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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS SPRING 2015 CONTENTS More on New publications 1–29 VIETNAM AND Terrace Books 2–3, 5, 7, 9 THE HMONG Midwest Regional Titles 6, 7, 9, 28 Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War Recent Book Awards 30–31 Edited by John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, and Journals 32–34 Brad Austin “An excellent one-stop shop for nonspecialists Recent Backlist 35–39 who regularly find themselves teaching about the Ordering and Contact Information 40 Vietnam War.”—David Herzberg, SUNY–Buffalo Author / Title Indexes Inside back cover TH E HARVEY GOLDBERG SERIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING HISTORY SUBJECT GUIDE LC: 2012040084 DS 2013 366 PP. 6 × 9 22 B/W ILLUS. Africa 14, 24–25 E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29413-7 African American Studies 8, 9 PAPER $29.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29414-4 American Studies 1, 4, 8, 20, 26, 27 Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under Anthropology 1, 10, 14, 24 an Air War Art 23 Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and Asian Studies 1 drawings by Laotian villagers “In this small, shattering book we hear—as we are Biography 21, 26 so rarely able to do—the voices of Asian peasants Classics 22–23 describing what we can barely begin to imagine.” Communication & Journalism 20, 27 —Gloria Emerson, New York Review of Books Cookbooks 6 NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Education 14, 29 LC: 2012032677 DS 2013 196 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 34 B/W ILLUS. Environment 7, 18, 28 THE GOVERNMENT E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29223-2 Drama & Performance 22 OF MISTRUST PAPER $19.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29224-9 Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power Fiction 2–5, 9, 16 in Socialist Vietnam The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Film 21 Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam Folklore 14–15 Ken MacLean Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Interest 4 “A highly original book with an unusually History 1, 8, 10, 18–19, 24–27 innovative methodology.”—Oscar Salemink, University of Copenhagen Human Rights 17–19 NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Immigration & Diaspora Studies 14–15 Ken MacLean LC: 2013015051 HN 2013 Latin America 18 300 PP. 6 × 9 10 B/W ILLUS., 4 TABLES, 1 MAP, 1 CHART E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29593-6 Law 19 PAPER $39.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29594-3 Literature & Criticism 17, 19, 23 Mystery 2–4 Viet Nam: Borderless Histories Poetry 11–13 Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid “A significant contribution to the efforts to Politics 1, 18–20, 24–27 move beyond a national history of Vietnam.” Popular Culture 20 —Thongchai Winichakul, University of Reference 29 Wisconsin–Madison Ru ssian, Slavic & Eastern European NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Studies 15–17 LC: 2005032883 DS 2006 Science 28–29 400 PP. 6 × 9 10 B/W ILLUS., 2 MAPS, 7 TABLES E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-21773-0 Social Services 14 PAPER $26.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-21774-7 Sports & Recreation 7 Hmong in America: Journey from a Secret War Travel 6, 7 Tim Pfaff Wisconsin & Midwest 6, 7, 9, 28 Hmong in America tells the dramatic story of the Women’s Studies 22, 24 Hmong through the voices of the people who lived this contemporary history. On the cover: Krumkaka from the LC: 95-067766 2005 Norske Nook (see p. 6); photo by 100 PP. 10 × 8 31 COLOR PHOTOS, 67 B/W PHOTOS, 6 ILLUS. Mette Nielsen PAPER $19.95 T ISBN 978-0-9636191-3-6 SOUTHEAST ASIA / HISTORY / ANTHROPOLOGY / POLITICS / DREAMS OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES HMONG KINGDOM The Quest for Legitimation in Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom French Indochina, 1850–1960 The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960 Mai Na M. Lee Mai Na M. Lee A pioneering, landmark history of the Hmong people and their complex relations with Southeast Asian states and the French in the colonial era Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illu- minates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia. In China, Vietnam, and Laos, the Hmong continuously negotiated with these states and with the French to maintain political autonomy in a world of shifting PAPERBACK ORIGINAL boundaries, emerging nation-states, and contentious nationalist movements and JUNE LC: 2014035663 DS ideologies. Often divided by clan rivalries, the Hmong placed their hope in find- 408 PP. 6 × 9 20 B/W ILLUS., 2 MAPS ing a leader who could unify them and recover their sovereignty. In a compelling E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29883-8 analysis of Hmong society and leadership throughout the French colonial period, PAPER $29.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-29884-5 Mai Na M. Lee identifies two kinds of leaders—political brokers who allied stra- New Perspectives in Southeast tegically with Southeast Asian governments and with the French, and messianic Asian Studies resistance leaders who claimed the Mandate of Heaven. The continuous rise and Alfred C. McCoy, R. Anderson fall of such leaders led to cycles of collaboration and rebellion. After World War Sutton, Thongchai Winichakul, II, the powerful Hmong Ly clan and their allies sided with the French and the Series Editors new monarchy in Laos, but the rival Hmong Lo clan and their supporters allied with Communist coalitions. “No other scholar has tracked this Lee argues that the leadership struggles between Hmong clans destabilized one-hundred-year narrative in French rule and hastened its demise. Martialing an impressive array of oral inter- such detail. The rich oral histories views conducted in the United States, France, and Southeast Asia, augmented and presentation of Hmong with French archival documents, she demonstrates how, at the margins of empire, perspectives make this a welcome minorities such as the Hmong sway the direction of history. work of unimpeachable originality. In excavating the complex history of Hmong struggles for “It is a mature and sophisticated work, showing a huge knowledge of the region sovereignty, Lee also sheds light on and its peoples, and is also highly readable. In its blending of oral with written clan lineages, gender, orality, and accounts, it should have a considerable impact in historical studies.”—Nicholas belief systems.”—Geoffrey C. Gunn, Tapp, Australian National University Nagasaki University, emeritus Photo by Q Studio MAI NA M. LEE is an assistant professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She was born in Laos and came to the United States when she was a teenager. She was the first Hmong in the United States to earn a PhD in history. 1 UWPRESS.WISC.EDU MYSTERY / FICTION Death at Gills Rock A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery Patricia Skalka Dave Cubiak is back, and this time he's the new sheriff in town After tracking a clever killer in Death Stalks Door County, park ranger and for- mer Chicago homicide detective Dave Cubiak is elected Door County sheriff. His newest challenge arrives as spring brings not new life but tragic death to the isolated fishing village of Gills Rock. Three prominent World War II veterans who are about to be honored for their military heroics die from carbon monoxide poisoning during a weekly card game. Blame falls to a faulty heater but Cubiak puzzles over details. When one of the widows receives a message claiming the men “got what they deserved,” he realizes that there may be more to the deaths than a simple accident. JUNE LC: 2014038286 PS Investigating, Cubiak discovers that the men’s veneer of success and respect- 232 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 1 MAP ability hides a trail of lies and betrayal that stems from a single, desperate act of E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30453-9 treachery and eventually spreads a web of deceit across the peninsula. In a dark, CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30450-8 moody tale that spans more than half a century, Cubiak encounters a host of suspects with motives for murder. Amid broken dreams, corruption, and loss, he sorts out the truth. Death at Gills Rock is the second book in Patricia Skalka’s Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series. “Skalka takes us back to Door County—this mystery is even better than the “Death at Gills Rock is an expertly first.”—Mary Logue, author of the Claire Watkins mystery series crafted, impressively researched Photo by B.E.Pinkham novel with a gripping, multilayered PATRICIA SKALKA is a former freelance staff writer plot; colorful, well-drawn characters for Reader’s Digest specializing in medical and human that leap right off the page; tight, interest stories. She has worked as a magazine edi- punchy dialog; and a pace that grabs tor, ghost writer, and writing instructor. A native of you by the throat and doesn’t Chicago, she lives in the city and takes time off at her let go.”—Michael Norman, author cottage in Door County, Wisconsin. of Haunted Wisconsin Of related interest Death Stalks Door County: A Dave PUBLISHED MAY 2014 Cubiak Door County Mystery LC: 2013033800 PS Patricia Skalka 256 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 1 MAP E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29943-9 “An atmospheric debut with enough CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-29940-8 twists to tempt puzzle aficionados.” —Kirkus Reviews “An impressive first novel.” —Mystery Scene 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS SPRING 2015 MYSTERY / FICTION A A Winsome Murder W I N S O M E James DeVita “Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree.”—William Shakespeare M U R D E R A grisly murder in a pastoral Wisconsin town, Winsome Bay, proves to be only the opening act in a twisting, darkening series of gruesome deaths.