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When you remember the

divisions within our own

generation about the war,

it ultimately turns out to be

the very symbol of our

generation, rock n roll,

that brings us together,

and it is rock n roll that

is going to provide the

healing process that

everybody needs.

Bobby Muller, 2nd Regiment,

3rd Marines, Vietnam, 19681969

Cover art: Jasper Francis Cropsey (american, 18231900). Starrucca Viaduct,

Pennsylvania, 1865. oil on canvas, 22 3/8 x 36 3/8 in. (56.8 x 92.4

cm.). toledo (ohio) Museum of art. Photo credit: Photography

Incorporated, toledo.

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Contents

New Books 1

Books about the Commonwealth 18

Selected Backlist 19

About the Series 28

About the Press 30

Contact Information 30

Ordering Information 30

Digital Editions 30

Sales Information 31

Books for Courses 32

author Index

BRADlEy and WERNER, We Gotta Get Out of This Place 1

HAMANN, The Translations of Nebrija 4

HARTSOCk, Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience 14

HIll, Country Comes to Town 10

HORD and lEE, I Am Because We Are, revised edition 6

kNOTT, Not Free, Not for All 9

lEADER, Knowing, Seeing, Being 12

lIONTAS and PARkER, A Manner of Being 3

MACIESkI, Picturing Class 13

MATHIESON and DAWES, Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic 16

MEyERS, Robert Lowell in Love 2

MUADDI DARRAj, A Curious Land 7

RICHARD, Not a Catholic Nation 8

RINgEl, Commercializing Childhood 11

SARAT, DOUglAS, and UMPHREy, Laws Mistakes 15

SCHUlMAN, Work Sights 5

SCHUylER, Apostle of Taste, new edition 17

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American History / American Studies / Music

240 pp.$26.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-162-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-197-6November 2015

Veterans recall the impact of popular music on the american experience in Vietnam

We Gotta Get Out of This PlaceThe Soundtrack of the Vietnam WarDoug BraDley and Craig Werner

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging

through Vietnams Central Highlands, it was Nancy

Sinatras These Boots Are Made for Walkin. For a

tunnel rat who blew smoke into the Viet Congs under-

ground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrixs Purple Haze. For

a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin

Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklins Chain of Fools.

And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was I Feel Like

Im Fixin to Die, Wholl Stop the Rain, or the song that

gives this book its title.

In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig

Werner place popular music at the heart of the American

experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S.

troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other

and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the

war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was

important for every group of Vietnam veteransblack and white, Latino

and Native American, men and women, officers and gruntswhose

personal reflections drive the books narrative. Many of the voices are those

of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also solo

pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the

warKarl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur

Flowersas well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced

soldiers lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen,

Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps

into memoriesindividual and culturalthat capture a central if often

overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.

douG BradleY, a Vietnam veteran, teaches a course on the war with craiG Werner, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of WisconsinMadison and author of Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha

Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.

We Gotta Get Out of This Place is chock full of

materials that present

multi-voiced memories of

how popular music related

to the experiences of

American GIs in and after

the Vietnam War. The

book will appeal to

veterans, and in many

ways is written by, for,

and to them. But students

and fans of popular music

history, the history of the

1960s, and the history of

war will also find it an

engaging and worthwhile

read.Michael J. Kramer,

author of The Republic

of Rock: Music and

Citizenship in the

Sixties Counterculture

a volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

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Biography / American Literature

256 pp., 12 illus.$34.95t jacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-186-0

January 2016

hoW mania, marriaGe, affairs, and loVe itself shaped one of americas Greatest poets

Robert Lowell in LoveJeffrey Meyers

Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer

whose devotion to his art came at a tremendous personal cost. In this

work, his third on Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers examines the poets

impassioned, fraught relationships with the key women in his life, includ-

ing his mother, Charlotte Winslow Lowell; his three wivesJean Stafford,

Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood; nine of his many lovers; his

close women friendsMary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne

Rich; and his most talented students, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.

Lowells charismatic personality and compelling poetry attracted lovers

and friends who were both frightened and excited by his aura of brilliance

and danger. He loved the idea of falling in love, and in his recurring manic

episodes he needed women at the center of his emotional and artistic life.

While he idealized his loves and encouraged their talents, he never fully

grasped his wives and lovers deepest needs and feelings, and his frenetic

affairs and tortured marriages were always conducted entirely on his own

terms. Robert Lowell in Love tells the story of the poet in the grip of love

and gives voice to the women who loved him, inspired his poetry, and

suffered along with him.

An eminent biographer and literary scholar,

JeffreY meYers is the author of fifty-three books. He lives in Berkeley, California.

I couldnt put the book down, and when I did,

couldnt wait to get back

to it. Its a heartbreaking

tale for all concerned,

and it reads like a Greek

tragedy, for Meyers has

turned the pain of it all

into a honeycomb for us

to enjoy with a guilty,

cathartic kind of

schadenfreude. Paul Mariani,

author of Lost Puritan: A

Life of Robert Lowell

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Creative Writing / American Literature

320 pp., 23 illus.$28.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-182-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-181-5December 2015

A collection of snapshots from the past few decades

documenting how a variety

of writers have found or

been given guidance from

other writers, both in and

out of writing programs.

Many different approaches

are represented here, from

line editors to more mystic

sages, from teachers

turned life coaches to

teachers who did most

of their work in the

classroom or campus

office. In gathering these

tributes to mentors, this

volume gives us some

idea not so much of what

students look for in a

teacher, but of what they

remember, and why its

important to them.Peter Turchi, author of

A Muse and A Maze:

Writing as Puzzle,

Mystery, and Magic

Writers recall those Who shoWed them the WaY

A Manner of BeingWriters on Their Mentorsedited BY annie liontas and Jeff Parker

What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan

writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias

Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian

writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova

have in common? At some point, they all studied the art

of writing deeply with someone.

The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being,

by some of the best contemporary writers from around

the world, pay homage to mentorsthe writers, teachers,

nannies, and sageswho enlighten, push, encourage, and

sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their protgs. There are

mentors encountered in the schoolhouse and on farms, in

NYC and in MFA programs; mentors who show up exactly

when needed, offering comfort, a steadying hand, a com-

miseration, a dose of tough love. This collection is rich with anecdotes

from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance

for how to live the writing life in a world that all too often doesnt care

whether you write or not.

Each contribution is intimate and distinctyet a common theme is that

mentors model a manner of being.

arthur flowers on John oKillens James franco on harmony Korinemary Gaitskill on an ann arbor bookstore ownernoy holland and sam lipsyte on Gordon lishtayari Jones on ron carlson

annie liontas received an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. She is author of the novel Let Me Explain You. Jeff parKer is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

His most recent books include Where Bears Roam the Streets and Erratic Fire,

Erratic Passion.

henry rollins on hubert selby Jr.rodrigo rey rosa on paul BowlesGeorge saunders on douglas unger and tobias Wolffchristine schutt on elizabeth hardwicktobias Wolff on John lheureux. . . and many more


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a volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Print Culture Studies / Translation Studies

192 pp. 39 illus.$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-170-9

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-163-1November 2015

the storY of a translation dictionarY and its influential role in GloBal historY

The Translations of NebrijaLanguage, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern WorldByron ellsWorth haMann

In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-

to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was

revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries

made their way around the globe in this age of encounters, their lists of

Spanish words became frameworks for dictionaries of non-Latin lan-

guages. What began as Spanish to Latin became Spanish to Arabic, French,

English, Tuscan, Nahuatl, Mayan, Quechua, Aymara, Tagalog, and more.

Tracing the global influence of Nebrijas dictionary, Byron Ellsworth

Hamann, in this interdisciplinary, deeply researched book, connects

pagan Rome, Muslim Spain, Aztec Tenochtitlan, Elizabethan England,

the Spanish Philippines, and beyond, revealing new connections in world

history. The Translations of Nebrija re-creates the travels of people, books,

and ideas throughout the early modern world and reveals the adaptabil-

ity of Nebrijas text, tracing the ways heirs and pirate printers altered the

dictionary in the decades after its first publication. It reveals how entries

in various editions were expanded to accommodate new concepts, such

as for indigenous languages in the Americasa process with profound

implications for understanding pre-Hispanic art, architecture, and writing.

It shows how words written in the margins of surviving

dictionaries from the Americas shed light on the writing

and researching of dictionaries across the early modern

world.

Exploring words and the dictionaries that made sense

of them, this book charts new global connections and

challenges many assumptions about the early modern

world.

BYron ellsWorth hamann is assistant professor in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State

University.

This is a spectacularly imaginative book.

Rarely does one find

sweeping cultural

ideas, ideas of global

significance, warranted

by bibliography so

specific; rarely is such

sophisticated book

history written so

clearly and

enthusiastically.Michael Adams,

author of Slang: The

Peoples Poetry



American Studies / Cultural Studies / History of Science and Technology

304 pp., 67 illus.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-195-2 $95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-194-5December 2015

explores the cultural meaninG of technoloGY in Gilded aGe america

Work SightsThe Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century AmericaVanessa Meikle sChulMan

In this extensively illustrated work, Vanessa Meikle

Schulman reveals how visual representations of labor,

technology, and industry were crucial in shaping the way

nineteenth-century Americans understood their nation

and its place in the world. Her focus is the period between

1857 and 1887, an era marked by the rapid expansion

of rail and telegraph networks, the rise of powerful,

centralized corporations, and the creation of specialized

facilities for the mechanized production and distribution

of products. Through the examination of popular as well

as fine artnews illustrations and paintings of American

machines, workers, factories, and technical innovations

she illuminates an evolving tension between the percep-

tion of technology and industry as rational, logical, and systemic on

the one hand and as essentially unknowable, strange, or irrational on

the other.

Ranging across the fields of art history, visual studies, the history of

technology, and American studies, Work Sights captures both the richness

of nineteenth-century American visual culture and the extent to which

Americans had begun to perceive their country as a modern nation

connected by a web of interlocking technological systems.

Vanessa meiKle schulman is assistant professor of art history at Illinois State University.

This is a book that will be of great interest to

graduate students and

scholars in history,

American studies, and

art history, as well as

more specialized fields

like technology and

society. In combining a

formalist art historical

approach with a deeply

rooted sense of history,

Vanessa Meikle Schulman

has produced a work that

is in line with the best

contemporary scholarship

in American nineteenth-

century art history.Miles Orvell, author of

The Death and Life of

Main Street: Small Towns

in American Memory,

Space, and Community

a volume in the series Science/Technology/Culture



African American Studies / Philosophy

408 pp.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-176-1

$95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-175-4December 2015

a reVised and expanded edition of a landmarK antholoGY of africana thouGht

I Am Because We AreReadings in Africana Philosophy

Revised editionedited BY freD lee horD (Mzee lasana okPara) and Jonathan sCott lee

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a

major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety

of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent

black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee

Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the case for a tradition of relational

humanism distinct from the philosophical preoccupations of the West.

Over the past twenty years, however, new scholarly research has

uncovered other contributions to the discipline now generally known as

Africana philosophy that were not included in the original volume. In

this revised and expanded edition, Hord and Lee build on the strengths of

the earlier anthology while enriching the selection of readings to bring the

text into the twenty-first century. In a new introduction, the editors reflect

on the key arguments of the books central thesis, refining them in light of

more recent philosophical discourse. This edition includes important new

readings by Kwame Gyekye, Oyrnk Oyewm, Paget Henry, Sylvia

Wynter, Toni Morrison, Charles Mills, and Tommy Curry,

as well as extensive suggestions for further reading.

fred lee hord (mZee lasana oKpara) is professor of English and director of Africana studies

at Knox College and author of several books, including

Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism. Jonathan scott lee is professor of philosophy at Colorado College and author of Jacques Lacan, published

by the University of Massachusetts Press.

praise for the first edition:

An ambitious book [that] strives to be intellectually and philosophically Pan-Africanist. In an era where more than

a hyphen has continually separated Africans and African-

Americans and others of African descent, the call to relational

humanism and community ethos is a timely one. The International Journal of African Historical Studies

A significant and sure- to-be controversial

attempt to demonstrate

the existence of a black

philosophical tradition.

. . . It makes available a

valuable collection of

essays that teachers of

philosophy and black

studies alike will wish to

use in their courses.Robert Gooding-Williams,

author of In the Shadow of

Du Bois: Afro-Modern

Political Thought

in America



Fiction

240 pp.$24.95t jacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-187-7October 2015

Winner of the Grace paleY priZe in short fiction

A Curious LandStories from Homesusan MuaDDi DarraJ

When Rabab lowered the magad and clapped-clapped to the

well in her mothers too-big slippers, the stone jar digging into

her shoulder, she didnt, at first, see the body. The morning sun

glazed everything around herthe cement homes, the iron rails

along one wall, the bars on the windows, the stones around the

welland made her squint her itchy eyes.

She was hungry. That was all.

Theyd arrived here only last night, stopping as soon as

Awwad and the men were sure the army had moved south. It

must have been the third time in just a few weekscollapse the

tents, load the mules, disappear into the sands. She hoped this

war would end soon, and she didnt really care who won, as long

as it ended because they hadnt eaten well in two years. In the

past few months, her mother had sold all her gold, except for

her bracelet made of liras. It was the only thing left, and she was

holding onto it, and Rabab realized, so were they all; she imag-

ined that, the day it was sold, when her mothers wrist was bare,

would signal that they were at the end.

Susan Muaddi Darrajs short story collection crosses generations and

continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and,

ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home.

susan muaddi darraJs stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in New York Stories, Orchid Literary Review, Banipal, Mizna,

al-Jadid, and several anthologies. Her previous short story collection,

The Inheritance of Exile, was honored by the U.S. State Departments

Arabic Book Program. She is a recipient of an Individual Artist Award

from the Maryland State Arts Council. A Philadelphia native, she

currently lives in Baltimore.

These linked stories about the people of the village of

Tel al-Hilou, and their

descendants in todays

United States of America,

span over a century. The

authors empathy for the

large cast of embattled

characters is miraculous.

In particular, we get to

know the quietly heroic

Palestinian women in these

stories as intimately as we

know the people closest

to us. Astonishingly, this

collection is, above all,

about the transformative

powers of love.Jaime Manrique, author

of Our Lives Are the Rivers


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American History / New England History / Religion

296 pp., 8 illus.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-189-1

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-188-4November 2015

the forGotten storY of catholic resistance to the rise of the KKK in neW enGland

Not a Catholic NationThe Ku Klux Klan Confronts New England in the 1920sMark Paul riCharD

During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan experienced a remarkable resurgence,

drawing millions of American men and women into its ranks. In Not a

Catholic Nation, Mark Paul Richard examines the KKKs largely ignored

growth in the six states of New EnglandConnecticut, Maine, Massachu-

setts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermontand details the reac-

tions of the regions Catholic population, the Klans primary targets.

Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped sourcesFrench-

language newspapers in the New EnglandCanadian borderlands; KKK

documents scattered in local, university, and Catholic repositories; and

previously undiscovered copies of the Maine KlansmenRichard demon-

strates that the Klan was far more active in the Northeast than previously

thought. He also challenges the increasingly prevalent view that the Ku

Klux Klan became a mass movement during this period largely because

it functioned as a social, fraternal, or civic organization for many Prot-

estants. While Richard concedes that some Protestants in New England

may have joined the KKK for those reasons, he shows that the politics of

ethnicity and labor played a more significant role in the Klans growth in

the region.

The most comprehensive analysis of the Ku Klux

Klans antagonism toward Catholics in the 1920s, this

book is also distinctive in its consideration of the history

of the CanadaU.S. borderlands, particularly the role

of Canadian immigrants as both proponents and victims

of the Klan movement in the United States.

marK paul richard is professor of history and Canadian studies, State University of New York

at Plattsburgh. He is author of Loyal but French: The

Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the

United States.

Not a Catholic Nation is both original and

illuminated by some

of the most creative

approaches found in

recent scholarship in

U.S. Catholic history.

By opening with an

account of the Klans

activities in the state

featuring the most

extensive boundary

with Canada, Richard

engages early the trans-

national dimension of

his story, a major feature

of religious and ethnic

conflict in the United

States but one which

has rarely been examined

so intimately.James T. Fisher, author

of Communion of

Immigrants: A History of

Catholics in America




Print Culture Studies / African American Studies

296 pp., 7 illus.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-178-5 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-177-8November 2015

the untold historY of puBlic liBrarY seGreGation

Not Free, Not for AllPublic Libraries in the Age of Jim CrowCheryl knott

Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-

honored advocates of equitable access to information for

all. Through much of the twentieth century, however,

many black Americans were denied access to public librar-

ies or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller

buildings and collections. While scholars have examined

and continue to uncover the history of school segregation,

there has been much less research published on the seg-

regation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South. In fact,

much of the writing on public library history has failed to

note these racial exclusions.

In Not Free, Not for All, Cheryl Knott traces the estab-

lishment, growth, and eventual demise of separate public

libraries for African Americans in the South, disrupting

the popular image of the American public library as historically

welcoming readers from all walks of life. Using institutional records,

contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, and other primary

sources together with scholarly work in the fields of print culture and civil

rights history, Knott reconstructs a complex story involving both animos-

ity and cooperation among whites and blacks who valued what libraries

had to offer. African American library advocates, staff, and users emerge

as the creators of their own separate collections and services with both

symbolic and material importance, even as they worked toward disman-

tling those very institutions during the era of desegregation.

cherYl Knott is associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

This is a crucial revision in the way we have

thought of the history of

public libraries in the U.S.

This book will influence

scholars in a variety of

fields as it offers valuable

insights on a range of

questions about African

Americans and their

relationship to print

culture, and about the

ways that we think about

the history of segregation

and the pursuit of civil

rights in this country.Elizabeth McHenry,

author of Forgotten

Readers: Recovering the

Lost History of African

American Literary

Societies



American Studies / Music

224 pp., 4 illus.$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-172-3

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-171-6January 2016

a volume in the series American Popular Music

hoW the countrY music industrY Keeps close to home

Country Comes to TownThe Music Industry and the Transformation of NashvilleJereMy hill

Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land

and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository

of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values,

Jeremy Hill argues that country music has found such expansive success

because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural

issues as well as geographic change. Hill demonstrates how the genre and

its fans developed a flexible idea of country, beyond their rural roots, and

how this flexibility allowed fans and music to come to town, to move into

and within urban spaces, while retaining a country character.

To understand how the genre has become the far-reaching commercial

phenomenon that it is today, Hill explores how various players within the

country music fold have grappled with the notion of place. He shows both

how the industry has transformed the city of Nashville and how coun-

try musicthrough song lyrics, imagery associated with the music, and

brandinghas reshaped ideas about the American landscape and charac-

ter. As the genre underwent significant change in the last decades of the

twentieth century, those who sought to explain its new styles and new

locations relied on a traditional theme: You can take

the boy out of the country, but you cant take the coun-

try out of the boy. Hill demonstrates how this idea

that you can still be country while no longer living in

a rural placehas been used to expand countrys com-

mercial appeal and establish a permanent home in the

urban space of Nashville.

JeremY hill, who earned a PhD in American studies from George Washington University, is an independent

scholar who lives in Chicago.

In a clear writing style, Hill links countrys construction of an ordinary folks American identity to the racial politics and

urban policy of the late twentieth century in a compelling way.Diane Pecknold, author of The Selling Sound: The

Rise of the Country Music Industry

In his sophisticated focus on the importance of a

constructed and affective

home in both creating

and defining a fan base,

Hill breaks new ground in

the scholarship of country

musicand popular music

studies more generally.

This is one of those books

that has the ability to

make readersincluding

studentssit up and realize

that meaning is created in

a myriad of places, in a

myriad of ways, all in

noisy conversation with

each other.Rachel Rubin, author of

Well Met: Renaissance

Faires and the American

Counterculture




Print Culture Studies / American Studies / Journalism and Media Studies

264 pp., 5 illus.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-191-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-190-7September 2015

hoW nineteenth-centurY maGaZines schooled children in consumerism

Commercializing ChildhoodChildrens Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 18231918Paul B. ringel

Long before activists raised concerns about the dangers

of commercials airing during Saturday morning cartoons,

Americas young people emerged as a group that busi-

nesses should target with goods for sale. As print culture

grew rapidly in the nineteenth century, enterprising pub-

lishers raced to meet the widespread demand for maga-

zines aimed at middle- and upper-class children, especially

those whose families had leisure time and cultural aspira-

tions to gentility. Advertisers realized that these children

represented a growing market for more than magazines,

and the editors chose stories to help model good consumer

behavior for this important new demographic.

In this deeply researched and engaging book, Paul B.

Ringel combines an analysis of the stories in nineteenth-century American

childrens magazines with the backstories of their authors, editors, and

publishers to explain how this hugely successful industry trained genera-

tions of American children to become genteel consumers. Ringel demon-

strates how these publications, which were read in hundreds of thousands

of homes, played to two conflicting impulses within American families: to

shield children from commercial influences by offering earnest and moral

entertainment and to help children learn how to prosper in an increas-

ingly market-driven society.

paul B. rinGel is associate professor of history at High Point University.

This book is thoroughly researched, demonstrates an excellent understanding of magazine literature and culture, and provides biographical background and social

history as contexts for the literature under examination.Carol J. Singley, author of Adopting America:

Childhood, Kinship, and Narrative Identity in Literature

Ringels nuanced interpretations are alive

to the contradictions

inherent to the precarious

cultural balancing acts of

juvenile publishing, and

this book presents these

findings in a clear and

engaging style. This is the

sort of solid scholarship

that truly adds to our

knowledge, and I predict

that this book will last as a

standard resource for many

years.Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler,

author of Dependent

States: The Childs Part in

Nineteenth-Century

American Culture



American Studies / American Literature

240 pp.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-180-8

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-179-2February 2016

reconsiders the imaGinations of maJor american poets and their literarY traditions

Knowing, Seeing, BeingJonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological TraditionJennifer l. leaDer

Scholars no longer see Jonathan Edwards as the fire-and-brimstone

preacher who deemed his parishioners sinners in the hands of an angry

god. Edwards now figures as caring and socially conscious and exerts

increased influence as a philosopher of the American school of Protestant-

ism. In this study, he becomes the progenitor of an alternative tradition in

American letters.

In Knowing, Seeing, Being, Jennifer Leader argues that Edwards, the

nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson, and the twentieth-century poet

Marianne Moore share a heretofore underrecognized set of religious and

philosophical preoccupations. She contends that they represent an alter-

native tradition within American literature, one that differs from Tran-

scendentalism and is grounded in Reformed Protestantism and its ways

of reading and interpreting the King James Bible and the natural world.

According to Leader, these three writers most significant commonality

is the Protestant tradition of typology, a rigorous mode of interpreting

scripture and nature through which certain figures or phenomena are

read as the fulfillment of prophecy and of Gods work.

Following from their similar ways of reading, they also

share philosophical and spiritual questions about lan-

guage, epistemology (knowing), perception (seeing),

and physical and spiritual ontology (being). In con-

necting Edwards to these two poets, in exploring each

writers typological imagination, and through a series

of insightful readings, this innovative book reevaluates

three major figures in American intellectual and literary

history and compels a reconsideration of these writers

and their legacies.

Jennifer l. leader is a professor in the American Language Department at Mt. San Antonio College.

A ground-breaking contribution to scholarship

on three major writers and

their roles in American

Protestant poetics. It will

introduce typology into

literary conversations in

a fresh and illuminating

way while deepening

appreciation for poetry.Jane Donahue Eberwein,

author of Dickinson:

Strategies of Limitation

and editor of An Emily

Dickinson Encyclopedia



New England History / Labor Studies

336 pp., 180 illus.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-184-6 $95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-183-9October 2015

hoW photoGraphs WorKed to end child laBor

Picturing ClassLewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New EnglandroBert MaCieski

In this richly illustrated book, Robert Macieski examines

Lewis W. Hines art and advocacy on behalf of child labor-

ers as part of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)

between 1909 and 1917. A social photographeras he

called himselfHine created images that documented

children at work throughout New England, making the

case for their exploitation in the North as he had for rural

working children in the South. Hine staged his images,

highlighting particular types of labor in specific places:

the newsies in Connecticut cities; sardine canners in

Eastport, Maine; cranberry pickers in Cape Cod bogs;

industrial homeworkers in Boston and Providence; and

cotton textile workers throughout the region. His associ-

ation with the NCLC connected him to a network of local

and national reformers, social workers, and child welfare professionals,

a broad coalition he supported in their fight to end this unethical labor

practice. Macieski also chronicles Hines efforts to mount major exhibi-

tions that would help move public opinion against child labor.

In Picturing Class, Macieski explores the historical context of Hines

photographs and the social worlds of his subjects. He offers a detailed

analysis of many of the images, unearthing the stories behind the cre-

ation of these photographs and the lives of their subjects. In telling the

story of these photographs, their creation, and their reception, Macieski

demonstrates how Hine worked to advance an unvarnished picture of

a rapidly changing region and the young workers at the center of this

important shift.

roBert maciesKi is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.

Macieski attends to how gender, race, and ethnicity

complicate narratives of

child laborshowing

Hines distinctive visual

rhetoric for different

subjects. The authors

immersion in the reform

milieu of the early

twentieth century and

the primary research

done for this book are

phenomenal.Carol Quirke, author of

Eyes on Labor: New

Photography and

Americas Working Class


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Journalism and Media Studies / American Studies

224 pp.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-174-7

$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-173-0January 2016

maKes the case for narratiVe literarY Journalism as a distinct and ValuaBle Genre

Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of ExperienceJohn C. hartsoCk

Proponents and practitioners of narrative literary journalism have sought

to assert its distinctiveness as both a literary form and a type of journal-

ism. In Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience, John C. Hartsock

argues that this often neglected kind of journalismexemplified by such

renowned works as John Herseys Hiroshima, James Agees Let Us Now

Praise Famous Men, and Joan Didions Slouching Towards Bethlehemhas

emerged as an important genre of its own, not just a hybrid of the tech-

niques of fiction and the conventions of traditional journalism.

Hartsock situates narrative literary journalism within the broader histo-

ries of the American tradition of objective journalism and the standard

novel. While all embrace the value of narrative, or storytelling, literary

journalism offers a particular aesthetics of experience lacking in both

the others. Not only does literary journalism disrupt the myths sustained

by conventional journalism and the novel, but its rich details and atten-

tion to everyday life question readers cultural assumptions. Drawing on

the critical theories of Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Benjamin, and others, Hartsock

argues that the aesthetics of experience challenge the shibboleths that

often obscure the realities the other two forms seek

to convey.

At a time when print media appear in decline,

Hartsock offers a thoughtful response to those who

ask, What place if any is there for a narrative literary

journalism in a rapidly changing media world?

John c. hartsocK is professor of communication studies at SUNY Cortland. He is author of A History of

American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern

Narrative Form (University of Massachusetts Press,

2001), which won the History Award of the Association

for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

and the Book of the Year Award of the American

Journalism Historians Association.

A valuable, sophisticated, and

provocative book that

will appeal to scholars

in journalism studies

and literary criticism

and a good comple-

ment to Hartsocks

earlier work.John C. Nerone,

editor of Last Rights:

Revisiting Four Theories

of the Press



the amherst series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Legal Studies

200 pp.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-193-8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-192-1January 2016

explores the relationship BetWeen laW and error in american Jurisprudence

Laws Mistakesedited BY austin sarat, laWrenCe Douglas, and Martha uMPhrey

From false convictions to botched executions, from erro-

neous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misun-

derstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts,

law is awash in mistakes. These mistakes can be uninten-

tional deviations from expected practices or the result of

intentional actions that produce unintended negative

consequences. They may become part of a process of

response and correction or be accepted as an inevitable

cost of action. Some mistakes are external to law itself,

such as errors in an agreement made by two private par-

ties. Others are made by legal actors in the course of their

work; for example, a police officers failing to obtain a

search warrant when one was required.

The essays in Laws Mistakes explore the things that law

recognizes as errors and the way it responds to them. They identify the

jurisprudential and political perspectives that underlie different under-

standings of what is or is not a legal mistake, and examine the fraught,

contested, and evolving relationship between law and error. And they

offer templates for thinking about what mistakes can tell us about the

aspirations and limits of law, and for understanding how our imagining

of law is enabled and shaped by its juxtaposition to a condition labeled

mistake.

In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Paul Schiff

Berman, Sonali Chakravarti, Jody L. Medeira, Stewart Motha, Kunal

Parker, and Jordan Steiker.

austin sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. laWrence douGlas is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

at Amherst College. martha umphreY is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government at Amherst College.

The very question of what constitutes a legal

error, as opposed to poor

judgment or unjust law,

lies at the crux of Laws

Mistakes, which brings

together an impressive

range of scholarly

perspectives. Rather than

consigning errors to the

realm of rare exceptions,

the contributors to this

volume insist that

mistakes need to be

engaged as part of the

very fabric of law.

Ravit Reichman, author

of The Affective Life of

Law: Legal Modernism

and the Literary

Imagination


Botany / Environmental Studies

688 pp., 114 illus.$105.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-185-3

February 2016

the first comprehensiVe taxonomY of the marine alGae of the northWest atlantic in more than sixtY Years

Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlanticarthur C. Mathieson and Clinton J. DaWes

In this book, Arthur C. Mathieson and Clinton J. Dawes offer a complete

and current treatment of the seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic, includ-

ing taxonomic descriptions, keys, and 108 plates of detailed line drawings

of this rich assemblage of marine algal species found between the Cana-

dian Arctic and Maryland. It is designed to serve as an up-to-date refer-

ence work, classroom text, and field manual for botanists, marine biolo-

gists, naturalists, and students learning about the highly diverse marine

algal flora of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.

The introductory chapter provides a historical review of seaweed stud-

ies as well as a description of 15 geographical sites designated in the text.

Three chapters on the green, brown, and red alga include more than 256

genera, 510 species, 10 subspecies, 21 varieties, and 14 forms. New tax-

onomic combinations and descriptions of several previously undescribed

taxa are also included in the text. The modern classification reviews

molecular as well as reproductive, morphological, and biological data. The

work represents more than forty years of research on Northwest Atlantic

seaweeds and will aid researchers throughout the Northeast and South-

west Atlantic coasts. The authors detail the taxonomy,

morphology, cytology, and name derivation of various

taxonomic entities, as well as the ecology and distribu-

tion patterns of over 555 taxa. The text includes keys

to genera and species, a glossary, and sources of further

information.

arthur c. mathieson is professor of biology at the University of New Hampshire. clinton J. daWes is University Research Professor Emeritus at the University

of South Florida. They are coauthors of The Seaweeds of

Florida.

This book represents a detailed and updated

scholarly synthesis of

the marine algae of the

northwestern arc of the

North Atlantic, from as far

south as the Chesapeake

Bay to northern parts of

Canada. The publication

of this comprehensive flora

will be of immense value

not only to academics

but to workers in marine

conservation and related

fields, in tracking possible

invasions of seaweeds, and

in determining if ranges of

some species are changing

over recent decades,

possibly due to global

warming. Mathieson and

Dawes have done a

masterful job.Michael J. Wynne,

coauthor of Introduction to

the Algae: Structure and

Reproduction

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a volume in the series Masschusetts Study in Early Modern Culture

Gardening / Landscape Design

320 pp., 117 illus.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-168-6September 2015

a neW edition of the BioGraphY of the nineteenth centurYs most influential landscape desiGner

Apostle of TasteAndrew Jackson Downing, 18151852

neW editionDaViD sChuyler

Through his many books and in the pages of the Horticul-

turist, the nations first journal about landscape gardening,

Andrew Jackson Downing (18151852) preached a gospel

of taste, promoting a naturalistic style of landscape design

as the modern alternative to the classical geometry of the

ancient gardens of Italy and France. Together with his

longtime collaborator, Alexander Jackson Davis, Downing

also contributed to an architectural revolution that sought

to replace the classical revival with the Gothic revival and

other romantic styles. Downing celebrated this progression

not simply as a change in stylistic preference but a reflec-

tion of the nations evolution to a more advanced state of

civilization.

In this compelling biography, issued in a new edition with a new preface,

David Schuyler explores the origins of the tastemakers ideas in English aes-

thetic theory and his efforts to adapt English principles to American climate

and republican social institutions. Tracing the impulse toward a native archi-

tectural style, Schuyler also demonstrates the influence of Downings ideas

on the periods gardens and, more broadly still, analyzes the complications of

class implicit in Downings prescriptions for American society. The new edi-

tion is illustrated with more than 100 drawings, plans, and photographs.

daVid schuYler is Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is author of Sanctified

Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 18201909; The New

Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America;

and A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster,

Pennsylvania, 19401980. He has served as coeditor of several volumes of the

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers.

Distributed for the library of american

landscape history

The vast amount of visual evidence combines

with the material and

personal history of

Downing to make

Apostle of Taste a

must for scholars of

architectural and

landscape history.Pennsylvania History

Schuylers excellent study of Downings

writing and career,

complete with excellent

illustrations and an

extensive, annotated

bibliography, will serve as

one major starting point

for future studies of

Downing.Winterthur Portfolio: A

Journal of American

Material Culture



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Investment Management in Bostona historyDaViD grayson allenA freshand originaltreatment of the multitude of activities by

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century. A highly valuable study.Edwin Perkins

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-103-7448 pp., 15 illus., 2015Published in association with Massachusetts Historical Society.

Bostons Cycling Craze, 18801900a story of race, sport, and societylorenz J. finisonBoston Globe Best new england Books of 2014

Finison chronicles the early debates associated with wheeling, which included issues of race, gender, and class. . . . References to contemporary Boston locations may be of interest to local historians. Recommended.Choice

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0312 pp., 17 illus., 2014

A Peoples History of the New BostonJiM VraBelA must-read for a new generation of community activists, politicians, government officials, students of cities, and the media. Commonwealth Magazine

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4288 pp., 16 illus., 2014

The New Bostonianshow immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960sMarilynn s. JohnsonA very strong piece of work.Paul Watanabe

$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-147-1288 pp., 20 illus., August 2015

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Boxcar PoliticsThe Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 18691956

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Underground MovementsModern Culture on the New York City Subway

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A Question of SexFeminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That Matter

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BarBara hoChManWinner of the George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize

Hochman provides a thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly written account of the changes in the reception of Uncle Toms Cabin over six decades. Journal of American Studies$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-894-5400 pp., 40 illus., 2011


The Art of PrestigeThe Formative Years at Knopf, 19151929

aMy root CleMentsFor readers interested in the history of the publishing industry, this study may prove a good entry point.Publishers Weekly$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1224 pp., 2014


A Publishers ParadiseExpatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 18901960

Colette ColliGanJudiciously speculative, analytically rich, and never dull.French Studies$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-038-2376 pp., 27 illus., 2013


What Adolescents Ought to KnowSexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America

JenniFer BUreK PierCeUncovers hiddens facts. Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-892-1256 pp., 8 illus., 2011


What Middletown ReadPrint Culture in an American Small City

FranK Felsenstein and JaMes J. ConnollyThis book makes an extremely important contribution to the literature on print culture history both for its methodological content and for what it has to tell us about the print culture of Middletown. Christine Pawley$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-141-9344 pp., 16 illus., June 2015


1960s Gay Pulp FictionThe Misplaced Heritage

edited by dreWey Wayne GUnn and JaiMe harKerA book thatll make you want to buy more books.Lambda Literary$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-045-0344 pp., 2013


Thinking Outside the BookaUGUsta rohrBaChA searching examination of the language, status, and cultural relevance of the concepts that have motivated so much of the critical thinking about the book as medium, witness, and authority.David Greetham$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-126-6180 pp., 15 illus., 2014


History Repeating ItselfThe Republication of Childrens Historical Literature and the Christian Right

GreGory M. PFitzerA magnificent piece of historical research and writing.Leslie Howsam$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-124-2328 pp., 25 illus., 2014


From Codex to HypertextReading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

edited by anoUK lanGThe essays consider the inner workings of small-town book clubs and Amazon.com recommendation algorithms, and they insist that understanding the interplay between the digital and the physical realms is essential to an accurate and holistic picture of the contemporary reader. Columbia Journalism Review$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-953-9272 pp., 18 illus., 2012




FICTION & POETRYBewilderedStories

Carla PanCieraWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

A strong debut.Publishers Weekly$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-133-4184 pp., 2014

Published in cooperation with Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Everyone Here Has a GunStories

lUCas soUthWorthWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

Aims directly at the reader with precision and beauty, and embeds itself into the brain, where it lingers long after the book is closed.Mid-Atlantic Review$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-053-5176 pp., 2013

Published in cooperation with Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Desert sonorousStories

sean BernardWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

All the wreckage of American life, Tucson style, is here on display. Should we celebrate Bernard as our newest bard of the desert? Yes, as surely as America is on a remote 24/7 hum, throbbing alongside its desert highways.Edie Meidav$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-137-2186 pp., 2015

A History of HandsA Novel

rod Val MooreWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Imagine a collaboration between Henry Roth, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Rudolph Wurlitzer . . . only less derivative than that description suggests, more antic, and uniquely poignant.Entropy Magazine$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-096-2240 pp., 2014

Some Kinds of LoveStories

steVe yatesWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Yates surprises often with his range of subjects and moods.Shelf Awareness$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-028-3272 pp., 6 illus., 2013

The Agriculture Hall of FameStories

andreW Malan MilWardWinner of the Juniper Prize for FictionWinner of the ForeWord Firsts Award

The 10 gorgeous stories offer unique glimpses into Midwestern calamities and the folks who find themselves affected by them . . . resulting in one tender, tragic portrait after another.Publishers Weekly (starred review)$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5160 pp., 2012

Violin Playing Herself in a MirrordaVid KUtz-MarKsWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Kutz-Marks regards the world with an eye that issimultaneously, amazinglytransparent, auroral, and ever on the go. Srikanth Reddy$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-148-872 pp., 2015

The Theme of Tonights Party Has Been ChangedPoems

dana roeserWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Roeser reminds us life isnt about what we plan. For that we are grateful. Chosen one of 30 Amazing Poetry Titles. Library Journal$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-097-988 pp., 2014

Starship TahitiPoemsWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Brandon dean laMsonDeftly crafted works of prose poetry that evoke feelings and images that are universal in their appeal and unique in their substance.The Poetry Shelf$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-272 pp., 2013

Goodbye, FlickerPoems

CarMen GiMenez sMithWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Gimenez Smiths expansive, visionary work promises to satisfy many hungers. Los Angeles Review of Books$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-280 pp., 2012



JOURNALISM & MEDIA STUDIESCovering AmericaA Narrative History of a Nations Journalism

ChristoPher B. dalyWinner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and Cultural Studies

Daly presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed account of American journalism. Publishers Weekly$49.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9544 pp., 73 illus., 2012

Writing the RecordThe Village Voice and the Birth of Rock deVon PoWersA pioneering work.American Prospect$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2176 pp., 2013

American Popular Music

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

dan KennedyGets at a fundamental point: that news startups, both for-profit and nonprofit, matter.Columbia Journalism Review$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4192 pp., 2013

The Piracy CrusadeHow the Music Industrys War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties

araM sinnreiChA valuable addition to the study of digital piracy distinguished by a focus on the music industrys anti-piracy efforts. Information, Communication & Society$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-052-8256 pp., 2013


From the Dance Hall to FacebookTeen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 19052010

shayla thiel-sternDemonstrates how media reinforce the sense of crisis and panic while restricting the cultural and political agency of teenage girls. Recom-mended.Choice$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-091-7216 pp., 6 illus., 2014

Beyond the CheckpointVisual Practices in Americas Global War on Terror

reBeCCa a. adelManWritten in accessible style . . . the book will be useful for courses in media and communication, as well as in fields from animation design to criminal justice to political science, and for interested general readers.ProtoView$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-070-2280 pp., 15 illus., 2014

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESSecond NatureAn Environmental History of New England

riChard W. JUddA sweeping new synthesis. H-Net Reviews$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-066-5344 pp., 2014

Environmental History of the Northeast

Cape CodAn Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem

John t. CUMBlerThis book makes a unique contribution by connecting human and natural history.Anthony N. Penna$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-109-9296 pp., 14 illus., 2014

Environmental History of the Northeast

Grasses of the NortheastA Manual of the Grasses of New England and Adjacent New York

dennis W. MaGeeWith companion DVD-ROMA definitive guide to the varieties of grasses growing in the Northeast.$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-098-6256 pp., 269 illus., DVD-ROM, 2014

Tidal Wetlands PrimerAn Introduction to Their Ecology, Natural History, Status, and Conservation

ralPh W. tinerA chapter on the future of tidal wetlands in light of climate change and sea-level rise makes this a particularly vital and timely text.Landscape Architecture Magazine$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1536 pp., 166 illus., 2013



The Alewives TaleThe Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast

BarBara BrennesselThe reader will find all the information that is available, neatly packaged, on alewives and herring.Daniel Pauly$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-105-1184 pp., 17 illus., 2014

ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGNTransatlantic RomanticismBritish and American Art and Literature, 17901860

edited by andreW heMinGWay and alan WallaChA cogent and stimulating series of reflec-tions.Brian Lukacher$29.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-114-3336 pp., 24 color & 53 black-and-white illus., 2015

Creating a World on PaperHarry Fenns Career in Art

sUe raineyWinner of the Ewell L. Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society

Fenns significance is finally realized in this study.William H. Gerdts$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9408 pp., 58 color & 150 black-and-white illus., 2013


A Genius for PlaceAmerican Landscapes of the Country Place Era

roBin KarsonWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Yet again Robin Karson has hit the ball out of the park.American Gardener$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1456 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2013

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Arthur A. ShurcliffDesign, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape

elizaBeth hoPe CUshinGA singularly important contribution to the literature concerning what I believe is still our least understood period of urban landscape architecture.Gary R. Hilderbrand$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-039-9312 pp., 149 illus., 2014

Designing the American Park


John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Plannerr. BrUCe stePhensonThe long overdue and definitive biography.Keith N. Morgan$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-079-5312 pp., 53 color & 246 black-and white illus., 2015


Community by DesignThe Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts

Keith n. MorGan, elizaBeth hoPe CUshinG, and roGer G. reedWinner of the Ruth Emery Award of the Victorian Society in America

$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8320 pp., 132 illus., 2013


The Best Planned City in the WorldOlmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System

FranCis r. KoWsKyWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

This book looks as good on a coffee table as in a research library. Western New York Heritage$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1272 pp., 118 color & 110 black-and-white illus., 2013



Isaiah RogersArchitectural Practice in Antebellum America

JaMes F. oGorManOriginal, splendidly written and interpreted.Michael L. Lewis$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-122-8312 pp., 86 illus., 2015

Landscapes of ExclusionState Parks and Jim Crow in the American South

WilliaM e. oBrienAddresses the omission of race from both landscape architecture and the study of park history.Heidi Hohmann$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-155-6280 pp., 50 illus., August 2015




ABOUT THE SERIES

AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC Edited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of

Massachusetts Boston), this series includes concise, well

written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to

general readers.

CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE COLD WAREdited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachu-

setts Amherst) and Edwin A. Martini (Western

Michigan University), this highly regarded series

has produced a wide range of books that reexamine

the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing

on the relationship between culture and politics.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORy OF THE NORTHEASTThe aim of this series is to explore, from different

critical perspectives, the environmental history of the

Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada,

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series

editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern

University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).

GRACE PALEy PRIZESince 1990 the Press has published the annual

winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competi-

tion, now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $5,500

award is sponsored by the Association of Writers &

Writing Programs (AWP), an organization that

includes over 500 colleges and universities with a

strong commitment to teaching creative writing.

JUNIPER LITERARy PRIZESTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Juniper Prize

for Poetry, the MFA program at the University of Mas-

sachusetts Amherst and the University of Massachu-

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in 2015, there will be two annual awards for poetry

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New! THE AMHERST SERIES IN LAW, JURISPRUDENCE, AND SOCIAL THOUGHTEdited by Austin Sarat, Martha Umphrey, and Lawrence Douglas, books in the series examine law from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each book considers a theme crucial to the under-standing of law as it confronts intellectual currents in the humanities and social sciences and considers contemporary challenges to law and legal scholarship.



ABOUT THE SERIES

GRACE PALEy PRIZE

LIBRARy OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORyIn addition to the series Designing the American Park,

edited by Ethan Carr (University of Massachusetts

Amherst), the Press publishes a range of titles in asso-

ciation with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organi-

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American landscapes and the people who created them.

MASSACHUSETTS STUDIES IN EARLy MODERN CULTUREEdited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts

Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and

scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure

our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.

NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEASTBooks in this series examine the diverse cultures and

histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the

Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the

Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway

(Dartmouth College), Jean M. OBrien (University of

Minnesota), and Lisa T. Brooks (Amherst College).

PUBLIC HISTORy IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts

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