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Age in AmericaThe Colonial Era to the Present

Edited by CORINNE T. FIELD and NICHOLAS L. SYRET“…reveals the fundamental ways of understanding what age means, why it is important, and how this category has changed over time.”

Paula S. Fass, author of Children of a New World

2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $28.00

At Home in Nineteenth-Century AmericaA Documentary History

AMY G. RICHTER“...masterfully provides a superb overview...targeted particularly for college students and general readers.”

Choice

2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Angel PatriotsThe Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America

ALEXANDER T. RILEY “A profound and thought-provoking study, Angel Patriots unveils how, in the wake of 9/11, America mourned much more than the loss of life.”

Daily American

2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $30.00

As Long as We Both Shall LoveThe White Wedding in Postwar America

KAREN M. DUNAK

“For readers interested in recent developments in American wedding practices, this volume has much to offer.”

American Historical Review

2016 • 254 Pages • Paper • $28.00

Buying a BrideAn Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches

MARCIA A. ZUGThere have always been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t always thought about them in the same ways. Buying A Bride uncovers this history and shows us how mail-order marriage empowers women and should be protected and even encouraged.

2016 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

Health in the CityRace, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York

City, 1915–1930TANYA HARTHart challenges traditional ideas of early urban black health care, revealing that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to � x.

In the Culture, Labor, History series 2015 • 336 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

NakedA Cultural History of American Nudism

BRIAN HOFFMAN

“Hoffman’s book ably traces the ideological development of the American nudism movement from its health-and-fi tness beginning to the more politically charged movement it became in the 1960s and 1970s.… An original, well-researched study.”

Kirkus Reviews2015 • 336 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

PluckedA History of Hair Removal

REBECCA M. HERZIG“Herzig unites anthropology, sociology, history and psychology in this gripping study... Plucked is an important work, not least because it is so very readable.”Times Higher Education Supplement

In the Biopolitics series 2015 • 280 Pages • Cloth • $29.95 Instructor’s guide available

DissentThe history of an American IdeaRALPH YOUNG

� e United States is a nation founded on the promise and power of dissent. In this stunningly comprehensive volume, Ralph Young shows us its history.

“[An] expansive and...impressive account...[Young] excels in story-telling mode.”

Popmatters

2015 • 640 Pages • Cloth • $39.95

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY

An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches

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Clean and WhiteA History of Environmental Racism in the United States

CARL A. ZIMRING

“Offers a signifi cant and startling new perspective on...ideals of cleanliness, notions of environmental propriety, and defi nitions of whiteness...brings much needed insight to our ongoing national debate about race and justice.”

Robin Nagle, author of Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks

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GowanusBrooklyn’s Curious Canal

JOSEPH ALEXIOU

“In Gowanus, Joseph Alexiou handles this complicated waterway’s history with admirable fi nesse, dogged research, and an enthusiasm as infectious as his subject.”

Brooklyn Magazine

2015 • 400 Pages • Cloth • $29.95

An Unlikely UnionThe Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians

PAUL MOSES“In this lively history...Moses looks at Irish and Italian expressions of religion, social customs, and family life; access to political power; competition for jobs; and cultural forces that shaped their images.”

Kirkus Reviews

2015 • 368 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

A Great Conspiracy against Our RaceItalian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness

in the Early 20th CenturyPETER G. VELLON“[A] concise yet thoroughly researched book. . . An important contribution to Italian American studies specifi cally and immigrant and racial history in general.”

Choice

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An Unlikely Union

ETHNIC HISTORY

This Muslim American LifeDispatches From the War on TerrorMOUSTATA BAYOUMI“Fascinating...the author’s narrative places the predicament of Arabs and Muslims in today’s America in a broader historical and sociocultural framework. This engrossing book challenges the entrenched...stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims.”

Library Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

2015 • 304 Pages • Paper • $19.95

REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY

Fighting over the FoundersHow We Remember the American Revolution

ANDREW M. SCHOCKET

“This populist study of recent speeches, fi lms and published works reveals the many uses of America’s founding ideals...delves into recent Constitutional Supreme Court battles and the formation of the Minutemen and Tea Party movements. Organized, accessible history for everyone.”

Kirkus Reviews

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

Revolutionary MedicineThe Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

JEANNE E. ABRAMS

“Revolutionary Medicine...is a readable and eye-opening account. We know so much about the Founders, but we rarely pause to think just how diffi cult ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ can be when you lack a good doctor or science-based care.”

The Wall Street Journal

2015 • 314 Pages • Paper • $26.00

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More Than MedicineA History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement

JENNIFER NELSON

“An extensively researched book, focusing on the struggle for feminists to make women’s health a priority, to reach out to those in need of health care, and to integrate women friendly policies and provide care to those who have very little access to it.”

Metapsychology

2015 • 280 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Rebels at the BarThe Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women

LawyersJILL NORGREN

“[A] conscientious history of the country’s fi rst female lawyers...The women who went fi rst — whose stories Norgren so capably tells — matter deeply to the ones who came after.”

The Washington Post

2016 • 286 Pages • Paper • $25.00

WOMEN’S HISTORY

Women in Early AmericaEdited by THOMAS A. FOSTER

“Women in Early America, an ambitious series of eleven essays edited by Thomas A. Foster, offers a more compelling version of early America and its heroines.”

Alana Shilling-Janoff, Times Literary Supplement

2015 • 320 Pages • Paper • $28.00

MILITARY HISTORY

For Liberty and the RepublicThe American Citizen as Solider, 1775-1861

RICARDO A. HERRERA

“Herrera has produced an important volume addressing the relationship of civilians and soldiers during the period from the American Revolution to the beginning of the Civil War.”

ChoiceIn the Warfare and Culture Series

2015 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

In the Shadow of the Greatest GenerationThe Americans who Fought the Korean War

MELINDA L. PASH

“This book is the best, but also about the fi rst, comprehensive study of American veterans of the Korean War. Clear and concise writing, sharp exposition, and keen sensitivity to issues of race, gender and class will make this book useful in the classroom.”

The Journal of American History

2014 • 349 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and AfghanistanEdited by BETH BAILEY and RICHARD H. IMMERMAN

Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begins to come to grips with the period when America became enmeshed in a succession of “low intensity” confl icts in the Middle East.

“An impressive compendium...that provides a wide spectrum of perspectives on how and why the world has changed so dramatically since 11 September 2001.”

General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret)

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $30.00 Instructor’s guide available

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UnfreedomSlavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston

JARED R. HARDESTYHardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston, and argues we should understand slavery as part of a continuum of unfreedom. Unfreedom tells the story of how marginalized peoples engrained themselves in the very fabric of colonial American society.

2016 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Against Wind and TideThe African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement

OUSMANE K. POWER-GREENE“Against Wind and Tide is a fi ne contribution to the story of African colonization movements in early American history.”


2014 • 304 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Four Steeples over the City StreetsReligion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations

KYLE T. BULTHUIS“Bulthuis thoroughly merges US religious history with the history of New York City from the Colonial era through the early republic...A timely reminder of the contingent nature of history and the strategic role that religion played in the New York City urban landscape.”

Choice

2014 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Insatiable AppetitesImperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World

KELLY L. WATSON“Readers won’t look at imperial discourses of ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’ in quite the same way after consuming and digesting this wide-ranging history.”

Thomas A. Foster, DePaul University

2015 • 288 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Caribbean CrossingAfrican Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

SARAH FANNING“Most know about the ‘return to Africa’ movement among free blacks in the US. Fewer know about the slave rebellion against French colonial masters…Fanning provides the fi rst comprehensive account of this forgotten chapter in US and African American history.””

Choice2015 • 192 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Dark WorkThe Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

CHRISTY CLARK-PUJARAHistorians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island.

2016 • 224 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Faithful BodiesPerforming Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

HEATHER M. KOPELSON“Offers an innovative and much-needed look into the creation of racial identities in the colonial Atlantic. Faithful Bodies ought to excite future scholars as they consider analyzing the nexus of racial identities and religious ideologies in the colonial worlds.”


2016 • 416 Pages • Paper • $28.00

Empire at the PeripheryBritish Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the

British Atlantic, 1621-1713CHRISTIAN J. KOOT“Koot deals in a fresh and convincing manner and in an accessible style with Anglo-Dutch trade in the western Atlantic world, leaving no stone unturned.”

Wim Klooster, author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World

2015 • 312 Pages • Paper • $25.00

IN THE EARLY AMERICAN PLACES SERIES

The Early American Places series focuses on the history of North America from contact to the Mexican War, locating historical developments in the specifi c places where they occurred and were contested. Though these developments often involved far-fl ung parts of the world, they were experienced in particular communities—the local places where people lived, worked, and made sense of their changing worlds. By restricting its focus to smaller geographic scales, but stressing that towns, colonies, and regions were part of much larger networks, Early American Places will combine up-to-date scholarly sophistication with an

emphasis on local particularities and trajectories.

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OBAMA’S GUANTÁNAMOJonathan Hafetz

Stories from an Enduring PrisonOBAMA’S

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Stories from an Enduring PrisonOBAMA’S GUANTÁNAMOJonathan Hafetz

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Obama’s GuantánamoStories from an Enduring PrisonEdited by JONATHAN HAFETZObama’s Guantánamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison describes President Obama’s failure to close America’s enduring o� shore detention center, as he had promised to do within his � rst year in o� ce, and the costs of that failure for those imprisoned there. � ese stories demonstrate all that is wrong with the prison and the importance of maintaining a commitment to human

rights even in times of insecurity.

July 2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

Revoking CitizenshipExpatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror

BEN HERZOG“Herzog’s contribution to the growing debate over membership in our polity is important for its reminder that citizenship has historically been contingent in the United States...[It] will induce the reader to rethink the nature of citizenship in our democracy.”

California LawyerIn the Citizenship and Migration in

the Americas Series2015 • 216 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

The Twilight of Social ConservatismAmerican Culture Wars in the Obama Era

JOHN DOMBRINKDespite many Americans’ triumphant proclamations that Barack Obama’s elections signifi ed a post-partisan, post-racial society, it seems that the United States is more divided than ever. The conservative backlash seen during Obama’s presidency is indicative not of a rising social conservative force in society, but of a waning one.

2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $27.00

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

Forging a Laboring RaceThe African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination

PAUL R. LAWRIELawrie charts the history of race management, building on recent work in African American, labor, and disability history to analyze how ideas of race, work, and the “fi t” or “unfi t” body informed the political economy of early twentieth-century industrial America.

2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $50.00

Slavery’s ExilesThe Story of the American Maroons

SYLVIANE A. DIOUF“With impressive research and vivid prose, Diouf directs our attention to maroons within the United States. From the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia to the frontier regions of Louisiana, she shows fugitive slaves managed to survive without fl eeing to the North. An important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance.”

Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

2016 • 403 Pages • Paper • $18.00

Ghosts of Jim CrowEnding Racism in Post-Racial America

F. M. HIGGINBOTHAM“Legal-scholar Higginbotham addresses the legacy of America’s racial past and its impact on race equity today. What he wants is a new conversation on race that acknowledges the old paradigm of whites at the top and blacks at the bottom of a racial hierarchy.”

Booklist Online

2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $24.00

We Will Shoot BackArmed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

AKINYELE OMOWALE UMOJA“Umoja challenges the notion that the classic civil rights movement in the southern US was always a nonviolent movement. He provides new information and interpretations, which are a welcome contribution to knowledge and an appreciated addition to the history of the civil rights movement.” Choice

2014 • 351 Pages • Paper • $23.00

The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination

Forging a Laboring Race

Paul R.D. Lawrie

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The Race WhispererBarack Obama and the Political Uses of Race

MELANYE T. PRICEPrice analyzes the manner in which Barack Obama uses race strategically to engage with and win the loyalty of potential supporters. Ultimately, Price argues for a more complex reading of race in the age of Obama, breaking new ground in the study of race and politics, public opinion, and political campaigns.

2016 • 224 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Picture FreedomRemaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century

JASMINE N. COBBThrough an analysis of popular culture of the period, Cobb explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route toward a vision of African American citizenship.

2015 • 288 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Brooklyn’s Promised LandThe Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

JUDITH WELLMAN“In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, Judith Wellman…reanimates this black nationalist enclave in the borough’s eastern Beford Hills, which by the Civil War had more than 500 residents.”

The New York Times

2014 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Reframing RandolphLabor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph

ANDREW E. KERSTEN and CLARENCE LANG

The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph’s dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights, achieving a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.

2015 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $52.00

Black Women’s Christian ActivismSeeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb

BETTY L. ADAMSAdams examines the oft-overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs in the fi rst half of the twentieth century. As this book makes clear, religion made a key difference in the lives and activism of ordinary black women who lived, worked, and worshiped on the margin during this tumultuous time.

2016 • 240 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Black MosaicThe Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity

CANDIS W. SMITH

Smith explores the numerous ways in which the expanding and rapidly changing demographics of Black communities in the United States call into question the very foundations of political identity providing a groundbreaking study about the state of race, identity, and politics in an ever-changing America

2014 • 320 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Managing InequalityNorthern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit

KAREN R. MILLERManaging Inequality shows that our current racial system—where race-neutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies.

2014 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the

New Negro EraSHANNON KING

King argues that Harlemites’ mobilization for community rights raised the black community’s racial consciousness and established Harlem’s political culture. By studying community politics, King makes visible the hidden stirrings of a social movement deeply invested in a Black Harlem.

In the Culture, Labor, History Series2015 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

Melanye T. Price

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The Counter-Revolution of 1776Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

GERALD HORNE“Horne returns with insights about the American Revolution that fracture even more some comforting myths about the Founding Fathers…Clear and sometimes-passionate prose shows us the persistent nastiness underlying our founding narrative.”

Kirkus

2014 • 363 Pages • Cloth • $39.00

Negro Comrades of the CrownAfrican Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before

Emancipation GERALD HORNE“Horne’s work provides readers with a new framework to imagine diplomatic relationships between world powers in the nineteenth century, something especially important as historians begin to blend racial, cultural, and social history with diplomatic history.”

H-Net Reviews

2013 • 365 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Servants of AllahAfrican Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary

EditionSLYVIANE A. DIOUF

Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. This 15th anniversary edition has been updated to include new materials and analysis, a review of developments in the fi eld, prospects for new research, and new illustrations.

2013 • 351 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Black in Latin AmericaHENRY LOUIS GATES JR.“An entertaining alternative to the chronologically framed textbook...in a folksy vernacular [the book] recounts a great range of historical events and actors, offering a wonderful level of detail without overly challenging the novice audience.”


2012 • 270 Pages • Paper • $25.00

African & AmericanWest Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

MARILYN HALTER and VIOLET SHOWERS JOHSONAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of fi rst and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. It explores issues of cultural identity formation and socioeconomic incorporation among this new West African diaspora.

2014 • 352 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Sisters in the StruggleAfrican American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power

MovementEdited by BETTYE COLLIER-THOMAS and V.P. FRANKLIN“The quality of each individual essay makes Sisters in the Struggle stand out as an unusual anthology, one whose total sum is actually more than its parts.”

Journal of American History

2001 • 363 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Want to Start a Revolution?Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle

Edited by DAYO F. GORE, JEANNE THEOHARIS and KOMOZI WOODARD

“As the editors and contributors of this volume convincingly insist, we must reconsider what we think we know of civil rights, black power activism, and post-World War II feminism.”


2009 • 370 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Bloody LowndesCivil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES

“Jeffries has produced an important work that will unquestionably reshape the debate over the origins and legacy of the civil rights and black power movements for years to come.”


2010 • 372 Pages • Paper • $25.00

African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power

African & American

African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before

Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association




WedlockedThe Perils of Marriage Equality

KATHERINE FRANKE“Franke aligns struggles for gay marriage rights with African Americans’ � rst access to the right to marry, smartly exposing the malleable line between intimacy and the untouchable.”

Patricia J. Williams, author of the column

“Diary of a Mad Law Professor” for � e Nation

In the Sexual Cultures Series2015 • 288 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

At Home in Two CountriesThe Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

PETER J. SPIROAt Home in Two Countries charts the history of dual citizenship from strong disfavor to general acceptance. This book explains why dual citizenship was once so reviled, why it is a fact of life after globalization, and why it should be embraced today.

In the Citizen and Migration in the Americas Series

2016 • 208 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Trotskyists on TrialFree Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR

DONNA T. HAVERTY-STACKE

Trotskyists on Trial explores the implications of the case for organized labor and civil liberties in wartime and postwar America. The central issue of how Americans have tolerated or suppressed dissent during moments of national crisis is not only important to our understanding of the past, but also remains a pressing concern in the post-9/11 world.

In the Culture, Labor, History Series2016 • 304 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Making Race in the CourtroomThe Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans

KENNETH R. ASLAKSON

Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood not as a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role of free people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.

2014 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

Mea CulpaLessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History

STEVEN W. BENDER

“Bender, through the prism of regret for policies enacted as a result of dehumanization of particular groups, presents an admirable intersectional synthesis of current and past legal marginalization.”

Choice

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

American Founding SonJohn Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment

GERARD N. MAGLIOCCA

“Gerard Magliocca has done nearly as much as anyone could to resurrect John Bingham, and he has succeeded in making Bingham come alive as an important political player in the Civil War era. [H]e has certainly restored Bingham to a rightful place in Civil War political and legal history.”

The Wall Street Journal

2016 • 304 Pages • Paper • $27.00

LEGAL HISTORY

A Living HistoryA Living History

k e n g o r m l e y editor

At Home in Two Countries

The Presidents and the ConstitutionA Living HistoryEdited by KEN GORMLEY“Gormley and his impressive roster of collaborators have abundantly delivered on the promise of this book’s title. The balance between presidential power and presidential accountability is indeed a living history.…[This] brisk and readable survey of 44 presidencies puts present-day controversies in context and shows how living history isn’t about legal abstraction—it is about ambition, conflict, and the consequences and limits of presidential power.”

John Harris, Politico

2016 • 672 Pages • Cloth • $45.00

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The Production of American Religious Freedom

FINBARR CURTISAmericans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Finbarr Curtis challenges both concepts and gives a sweeping history of the concepts of religious freedom from the 19th century to the present.

In the North American Religions Series

2016 • 240 Pages • Paper • $28.00

The Bahá’ís of AmericaThe Growth of a Religious Movement

MIKE MCMULLENAmerican Bahá’ís have been remarkably successful in attracting a diverse membership, and over half of their congregations today are multiracial. This level of diversity is unique among all religious groups in the United States. Mike McMullen traces the hard work of the Bahá’ís’ leadership and congregants to achieve their high level of diversity and manage to grow so successfully in America.

2015 • 288 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Border MedicineA Transcultural History of American Curanderismo

BRETT HENDRICKSONBorder Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The book tracks curanderismo’s expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts.

In the North American ReligionsSeries

2014 • 256 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Pillars of Cloud and FireThe Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation

HERBERT R. MARBURY

In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open

and oriented toward freedom

In the Religion and Social Transformation Series2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $26.00

RELIGIOUS HISTORY

Preaching on WaxThe Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American

ReligionLERONE A. MARTIN“In the early half of the 20th century, many black preachers discovered a new tool—the phonograph. Sermons recorded on vinyl (or, at fi rst, wax) enabled them to reach beyond their local churches…In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin illuminates this little-known chapter in American cultural history.”

Publishers Weekly

In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series2014 • 240 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Building the Old Time ReligionWomen Evangelists in the Progressive Era

PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON

“In her book, Pope-Levison explores the role of women evangelists as institution builders of evangelic enterprises, churches and denominations, religious training schools and benevolence ministries...Pope-Levinson utilizes an ecumenical approach in exploring religious institutions built by women during the Progressive Era.”

Pneuma

2015 • 280 Pages • Paper • $25.00

AWARD-WINNING RELIGIOUS HISTORY

Certi� cate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for

Recorded Sound CollectionsWinner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the

Catholic Press Association


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Called to ServeA History of Nuns in America

MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS“McGuinness culls wide-ranging historical evidence...and perspective with her collective story of many communities across the United States, beginning with the Ursuline sisters in New Orleans in 1727...This is a comprehensive, objective, and readable contribution to a subject of growing interest despite fewer numbers of sisters.”

Library Journal

2014 • 272 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Mississippi PrayingSouthern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights

Movement, 1945-1975CAROLYN R. DUPONT

“Carolyn Renee Dupont’s examination of Mississippi white evangelicals’ fervent support of segregation during the 1950s and 1960s offers historians a fresh interpretation of the confounding paradox of God-fearing whites condoning and even participating in massive resistance.”

The Journal of Southern History

2015 • 303 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Winner of the 2015 Smith/Wynkoop Book Award presented by the Wesleyan � eological Society

Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History

Pastrami on RyeAn Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

TED MERWIN“Combining a fl air for anecdote with exhaustive research, Merwin has produced an exuberantly readable history of delis...The very success of Jewish delicatessens led inevitably to cultural assimilation for Jews and to appreciative acceptance by Gentiles, and the delicatessen became indisputably an American institution.”

Booklist

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $26.95

Forgotten Trials of the HolocaustMICHAEL J. BAZYLER and FRANK M. TUERKHEIMER

“Few of these trials are widely remembered. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, by legal scholars Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, is thus especially welcome. . . . Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a good start.”

Richard J. Evans, New York Review of Books

2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $28.00

Pastrami on Rye

The Rag RaceHow Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British EmpireADAM D. MENDELSOHN“An inquiry into the wellspring of modern Jewish economic success, [The Rag Race] attends to the origins of the garment industry, poking around in the dusty, and often little-known, corners of a global exchange based on kinship and the Jewish collective...The Rag Race is a remarkable achievement, a testament to the vitality of the historical imagination.”

Jewish Review of Books

In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History2015 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

JEWISH HISTORY

Winner of the 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council

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Haven of LibertyNew York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865HOWARD B. ROCKHaven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the fi rst Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Overcoming signifi cant barriers, these courageous men and women laid the foundations for one of the world’s foremost Jewish cities.

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New YorkA 3-volume set

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award (National Jewish Book Council)

Emerging MetropolisNew York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920ANNIE POLLAND and DANIEL SOYEREmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, security, and material prosperity—into the very fabric and physical landscape of the city.

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Jews in GothamNew York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010JEFFREY S. GUROCKJews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the fi rst decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century.

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

The Public ProfessorHow to Use Your Research to Change the WorldM. V. LEE BADGETTThe work of academics can matter and be infl uential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, infl uential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research and knowledge to change the world. Written for both new and experienced scholars and drawing on examples and advice from the lives of infl uential academics, the book provides the skills, resources, and tools to put ideas into action.

2016 • 256 Pages • Paper • $24.00

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The Crime of All CrimesToward a Criminology of Genocide

NICOLE RAFTERNicole Rafter takes an innovative approach to the study of genocide by comparing eight diverse genocides through the lens of criminal behavior. A sweeping and innovative investigation into the most tragic of events in the modern world, this remarkable book will fundamentally change how we think about genocide in the present day.

2016 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

GülenThe Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the

World JOSHUA D. HENDRICK

“Hendrick deserves to be commended for analyzing the Gülen movement in a comprehensive fashion. The book, written in an engaging style, covers diverse issues...This timely book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Gülen movement.”

Middle East Journal

2014 • 304 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Modern AlbaniaFrom Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe

FRED C. ABRAHAMS

“Assiduously researched, compulsively readable...Albania is a country fi lled with wily, resourceful, worldly, funny, and fatalistic people, and with their many contributions Abrahams’s narrative is as darkly farcical as it is tragic.”

Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles Review of Books

2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $25.00

China, The United States, and the Future of Central Asia U.S.-China Relations, Volume I

Edited by DAVID B. DENOON

The fi rst of a three-volume series on the interaction of the US and China in different regions of the world, this book is a wide-ranging look from noted scholars at a vital part of the world which is likely to receive more attention and face greater instability as NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

2015 • 464 Pages • Paper • $35.00

Confronting Black JacobinsThe U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the

Dominican RepublicGERALD HORNEThe Haitian Revolution, the product of the fi rst successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti and the failed attempt by the United States to annex it in the 1870s.

From Monthly Review Press2015 • 416 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Reconstructing LeninAn Intellectual Biography

TAMÁS KRAUSZ, translated by BALINT BETHLENFALVY

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and infl uential fi gures of the twentieth century. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thoughts never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement.

From Monthly Review Press2015 • 544 Pages • Paper • $34.00

Death in the Shape of a Young GirlWomen’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction

PATRICIA MELZER“Clearly written and convincingly argued, the book makes original contributions to both feminist theory and the history and interpretation of the RAF.”

Choice

In the Gender and Political Violenceseries

2015 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

From the Land of ShadowsWar, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora

KHATHARYA UMFrom the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Khatharya Um follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $28.00

WORLD HISTORY

The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the

U.S.-China Relations, Volume I

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Filipino StudiesPalimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

Edited by MARTIN F. MANALANSAN and AUGUSTO ESPIRITUPhilippine studies has recently come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a fi eld-defi ning collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora.

2016 • 464 Pages • Paper • $30.00

Making the Empire WorkLabor and United States Imperialism

Edited by DANIEL E. BENDER and JANA K. LIPMANMillions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States Empire. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. Empire visible. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.

2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $35.00

An Oasis CityBy NICOLA ARAVECCHIA, ROGER S. BAGNALL, RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE, PAOLA DAVOLI, OLAF E. KAPER and SUSANNA MCFADDENAmheida was an oasis communities. Located in the western part of the Dakhla Oasis, it was an important regional center, reaching a peak in the Roman period before being abandoned. This book presents these aspects of the city’s existence

and its close ties to the Nile valley in an accessible and richly illustrated fashion.

In the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World series2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Transpacifi c AntiracismAfro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa

YUICHIRO ONISHI

“Yuichiro Onishi’s Transpacifi c Antiracism is a unique and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Afro-Asian relations…there are things that Onishi does that few have done before.”

American Studies

2014 • 254 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Contemporary IsraelNew Insights and Scholarship

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHNThe contradicting views of modern Israel are the subject of this book. This book does not seek not to resolve either the country’s internal debates or its struggle with the Arab world, but to present a sample of contemporary scholars’ discoveries and discussions about modern Israel in an accessible way.

In the Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century series2016 • 320 Pages • Paper • $30.00

In the Shadow of ZionPromised Lands Before Israel

ADAM L. ROVNER“Rovner makes a valuable contribution to the almost forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement….In well-crafted chapters, Rovner tells the story of the efforts of the territorialists to fi nd a Jewish home in such places of Angola, Madagascar, Tasmania, and Suriname.”

Choice

2014 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Atlas of the Irish RevolutionEdited by JOHN CROWLEY, MIKE MURPHY and DONAL Ó DRISCEOILA chronological and thematically organized treatment of the period serves as the core of the Atlas, enhanced by over 400 color illustrations, maps and photographs. This academic tour de force animates the period for anyone with a connection to or interest in Irish history.

2016 • 750 Pages • Cloth • $75.00

Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955

EDITED BY SEÁN HAND AND STEVEN T. KATZ

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II.

In the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $45.00

In the Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Jewish Studies in the Twenty-Twenty-T First Century

Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Contemporary Israel

New Insights and Scholarship

central dynamic of U.S. history.

Japan, and Okinawa

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GREAT FOR COURSES

The Houses of HistoryA critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory

Edited by ANNA GREEN and KATHLEEN TROUPThe Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought, which have had the greatest infl uence on the study of history in the twentieth century. Comprehensive and accessible to undergraduates, The Houses of History is ideally suited to classroom use.

1999 • 352 Pages • Paper • $27.00

World History in Documents, 2nd EditionA Comparative Reader

Edited by PETER N. STEARNS

World events have changed as rapidly as the fi eld of world history itself. Stearns pays particular attention to global processes throughout history. The book also covers key events that have altered world history since the publication of the fi rst edition, including terrorism, global consumerism, and environmental issues.

2008 • 640 Pages • Paper • $30.00

Revolutions in the Atlantic WorldA Comparative History

WIM KLOOSTER

“It adds much to the growing literature on Atlantic revolutions and will be invaluable for teachers of the American Revolution who wish to add a comparative dimension to their courses.”


2009 • 247 Pages • Paper • $25.00

The World War I ReaderEdited by MICHAEL S. NEIBERG

“. . . [A] valuable text to introduce students to the broad parameters of World War I. Students whose intellectual appetites are whetted by this collection will appreciate the extensive list of books matched to each category at the end of the book.”

The Journal of Military History

2006 • 416 Pages • Paper • $28.00

White CargoThe Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America

DON JORDAN and MICHAEL WALSH

“This vividly written book tells the tale from both sides of the Atlantic . . . Jordan and Walsh offer an explanation of how the structures of slavery—black or white—were entwined in the roots of American society.”

New York Times Book Review

2008 • 320 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Knowing, Teaching, and Learning HistoryNational and International Perspectives

Edited by PETER N. STEARNS, PETER SEIXAS, and SAM WINEBURG“The 22 useful and engaging essays in this book represent leading work in the scholarship of teaching and learning related to history... Hopefully these essays will do much to bridge the gap between historians, teacher educators, and teachers.”

Choice

2000 • 482 Pages • Paper • $30.00

The Historians’ ParadoxThe Study of History in Our Time

PETER CHARLES HOFFER“A rattlingly good read... [S]trongly recommend[ed]…in any teaching context where students of history are being asked to refl ect philosophically upon the nature of their subject.”


2010 • 226 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Times Square Red, Times Square BlueSAMUEL R. DELANY

“In a provocative and persuasively argued cri de coeur against New York City’s gentrifi cation and the redevelopment of Times Square in the name of ‘family values and safety,’ …this bracing and well-calibrated blend of journalism, personal history and cultural criticism will challenge readers of every persuasion.”

Publishers Weekly

In the Sexual Cultures series1999 • 203 Pages • Paper • $26.00


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