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Mathilde Blind SPRING 2017 VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS AUTHOR-TITLE INDEX SPRING 2017 10 APPREY/POE The Key to the Door 36 BAILES Questioning Nature 7 BAYLISS The Dooleys of Richmond Patriots, Prostitutes, SUBJECT INDEX 23 BELOHLAVEK and Spies 29 BILLINGS/TARTER “Esteemed Bookes AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 10, 16, 21, 22 of Lawe” and the Legal Culture of Early 33 AFRICAN LITERATURE Virginia 33 AFRICAN STUDIES 22 BROOKS The Uplift Generation 6, 8, 11, 15–17, 23–29 AMERICAN HISTORY Democracy’s Muse 4 ARCHAEOLOGY 15 BURSTEIN 9, 20, 21 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 16 CHAFFIN Giant’s Causeway 12, 18 ARCHITECTURE 19 CORCORAN Trustbuilding 7, 37 BIOGRAPHY 6 DEW Apostles of Disunion 34, 35 CARIBBEAN STUDIES 37 DIEDRICK Mathilde Blind and the 6, 16, 17 CIVIL WAR Culture of Late-Victorian London 1, 2 CURRENT AFFAIRS 32 ECOCRITICISM 18 DOLKART Biography of a Tenement House in New York City 30, 36 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES 19 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 32 EMERSON “The Best Read Naturalist” 1, 4, 15, 19 GENERAL INTEREST 17 ESCOTT Lincoln’s Dilemma 14 GEOLOGY 1 ETZIONI Avoiding War with China 8, 10 HIGHER EDUCATION 21 GINSBURG/ELLIS Slavery in the City 18 LANDSCAPE STUDIES 29 LEGAL HISTORY 26 GRIFFIN Experiencing Empire 35, 36 LITERARY STUDIES 30 HAMMOND Memoirs on the Life and 32 LITERATURE Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748–1775 30 MEMOIR 27 HATTER Citizens of Convenience 1, 2, 15 POLITICS/POLITICAL SCIENCE 9 HERRINGTON The Law School at the 14 REGIONAL University of Virginia 24, 25 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 8 HOWARD/GALLOGLY Society Ties 6, 7, 22 SOUTHERN HISTORY 21 URBAN STUDIES 24 JORTNER Blood from the Sky 37 VICTORIAN STUDIES 4 KELSO Jamestown, the Truth Revealed 23 WOMEN’S STUDIES 28 MADISON The Papers of James Madison 25 MCBRIDE Pulpit and Nation 2 MILLER CENTER The First Year Project 28 MORRIS The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris 20 MURPHY/REILLY Skyscraper Gothic 19 NASH Virginia Climate Fever COVER ART 33 ORLANDO The Algerian New Novel see page 9 17 RAY Satan and Salem CARTER PRINTING 18 RILEY The Camaro in the Pasture 34 SAHAKIAN Creolization in Theater by French Caribbean Women 14 SPENCER Guide to the Geology and Natural History of the Blue Ridge Mountains 12 SUTHERLAND Buildings of Arkansas 16 TARTER Daydreams and Nightmares 11 VALSANIA Jefferson’s Body 35 WARD Crossing the Line WWW.UPRESS.VIRGINIA.EDU DIGITAL: ROTUNDA.UPRESS.VIRGINIA.EDU FACEBOOK: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/UVAPRESS | TWITTER: TWITTER.COM/UVAPRESS “Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the history and current state of U.S.-China relations, Etzioni sorts out the many myths and common AMITAI ETZIONI misconceptions and proposes realistic ways to construct a more peaceful relationship.” —HO-FUNG HUNG, Johns Hopkins University Avoiding War with China TWO NATIONS, ONE WORLD ontending that conflict is inevitable when an established power does not make sufficient room for a rising power, some conclude C UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS SPRING 2017 that the United States and China are on a collision course. In this timely new work, renowned professor of international relations Amitai Etzioni points to the paths by which the two nations can avoid war. Etzioni reveals that the United States is already preparing for a war with China but that no plan has been properly reviewed by either Con- gress or the White House and, above all, none has been subjected to a public debate. Etzioni seeks to provide a context for this long overdue discourse and to ask urgent questions: How aggressive is China? How powerful? Does it seek regional dominance or to replace the United TWO NATIONS, ONE WORLD States as the global superpower? Etzioni also examines the calls of some to integrate China into the prevailing rule-based, liberal, international order. AMITAI ETZIONI The book presents our best strategy to reduce tension between the two powers and maps out how the United States can accommodate China’s regional rise without undermining its core interests, its allies, and the international order. GENERAL INTEREST/CURRENT AFFAIRS AMITAI ETZIONI is University Professor and Professor of International MAY Relations at The George Washington University and served as a senior 208 pages, 6 x 9 2017 $24.95 T Cloth advisor at the Carter White House. He is the author most recently of ISBN 978-0-8139-4003-8 Foreign Policy: Thinking Outside the Box. Ebook available 1 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS SPRING 2017 MILLER CENTER “You’ve got to give it all you can that first year. You’ve got just one year when they treat you right, and before they start worrying about themselves. So, you’ve got one year.” —LYNDON B. JOHNSON, January 1965 THE FIRST YEAR PROJECT n an increasingly polarized political environ- lessons from that history, as we inaugurate a new Iment, the first year of the new president’s president in January 2017. term will be especially challenging. With a fresh This project is the basis for a new series of mandate, however, the first year also offers op- digital shorts published as Miller Center Studies on portunities that may never come again. The First the Presidency. Presented as specially priced col- Year Project is an innovative initiative by the Miller lections published exclusively in an ebook format, Center of the University of Virginia that brings these timely examinations recognize the experienc- together top scholars on the American presidency POLITICAL SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS es of past presidents as an invaluable resource that and experienced officials to explore the first twelve can edify and instruct the incoming president. months of past administrations, and draw practical 2 RACE IMMIGRA- COMMU- THE AMERICAN CAULDRON TION NICATION STRUGGLING OVER GETTING THE MESSAGE BORDERS ACROSS Edited by Douglas A. Blackmon Edited by Sidney Milkis Edited by Nicole Hemmer and David Leblang CONTRIBUTORS Michael Eric Dyson, CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS David Greenberg, Rutgers Georgetown Uni- Anna O. Law, Brooklyn University • Anita Dunn, versity • Elizabeth College • David A. Martin, former Obama White Hinton, Harvard University of Virginia • House Communications University • Orlando Gary Freeman, University Director • Susan Douglas, Patterson, Harvard of Texas at Austin • Daniel University of Michigan • University Tichenor, University of Jeff Shesol, former Bill THE Oregon Clinton speechwriter • Mary APRIL 2017 $4.95 T Ebook Kate Cary, former George DANGEROUS ISBN 978-0-8139- APRIL H. W. Bush speechwriter 2017 $4.95 T Ebook FIRST YEAR 4017-5 NATIONAL SECURITY AT THE START ISBN 978-0-8139-4018-2 APRIL OF A NEW PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS SPRING 2017 2017 $4.95 T Ebook ISBN 978-0-8139-4019-9 Edited by William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. 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Selverstone, University of Virginia • • Kyle Kondik, University of Virginia tion • Dambisa Moyo, global economist Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin • • Carolyn Dewar, Tom Dohrmann, and author • Michael Nelson, Rhodes Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia Andrew Erdmann, Ryan Harper, and College • Margaret O’Mara, University of POLITICAL SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS Junal Modi, McKinsey & Company Washington • Robert Pianta, University AVAILABLE of Virginia • Richard Schragger, Universi- 2016 $5.95 T Ebook APRIL ty of Virginia • Peter Wehner, Ethics and ISBN 978-0-8139-3960-5 2017 $4.95 T Ebook Public Policy Center ISBN 978-0-8139-4020-5 APRIL 2017 $4.95 T Ebook MILLER CENTER ISBN 978-0-8139-4021-2 STUDIES ON THE PRESIDENCY 3 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS SPRING 2017 WILLIAM M. KELSO JAMESTOWN, the Truth Revealed MORE REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES FROM THE LEAD ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO UNEARTHED THE SECRETS OF AMERICA’S BIRTHPLACE hat was life really like for the Wband of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplish- JAMESTOWN ments of these men and women were, ARCHAEOLOGY / GENERAL INTEREST the written records pertaining to them THE are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious about the birthplace of the United States have had TRUTH little to turn to except dramatic and often highly fictionalized reports. In Jamestown, REVEALED the Truth Revealed, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown ∞ colony began, unearthing footprints of More remarkable a series of structures, beginning with discoveries from the lead archaeologist who the James Fort, to reveal fascinating evi- unearthed the secrets dence of the lives and deaths of the first of America’s birthplace settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, ∆ and new insight into their relationships with the Virginia Indians. He offers up WILLIAM M. KELSO a lively but fact-based account, framed around a narrative of the archaeological team’s exciting discoveries. 4 WILLIAM M. KELSO “The unearthing of Jamestown is truly the autopsy of America, an amazing dissection and reconstruction of four-hundred-year-old artifacts and human remains that reveal how the first settlers spent their days, how they lived and died, and what they accomplished and suffered. Without chief archaeologist William Kelso’s almost mystical vision that the original site still existed and his persistence against all odds to unearth it, we would have little to rely on but legend to tell us how modern America began.” —PATRICIA CORNWALL UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS SPRING 2017 practice of survival cannibalism in the Unpersuaded by the common WILLIAM M.
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