“i love this book. it captures anne Grimes’ spirit and presents her work in a way she would have been proud of; not surprisingly, since her children who have assembled it were engaged in her work. the body of materials presented here includes a wide variety of folksong materials from a number of different traditions, and will be of interest to scholars, collectors, performers, and students of ohio history and culture. the photographs provide an extremely valuable complement to the descriptive text and song lyrics.”

—Timothy lloyd, executive Director, American Folklore society

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Songs and Dulcimer Playing: CD Selections from the Anne Grimes Collection

cD includes: Reuben Allen, Bertha Bacon, Sarah Basham/Bertha Basham Wright, Henry Lawrence Beecher, John Bodiker, Dolleah Church, Walter W. Dixon, Ken Ward, Blanche Wilson Fullen, Bob gibson, Brodie F. Halley, perry Harper, Anne grimes, Donald Langstaff, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, W.e. Lunsford, Jane Jones mcnerlin, may Kennedy mcCord, Jenny Wells Vincent, pete Seeger, neva Randolph, Babe Reno/Arbannah Reno, Branch Rickey, Carl Sandburg, Bessie Weinrich, Faye Wemmer, Okey Wood

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unsettled AccountsPoems

Will Wells

To take the mess of life and make meaning from it is what all poets seek to do. For Will Wells, recipient of the thirteenth annual Hollis Summers poetry prize, this includes reaching across centuries and continents, into the minds and hearts of disparate individuals—Albert einstein, Andrea Yates, the traveler from porlock, Dante, or Holocaust survivors, includ-ing his own grandmother—to extract the personal value embedded there for him.

By turns funny, shocking, gentle, and musing, the poems of Unsettled Accounts reflect Will Wells’s constant attention to his environment and to his past—and to our environ-ment and our past—and his persistent effort to keep them real and whole by turning them into art.

“These are the poems of a poet who takes his obligations seriously—obligations to his world, his family, his intellectual heritage: ‘The long-ing / in belongings lines up in rows of books, / a thousand titles of how owned I am.’ These highly musical poems, which include a generous helping of superbly crafted sonnets, are beauti-fully written, smart, and moving—rich in all the rewards poetry offers.”

—Andrew Hudgins

Will Wells has published poems and literary translations widely in the united States and the united Kingdom. His first book of poetry, Conversing with the Light, won the 1987 Anhinga Award. He is a profes-sor of english/Humanities at Rhodes State College, Lima, Ohio.

Ping-Pong with the NazisBored couriers have kicked off boots and settheir pipes aside, a Dutch interior.The slapped ball clacks over the tablelike a telegraphic code, then trickleslike faint hope across the marble floor.How quickly he bends to retrieve itand puts it back in play, the Jewish boyliving with false papers in a villaowned by his mother’s gentile friends, and nowcommandeered by retreating germansas divisional headquarters. The youngblond soldiers, deferential to a socialbetter, muss his blond locks like the kidbrothers back in the fatherland, like bigbrothers steeped in genial menace. He begs another game, so they relent.As the ball resumes its chatter acrossthe no-man’s-landstrung with a net,he calculates the risk that each shot brings.And so do they. He holds his pee and serves.

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access with attitudeAn Advocate’s Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio

David Marburger and Karl Idsvoog

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lAw AnD meDiA sTuDiesjournalism, reference

For those who find themselves in a battle for public records, Access with Attitude: An Advocate’s Guide to Free-dom of Information in Ohio is an indispensable weapon. First Amendment lawyer David marburger and investiga-tive journalist Karl idsvoog have written a simply worded, practical guide on how to take full advantage of Ohio’s so-called Sunshine Laws.

Journalists, law firms, labor unions, private investigators, genealogists, realty companies, banks, insurers—anyone who regularly needs access to publicly held information—will find this comprehensive and contentious guide to be invaluable. marburger, who drafted many of the provisions that Ohio adopted in its open records law, and coauthor idsvoog have been fighting for broader access to public records their entire careers. They offer field-tested tips on how to avoid “no,” and advise readers on legal strategies if their requests for information go unmet. Step by step, they show how to avoid delays and make the law work.

Whether you’re a citizen, a nonprofit organization, jour-nalist, or attorney going after public records, Access with Attitude is an essential resource.

David marburger specializes in First Amendment, libel, and media law. He received his J.D. from the university of pittsburgh and his B.S. from Syracuse university.

karl idsvoog is an assistant professor of journalism at Kent State university. He is an award-winning investigative reporter and producer and conducts training for media development for the u.S. Department of State, iReX, internews, the international Center for Journalists, and Radio Free Asia.

“During my eight years as editor of cleveland’s Plain Dealer, I speed-dialed Marburger’s phone number whenever an access problem loomed. Access with Attitude isn’t quite that, but it’s the next best thing. It belongs on every bookshelf in Ohio.”—Doug clifton, former editor, Plain Dealer


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AmericAn hisTory civil war

Do They miss me at home?The civil War Letters of William Mcknight,Seventh Ohio Volunteer cavalry

Edited by Donald C. Maness and H. Jason Combs

William mcKnight was a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 until his death in June of 1864. During his time of service, mcKnight penned dozens of emotion-filled letters, primarily to his wife, Sama-ria, revealing the struggles of an entire family both before and during the war.

This collection of more than one hundred letters provides in-depth accounts of several battles in Kentucky and Ten-nessee, such as the Cumberland gap and Knoxville cam-paigns that were pivotal events in the Western Theater. The letters also vividly respond to general John Hunt morgan’s raid through Ohio and correct claims previously published that mcKnight was part of the forces chasing morgan. By all accounts morgan did stay for a period of time at mcK-night’s home in Langsville during his raid through Ohio, much to mcKnight’s horror and humiliation, but mcKnight was in Kentucky at the time. Tragically, mcKnight was killed in action nearly a year later during an engagement with morgan’s men near Cynthiana, Kentucky.

Donald C. Maness is the dean of the College of education at Arkansas State university and a professor in the Teacher education department. He is an avid Civil War enthusiast.

h. Jason Combs is an associate professor of geography at the university of nebraska Kearney. He has authored a number of articles appearing in refer-eed journals such as Mate-rial Culture, the Journal of Cultural Geography, and the Professional Geographer.320 pages

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“the letters of William mcknight . . . allow the reader to ride alongside mcknight as he patrols contested terrain and worries over john morgan’s raid through his home town, and they remind us of the sacrifices that the war exacted from families as soldiers fought to protect their home and country and to shape the nation for

future generations.”

—christine Dee, Fitchburg State college


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the Dred Scott caseHistorical and contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law

Edited by David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey

in 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, mis-souri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the u.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford raised issues that have not been fully resolved despite three amendments to the Constitution and more than a century and a half of litigation.

The Dred scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law presents original research and the reflections of the nation’s leading scholars who gathered in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of what was arguably the most infamous decision of the u.S. Supreme Court. The decision that held that African Americans “had no rights” under the Constitution and that Congress had no authority to alter that galvanized Ameri-cans and thrust the issue of race and law to the center of American politics. This collection of essays revisits the history of the case and its aftermath in American life and law. in a final section, the present-day justices of the missouri Supreme Court offer their reflections on the process of judging and provide perspective on the misdeeds of their nineteenth-century predecessors who denied the Scotts their freedom.

David thomas Konig is a professor of history and a professor of law at Washington university, St. Louis.

paul Finkelman is president William mcKinley Distin-guished professor of Law and public policy and Senior Fellow in the government Law Center at Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, including Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, and Dred Scott v. Sanford: A Brief History with Documents.

Christopher Alan Bracey is a professor of law at george Washington university in Washington, DC. He is the author of Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conser-vatism, From Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice.

contributors:Austin AllenAdam ArensonJohn BaughHon. Duane BentonChristopher Alan BraceyAlfred Brophypaul FinkelmanLouis gerteismark graberDaniel HamiltonCecil Hunt, iiDavid Thomas KonigLeland WareHon. michael A. Wolff

series on law, society, and politics in tHe midwest editors: Paul Finkelman and L. Diane Barnes


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From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of europe-ans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.

African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soc-cer was a rare form of “national culture” in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged colonial power and expressed a commitment to racial equality and self-determination. new nations staged matches as part of their independence cele-brations and joined the world body, FiFA. The Confédéra-tion Africaine de Football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. The unfortunate results of this success are the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of the women’s game and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal” continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease. peter Alegi is an associate professor of history at michi-gan State university and the author of Laduma! Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of African Historical Studies and book review editor of Soccer and Society.

african SoccerscapesHow a continent changed the World’s Game

Peter Alegi

africa in world History series editors: David Robinson

and Joseph C. Miller

“Given the huge interest in the 2010 World cup, many will be looking for something to contextualize the african soccer scene. African Soccerscapes is excellent, with a clear framework and progression, and lots of interesting stories.”

—Martha Saavedra, associate director of the center for African Studies at Uc Berkeley

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abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

Edited by Derek R. Peterson

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of aboli-tionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors—slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs—played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation.

Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals’ benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholar-ship about the nature of modern empires.

contributors include: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, phillip D. morgan, Derek R. peterson, John K. Thornton

Derek r. peterson teaches African history at the uni-versity of michigan. He is the author of Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya and coeditor of Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa.


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editors: Derek R. Peterson, Harri Englund, and Christopher Warnes

“i must pay Derek peterson an enormous tribute for selecting and editing such marvelous and cutting-edge scholarship. this volume should have a major impact for years to come on our interpretations of the broad and often unexplored effects and consequences of british abolitionism.”

— David Brion Davis


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is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, evo morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or are they reenacting older traditions that have favored plebiscitary acclamation and clientelist distribution of resources to loyal followers? Are we seeing authentic forms of expression of the popular will by leaders who have empowered those previously disenfranchised? Or are these governments as charismatic, authoritarian, and messianic as their populist predecessors?

This new and expanded edition of Populist Seduction in Latin America explores the ambiguous relationships between democracy and populism and brings de la Torre’s earlier work up to date, comparing classical nationalist, populist regimes of the 1940s, such as those of Juan perón and José maría Velasco ibarra, with their contemporary neoliberal and radical successors. De la Torre explores their similarities and differences, focusing on their discourses and uses of political symbols and myths.

Carlos de la torre is a professor of political studies at FLACO-ecuador. He is coeditor with Steve Striffler of The Ecuador Reader.

Populist Seduction in latin americaSecond edition

Carlos de la Torre

researcH in international studies Latin America Series no. 50

“For anyone wishing for a succinct and theoretically sophisticated concept-building analysis of populist rhetoric and leadership style based on a fascinating lesser-known case study, this book should be on your shelf.”

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When Sugar ruledEconomy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916

Patricia Juarez-Dappe

Two tropical commodities – coffee and sugar – dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many Latin American sugar economies. Tucumán’s sugar industry catered exclusively to the needs of the expanding national market and was financed mostly by domestic capital. The expansion of sugar production did not produce massive land dispossession as sugar mills relied on outside growers for the supply of a large share of the sugarcane. The arrival of thousands of workers from neighboring provinces transformed rural society profoundly. As the most dynamic sector in Tucumán’s economy, revenues from sugar enabled the provincial government to participate in the modernizing movement that was sweeping turn-of-the-century Argentina.

When Sugar Ruled uncovers the unique features that characterized sugar production in Tucumán as well as the changes experienced by the province’s economy and soci-ety between 1876 and 1916, the period of most dramatic sugar expansion

patricia Juarez-Dappe is an associate professor of Latin American history at California State university, northridge.

researcH in international studies Latin America Series no. 49

“the most comprehensive work that i have read for the early history of sugar in tucumán. this is a solid piece of scholarship, one with lasting value.”

—James Brennan, Uc Riverside

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is italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity’s greed and nature’s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator’s vision of italy. The fifteen essays in Nature and History in Modern Italy inves-tigate that nation’s long experience in managing domes-ti cated rather than wild natures and offer insight into these conflicting visions. italians shaped their land in the most literal sense, producing the landscape, sculpting its heritage, embedding memory in nature, and rendering the two different visions insepar able. The interplay of italy’s rich human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject with broad appeal to a wide range of readers.

Marco Armiero is a senior researcher at the institute for the Study of mediterranean Societies at the italian national Research Council and a visiting scholar at Stanford univer-sity. He has published extensively on italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World.

Marcus hall is senior lecturer in environmental sciences at the university of Zurich and assistant professor of his-tory at the university of utah. His book Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration received the Downing Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Nature and history in modern italy

Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall

Foreword by Donald Worster

series in ecology & History editor: James L. A. Webb, Jr.

“there is currently no such thing as a coherent synthetic history of italian environmental particularities such as landslides, deforestation, the early established but inadequate areas of preserved ‘wilderness,’ the wild zones of massive toxic pollution, and the distinctive landscape symbolism of a late-unifying nation-state. so, this book is to be welcomed as much for its pioneering quality as for the intellectual strengths and empirical interest of its various chapters.”

—John Agnew, UcLA, author of Place and Politics in Modern Italy

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AFricAn AnD AmericAn hisToryafrica, diplomatic historyafrican american studies

trustee for the human communityRalph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa

Edited by Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller

Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the nobel peace prize in 1950, was a key u.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the united nations in 1945. in 1947 he was invited to join the permanent un Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. in this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for the postwar decolonization ending european control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War.

Trustee for the Human Community is the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche’s unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an inter-national diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective.

These commissioned essays examine the full range of Ralph Bunche’s involvement in Africa. The scholars explore sensitive political issues, such as Bunche’s role in the Congo and his views on the struggle in South Africa. Trustee for the Human Com-munity stands as a monument to the profoundly important role of one of the greatest Americans in one of the greatest political movements in the history of the twentieth century.

robert A. hill is professor of history at the university of California, Los Angeles, and editor in chief of The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Associa-tion Papers pro ject in the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

edmond J. Keller is chair and professor of political science at the university of California, Los Angeles, and director of the globalization Research Center–Africa. He is the author of two monographs, including Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People’s Republic, and coeditor of six volumes on African politics and public policy.

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During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy.

Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gender, imperial duty, and pedagogy.

megan A. norcia offers an alternative map for traversing the landscape of nineteenth-century female history by rein-troducing the primers into the dominant historical record. This is the first full-length study of the genre as a distinct tradition of writing produced on the fringes of professional geographic discourse before the high imperial period.

Megan A. norcia is an assistant pro-fessor of english at SunY Brockport.

X marks the spotWomen Writers Map the Empire for British children, 1790–1895

Megan A. Norcia

“this is a sophisticated analysis based on original research.”—Mary Jean corbett, author of Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf


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amy levycritical Essays

Edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her genera-tion. embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experi-mentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmis-takably on contemporary antisemitic discourse.

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars work-ing in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writ-ing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy’s texts, the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewish identity, to consider her literary and political identifications, to assess her representations of modern consumer society and popular culture, and to place her life and work within late-Victorian cultural debate.

This book is essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students offering both a comprehensive literature review of scholarship-to-date and a range of new critical perspectives.

naomi hetherington teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Birkbeck College, university of London.

nadia valman is a senior lecturer in english at Queen mary, university of London.

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contributors:

susan David Bernstein university of Wisconsin-madison

Gail cunningham Kingston university

elizabeth F. evans pennslyvania State university–DuBois

emma Francis Warwick university

alex Goody Oxford Brookes university

T. D. olverson university of newcastle upon Tyne

lyssa randolph university of Wales, newport

meri-jane rochelson Florida international university


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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obliga-tion, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a lived experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis, domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is complex.

using evidence drawn from Subsaharan Africa, the chapters explore the range of domestic violence in Africa’s colonial past and its present, including taxation and the insertion of the household into the broader structure of colonial domination.

African histories of domestic violence demand that scholars and activists refine the terms and analyses and pay attention to the historical legacies of contemporary problems. This col-lection brings into conversation historical, anthropological, legal, and activist perspectives on domestic violence in Africa and fosters a deeper understanding of the problem of domes-tic violence, the limits of international human rights conven-tions, and local and regional efforts to address the issue.

emily s. Burrill is an assistant professor of women’s stud-ies and history at the university of north Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her articles have appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, and Ultramarines: Revue de l’association des amis des archives d’outre-mer.

richard L. roberts is the Frances and Charles Field pro-fessor of History and director of the Center for African Stud-ies, Stanford university. His recent books include Litigants and Household: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895–1912.

elizabeth thornberry is a doctoral candidate in African history at Stanford university.

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Domestic violence and the law in colonial and Postcolonial africaEdited by Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry

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land, memory, reconstruction, and justicePerspectives on Land claims in South Africa

Edited by Cherryl Walker, Anna Bohlin, Ruth Hall, and Thembela Kepe

in South Africa land is one of the most significant and con-troversial topics. Land restitution has been a complex, multi-dimensional process that has failed to meet the expectations with which it was initially launched in 1994.

Ordinary citizens, policymakers, and analysts have begun to question progress in land reform in the years since South Afri-ca’s transition to democracy. Land, Memory, Reconstruc-tion, and Justice brings together a wealth of topical material and case studies by leading experts in the field who present a rich mix of perspectives from politics, sociology, geography, social anthropology, law, history, and agricultural economics. The collection addresses both the material and the symbolic dimensions of land claims, in rural and urban contexts, and explores the complex intersection of issues confronting the restitution program, from the promotion of livelihoods to questions of rights, identity, and transitional justice.

A valuable contribution to the field of land and agrarian stud-ies, both in South Africa and internationally, it is undoubtedly the most comprehensive treatment to date of South Africa’s postapartheid land claims process and will be essential reading for scholars and students of land reform for years to come.

Cherryl Walker is a professor of sociology in the Depart-ment of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch university, South Africa.

Anna Bohlin is a researcher in social anthropolgy at the Centre for public Sector Research at the university of goth-enburg, Sweden.

ruth hall is a senior researcher at the institute for poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (pLAAS) at the university of the Western Cape, South Africa.

thembela Kepe is an assistant professor of geography and international development studies at the university of Toronto, Canada.

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Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. more precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity-formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psycho-analysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of nietzsche’s project, the revaluation of values.

not only does this work make a provocative contribution to nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity.

Joanne Faulkner is an ARC post-doctoral fellow at the university of new South Wales, Sydney. She is coauthor of Understanding Psycho-analysis and has published articles on nietzsche and Freud.

Dead letters to nietzsche, or the Necromantic art of reading Philosophy

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march Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy 18

April Amy Levy 15April Do They Miss Me at Home? 6April When Sugar Ruled 11April The World of a Wayward Comic Book Artist 1

May African Soccerscapes 8

June Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice 17June Trustee for the Human Community 13June The Dred scott Case 7June Nature and History in Modern Italy 12June Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music 2-3June Access with Attitude 5June Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa 16June Populist Seduction in Latin America 10June X Marks the Spot 14

July The Uncoiling Python 39July Making a World after Empire 34July The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume IV, 1951–1954 30July The Law and the Prophets 37July Out of the Mountains 24

August Generations Past 36August The Room Within 27August The Tiki King 25

September Terminal Diagrams 26September In the Shadow of Freedom 31

October The Borders of Integration 29October The Demographics of Empire 38October The Locavore’s Kitchen 21October An Invisible Rope 28October Kansas’s War 22October Resistance on the National Stage 41October Return of the Galon King 40October Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century 35

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December Stitching a Culture Together 23December Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 33December The Midwestern Native Garden 20


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midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wild-flowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are consid-ering adding a few native plants or intending to go native all the way. native plants improve air and water quality, reduce use of pesticides, and provide vital food and repro-ductive sites to birds and butterflies, that nonnative plants cannot offer, helping bring back a healthy ecosystem.

The authors provide a comprehensive selection of native alternatives that look similar or even identical to a range of nonnative ornamentals. These are native plants that are suitable for all garden styles, bloom during the same season, and have the same cultivation requirements as their nonnative counterparts. plant entries are accompanied by nature notes setting out the specific birds and butterflies the native plants attract.

The Midwestern Native Garden will be a welcome guide to gardeners whose styles range from formal to naturalistic but who want to create an authentic sense of place, with regional natives. The beauty, hardiness, and easy mainte-nance of native midwestern plants will soon make them the new favorites.

Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. schwartz are the authors of Prairie Directory of North America – US and Canada, winner of the 2003 national garden Club illinois Tommy Donnan Certificates publications award and the 2003 garden Clubs of illinois’ Award.

gArDeninglandscaping, horticulture, ecology

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FooDcooking, sustainability

the locavore’s kitchenA cook’s Guide to Seasonal Eating and Preserving

Marilou K. Suszko

more and more Americans are becoming dedicated loca-vores, people who prefer to eat locally grown or produced foods and who enjoy the distinctive flavors only a local harvest can deliver. The Locavore’s Kitchen invites read-ers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand down the road, or local farmers’ markets through cooking and preserving the freshest ingredients.

in more than 150 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. From asparagus in the spring to pump-kins in the fall, Suszko helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal homegrown or locally grown foods as well as how to store fresh foods, and which cooking methods bring out fresh flavors and colors. Suszko shares tips and techniques for extending seasonal flavors with detailed instructions on canning, freezing, and dehydrating and which methods work best for preserving texture and flavor.

The Locavore’s Kitchen is an invaluable reference for discovering the delicious world of fresh, local, and seasonal foods.

Marilou K. suszko is the author of Farms & Foods of Ohio: From Garden Gate to Dinner Plate. She is a food writer and local foods advocate whose work appears in numerous newspapers and magazines. She hosts From My Ohio Kitchen to Yours, which airs on all Ohio pBS stations.

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kansas’s warThe civil War in Documents

Edited by Pearl T. Ponce

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Kansas was in a unique position. it had been a state for mere weeks, and already its residents were intimately acquainted with civil strife. Since its organization as a territory in 1854, Kansas had been the focus of a national debate over the place of slavery in the Republic. By 1856, the ideological conflict developed into actual violence, earning the territory the sobriquet “Bleeding Kansas.” Because of this steady esca-lation in violence, the state’s transition from peace to war was not as abrupt as that of other states.

Kansas’s War illuminates the new state’s main preoc-cupations: the internal struggle for control of policy and patronage; border security; and issues of race—especially efforts to come to terms with the burgeoning African American population and native Americans’ coninuing claims to nearly one-fifth of the state’s land. These docu-ments demonstrate how politicians, soldiers, and ordinary Kansans were transformed by the war.

pearl t. ponce is an assistant professor of history at ithaca College. She is currently revising her manuscript “To Tame the Devil in Hell”: Kansas in National Politics, 1854–1858.

other BooKs in the series

Missouri’s WarThe civil War in Documentsedited by Silvana R. Siddali

Indiana’s WarThe civil War in Documentsedited by Richard F. nation and Stephen e. Towne

Ohio’s WarThe civil War in Documentsedited by Christine Dee

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tHe civil war in tHe great interior series editors:

Martin J. Hershock and Christine Dee

tHe oHio quilt series editors: Ricky Clark,Ellice Ronsheim, and Donna Sue Groves

“Pearl t. Ponce makes effective use of primary sources to illuminate the tumultuous early history of kansas. her study gives voice to a wide array of kansans on a wide range of topics.”

—Jeremy Neely, author of The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line

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Stitching a culture togetherAfrican American Quilters of Ohio

Carolyn L. Mazloomi

Quilting has been popular in this country since its establishment, but documentation of African American quiltmaking prior to the early 1980s is rare. Stitching a Culture Together: African American Quilters of Ohio is an awakening to the unknown and uncelebrated contributions of African American quilters in Ohio.

Bright, bold, and beautiful, capturing the imagination with cleverly told stories and mesmerizing the eye with their beauty, African American quilts have been instruments of cultural transmission, chronicling family history, memorial-izing pain and tragedy, and celebrating significant events. Renowned quilter and quilt historian Carolyn. L. mazloomi examines the spiritual, cultural, and historical connection between African American quiltmakers and their creations. She focuses on the quilters and their stories, revealing how each quilt is a highly personal statement and a reflection of the shared experiences of human beings. Some of the quilters are traditionalists, while others explore new direc-tions by experimenting with techniques, technology, and materials considered unorthodox in the traditional quilting community. The quilts serve as a vehicle to expand under-standing of African American culture and history.

With more than forty color photographs, Stitching a Cul-ture Together showcases the remarkable range of quilts found in the African American quilt communities around the state of Ohio.

Carolyn L. Mazloomi‘s most recent book is Quilting African American Women’s History: Our Challenges, Cre-ativity, and Champions. She is also the author of Threads of Faith, Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition, and Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts, which received “Best non-Fiction Book of the Year” from the American Library Association. in 2003 she was awarded the first Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award, an award that recognizes the state’s living cultural treasures.

tHe oHio quilt series editors: Ricky Clark,Ellice Ronsheim, and Donna Sue Groves

other BooKs in the series

Philena’s Friendship Quilt A Quaker Farewell to Ohioby Lynda Salter Chenoweth

Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley by Sue C. Cummings

Uncommon ThreadsOhio’s Art Quilt Revolution by gayle A. pritchard

Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserveby Ricky Clark

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meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.

Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the service of a deeper understanding of the people involved, and of the place. This is not the mythic version of Appala-chia, but the Appalachia of the twenty-first century.

“The Appalachian stories in Meredith Sue Wil-lis’s Out of the Mountains are lively, funny, and, in good mountain tradition, sometimes a little bizarre. Willis uses her characters to show the ways people work out the conflict between what they desire and what they get. Alert to the edgy personal and political tensions between ambition and reward, between longing and sat-isfaction, these stories offer up essential human conflicts wisely and with a lot of heart.”

—Maggie Anderson

Meredith sue Willis is the author of more than fifteen books, including novels for adults, novels for children, col-lections of short stories, nonfiction about the art of writing and her most recent Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel. She teaches novel writing at new York university’s School of Continuing and professional Studies. www.meredithsuewillis.com

out of the mountainsAppalachian Stories

Meredith Sue Willis

s e r i e s i n r Ac e , e t h n i c i t y, A n d g e n d e r i n A p pA l Ac h i A

editor: Marie Tedesco

“meredith sue willis writes sparkling, masterful stories, grounded in the wisdom of place, musical in their voices and cadences, and truly joyful in their understanding of the power of words. reader, enter in!”

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Stacy Tintocalis

“Stacy Tintocalis is a magician and an artist: with one hand she sculpts the dangerous terrain of secret sorrow, while with the other she swiftly paints the strange healing power of hurt, the potent, heart-sparking heat of desire. Quietly devastating, delightfully surprising, the tales of The Tiki King are saturated with tender revela-tions and startling pleasures.”

—Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts and First, Body

A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut col-lection. Stacy Tintocalis’s stories take us from a defunct women’s shelter off a missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach.

The title story explores the conflicted emotions an adoles-cent boy feels toward a father who obsessively returns to his childhood home. in “Too Bad about Howie,” a divorced poet finds comfort in stolen moments with his ex-wife’s dog. Despite their longing for connection, these charac-ters are victims of their own foibles, trapped in terrifying moments of psychic violence that risk driving away the very people they love.

stacy tintocalis has published fiction and nonfiction in journals such as Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, and the Wilshire Review. She currently resides in mountain View, missouri.

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garrick Davis’s Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision is so bleak and unsparing, only a few will be able to savor them. Here, the art of poetry has been mecha-nized just as the world has been mechanized. Whether his subject is a car accident on the freeways of Los Angeles or the Book of Revelation transmitted by television, Davis’s stanzas conjure a kind of futuristic noir. in poem after poem, he examines the artistic possibilities of the machine, and its alterations of human experience, with a modern spirit that—as Baudelaire defined it—has embraced “the sublimity and monstrousness of something new.”

“These are formally elegant poems on subjects that are inelegant and indeed chaotic and mad. That juxtaposition gives [these] poems an enor-mous leverage and credence and conviction.”

—Sherod Santos, author of The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems

Garrick Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world (cprw .com). His poetry and criticism have appeared in the New Criterion, Verse, the Weekly Standard, McSweeney’s, and the New York Sun. He is the arts journalism specialist of the national endowment for the Arts in Washing-ton, DC.

Terminal DiagramsPoems

Garrick Davis

“these poems are made of steel.”

—Willis barnstone

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low tide at loreto

Where we go face-down in masks

Coral hums up sea surprises,

Stained-glass slivers, instinct-triggered,

Shying round us, questioning—

A light-year foot away.

Rainbow platys hang in ranks:

Like medals on mexican generals.

Climbing late from sauna seas

We walk the widening half-mile back

past reef now bare and dripping,

pubic thicket on shore’s pale belly.

Texturing nightfall: the brush of your hip

Subtle as the tide’s turning.


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the room WithinPoems

Moore Moran

“Imagine a poet who can deal with the experi-ence of Jack kerouac but with too much intel-ligence to limit himself to the road. You don’t have to imagine him. He exists in Moore Moran. Moran has many skills, all of them beautifully bright, and on occasion when he looks into the abyss they take him safely over it.”

—Turner cassity

in The Room Within moore moran communicates his affection for the art of poetry by writing in many of its intriguing forms and their beckoning promises. His work has a stylistic range that moves from the traditional to free verse to syllabic ventures—sometimes employing rhyme. Whatever the form, the voice is unmistakably his own.

moran describes himself as a western regionally oriented poet, often writing about experiences on the Central Coast. He studied under Yvor Winters at Stanford, but left the poetry stage early for a career in business. He eventually returned to poetry and in 1999 won the national poetry Book Award. The Room Within represents a career-long collection of poems, a few dating back to the 1950s.

Moore Moran‘s first book, Fire-breaks, won the national poetry Book Award in 1999. His poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.

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Czesław miłosz (1911–2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invis-ible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz presents a col-lection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and poland.

miłosz’s oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern european history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, miłosz was a professor at the university of Califor-nia, Berkeley, from 1961 to 1998. in 1980 he was awarded the nobel prize in Literature.

The earliest in this collection of thirty-two memoirs begins in the 1930s, and the latest takes readers to within a few days of miłosz’s death. This vital collection reveals the fasci-nating life story of the man Joseph Brodsky called “one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.”

Cynthia L. haven has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, and others. Her most recent books include Czesław Miłosz: Conversations and Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven. She was recently a milena

Jesenská Journalism Fellow with Vienna’s institut für die Wis-senschaften vom menschen.

an invisible rope Portraits of czesław Miłosz

Edited by Cynthia L. Haven

polish liTerATureliterary studies

contributors:Bogdana CarpenterClare CavanaughAnna Frajlichnatalie gerbergeorge gömöriirena grudzinska grossHenryk grynbergDaniel Halpern Robert HassSeamus HeaneyJane HirshfieldAgnieszka KosinskaJohn Foster Leichmadeline g. LevineRichard LourieZygmunt malinowskimorton marcus

Jadwiga maurerW. S. merwinLeonard nathanRobert pinskyAlexander SchenkerPeter Dale Scottmarek SkwarnickiJudith Tannenbaumelizabeth Kridl ValkenierLillian ValleeTomas VenclovaHelen VendlerReuel K. WilsonJoanna ZachAdam Zagajewski

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the borders of integrationPolish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924

Brian McCook

The issues of immigration and integration are at the fore-front of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into european and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. mcCook’s examination ques-tions static assumptions about race and white immigrant assimilation a hundred years ago, highlighting how the polish immigrant experience is relevant to present-day immigration debates on both sides of the Atlantic. Further, his research shows the complexity of attitudes toward immigration in germany and the united States, challenging historical myths surrounding german national identity and the American “melting pot.”

in a comparative study of polish migrants who settled in the Ruhr Valley and northeastern pennsylvania, mcCook shows that in both regions, poles become active citizens within their host societies through engagement in social conflict within the public sphere to defend their ethnic, class, gender, and religious interests. While adapting to the Ruhr and northeastern pennsylvania, poles simultaneously retained strong bonds with poland, through remittances, the exchange of letters, newspapers, and frequent return migration. in this analysis of migration in a globalizing world, mcCook highlights the multifaceted ways in which immigrants integrate into society, focusing in particular on how poles created and utilized transnational spaces to mobilize and attain authentic and more permanent identities grounded in newer broadly conceived notions of citizenship.

Brian mccook is a senior lecturer in history and politics at Leeds metropolitan university. He is the recipient of fel-lowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the german Historical institute, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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“this is a historical analysis of migration patterns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provides highly illuminating perspectives on a range of difficult and important questions to do with the integration of migrants and the importance of migration for questions of national identity. the author is to be congratulated on writing in elegant and clear prose, which will be attractive to scholars and students alike.”

—Stefan Berger, Professor of Modern German and comparative EuropeanHistory, University of Manchester

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AmericAn hisToryafrican american studies, civil rights

Volume iV of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. covers 1951, the year America entered the Korean War, through 1954, when the nAACp won its Brown v. Board of Edu-cation case, in which the Supreme Court declared that segregation was discrimination and thus unconstitutional. The decision enabled mitchell to implement the legislative program that president Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights outlined in its landmark 1947 report, To Secure These Rights.

The papers show how mitchell persuaded president Truman to extend further the Fair employment practices Com- mission idea by issuing an executive order to enforce the nondiscrimination clause in government contracts with private industry; president eisenhower further revised and strengthened this order. mitchell similarly won the sup-port of both presidents in ending segregation in many government-supported facilities and throughout the armed services.

He expanded president eisenhower’s commitment to end-ing discrimination in federal funding by leading the struggle to get Congress to enact laws barring such practices in aid to education and all similar programs.

Denton L. Watson, formerly direc-tor of public relations for the nAACp, is an associate professor at SunY College at Old Westbury and project director and editor of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. He is author of Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.’s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws.

Published with a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records commission.

the Papers of clarence mitchell jr., volume iv, 1951–1954NAAcP Labor Secretary and Director of the NAAcP Washington Bureau

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Contributors

mary Beth Corrigan

A. glenn Crothers

David Brion Davis

Jonathan earle

Stanley Harrold

mitch Kachun

mary K. Ricks

James B. Stewart

Susan Zaeske

David Zarefsky

perspectives on tHe History of congress, 1801–1877 series editor: Donald R. Kennon

Few images of early America were more striking, and jar-ring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet offi-cials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation’s capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery in the territories newly acquired from mexico, and even the legality of the slave trade in itself. This volume, with essays by some of the most distinguished historians in the nation, explores the twin issues of how slavery made life possible in the District and how lawmakers in the District regulated slavery in the nation.

paul Finkelman is president William mcKinley Distin-guished professor of Law and public policy and Senior Fel-low in the government Law Center at Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, including Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson and Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson.

Donald r. Kennon is chief historian of the united States Capitol Historical Society. He is coeditor of the Ohio uni-versity press series perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789–1801 and perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the united States Capitol.

in the Shadow of FreedomThe Politics of Slavery in the National capital

Edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon

IN THE SHADOWOF FREEDOM

T H E P O L I T I C S

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in Indian Angles, mary ellis gibson provides a new his-torical approach to indian english literature. gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of indian writing in english until 1860 and that poetry writ-ten in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. gibson recreates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial india—writers of British, indian, and mixed ethnicities.

Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. gibson recovers texts by British women, by non-elite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of english language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its results were exported to South Asia.

in lucid and accessible prose, gibson presents a new theo-retical approach to colonial and postcolonial literatures.

Mary ellis Gibson is Class of 1952 Distinguished profes-sor of english, university of north Carolina greensboro.. Her books include History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments, Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians, and the anthology that accompanies this critical study, Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913. She has also edited several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women, Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers, and Critical Essays on Robert Browning.

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indian anglesEnglish Verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore

Mary Ellis Gibson

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anglophone Poetry in colonial india, 1780–1913 A critical Anthology

Edited by Mary Ellis Gibson

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in english on the sub-continent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the nobel prize in Literature.

mary ellis gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early indian english poet Kasiprasad ghose. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, begin-ning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna maria” and ending with indian poets publishing in fin-de-siècle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore’s Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversa-tion back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.

With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabu-lary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection will significantly reshape the understanding of english language literary culture in india. it allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.

Mary ellis Gibson is Class of 1952 Dis-tinguished professor of english, university of north Carolina greensboro.

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in April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the middle east came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world’s population, the Bandung confer-ence occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century—amid the global wave of decolo-nization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new cold war world order. Conference participants such as Jawaharlal nehru of india, gamal Abdel nasser of egypt, Zhou enlai of China, and president Sukarno of indonesia seized this occasion of change to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the cold war interventionism of the united States and the Soviet union.

This collection of essays speaks to contemporary discussions of empire and decolonization and explores the precursors and afterlives of the Bandung moment. Making a World after Empire reestablishes the conference’s importance in the global history of the twentieth century.

Christopher J. Lee is an assistant professor of history at the university of north Carolina, Chapel Hill.

making a world after empireThe Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

Edited by Christopher J. Lee

researcH in international studies global and comparative studies no. 11

“this important collection of essays points to a phenomenon that has been lost in the common assumption of a worldwide movement from colonial empires to nation-states: the richer imagination of people in those empires and their quest for alternative modes of political connection.”

—Frederick cooper, author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History

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Viewing african cinema in the twenty-first century Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution

Edited by Mahir Şaul & Ralph A. Austen

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. it resembled the art cinema of con-temporary europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FeSpACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema.

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a unique comparison of these two main African cinema modes.

mahir Şaul is a professor of anthropol-ogy at the university of illinois, urbana-Champaign. He is coauthor of African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War and author of many articles on West African anthropology and social and economic history.

ralph a. austen is a professor emeritus of African history at the university of Chicago. He is the author of African Economic History and Trans-Saharan Africa in World History; coauthor of Middlemen of the Cameroon Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, ca. 1600–ca. 1960; and editor of In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Epic as History, Litera-ture and Performance.


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contributors

Abdalla uba Adamu

Vincent Bouchard

Jane Bryce

Laura Fair

Jonathan Haynes

matthias Krings

Birgit meyer

Cornelius moore

Onookome Okome

peter Rist

mahir Şaul

Stefan Sereda

Lindsey Simms

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James R. Brennan

g. Thomas Burgess

Andrew Burton

Hélène Charton-Bigot

Shane Doyle

Dave eaton

James L. giblin

eunice Kamaara

Joyce nyairo

Richard Reid

Carol Summers

Richard Waller

Justin Willis


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Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. in east Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies.

While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first–century ugan-dan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the pas-sage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among east African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collec-tion encompasses a good geographical spread of all three east African countries.

Andrew Burton is an honorary research asso ciate of the British institute in eastern Africa, currently based in Addis Ababa. His publications include African Underclass: Urbani-sation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam and the coedited volume Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis.

hélène Charton-Bigot is a CnRS researcher at the CeAn (Centre d’études de l’Afrique noire) at the university of Bor-deaux. She coedited Nairobi contemporain, les paradoxes d’une ville fragmentée, with D. Rodriguez-Torres.

Generations PastYouth in East African History

Edited by Andrew Burton and Hélène Charton-Bigot

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“a substantial work of scholarship, The Law and the Prophets is original both in its subject material and in the interpretation that is brought to bear upon it . . . logically coherent and supported by impressive evidence.”

—Tom Lodge, author of Mandela, A Critical Life and South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki

the law and the ProphetsFaith, Hope, and Politics in South Africa,1968–1977

Daniel R. Magaziner

“no nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force.

The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African his-toriography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country’s best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. Scholars thus know that something happened—yet they have only recently begun to explore how and why.

The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. it differs from previous antiapartheid historiography, however, in that it focuses more on ideas than on people and organizations. its sin-gular contribution is an exploration of the theological turn that South African politics took during this time. magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place.

Daniel r. Magaziner is an assistant professor of history at Cornell university. He has published articles in Radical His-tory Review, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, History in Africa, and elsewhere.

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The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa’s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.

Karl ittmann is an associate professor of history at the university of Houston. He is the author of Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England.

Dennis D. Cordell is a professor of history and adjunct professor of anthropology at Southern methodist univer-sity. He is the coeditor of African Population and Capital-ism: Historical Perspectives.

Gregory h. Maddox is a of history at Texas Southern university and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environ-mental History and coauthor of Praticing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance.

The Demographics of empireThe colonial Order and the creation of knowledge

Edited by Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell,and Gregory H. Maddox

ContributorsJohn CinnamonDennis D. CordellRaymond R. gervaisKarl ittmanngregory H. maddoxissiaka mandé patrick manningThomas V. mcClendonSheryl mcCurdymeshack Owino meredeth Turshen

“a very exciting collection of essays that advances and makes a contribution to the field and knowledge in general. it is original, of its genre it is state-of-the-art, and provocative.”

—Ian Pool, coauthor of The New Zealand Family from 1840 and author of Te Iwi Maori: A New Zealand Population, Past, Present and Projected

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AFricAn liTerATurefolklore, colonial history

The uncoiling PythonSouth African Storytellersand Resistance

Harold Scheub

“Harold Scheub offers a nuanced and truly heartfelt testimony to a slice of life he has watched unfold before his eyes. This book is an innovative and original blend of broad-based humanistic scholarship with a sharply focused treatment of how a people’s oral narrative tradition addresses the traumas of their history.

“Although firmly grounded in folklore, the work nonetheless includes insights that will appeal to stu-dents and specialists in literary study as well as social and environmental studies.”

—isidore Okpewho, State university of new York Distinguished professor of Africana Studies, english, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton university

harold scheub is evjue- Bascom professor of Humani-ties at the university of Wiscon-sin–madison. He is the author of many books, including Story, The Poem in the Story, Shadows, and A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Myth-maker as Storyteller.

The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. These traditions continue to shape the past by the present, and vice versa. From the time colonial forces first came to the region in 1487, oral and written traditions have been a bulwark against what became 350 years of colonial rule, charac-terized by the racist policies of apartheid. The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance is the first in-depth study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against european domination.

Africans resisted colonial rule from the beginning. They participated in open insurrections and other subversive activities in order to withstand the daily humiliations of colonial rule. perhaps the most effective and least apparent expression of subversion was through indigenous storytell-ing and poetic traditions. Harold Scheub has collected the stories and poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and ndebele peoples to present a fascinating analysis of how the appar-ently harmless tellers of tales and creators of poetry acted as front-line soldiers.

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in late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history. Consid-ered an imposter by the British, a hero by nationalists, and a prophet-king by area-studies specialists, Saya San came to embody traditional Southeast Asia’s encounter with european colonialism in his attempt to resurrect the lost throne of Burma.

The Return of the Galon King analyzes the legal origins of the Saya San story and reconsiders the facts upon which the basic narrative and interpretations of the rebellion are based. Aung-Thwin reveals how counter-insurgency law produced and criminalized Burmese culture, contributing to the way peasant resistance was recorded in the archives and understood by Southeast Asian scholars.

This interdisciplinary study reveals how colonial anthropo-logists, lawyers, and scholar-administrators produced inter -pretations of Burmese culture that influenced contemporary notions of Southeast Asian resistance and protest. it pro-vides a fascinating case study of how history is treated by the law, how history emerges in legal decisions, and how the authority of the past is used to validate legal findings.

Maitrii Aung-thwin is an assistant professor of South-east Asian History at the national university of Singapore.

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the return of the galon kingHistory, Law, and Rebellion in colonial Burma

Maitrii Aung-Thwin

researcH in international studies Southeast Asian Studies no. 124

“an important contribution to myanmar studies, historiography, and social science methodology. ”

—Robert H. Taylor, author of The State in Burma and Burma: Political Economy under Military Rule

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resistance on the National StageTheater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia

Michael H. Bodden

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater prac-titioners in indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing new Order regime of president Suharto. it examines the work of an array of theater groups and networks from Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta that pioneered new forms of theater-making and new themes that were often presented more directly and critically than previous groups had dared to do.

michael H. Bodden looks at a wide range of case studies to show how theater contributed to and helped build the opposition. He also looks at how specific combinations of social groups created tensions and gave modern theater a special role in bridging social gaps and creating social networks that expanded the reach of the prodemocracy movement. Theater workers constructed new social networks by involving peasants, muslim youth, industrial workers, and lower-middle-class slum dwellers in theater productions about their own lives. Such networking and resistance established theater as one significant arena in which the groundwork for the ouster of Suharto in may 1998, and the succeeding Reform era, was laid.

Resistance on the National Stage will have broad appeal, not only for scholars of contemporary indonesian culture and theater, but also for those interested in indonesian history and politics, as well as scholars of postcolonial theater and culture.

Michael h. Bodden is an associate professor of pacific and Asian Studies at the university of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He has published numerous articles on contemporary indonesian theater and literature, as well as a collection of translations of the fiction, the essays, and a drama by indo-nesian writer Seno gumira Ajidarma, Jakarta at a Certain Point in Time.

researcH in international studies Southeast Asian Studies no. 123

“The scholarship of the manuscript is impressive, and the research thorough, painstaking and up to date. Its original contribution lies in the detailed, perceptive discussion of theatre activities and performances, linked with sophisticated, highly-informed analysis of contemporaneous political structures, events and currents of thought. The breadth of sources drawn on for such analysis, including many newspaper reports and reviews as well as play-scripts, unpublished papers and interviews, is a major strength of the study.”

—Barbara Hatley, author of Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage

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The last of his mindA Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’sJohn Thorndike

“A brave, moving story of a son’s devotion to his dying father. . . . Thorndike’s prose is serenely beautiful. . . . An affecting work of emotional honesty and forgiveness.” —Kirkus Reviews978-0-8040-1122-8 hc $24.95

thirstyA NovelKristin Bair-O’Keeffe“O’Keeffe’s debut gracefully encapsulates the working-class cycle of poverty and hopelessness in the lives of these hard-laboring, sympathetic wives and mothers.”—Publishers Weekly978-0-8040-1123-5 hc $22.95

The origins of modern polish DemocracyEdited by M. B. B. Biskupski, James S. Pula, and Piotr J. WróbelThis is the only single-volume english- language history of modern polish democratic thought and parliamentary systems and represents the latest scholarly research by leading specialists.978-0-8214-1891-8 hc $59.95978-0-8214-1892-5 pb $28.95

ohio’s kingmakerMark Hanna, Man and MythWilliam T. HornerHorner deconstructs the myths that surround Hanna and demonstrates the dangerous and long-lasting effect that inaccurate reporting can have on our understanding of politics.978-0-8214-1893-2 hc $59.95978-0-8214-1894-9 pb $32.95

healing the herdsDisease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary MedicineEdited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle“essays in this outstanding collection cover rural as well as urban issues in veterinary disease and science from the eighteenth century to the present.”—Diana K. Davis, university of California978-0-8214-1884-0 hc $49.95978-0-8214-1885-7 pb $24.95

constructing black educationat oberlin collegeA Documentary HistoryRoland M. Baumann

“Historians have probed bits of Oberlin’s relationship to black education, but Roland Baumann’s fine documentary history is the first to explore that history fully and critically.”—Ronald e. Butchart, university of georgia978-0-8214-1887-1 hc $65.00

Stirring the PotA History of African cuisineJames C. McCann“A lively and engaging history of African food, cooking, and culinary cultures found within the continent and beyond.”—Judith Carney, Department of geography, university of California, Los Angeles978-0-89680-272-8 pb $26.95

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barack obama and African DiasporasDialogues and DissensionsPaul Tiyambe Zeleza“A tour de force! From a brilliant interroga-tion of academic knowledge about Africa to an exploration of events in the African Diaspora, to an incisive dissection of the meanings and possibilities of an engagement on Africa by the Obama Administration. . . . An enormous achievement.” —Kamari maxine Clarke, Yale university978-0-8214-1896-3 pb $28.00

colonial meltdownNorthern Nigeria in the Great DepressionMoses E. Ochonu“This book is well researched, elegantly written, and bound to reshape the debate on British imperialism in Africa.”—elias mandala, author of Work and Control in a Peasant Economy978-0-8214-1889-5 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1890-1 pb $24.95

Dancing out of lineBallrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and cultureMolly Engelhardt

“Like its topic, Dancing out of Line knows how to move: the pacing is brisk, the voice is up-tempo, and the historical narrative insistent but light on its feet. . . . engelhardt doesn’t miss a step.” —emily Allen, author of Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel978-0-8214-1888-8 hc $49.95

the cultural Production of matthew ArnoldAntony H. HarrisonHarrison reopens discussion of selected works in order to make visible some of their crucial sociohistorical, intertextual, and political components. Only by doing so can we ultimately view the cultural work of Arnold “steadily and . . . whole.”978-0-8214-1899-4 hc $49.95978-0-8214-1900-7 pb $26.00

a comprehensive indonesian-english DictionarySecond EditionEdited by Alan M. Stevens and A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings978-0-8214-1897-0 hc $110.00

Between Frontiersnation and identity in a Southeast Asian BorderlandNoboru Ishikawa978-0-89680-273-5 pb $28.00

Prophetic Politicsemmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of SufferingPhilip J. Harold978-0-8214-1865-6 hc $60.00

Between you and iDialogical PhenomenologyBeata Stawarska978-0-8214-1886-4 hc $55.00

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the Swallow anthology of New american PoetsEdited by David YezziForeword by J. D. McClatchy978-0-8040-1120-4 hc $49.95978-0-8040-1121-1 pb $19.95

the complete Stories of paul laurence DunbarAn AlA “BesT oF The BesT” Book

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Power in the bloodA Family narrativeLinda Tate978-0-8214-1871-0 hc $46.95978-0-8214-1872-7 pb $22.95

Searching for SoulA Survivor’s guideBobbe TylerWith a foreword by Lucia Capacchione978-0-8040-1118-1 hc $44.95978-0-8040-1119-8 pb $18.95

making a mangentlemanly Appetites in the nineteenth-Century British novel Gwen Hyman978-0-8214-1853-6 hc $49.95978-0-8214-1854-3 pb $24.95

electric metersVictorian physiological poeticsJason R. Rudy978-0-8214-1882-6 hc $44.95

outside the ordinaryContemporary Art in glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf CollectionEdited by Amy Miller DehanEssay by Matthew Kangas978-0-8214-1860-4 hc $50.00978-0-8214-1861-1 pb $30.00

making words matter The Agency of Colonial and postcolonial LiteratureAmbreen Hai978-0-8214-1880-2 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1881-9 pb $26.95

sino–malay Trade and Diplo-macy from the tenth through the Fourteenth centuryDerek Heng978-0-89680-271-1 pb $28.00

Wartime in burmaA Diary, January to June 1942Theippan Maung WaEdited by L. E. Bagshawe and Anna J. Allott978-0-89680-270-4 pb $24.00

Wielding the axState Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000Thaddeus Sunseri978-0-8214-1864-2 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1865-9 pb $26.95

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catching StoriesA practical guide to Oral HistoryDonna M. DeBlasio, Charles F. Ganzert, David H. Mould, Stephen H. Paschen, and Howard L. Sacks978-0-8040-1116-7 hc $26.95978-0-8040-1117-4 pb $16.95

on Poets and PoetryWilliam H. Pritchard978-0-8040-1114-3 hc $48.95978-0-8040-1115-0 pb $24.95

oscar wilde and modern culture The making of a LegendEdited by Joseph Bristow978-0-8214-1837-6 hc $59.95978-0-8214-1838-3 pb $28.95

a Necessary luxuryTea in Victorian englandJulie E. Fromer978-0-8214-1828-4 hc $50.00978-0-8214-1829-1 pb $24.95

No Winners here tonightRace, politics, and geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death penalty StatesAndrew Welsh-Huggins978-0-8214-1833-8 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1834-5 pb $24.95

james madisonphilosopher, Founder, and StatesmanEdited by John R. Vile, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams978-0-8214-1831-4 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1832-1 pb $26.95

intonationsA Social History of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent TimesMarissa J. Moorman978-0-8214-1823-9 hc $52.95978-0-8214-1824-6 pb $26.95

healing traditionsAfrican medicine, Cultural exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948Karen E. Flint978-0-8214-1849-9 hc $55.00978-0-8214-1850-5 pb $26.95

blood and capitalThe paramilitarization of ColombiaJasmin Hristov978-0-89680-267-4 pb $28.00

twelve best books by african WomenCritical ReadingsChikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan978-0-89680-266-7 pb $28.00

Silenced Voicesuncovering a Family’s Colonial History in indonesiaInez Hollander978-0-89680-269-8 pb $28.00

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Separate from the World“With each new mystery, p. L. gaus treats us to yet another view of life among the Old Order Amish in Holmes County, Ohio. But Separate from the World feels darker than some of his previous books. . . . He has great admiration for the Amish themselves, writing with quiet gravity about aspects of their lives rarely shown to strangers.”—New York Times Book Review

“in gaus’s excellent sixth Ohio Amish mystery . . . a convincing plot and credible, sympathetic characters make another winner in this fine regional series.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review184 pages978-0-8214-1814-7 hc $24.95978-0-8214-1815-4 pb $12.95

a Prayer for the Night“gaus’s absorbing fifth entry in this powerful series”—Publishers Weekly

“gaus is a sensitive storyteller who matches his cadences to the measured pace of Amish life, catching the tensions among the village’s religious factions.”—New York Times

“The strength of this book and of all the others in this well-textured and lovingly tended series . . . is gaus’s great skill in telling his tale of children and adults lost and saved, their various physical, mental, and spiritual crises.”—Bloomsbury Review184 pages978-0-8214-1672-3 hc $24.95978-0-8214-1673-0 pb $12.95

cast a blue Shadow“gaus’s eye for detail gives depth and power to a simple tale about complicated people.”—Kirkus232 pages978-0-8214-1529-0 hc $24.95978-0-8214-1530-6 pb $12.95

clouds without rainClouds without Rain is a well-plotted, suspenseful tale about the core of the human condition, as illustrated by the thought and faith of the Amish, and by their stewardship of the land they hold sacred. 240 pages978-0-8214-1379-1 hc $24.95978-0-8214-1380-7 pb $12.95

broken english The peaceful town of millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio’s Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens.216 pages978-0-8214-1325-8 hc $24.95978-0-8214-1326-5 pb $12.95

blood of the ProdigalFaced with an apparent abduction, the bishop of an Old Order Amish community reluctantly turns for help to an outsider in the decep-tively tranquil countryside of Ohio’s Holmes County.240 pages978-0-8214-1276-3 hc $24.95978-0-8040-1277-0 pb $12.95

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Quilts of the ohio Western reserveby Ricky ClarkQuilts of the Ohio Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts. “Clark has rightly earned the moniker of being one of America’s foremost quilt historians.”—Ohioana Quarterly

ricky clark is the author of several works on Ohio quilts, and coauthor of Quilts in Community: Ohio’s Traditions.128 pages, 8 x 9, color illus.978-0-8214-1659-4 pb $19.95

uncommon ThreadsOhio’s Art Quilt Revolutionby Gayle A. Pritchard“gayle pritchard’s book is a godsend, a serious, carefully researched study of the history and continuing development of quiltmaking by artists, full of valuable new information and insights. pritchard’s deep focus and solid scholarship are models for all future studies of the genre.”—Robert Shaw, author of The Art Quilt

Ohio native Gayle a. Pritchard is a fiber artist, curator, lecturer, and teacher.140 pages, 8 x 9, color illus.978-0-8214-1706-5 pb $19.95

philena’s Friendship QuiltA Quaker Farewell to Ohioby Lynda Salter ChenowethChenoweth’s research to discover the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1853 revealed not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community, but also a striking feature of the quilt itself—a “hidden” design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt’s surface.

lynda Salter chenoweth is a quilter who has lived in Sonoma, California since retiring from the university of California at Berkeley. Her quilt research focuses on nineteenth-century signature quilts.104 pages, 8 x 9, color illus.978-0-8214-1858-1 pb $22.95

album Quilts of ohio’s miami valleyby Sue C. CummingsFrom 1888 to 1918, a community of miami Valley neighbors and relatives made album presentation quilts to celebrate life passages. Their sharing of designs and construction techniques led to the development of a distinctive regional quilt style that has never been duplicated in any other region of the state or country. Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley presents more than two dozen never-before-published photographs of these quilts.

Sue c. cummings is a quilt collector and researcher whose specialty is Ohio textiles.128 pages, 8 x 9, color illus.978-0-8214-1825-3 pb $19.95

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the c iv i l war in the great inter ior Series edited by Martin J. Hershock and Christine Dee

The Civil War in the great interior is a series of short documentary histories on the Civil War in the midwestern states. each volume will present fresh primary sources that will aid professors and students, as well as the informed general reader, in exploring the social, political, and military impact of the Civil War.

indiana’s WarThe civil War in DocumentsEdited by Richard F. Nation and Stephen E. Towne“editors nation and Towne, both superbly qualified, have produced a volume which should be required in any college course in nineteenth-century indiana history. The book is also a must for readers interested in the Civil War or indiana history. They will find excellent introductions to each chapter and a fascinating variety of original documents, each with informative annotation. Highly recommended.”

—Dawn Bakken, Associate editor, Indiana Magazine of History

richard F. nation is an associate professor of history at eastern michigan university. He is the author of At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810–1870.

Stephen e. towne is an associate university archivist at indiana university-purdue university, indianapolis. He is the editor of A Fierce, Wild Joy: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.264 pages • 5½ × 8½978-0-8214-1847-5 pb $18.65

missouri’s warThe civil War in DocumentsEdited by Silvana R. SiddaliMissouri’s War highlights the experience of free and enslaved African Americans before the war, as enlisted union soldiers, and in their effort to gain rights after the end of the war. Although the collection focuses primarily on the war years, several documents highlight both the national sectional conflict that led to the outbreak of violence and the effort to reunite the conflicting forces in missouri after the war.

Silvana r. Siddali is an assistant professor of history at Saint Louis university. She is the author of From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Act, 1861-1862.

256 pages • 5½ × 8¼978-0-8214-1732-4 pb $18.65

ohio’s WarThe civil War in DocumentsEdited by Christine Dee“Christine Dee’s marvelous collection of documents will captivate anyone interested in the history of Ohio and the American Civil War. Ohio’s War: The Civil War in Documents allows us to experience battle with soldiers at places such as Chancellorsville and gettysburg. As important, we see how the Civil War mobilized, divided, traumatized, and inspired Ohio’s diverse citizens, forcing them to think hard about what was worth living for—and what was worth dying for.”—Andrew Cayton, author of Ohio: The History of a People

christine Dee is an assistant professor of history at Fitchburg State College. Her current project is a comparative study of northern Alabama and southern Ohio during the Civil War.256 pages • 5½ × 8½978-0-8214-1683-9 pb $18.65

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Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic 9

Access with Attitude 5

African Soccerscapes 8Amy Levy 15Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India,

1780–1913 33

Borders of Integration 29

Do They Miss Me at Home? 6Domestic Violence and the Law

in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa 16

Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy 18

The Demographics of Empire 38The Dred Scott Case 7

Farms and Foods of Ohio 21

Generations Past 36

In the Shadow of Freedom 31Indian Angels 32An Invisible Rope 28

Kansas’s War 22

Land, Memory, Reconstruction and Justice 17

The Law and the Prophets 37The Locavore’s Kitchen 21

Making a World after Empire 34The Midwestern Native “Garden

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Nature and History in Modern Italy 12

Out of the Mountains 24

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume IV, 1942-–1943 30

Populist Seduction in Latin America 10

Return of the Galon King 40Resistance on the National Stage

41The Room within 27

Stitching a Culture Together 23

Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection 2-3

Terminal Diagrams 26The Tiki King 25Trustee for the Human

Community 13

The Uncoiling Python 39Unsettled Accounts 4

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century 35

When Sugar Ruled 11The World of a Wayward Comic Book

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Adelman, Charlotte 20Alegi, Peter 8Armiero, Marco 30Aung-Thwin, Maitrii Victoriano 40Austen, Ralph A. 35

Bodden, Michael H. 41Bohlin, Anna 17Bracey, Christopher Alan 7Burrill, Emily S. 16Burton, Andrew 36

Charton-Bigot, Hèléne 36Combs, Jason H. 6Cordell, Dennis D. 38

Davis, Garrick 26De la Torre, Carlos 10

Faulkner, Joanne 18Finkelman, Paul 7, 31

Gibson, Mary Ellis 32-33Grimes, Anne 2

Hall, Marcus 30Hall, Ruth 17Haven, Cynthia 28Hill, Robert A. 13Hetherington, Naomi 15

Idsvoog, Karl 5Ittmann, Karl 38

Juárez-Dappe, Patricia 11

Keller, Edmond J. 13Kennon, Donald R. 31Kepe, Thembela 17

Konig, David 7

Lee, Christopher J. 34

Maddox 38Magaziner, Daniel R. 37Maness, Donald C. 6Marburger, David 5Mazloomi, Carolyn 23McCook, Brian 29Moran, Moore 27

Norcia, Megan A. 14

Peterson, Derek 9Plunkett, Sandy 1Ponce, Pearl T. 22

Roberts, Richard 16

ŞSaul, Mahir 35Scheub, Harold 39Schwartz, Bernard L. 20Suszko, Marilou K. 21

Thornberry, Elizabeth 16Tintocalis, Stacy 25

Valman, Nadia 15

Walker, Cherryl 17Watson, Denton L. 30Wells, Will 4Willis, Meredith Sue 24

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