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contentsNew books 1

books about the Commonwealth 20

Selected backlist 21

Series 30

About the Press 31

Contact information 31

website and Social Media 31

ordering information 32

Sales information 32

author indexArchibald and brattin, Dickens and Massachusetts 15

bernard, Desert sonorous 11

bolaki and broeck, Audre Lordes Transnational Legacies 9

felsenstein and Connolly, What Middletown Read 4

feldberg, UMass Boston at 50 19

Hecht, Storytelling and Science 16

Horowitz, On the Cusp 2

Johnson, The New Bostonians 3

kutz-Marks, Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror 10

Mason, Viens, and wright, Massachusetts and the Civil War 14

McDermott and Story, The Other Jonathan Edwards 12

Murrell, The Most Dangerous Communist 1 in the United States 1

obrien, Landscapes of Exclusion 5

Parker, Making the Desert Modern 7

Thompson, Patient Expectations 13

Totten, African American Travel Narratives from Abroad 8

Vuic, The Sarajevo Olympics 6

Yachnin and Eberhart, Forms of Association 17

university Museum of Contemporary Art Du Bois in Our Time 18

A first-rate piece of

scholarship and a great

book, which amounts

not only to the life story

of an individual, but a

balanced, provocative,

and clear-eyed history

of American Communism

from its 1930s heyday to

its virtual collapse in

the 1990s.

Maurice isserman, author of If I Had a Hammer: The Death

of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left

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A probing biography of a controversial American scholar-activist

The Most Dangerous Communist in the United StatesA Biography of Herbert ApthekerGary MurrellWith an afterword by Bettina Aptheker

When J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker the

most dangerous Communist in the United States, the

notorious FBI director misconstrued his true signifi-

cance. In this first book-length biography of Aptheker

(19152003), Gary Murrell provides a balanced yet

unflinching assessment of the controversial figure

who was at once a leading historian of African

America, radical political activist, literary executor of

W. E. B. Du Bois, and lifelong member of the American

Communist Party. Although blacklisted at U.S. univer-

sities, Aptheker published dozens of books, including

the groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943)

and the monumental seven-volume Documentary His-

tory of the Negro People (19511994). He also edited four

volumes of the correspondence and unpublished writ-

ings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writ-

ing in the New York Times Book Review, called a mile-

stone in the coming of age of Afro-American history.

As Murrell shows, Aptheker the historian was insep-

arable from Aptheker the leading Communist Party

intellectual, polemicist, and agitator. During the 1960s,

his ability to rouse and inspire both black and white

student radicals made him one of the few Old Leftists

accepted by the New Left. Aptheker had joined the

CPUSA during its heyday in the 1930s, convinced that

only through the partys leadership could fascism be

defeated and true liberation be achieved: he ended his

affiliation five decades later in 1991 after the collapse of

socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

In an afterword, Bettina Aptheker adds to

Murrells narrative by illuminating her mother

Fays vital contributions to her fathers work

and by affirming the particularly devastating

challenges of life in a family dedicated to radical

political and social change.

Gary Murrell is professor of history at Grays Harbor College.

American History / African American Studies

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$95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-153-2

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American History / American Studies

352 pp., 28 illus.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-145-7$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-144-0

May 2015

The experiences of a single college class as a barometer of cultural change

On the CuspThe Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of ChangeDaniel Horowitz

How did the 1950s become The Sixties? This is the

question at the heart of Daniel Horowitzs On the Cusp.

Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and

part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics

of social and political change through the experiences of

a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort.

A Jewish townie from New Haven when he entered

Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the

undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows

its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at

curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male cam-

pus, then ranges beyond the confines of Yale to larger

contexts, including the local drama of urban renewal,

the lingering shadow of McCarthyism, and decoloniza-

tion movements around the world. He ponders the role

of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class

while fostering social mobility, and examines the grow-

ing significance of race and gender in American politics

and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal

and the political. Along the way he traces the political

evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War

imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the

civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.

Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of

sources, including personal interviews, writings by class-

mates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and

other undergraduate publications, as well as his own

letters and college papers. The end product is a work

consistent with much of Horowitzs previously pub-

lished scholarship on postwar America, further exposing

the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just

beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.

A fascinating memoir and an important contribu-tion to the field of American studies. Horowitz juxtaposes and contextualizes his own experiences with those of his classmates to address the larger question of generational meaning.

Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Womens Health in

the Second Wave

Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies Emeritus

at Smith College. He is author of Betty Friedan

and the Making of The Feminine Mystique:

The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern

Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press,

1998) and The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques

of American Consumer Culture, 19391979

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).

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The impact of the 1965 Immigration Act on the city of Boston

The New BostoniansHow Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960sMarilynn S. Johnson

Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society

legislation, the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the

nations doors to large-scale immigration from Africa,

Asia, and Latin America. A half century later, the impact

of the new immigration is evident in the transformation

of the countrys demographics, economy, politics, and

culture, particularly in urban America.

In The New Bostonians, Marilynn S. Johnson exam-

ines the historical confluence of recent immigration and

urban transformation in greater Boston, a region that

underwent dramatic decline after World War II. Since

the 1980s, the Boston area has experienced an astound-

ing renaissancea development, she argues, to which

immigrants have contributed in numerous ways. From

1970 to 2010, the percentage of foreign-born residents

of the city more than doubled, representing far more

diversity than earlier waves of immigration. Like the

older Irish, Italian, and other European immigrant

groups whose labor once powered the regions industrial

economy, these newer migrants have been crucial in

re-building the population, labor force, and metropolitan

landscape of the New Boston, although the fruits of the

new prosperity have not been equally shared.

Many researchers and scholars have hinted at, talked about, and explored the possibility of writing a history of the new immigrants in the Boston area. Johnson has taken on this prodigious task and produced a very strong piece of work.

Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts Boston

The Boston case is a special one, as the city has been neglected by immigrant historians, except for the pre-1945 era and the issues of religion and politics. Johnson is bringing to light another history, one of immigration in recent years.

David Reimers, author of Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration

MArIlynn S. JohnSon is professor of history at Boston College. She is author

of numerous books, including Street Justice:

A History of Police Violence in New York City.

American History / New England History


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A revealing portrait of reading in the quintessential American town

What Middletown ReadPrint Culture in an American Small CityFrank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly

The discovery of a large cache of circulation records

from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003

offers unprecedented detail about American reading

behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank

Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these

records to produce an in-depth account of print culture

in Muncie, the city featured in the famed Middletown

studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost

a century ago. Using the data assembled and made

public through the What Middletown Read Database

(www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr), a celebrated new

resource the authors helped launch, Felsenstein and

Connolly analyze the borrowing choices and reading

culture of social groups and individuals.

What Middletown Read is much more than a statistical

study. Felsenstein and Connolly dig into diaries, meet-

ing minutes, newspaper reports, and local histories to

trace the librarys development in relation to the citys

cosmopolitan aspirations, to profile individual readers,

and to explore such topics as the relationship between

childrens reading and their schooling and what books

were discussed by local womens clubs. The authors situ-

ate borrowing patterns and reading behavior within the

contexts of a rapidly growing, culturally ambitious small

city, an evolving public library, an expanding market for

print, and the broad social changes that accompanied

industrialization in the United States. The result is a rich,

revealing portrait of the place of reading in an emblem-

atic American community.

This 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, author of Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold

War America

Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities

and professor of English at Ball State University.

He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid:

Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New

World.

JAMeS J. Connolly is director of the Center

for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell

Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State

University. He is the author, most recently, of

An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine

Politics in Industrializing America.

Print Culture Studies / American History


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The untold story of segregation in state parks

Landscapes of ExclusionState Parks and Jim Crow in the American South William E. OBrien

During the 1930s, the state park movement and the

National Park Service expanded public access to scenic

American places, especially during the era of the New

Deal. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in

the South, African Americans were routinely and

officially denied entrance to these supposedly shared

sites. In response, advocacy groups pressured the

National Park Service to provide some facilities for

African Americans. William OBrien shows that these

parks were typically substandard in relation to whites

only areas.

As the NAACP filed federal lawsuits that demanded

park integration and increased pressure on park offi-

cials, southern park agencies reacted with attempts

to expand segregated facilities, hoping they could

demonstrate that these parks achieved the separate

but equal standard. But the courts consistently ruled

in favor of integration, leading to the end of segregated

state parks by the middle of the 1960s. Even though

the stories behind these largely inferior facilities faded

from public awareness, the imprint of segregated state

park design remains visible throughout the South.

OBrien illuminates this untold facet of Jim

Crow history in the first-ever study of segregation in

southern state parks. His new book underscores the

profound inequality that persisted for decades in the

number, size, and quality of state parks provided for

black visitors in the Jim Crow South.

OBriens book addresses the omission of race from both landscape architecture and the study of park history, and shows that park design was, like many activities, racially discriminatory. We may not like this history, but it is important to examine it.

Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State Universitys College of Design

OBrien has completed a remarkable work of scholarship in landscape history that makes it possible for us, finally, to understand this formerly obscured, but clearly significant, category of American parks, those created under the separate but equal doctrine.

Ethan Carr, author of Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma

WIllIAM e. oBrIen is associate professor of environmental studies at the Harriet L. Wilkes

Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.

Landscape Architecture / American History

280 pp., 50 black and white illus., 8.5" x 10" format$39.95 jacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-155-6

August 2015

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

a volume in the series Designing the American Park


The first book-length history of the 1984 Winter olympic Games

The Sarajevo OlympicsA History of the 1984 Winter GamesJason Vuic

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success.

That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the

unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had

thought impossible: it hosted an international sports

competition at the highest level, housing and feeding

hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while

broadcasting a positive image of socialist Yugoslavia

to the world.

The first Winter Games held in a communist coun-

try, Sarajevo also marked the first Olympic confronta-

tion of Soviet and American athletes since the U.S.

boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. And the

competitions themselves were spectacular and memo-

rable. This was the Olympics of British ice dancers

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, American skiers

Wild Bill Johnson and Debbie Armstrong, and East

German skaters Katarina Witt and Karin Enke, not to

mention a Soviet hockey team that rebounded from

its stunning loss to the Americans at Lake Placid four

years earlier to win all seven of its matches.

Yet The Sarajevo Olympics is more than just a history

of sport. Jason Vuic also retraces the history of the

Olympic movement, analyzes the inner workings of

the International Olympic Committee during the

troubled 1970s and 1980s, and places the 1984 Winter

Games in the context of Cold War geopolitics. The book

begins and ends by reminding readers that less than a

decade after it hosted the Olympics, the Bosnian city of

Sarajevo found itself at the vortex of a bloody and

brutal civil war that would end with the dissolution

of the multiethnic Yugoslavian state.

Few human enterprises blend light and darkness quite so much as the Olympics, where interna-tional cooperation and nationalistic fervor do battle in a five-ring circus. The 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo were a profoundly double-edged spectacle. The lively writing of Jason Vuic re-lights the torch for all of us in a colorful remembrance of the best and the worst of what the Olympics can be.

Marty Dobrow, author of Knocking on Heavens Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search

of the Baseball Dream

An independent scholar and freelance

writer, Jason Vuic holds a PhD in Balkan and Eastern European history from Indiana

University. His previous publications include

The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in

History.

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how one American oil company shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Middle east

Making the Desert ModernAmericans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 19331973Chad H. Parker

In 1933 American oilmen representing what later

became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco)

signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian

king granting the company sole proprietorship over the

oil reserves in the countrys largest province. As drill-

ing commenced and wells proliferated, Aramco soon

became a major presence in the region. In this book

Chad H. Parker tells Aramcos story, showing how an

American company seeking resources and profits not

only contributed to Saudi nation building but helped

define U.S. foreign policy during the early Cold War.

In the years following World War II, as Aramco

expanded its role in Saudi Arabia, the idea of

modernization emerged as a central component

of American foreign policy toward newly independent

states. Although the company engaged in practices

supportive of U.S. goals, its own modernizing efforts

tended to be pragmatic rather than policy-driven, more

consistent with furthering its business interests than

with validating abstract theories. Aramco built the

infrastructure necessary to extract oil and also carved

an American suburb out of the Arabian desert, with all

the air-conditioned comforts of Western modern life.

At the same time, executives cultivated powerful rela-

tionships with Saudi government officials and, to the

annoyance of U.S. officials, even served the monarchy

in diplomatic disputes. Before long the company

became the principal American diplomatic, political,

and cultural agent in the country, a role it would con-

tinue to play until 1973, when the Saudi government

took over its operation.

A valuable case study of private diplomacy, Making the Desert Modern will serve as a model for a growing number of scholars in diplomatic history who are turning their attention to the roots of economic globalization and the interplay between corporations and states in an international context.

Christian G. Appy, author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War

and Our National Identity

cHaD H. Parker is associate professor of history at the University of Louisiana at

Lafayette.


176 pp.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-157-0

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-156-3

May 2015

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


examines global travel writing from prominent African American writers

African American Travel Narratives from AbroadMobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim CrowGary Totten

During the Jim Crow era, African American travelers

faced the prospects of violence, harassment, and the

denial of services, especially as they made their way

throughout the American South. Those who journeyed

outside the United States found not only a political

and social context that was markedly different from

Americas, but in their international mobility, they also

discovered new ways of identifying themselves in rela-

tion to others.

In this book, Gary Totten examines the global travel

narratives of a diverse set of African American writers,

including Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington,

Matthew Henson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora

Neale Hurston. While these writers deal with issues of

identity in relation to a reimagined sense of selfin a

way that we might expect to find in travel narratives

they also push against the constraints and conventions

of the genre, reconsidering discourses of tourism, eth-

nography, and exploration. This book not only offers

new insights about African American writers and

mobility, it also charts the ideological distinctions and

divergent agendas within this group of writers. Totten

demonstrates how these travelers and their writings

challenged dominant ideologies about African Ameri-

can experience, expression, and identity in a period of

escalating racial violence. By setting these texts in their

historical context and within the genre of travel writ-

ing, Totten presents a nuanced understanding of both

popular and recovered work of the period.

Totten does an excellent job demonstrating how the mobility of authors represented in these nar-ratives in most cases cuts against centuries of systematic political, economic, and social immo-bilization of African Americans as a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade, centuries of chattel slavery in the U.S., and decades of Jim Crow segregation. This study makes a valuable and original contri-bution to the spatial turn in American literary and cultural studies.

John C. Charles Williamson, author of Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy

in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

Gary totten is professor of English at North Dakota State University. He is editor of

Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith

Wharton and Material Culture and editor-in-chief

of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of

the United States.

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The first book to consider Audre lordes global impact

Audre Lordes Transnational LegaciesEdited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck

Among the most influential and insightful thinkers

of her generation, Audre Lorde (19341992) inspired

readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography,

essays, and her political action. Most scholars have

situated her work within the context of the womens,

gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within

the United States. However, Lorde forged coalitions

with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada,

Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and twenty years

after her passing, these alliances remain largely undocu-

mented and unexplored.

Audre Lordes Transnational Legacies is the first book

to systematically document and thoroughly investigate

Lordes influence beyond the United States. Arranged

in three thematically interrelated sectionsArchives,

Connections, and Workthe volume brings together

scholarly essays, interviews, Lordes unpublished speech

about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials

from key figures throughout the world. Using a range

of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the

reception, translation, and circulation of Lordes writing

and activism within different communities, audiences,

and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde

inspired across disciplinary borders.

In addition the volume editors, contributors include

Sarah Cefai, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Paul M. Farber,

Tiffany N. Florvil, Katharina Gerund, Alexis Pauline

Gumbs, Gloria Joseph, Jackie Kay, Marion Kraft, Chris-

tiana Lambrinidis, Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Rina

Nissim, Chantal Oakes, Lester C. Olson, Pratibha Par-

mar, Peggy Piesche, Dagmar Schultz, Tamara Lea Spira,

and Gloria Wekker.

This volume beautifully and accurately documents Lordes global imprint for our time. It is herstorical and simultaneously contemporary.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons, associate editor of The Feminist Wire

This volume of essays makes a critically important contribution to Lorde scholarship on an interna-tional scale.

Maria I. Diedrich, author of Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race

stella Bolaki is lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent and author

of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading

Contemporary Ethnic American Womens Fiction.

saBine Broeck is professor of American studies at the University of Bremen in Germany

and author of White AmnesiaBlack Memory?:

American Womens Writing and History.

African American Studies / Gender & Sexuality


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Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Violin Playing Herself in a MirrorDavid Kutz-Marks

With rhetorical estrangements that recall John Ashbery,

and rhythms and ambitions that recall Wallace Stevens

and Walt Whitman, the voice in these poems is none-

theless distinct, aware that its own time is finitea

minor catarrh / after which the throat clears and its

nighttime againbut striving with each movement for

the sublime. The poems challenge our identities, our

thoughts, and our quarrels with each other as they dart

back and forth between interior spaces and real human

relationships.

Like a little mortal coil moonlighting as a halo / trying to eat his own tail in a city with no other light, the voice that propels David Kutz-Markss Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror is tightly wound up with potential energies that, when released, unfurl into wildly kinetic verse.Srikanth Reddy, Program in Poetry and Poetics at

the University of Chicago

DaViD kutz-Marks earned a BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago

and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia

University. He was recently the featured poet for Verse

Daily and The Paris-American, and his poems have

appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon

Review Online, Western Humanities Review, Rattle, The

Carolina Quarterly, Devils Lake, and Meridian. Kutz-

Marks lives in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, with his partner

and their two children.

Poetry

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The Juniper Prize for Poetry, established

in 1975, seeks fresh, innovative, accessible

voices in poetry. The award is named in

honor of poet Robert Francis, who for many

years lived at Fort Juniper, a tiny home of his

own construction, in Amherst, MA.

Submissions to the Juniper Prizes are accepted between August 1 and September 30 annually.

Please see our website for details: www.umass.edu/umpress/content/juniper-prizes.

We tend to turn to poetryas poetry itself turnsto honor, investigate, propose, court, grieve, and speculate, and all these things happen with purpose in Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror. With this book Kutz-Marks amplifies what might have been and what might be.

Dara Wier, author of Hat on a Pond

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Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Desert sonorousStoriesSean Bernard

Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A

high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of

Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their teams head

coach. A young couple falls in and out of love over the

course of several lifetimes. And teenage cross-country

athletes run on and on through these ten stories set amid

the strange desert landscapes of the American Southwest.

Desert sonorous is a unique and energetic debut col-

lection, blending realism with flashes of experimenta-

tion. Contemporary issuesimmigration, drought,

shootingshover above a cast of memorable charac-

ters in search of lifes deeper meanings. As they strug-

gle along, comic and resigned, intelligent and quiet,

sad and frustrated, their strivings resound because

their lives are in so many ways our own.

This collection works by stealth, like alien lights sweeping over a desert plain. 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, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge

and author of Lola, California

sean BernarD, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, is associate professor and director of the

undergraduate creative writing program at the University

of La Verne in Southern California and editor of the

literary journal Prism Review. His stories have appeared

in numerous literary magazines, including Santa

Monica Review, Glimmer Train, Gigantic, and LIT. He

has received fellowships and awards from the National

Endowment of the Arts, Poets and Writers, and the

University of Arizona Poetry Center.

These ten piercing cries coming from the merciless furnace of the American Southwest desert are haunting almost beyond description. They palpably evoke the struggles of people in the wilderness years when their potential is in threat of being extinguished.

Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History

of New Mexico: Stories and Hyssop

Fiction

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March 2015

The Juniper Prize for Fiction, launched

in 2004, seeks book-length collections of

literary fiction, which can be novels or

collections of short stories and novellas.

Submissions to the Juniper Prizes are accepted between August 1 and September 30 annually.

Please see our website for details: www.umass.edu/umpress/content/juniper-prizes.


An anthology of primary documents that reveal a different Jonathan edwards

The Other Jonathan EdwardsSelected Writings on Society, Love, and JusticeEdited with an introduction by Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story

Widely regarded as perhaps Americas greatest theo-

logian, Jonathan Edwards still suffers the stereotype

of hellfire preacher obsessed with Gods wrath. In this

anthology, Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story seek

to correct that common view by showing that Edwards

was also a compassionate, socially conscious minister

of the first order.

Through a selection of sermons and primary writ-

ings, McDermott and Story reveal an Edwards who

preached love toward all humanity regardless of belief

or appearance; who demanded private and public char-

ity to the poor; who criticized hard-hearted business

dealings as impious and socially destructive; and who

condemned envy and status-seeking as anti-Christian

and anti-community. This other Jonathan Edwards

preached about grace and the love of God but also

about responsive constitutional government, the iniqui-

ties of hypocrisy and corruption, and the nature of wise

leadership. He acknowledged the need for national

defense but left room for popular revolt from tyranny.

He anticipated a millennial age of peace and prosper-

ity and believed that people should live in the world as

they would live through grace in heaven.

Jonathan Edwards was, in sum, a worldly as well

as spiritual reformer who resisted the materialistic,

acquisitive, and individualistic currents of American

culture. For these reasons, McDermott and Story think

he may have lessons to teach us today.

A judicious and well-timed collection of primary sources, introduced well, which reveals for stu-dents, general readers, and interested Christian laity the other Jonathan Edwards, that is, the one whose life was dedicated to sharing the love of God, preaching social justice prophetically, and promoting peace, harmony, and the welfare of the needy in his own local communities and the eighteenth-century Anglo-American world.

Douglas Sweeney, author of Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of

Jonathan Edwards

GeralD McDerMott is Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and

co-author of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards.

ronAld STory is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst and author of Jonathan Edwards and

the Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts

Press, 2012).

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reevaluates the early history of American medicine from the patients point of view

Patient ExpectationsHow Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early AmericaCatherine L. Thompson

During the first half of the nineteenth century a major

shift occurred in the medical treatment of illness in

the United States, as physicians abandoned the use

of heroic depletive therapiesthe pukes and purges

made famous in the 1790s by Dr. Benjamin Rush of

Philadelphiain favor of a let-nature-take-its-course

approach to most diseases. Standard histories of

American medicine have long attributed this shift to

new theories and training methods as well as increased

competition from homeopaths and botanical doctors.

In this book, Catherine L. Thompson challenges that

interpretation by emphasizing the role of patients as

active participants in their own health care rather than

passive objects of medical treatment.

Focusing on Massachusetts, then as now a center

of U.S. medical education and practice, Thompson

draws on data from patients journals, medical account

ledgers, physicians daybooks, and court records to link

changes in medical treatment to a gradual evolution of

patient expectations across varied populations. Specifi-

cally, she identifies three developmentsthe increas-

ing use of cash in medical transactions, growing reli-

gious pluralism, and the rise of malpractice suitsas

key factors in transforming patients into active medical

consumers unwilling to submit to doctors advice with-

out considering alternatives.

By showing how nineteenth-century patients shaped

therapeutic practice through the medical choices they

made or didnt make, Thompsons study alters our

understanding of American medicine in the past and

has implications for its present and future.

Precise and powerful, wide-ranging and illumi-nating, Patient Expectations offers the first patient-centered history of the transformation of American medicine in the early Republic. Thompson concludes that physicians made far more limited use of heroic therapies than historians have previously acknowledged and that private practitioners in particular were strikingly tolerant of self-medication and alternative remedies.

Richard Bell, author of We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the

Newly United States

catHerine l. tHoMPson is a lecturer in

history at the University of Connecticut.


192 pp.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-159-4

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-158-7

August 2015


explores the key role of Massachusetts before, during, and after the Civil War

Massachusetts and the Civil WarThe Commonwealth and National DisunionEdited by Matthew Mason, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright

All states are not created equal, at least not when it

comes to their influence on American history. That

assumption underlies Massachusetts and the Civil War.

The volumes ten essays coalesce around the national

significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War

era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and

even modeled the Unions precarious but real wartime

unification, and the Bay States postwar return to the

schisms that predated the war. Rather than attempting

to summarize every aspect of the states contribution to

the wartime Union, the collection focuses on what was

distinctive about its influence during the great crisis of

national unity.

In the first section, The Opposition to Slavery,

essays by John Stauffer, Dean Grodzins, Peter Wirzbicki,

and Richard S. Newman demonstrate the central role

Massachusetts played in the rise of both the antislavery

movement and abolitionism. They show how slaverys

foes united, planned, and understood their cause, and

how they envisioned a postwar nation free of servitude.

In the second section, The War Years, Matthew Mason,

Carol Bundy, and Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino

Zboray investigate how the exigencies of war unified

the commonwealth across party lines and over the

distance between home and the front. In the final sec-

tion, Reconciliation, Sarah J. Purcell, Amy Morsman,

and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai probe postwar efforts to

recover from the wars profound disruptions.

I commend the individual authors for underscor-ing diversity, not uniformity, in the Massachusetts experience and also for weaving a broad range of historical actors, African Americans and women, black and white, into their work.

John David Smith, author of We Ask Only For Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction,

18651877 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)

MattHew Mason is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.

katHeryn P. Viens is research coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

conraD eDick wriGHt is Worthington C. Ford Editor and director of research at the

Massachusetts Historical Society and author

of Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and

the Consequences of Independence (University of

Massachusetts Press, 2005).

Civil War / American History / New England History


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how Massachusetts shaped dickenss view of America

Dickens and MassachusettsThe Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth VisitsEdited by Diana C. Archibald and Joel J. Brattin

Charles Dickens traveled to North America twice,

in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 186768, and

on both trips Massachusetts was part of his itiner-

ary. Although many aspects of his U.S. travels dis-

appointed him, Massachusetts was the one state

that met and even exceeded Dickenss expectations

for the republic of [his] imagination. From the mills

of Lowell to the Perkins School for the Blind, it offered

an alternate vision of America that influenced his

future writings, while the deep and lasting friend-

ships he formed with Bostonians gave him enduring

ties to the commonwealth.

This volume provides insight from leading scholars

who have begun to reassess the significance of Mas-

sachusetts in the authors life and work. The collection

begins with a broad biographical and historical over-

view taken from the full-length narrative of the award-

winning exhibition Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale

of Power and Transformation, which attracted thou-

sands of visitors while on display in Lowell. Abundant

images from the exhibition, many of them difficult

to find elsewhere, enhance the story of Dickenss rela-

tionship with the vibrant cultural and intellectual life

of Massachusetts. The second section includes essays

that consider the importance of Dickenss many con-

nections to the commonwealth.

In addition to the volume editors, contributors

include Chelsea Bray, Iain Crawford, Andre DeCuir,

Natalie McKnight, Lillian Nayder, and Kit Polga.

This book fills an important gap in our under-standing of Dickenss first trip to America. Authored by some of the most highly respected scholars in Dickens studies and including thor-ough and authoritative research, this volume makes a timely and original contribution.

Nancy Aycock Metz, author of The Companion to Martin Chuzzlewit

Diana c. arcHiBalD is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts

Lowell and author of Domesticity, Imperialism,

and Emigration in the Victorian Novel.

Joel J. BrATTIn is professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and author of

many works on Dickens.

Literary Studies / New England History


$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-135-8

May 2015


An original contribution to its field that opens the way to similar studies of the public images of other scientists and their science. Einstein and relativity theory are obvious candidates for this kind of analysis, as are popular accounts of such scientific notions as the God particle and the Big Bang.

David C. Cassidy, author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century

DaViD k. HecHt is assistant professor of history at Bowdoin College.

American Studies / History of Science / Cold War

208 pp.$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-143-3$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-142-6

May 2015

how stories about scientists shape popular understandingsand misunderstandingsof science

Storytelling and Science Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear AgeDavid K. Hecht

No single figure embodies Cold War science more

than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Although other scientists may have been more influ-

ential in establishing the institutions and policies of

the nuclear age, none has loomed larger in the popular

imagination than the father of the atomic bomb.

Americans have been drawn to the story of the Man-

hattan Project Oppenheimer helped lead and riveted

by the McCarthy-era politics that caught him in its

crosshairs. Journalists and politicians, writers and

artists have told Oppenheimers story in many dif-

ferent ways since he first gained notoriety in 1945. In

Storytelling and Science, David K. Hecht examines why

they did so, and what they hoped to achieve through

their stories.

From the outset, accounts of Oppenheimers life

and work were deployed for multiple ends: to trumpet

or denigrate the value of science, to settle old scores

or advocate new policies, to register dissent or express

anxieties. In these different renditions, Oppenheimer

was alternately portrayed as hero and villain, estab-

lishment figure and principled outsider, destroyer of

worlds and humanist critic. Yet beneath the varying

details of these stories, Hecht discerns important pat-

terns in the way that audiences interpret, and often

misinterpret, news about science. In the end, he

argues, we find that science itself has surprisingly

little to do with how its truths are assimilated by the

public. Instead its meaning is shaped by narrative tra-

ditions and myths that frame how we think and write

about it.

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how sharing ideas and interests transformed early Modern europe

Forms of AssociationMaking Publics in Early Modern EuropeEdited by Paul Yachnin and Marlene EberhartIn todays connected and interactive world, it is hard to

imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests

did not lead people to associate with others who shared

similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of

essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of rela-

tionships began to transform early modern European

culture.

Forms of Association grows out of the Making Pub-

lics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern

Europe (MaPs) project, funded by the Social Sciences

and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This

scholarly initiative convened an interdisciplinary

research team to consider how publicsnew forms of

association built on the shared interests of individuals

developed in Europe from 1500 to 1700. Drawing on a

wide array of texts and histories, including the plays of

Shakespeare, the legend of Robin Hood, paintings, and

music as well as English gossip about France, the con-

tributors develop a historical account of what publics

were in early modern Europe. This collaborative study

provides a dynamic way of understanding the political

dimensions of artistic and intellectual works and opens

the way toward a new history of early modernity.

Until his death in 2008, the great Renaissance

scholar Richard Helgerson was a key participant in the

MaPs project. The scholars featured in this volume

originally met in Montreal to engage in a critical, com-

memorative conversation about Helgersons work, the

issues and questions coming out of the MaPs project,

and how Helgersons thinking advanced and could in

turn be advanced by MaPs. This collection represents

the fruits of that conversation.

With the overall high quality of the essays, the sig-nificant voices that are addressing the issues, and the direction forward that it suggests for work in the early modern period, this is an excellent collec-tion and a valuable publication for scholars.

Shannon Miller, San Jose State University

Each of the fifteen essays has something interesting to say, and many are conceptually sophisticated, stimulating, and highly original.

Malcom Smuts, University of Massachusetts Boston

Paul yacHnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and director of the

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas

at McGill University.

Marlene eBerHart is on the music faculty at Vanier College and humanities

faculty at Dawson College in Montreal.

British and European History / Cultural Studies


$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-166-2

May 2015

a volume in the series Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture


Ten artists re-present the legacy of du Bois

Du Bois in Our TimeUniversity Museum of Contemporary Art University of Massachusetts Amherst

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights

leader, W. E. B. Du Bois was a deeply influential figure in

American life and one of the earliest proponents of equal-

ity for African Americans. He was a founder and leader of

the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan-African

Movement; a progenitor of the 1920s Harlem Renais-

sance; an advocate of anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism,

unionism, and equality for women; and a champion of

the rights of oppressed people around the world.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Du Boiss death,

the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst commissioned ten

leading artists from the United States, Canada, and West

Africa to create original work that reflects on Du Boiss

legacy and reconsiders him in light of todays issues. In

all, ten artists delved into the vast Du Bois archives at

UMass Amherst and consulted with Du Bois scholars

both on and off campus as they conceived their work.

The new pieces created by Radcliffe Bailey, Mary Evans,

Brendan Fernandes, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Julie Mehretu,

Ann Messner, Jefferson Pinder, Tim Rollins and KOS,

Mickalene Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems were dis-

played in an exhibition titled Du Bois in Our Time.

The range of artworks they produced is astounding

including photography, painting, sculpture, works on

paper, video installations, as well as a proposal to create

a memorial garden in honor of Du Bois. This catalog

contains selected images from the exhibition, statements

from the artists testifying to the inspiration and impact

Du Bois has had on their lives and work, essays by

Johnnetta Cole, James T. Campbell, Reiland Rabaka, and

Bill Strickland, and an introduction by Loretta Yarlow,

director of the University Gallery.

Art History / Literature

200 pp., 160 color and 40 black and white illus.$40.00t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-134-1

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Throughout his long and highly productive life . . . W. E. B. Du Bois supported human dignity, civil rights, and social justice. Every interest or issue that he pursuedand there were manyrevolved around these three core ideals. The ten artists who participated in this exhibition have given powerful visual currency to Du Boiss legacy. Together they invite us into conversations about the range and multiplicity of issues and interests that Du Bois cared about and struggled to affect.

Dr. Johnnetta Cole

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An engaging history of Bostons only public university

UMass Boston at 50A Fiftieth Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts BostonMichael D. Feldberg The social upheaval of the 1960s ushered in lasting

change across the country, prompted, in part, by major

civil rights and anti-poverty legislation, a record number

of students seeking college degrees, and the expansion

of land-grant public universities into urban centers.

Guided by an idealism and ambition characteristic of

the time, the University of Massachusetts Boston held

its first classes in 1965. In a city that prided itself on

being the birthplace of American public education but

remained the exclusive preserve of private universities,

UMass Bostons founders set their sights on creating a

great public urban university that would stand with

the city and provide students of all ethnicities, ages,

and social classes with opportunities equal to the best.

Richly illustrated and enlivened by reminiscences

and profiles, UMass Boston at 50 tells the remarkable

coming-of-age story of an institution that has consis-

tently defied the odds, risen to the occasion, and served

tens of thousands of students, from Vietnam veterans

to students with roots in more than 150 countries. The

university that opened in a half-renovated gas company

building in downtown Boston now enjoys a reputation

for wide-ranging, innovative research and service and

holds steadfastly to its mission and its teaching soul.

UMass Boston at 50 also tells of the universitys ambi-

tious plans to become the preeminent student-centered

urban public university of the twenty-first century.

UMass Boston at 50 is the story of a university that couldand does. From humble beginnings, the University of Massachusetts Boston has grown to become a leading urban research university, opening countless doors of opportunity for its students, contributing to the discovery of new knowledge, and serving communities at home and around the world. UMass Boston at 50 tells how a fledgling public universityalone in a city of private universitiesfound its wings and took flight. And how it plans to soar to even greater heights.

Chancellor J. Keith Motley

MicHael D. FeldBerG is executive director and senior scholar at the George

Washington Institute for Religious Freedom

and research faculty associate at the Center

for American Political Studies at Harvard

University. He has published extensively in the

fields of American history and criminal justice.

New England History / Education

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BACKLISTSelectedListed below are recent titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional information on more than 1,100 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.

ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGNIsaiah RogersArchitectural Practice in Antebellum AmericaJames F. OGorman[A] substantial book by a major scholar, splendidly written.Michael L. Lewis $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-62534-122-8336 pp., 86 illus., February 2015

Civic ArtA Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine ArtsEditEd by Thomas E. LuebkeLuebkes book immediately joins the short-list of essential texts about Washington design and architecture.Washington Post$85.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-16-089702-3636 pp., 424 color & 496 black-and-white illus., 2013

Distributed for U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

Creating a World on PaperHarry Fenns Career in ArtSue RaineyWinner of the Ewell L. Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society

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

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

A Genius for PlaceAmerican Landscapes of the Country Place EraRobin KarsonWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

the most important book on American gardens for at least a decade, this giant tome spans the first 40 years of the 20th century.London Telegraph $29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1 456 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2013


Arthur A. ShurcliffDesign, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg LandscapeElizabeth Hope Cushing[A] 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 978-1-62534-039-9 312 pp., 149 black-and-white illus., 2014


John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City PlannerR. Bruce Stephensonthe long overdue and definitive biography of one of Americas most prominent and influential urbanists.Keith N. Morgan$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-079-5368 pp., 190 illus., 2014


Community by DesignThe Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, MassachusettsKeith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. ReedWinner of the Ruth Emery Award from the Victorian Society in America

A beautifully produced volume on the coming of age of suburban development. $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 SystemFrancis R. KowskyWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

As a physical object, The Best Planned City in the World has a beauty worthy of its subject.Site/Lines$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1272 pp., 118 color and 110 black-and-white illus., 2013


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AMERICAN STUDIESThriftThe History of an American Cultural MovementAndrew L. YarrowA compelling story that hasnt been told before.Lawrence b. Glickman$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-132-7248 pp., 36 illus., 2014

Medical EncountersKnowledge and Identity in Early American LiteraturesKelly WisecupProvides a new lens through which we can see moments of cultural encounter rich with information.Kristina bross$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-057-3272 pp., 7 illus., 2013

The Ocean Is a WildernessAtlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 16881856 Guy ChetAn interesting, well written, and well-conceived book.trevor burnard$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-085-6178 pp., 2014

Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of LoveRonald StoryStory recognizes that the profundities of Edwardss theology are what make Edwards extraordinary. American Historical Review$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6184 pp., 2012

One Colonial Womans WorldThe Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler CoitMichelle Marchetti Coughlin the thoroughness and the thoughtfulness that she brings to her study are exemplary. New England Quarterly$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6288 pp., 14 Illus., 2012

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

Haunted by HitlerLiberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United StatesChristopher VialsA game-changer for those interested in the f word (fascism).doug Rossinow$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-130-3296 pp., 7 illus., 2014

A Cold War State of MindBrainwashing and Postwar American SocietyMatthew W. DunneProvides a fascinating framework for understanding . . . Cold War consensus in postwar America.Robert A. Jacobs $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-041-2296 pp., 15 illus., 2013

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Citizenship in Cold War AmericaThe National Security State and the Possibilities of DissentAndrea FriedmanA very polished, well-argued book. Laura McEnaney $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-068-9288 pp., 15 illus., 2014


American ImmunityWar Crimes and the Limits of International LawPatrick HagopianAn impressive, wide-ranging, multi- layered work.Kendrick Oliver $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-047-4256 pp., 2013


Kent StateDeath and Dissent in the Long SixtiesThomas M. Gracethere is nothing else like it. its must reading.Van Gosse$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-111-2400 pp., 12 illus., June 2015


Forever VietnamHow a Divisive War Changed American Public MemoryDavid KieranAdvances a bold and original argument. Patrick Hagopian $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6320 pp., 16 illus., 2014


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The Pro-War MovementDomestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American ConservatismSandra ScanlonA definitive history of how . . . the con-servative movement developed a complex and variegated response to the conflict. Gregory L. Schneider $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-018-4352 pp., 2013


What We Have DoneAn Oral History of the Disability Rights MovementFred PelkaSo many need this account that no library or bookseller can afford to be without it. ForeWord$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5656 pp., 33 illus., 2012

Expanding the Strike ZoneBaseball in the Age of Free AgencyDaniel A. GilbertWinner of the Society for American Baseball Research Book Award for Outstanding Research

An interesting, smart, and informative book.daniel A. Nathan $22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-997-3224 pp., 15 illus., 2013

The Second Amendment on TrialCritical Essays on District of Columbia v. HellerEditEd by Saul Cornell ANd Nathan Kozuskanich Should appeal not only to legal scholars and law students, but also to historians, political scientists, and sociologists. Lawrence Rosenthal$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-995-9456 pp., 2013

Reclaiming American CitiesThe Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900Rutherford H. PlattA sophisticated, thorough, and comprehen-sive history of city planning in the United States over the last 125 years.Alex Marshall$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-050-4312 pp., 41 illus., 2013

PUBLIC HISTORYAlice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early AmericaSusan Reynolds WilliamsShows beautifully that Earle had the power to make change simply through the act of remembering.Journal of American History$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-988-1336 pp., 40 illus., 2013

Public History in Historical Perspective

Remembering the RevolutionMemory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil WarEditEd by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, ANd W. Fitzhugh BrundageHow memories shape political culture.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-033-7344 pp., 2013


The Spirit of 1976Commerce, Community, and the Politics of CommemorationTammy S. GordonRaises important issues regarding the study of public uses of the past.John bodnar$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-043-6192 pp., 8 illus., 2013


The Wages of HistoryEmotional Labor on Public Historys Front LinesAmy M. Tysontyson advances a new perspective to con-sider when assessing living history interpre-tation for appropriateness, effectiveness, and viability. . . . Essential.Choice $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-024-5240 pp., 10 illus., 2013


A Living ExhibitionThe Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal MuseumWilliam S. WalkerWalkers exploration of the Smithsonians attempts to balance universality and specific-ity allow for an insightful discussion of the debates engaging museum professionals today. Recommended.Choice$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9304 pp., 20 illus., 2013



Museums, Monuments, and National ParksToward a New Genealogy of Public HistoryDenise D. MeringoloWinner of the National Council on Public History Book Award

in this richly researched book, Meringolo situ-ates the birth of a new fieldpublic historydecades before the postwar emergence of a rec-ognized subfield.Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9256 pp., 12 illus., 2012


History Is BunkAssembling the Past at Henry Fords Greenfield VillageJessie SwiggerWhat makes this book so original is its comprehensive sweep.Howard Segal $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-078-8232 pp., 20 illus., 2014


Memories of Buenos AiresSigns of State Terrorism in ArgentinaMemoria AbiertaEditEd WitH AN iNtROdUCtiON by Max Page EPiLOGUE by Ilan Stavans tRANSLAtEd by Karen Robert An interpretive guide to sites of terror.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps, 2013


Born in the U.S.A.Birth, Commemoration, and American Public MemoryEditEd by Seth C. Bruggemanthis enterprising inquiry is very engaging.Public Historian$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6296 pp., 12 illus., 2012


Remembering the Forgotten WarThe Enduring Legacies of the U.S.Mexican WarMichael Scott Van WagenenHonorable Mention, National Council on Public History Book Award

An important book with implications for both American foreign policy and U.S.Latin America relations today. Amy S. Greenberg $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0368 pp., 30 illus., 2012


BLACK STUDIESWe Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice Black Voices from Reconstruction, 18651877John David SmithRich in summary insight.Choice $18.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-087-0152 pp., 20 illus., 2014

For Jobs and FreedomSelected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip RandolphEditEd by Andrew E. Kersten ANd David Lucanderi give it my strongest endorsement. John H. bracey Jr. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-116-7376 pp., 11 illus., January 2015

SOSCalling All Black PeopleA Black Arts Movement ReaderEditEd by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James SmethurstAn amazing teaching and research tool. Amy Abugo Ongiri$34.95, ISBN 978-1-62534-031-3

688 pp., 2014

Tragic No MoreMixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity Caroline A. StreeterAn exciting project, with great potential. Heidi Ardizzone$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-985-0176 pp., 5 illus., 2012

The World of W.E.B. Du BoisA Quotation SourcebookEditEd by Meyer WeinbergWitH A NEW iNtROdUCtiON by John H. Bracey Jr.An impressive variety of topics. Journal of American History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4296 pp., 2013

From Storefront to MonumentTracing the Public History of the Black Museum MovementAndrea A. Burnsthere has been no comparable work that offers an overarching history of the black museum movement as an important political movement.Renee Romano$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-035-1264 pp., 10 illus., 2013


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NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIESLiving with WhalesDocuments and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History EditEd by Nancy Shoemakerdemonstrates the importance of whaling, and connections to the sea generally, among New England and Long island indians from ancient times up to the present. david J. Silverman$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-081-8232 pp., 23 illus., 2014

Native Americans of the Northeast

Good News from New England by Edward WinslowA Scholarly EditionKelly WisecupA wonderful selection of texts, nicely placed in context by an informative editors introduction.Jenny Pulsipher$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-083-2192 pp., 7 illus., 2014


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


The People of the Standing StoneThe Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal Karim M. Tirotraces the Oneidas struggles with the American Revolution and its aftermath. . . . tiro sees the Oneidas as important actors in this dark chapter in their history without denying that American colonialism put serious restrictions on their options. tiro is to be applauded for this balance and nuance.Journal of the Early Republic$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-890-7256 pp., 15 illus., 2011


FICTION AND POETRYBewilderedStoriesCarla PancieraWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

Pancieras first foray into fiction is a strong debut.Publishers Weekly$24.95t jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-133-4184 pp, 2014

Published in cooperation with Association of Writers and Writing Programs

The Theme of Tonights Party Has Been ChangedPoemsDana RoeserWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

A tour de force, a book of startling, almost dizzying, juxtapositions, wide in scope and deep in feeling.Elizabeth Spires$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-097-988 pp., 2014

A History of HandsA NovelRod Val MooreWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

this sad, odd, thrilling novel is unlike anything ive ever read.Noy Holland$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-096-2240 pp., 2014

Everyone Here Has a GunStoriesLucas SouthworthWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

A truly unique and memorable reading experience.dan Chaon$24.95t jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-053-5176 pp., 2013


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

the 10 gorgeous stories . . . offer unique glimpses into Midwestern calamities and the folks who find themselves affected by them. . . . in Milwards world, theres nary a sunny sky in sight . . . but this gloominess is greatly buoyed by the authors poetic prose and a pitch-perfect eye for detail, resulting in one tender, tragic portrait after another. Publishers Weekly (starred review)$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5160 pp., 2012


My EscapeeStoriesCorinna VallianatosWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

With the spare, definitive strokes of Matisses late portraits, the stories in My Escapee hew precisely to the truth, while rendering a series of expressive and particular female lives. the characters are disoriented, vulnerable, at times dependent on others; they are also determined, defiant, passionate.Jhumpa Lahiri$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7176 pp., 2012


Some Kinds of LoveStoriesSteve YatesWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Some Kinds of Love is nothing short of masterful.ben Fountain$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-028-3272 pp., 6 illus., 2013

Starship TahitiPoemsBrandon Dean LamsonWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

to be a teacher in a prison, as brandon Lamson shows us in these grave and unsettling poems, is to take on something akin to the role of Virgil in the Divine Comedy. . . . Starship Tahiti is an outstanding debut.david Wojahn$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-272 pp., 2013

Goodbye, FlickerPoemsCarmen Gimnez SmithWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Less Wonderland than looking glass, a gateway into which our reluctant story-teller must escape but in which, also, we cant help but see ourselves.Booklist$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-280 pp., 2012

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

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

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

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIESRenaissance ReflectionsSelected EssaysArthur F. Kinneythe topical range is remarkable, the erudi-tion on display extensive.Valerie traub$34.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-064-1500 pp., 27 illus., 2014

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Transatlantic RomanticismBritish and American Art and Literature, 17901860EditEd by Andrew Hemingway ANd Alan WallachA cogent and stimulating series of reflections.brian Lukacher$29.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-114-3312 pp., 24 color and 53 black-and-white illus., January 2015

The Saloon and the MissionAddiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American CultureEoin F. Cannonthis is a fresh approach to familiar conceptsevangelical Christianity, alcoholism, individualism, and liberalism. Recommended.Choice $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-993-5328 pp., 8 illus., 2013

A Bold and Hardy Race of MenThe Lives and Literature of American WhalemenJennifer SchellHonorable Mention John Lyman Book Award in Maritime History

A rich and intriguing book that brings a different perspective to our understanding of American whalemen. Mary K. bercaw Edwards$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-020-7280 pp., 2013

A Kiss from ThermopylaeEmily Dickinson and LawJames R. GuthrieEstablishes beyond doubt the importance of legal reasoning to dickinsons poetry. Gary Stonum$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-113-6272 pp., January 2015

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Suburban PlotsMen at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print CultureMaura DAmoreRefines our critical attitudes toward gendered activities, labor, authorship, and domesticity.Martin breckner$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-095-5208 pp., 12 illus., 2014


The Art of PrestigeThe Formative Years at Knopf, 19151929Amy Root Clementsthis is the first book-length scholarly study of Knopf, and it provides an excellent account of [its] early development.Gordon Neavill$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1224 pp., 2014


Boxcar PoliticsThe Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 18691956John Lennontreats the central issues of race and gender, as well as class, with great clarity and intelligence.todd dePastino$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-120-4232 pp, 3 illus., 2014

A Question of SexFeminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That MatterKristan PoirotAlive to contradictions in feminist justice projects and their rhetorics. Lisa Maria Hogeland$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-089-4184 pp., 2014

Lessons from SarajevoA War Stories PrimerJim HicksEngaging, provocative, well researched, and incredibly useful. Hickss sense of history is both deeply informed and extremely nuanced.Ammiel Alcalay$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-001-6216 pp., 26 illus., 2013

Negotiating CultureHeritage, Ownership, and Intellectual PropertyEditEd by Laetitia La FolletteForces a reevaluation of thinking about cultural disputes.Patty Gerstenblith$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-008-5 216 pp., 2013

Cultural ConsiderationsEssays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar AmericaJoan Shelley RubinA masterful blending of big-picture historical synthesis with vividly rendered debates and episodes related to the higher registers of the culture industry. thomas Augst$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-014-6208 pp., 2013

Underground MovementsModern Culture on the New York City SubwaySunny Stalter-PaceA stimulating and impressive book. . . . its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable. Hsuan Hsu$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-055-9240 pp., 4 Illus., 2013

Science/Technology/Culture

Thinking Outside the BookAugusta RohrbachA searching reconsideration of the terms we use in talking about books.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-126-6180 pp, 15 illus., 2014


History Repeating ItselfThe Republication of Childrens Historical Literature and the Christian RightGregory M. PfitzerA magnificent piece of historical research and writing.Leslie Howsam $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-124-2328 pp., 25 illus., 2014


Lies About My FamilyA MemoirAmy Hoffmanthe tales in this book, replete with conflict-ing versions and impeccable comic timing, have clearly been refined over multiple gen-erations. Hoffman is at her hilarious best. Alison bechdel$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-003-0168 pp., 10 illus., 2013

Out of BrownsvilleEncounters with Novel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers: A Cultural MemoirJules ChametzkyA raconteurs timing and wit leaven the authors perceptive literary intelligence. Michael thelwell$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8160 pp., 2013


JOURNALISM AND DIGITAL MEDIAHappily Sometimes AfterDiscovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American FamilyAndie TucherA highly original and wonderfully written book.Kathy Roberts Forde$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-128-0328 pp., 14 illus., 2014

Covering AmericaA Narrative History of a Nations JournalismChristopher B. DalyWinner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and Cultural Studies

in this scholarly yet readable volume, daly presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed account of American journalism. Publishers Weekly $49.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9544 pp., 73 illus., 2012

The Wired CityReimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper AgeDan Kennedytranscends the exhausting debate over what journalism startups should look like. it gets at a more 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

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

American Popular Music

From the Dance Hall to FacebookTeen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 19052010Shayla Thiel-SternMakes an absolutely convincing argument that the mainstream news media has a part in creating and perpetuating moral panics about girls.Sarah banet-Weiser$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-091-7216 pp., 6 Illus., 2014

NEW ENGLANDMeetinghouses of Early New EnglandPeter BenesWinner of the Cummings Prize of the Vernacular Architecture ForumWinner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer America SocietyA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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

Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of LoveRonald StoryA fresh look at one of Americas greatest theologians. One of the most elegantly written books on Edwards i have ever encountered.Gerald R. Mcdermott$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6184 pp., 2012

Lovewells FightWar, Death, and Memory in Borderland New EnglandRobert E. CrayHow a failed military operation in early America became New Englands Alamo.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-107-5230 pp., 2014

Rebels in ParadiseSketches of Northampton AbolitionistsBruce LaurieA lively, lucid, and eminently readable study.Christopher Clark $22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-118-1184 pp., 20 illus., January 2015

Northern HospitalityCooking by the Book in New EnglandKeith Stavely and Kathleen FitzgeraldStavely and Fitzgerald have crafted a richly contextualized critical anthology of New Englands food heritage. . . . Well done and highly recommended for foodies and histo-rians.Library Journal$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7488 pp., 22 illus., 2011

Gateway to VacationlandThe Making of Portland, MaineJohn F. BaumanAn extremely well researched overview of Portlands history.Michael J. Rawson$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6304 pp., 22 illus., 2012

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Investment Management in BostonA HistoryDavid Grayson AllenA highly valuable study.Edwin Perkins$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-103-7448 pp., 15 illus., January 2015

Published in association with Massachusetts Historical Society

Bostons Cycling Craze, 18801900A Story of Race, Sport, and SocietyLorenz J. FinisonA compelling morality tale.thomas Whalen$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0312 pp., 17 illus., 2014

A Peoples History of the New BostonJim VrabelVrabel tells many stories with economy and skill.Robert Allison$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4288 pp., 16 illus., 2014

Town MeetingPracticing Democracy in Rural New EnglandDonald L. RobinsonAn admirable attempt to give insight into a distinctively American form of local governance that remains vibrant in the 21st century.Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-855-6288 pp., 24 illus., 2011

BostonVoices and VisionsEditEd by Shaun OConnellit will be the very rare reader who wont find [at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar. Boston Globe$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4352 pp., 2010

UMass RisingThe University of Massachusetts Amherst at 150Katharine GreiderA lively, well-illustrated history of the university on its sesquicentennial.$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8240 pp., 135 color illus., 9" x 11.5" format, 2013

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESSecond NatureAn Environmental History of New EnglandRichard W. Juddbeautifully written . . . both scholarly and accessible.dona brown$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-066-5344 pp., 2014

Environmental History of the Northeast

Cape CodAn Environmental History of a Fragile EcosystemJohn T. CumblerNo other history of Cape Cod offers the contextually rich interweaving of the regions environmental, economic, social, and cultural transformations. Anthony N. Penna$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-109-9296 pp., 14 illus., 2014

Environmental History of the Northeast

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

Grasses of the NortheastA Manual of the Grasses of New England and Adjacent New YorkDennis W. MageeWith companion DVD-ROM

A 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 ConservationRalph W. TinerAn authoritative guide to the ecology of tidal wetlands in North America$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1536 pp., 166 illus., 2013


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 Massachusetts Amherst) and Edwin A. Martini (Western Michigan University), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics.

environmentAl history of the northeAst

the aim of this new series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New york, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).

GrAce PAley PrizeSince 1990 the Press has published the annual winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competition, now called the Grace Paley Prize. the $5,500 award is sponsored by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), an organization that includes over 500 colleges and universities with a strong commit-ment to teaching creative writing.

JuniPer PrizesEstablished in 1975, the Juniper Prize for Poetry is awarded annually and carries a $1,500 prize in addi-tion to publication. the Juniper Prize for Fiction was established in 2004 and also carries a $1,500 prize. distinguished writers select the winners.

librAry of AmericAn lAndscAPe historythe Press publishes a range of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organization that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them.

mAssAchusetts studies in eArly modern cultureEdited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of tudor and Stuart England.

nAtive AmericAns of the northeAstbooks in this series examine the diverse cultures and histories of the indian peoples of New England, the Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway (dart-mouth College), Jean M. Obrien (University of Minnesota), and Lisa t. brooks (Amherst College).

Public history in historicAl PersPective Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series explores how representa-tions of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends.

science/technoloGy/culturethis interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engaging books that illuminate the role of science and tech-nology in American life and culture. Series editors are Carolyn de la Pea (University of California da

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