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New publications 1–29 Terrace Books 2–3, 5, 7, 9 Midwest Regional Titles 6, 7, 9, 28 Recent Book Awards 30–31 Journals 32–34
More on VIETNAM AND
THE HMONG
Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War
Edited by John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, and Brad Austin
“An excellent one-stop shop for nonspecialists who regularly find themselves teaching about the Vietnam War.”—David Herzberg, SUNY–Buffalo
THE HARVEY GOLDBERG SERIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING HISTORY LC: 2012040084 DS 2013
Recent Backlist 35–39 Ordering and Contact Information 40 Author / Title Indexes Inside back cover
SUBJECT GUIDE
366 PP. 6 × 9 22 B/W ILLUS. E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29413-7 PAPER $29.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29414-4
Africa 14, 24–25 African American Studies 8, 9 American Studies 1, 4, 8, 20, 26, 27 Anthropology 1, 10, 14, 24 Art 23 Asian Studies 1 Biography 21, 26 Classics 22–23 Communication & Journalism 20, 27 Cookbooks 6
Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War
Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers
“In this small, shattering book we hear—as we are so rarely able to do—the voices of Asian peasants describing what we can barely begin to imagine.”
—Gloria Emerson, New York Review of Books
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES LC: 2012032677 DS 2013 196 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 34 B/W ILLUS.
Education 14, 29 Environment 7, 18, 28 Drama & Performance 22 Fiction 2–5, 9, 16 Film 21 Folklore 14–15
THE GOVERNMENT
OF MISTRUST
E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29223-2 PAPER $19.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29224-9
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Ken MacLean
“A highly original book with an unusually innovative methodology.”—Oscar Salemink, University of Copenhagen
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES LC: 2013015051 HN 2013 300 PP. 6 × 9 10 B/W ILLUS., 4 TABLES, 1 MAP, 1 CHART E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29593-6 PAPER $39.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29594-3
Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Interest 4 History 1, 8, 10, 18–19, 24–27 Human Rights 17–19 Immigration & Diaspora Studies 14–15 Latin America 18
Ken MacLean
Law 19 Literature & Criticism 17, 19, 23 Mystery 2–4 Poetry 11–13 Politics 1, 18–20, 24–27 Popular Culture 20 Reference 29
Viet Nam: Borderless Histories
Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid
“A significant contribution to the efforts to move beyond a national history of Vietnam.” —ongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Russian, Slavic & Eastern European
Studies 15–17
Science 28–29
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES LC: 2005032883 DS 2006 400 PP. 6 × 9 10 B/W ILLUS., 2 MAPS, 7 TABLES E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-21773-0 PAPER $26.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-21774-7
Social Services 14 Sports & Recreation 7 Travel 6, 7 Wisconsin & Midwest 6, 7, 9, 28 Women’s Studies 22, 24
Hmong in America: Journey from a Secret War
Tim Pfaff
Hmong in America tells the dramatic story of the Hmong through the voices of the people who lived this contemporary history.
LC: 95-067766 2005 100 PP. 10 × 8 31 COLOR PHOTOS, 67 B/W PHOTOS, 6 ILLUS. PAPER $19.95 T ISBN 978-0-9636191-3-6
On the cover: Krumkaka from the
Norske Nook (see p. 6); photo by Mette Nielsen
SOU T H E A ST A SI A / H ISTORY / A N T H ROPOLOGY / POL I T IC S / A SI A N A M ER ICA N ST U DI E S
Dreams of the hmong KingDom
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Mai Na M. Lee
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
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 illuminates 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 shiſting boundaries, emerging nation-states, and contentious nationalist movements and ideologies. Oſten divided by clan rivalries, the Hmong placed their hope in finding a leader who could unify them and recover their sovereignty. In a compelling analysis of Hmong society and leadership throughout the French colonial period, Mai Na M. Lee identifies two kinds of leaders—political brokers who allied strategically with Southeast Asian governments and with the French, and messianic resistance leaders who claimed the Mandate of Heaven. e continuous rise and fall of such leaders led to cycles of collaboration and rebellion. Aſter World War II, the powerful Hmong Ly clan and their allies sided with the French and the new monarchy in Laos, but the rival Hmong Lo clan and their supporters allied with Communist coalitions.
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
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New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Alfred C. McCoy, R. Anderson Sutton, ongchai Winichakul, Series Editors
“No other scholar has tracked this one-hundred-year narrative in such detail. The rich oral histories and presentation of Hmong perspectives make this a welcome work of unimpeachable originality. In excavating the complex history of Hmong struggles for sovereignty, Lee also sheds light on clan lineages, gender, orality, and
belief systems.”—Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, emeritus
Lee argues that the leadership struggles between Hmong clans destabilized
French rule and hastened its demise. Martialing an impressive array of oral interviews conducted in the United States, France, and Southeast Asia, augmented with French archival documents, she demonstrates how, at the margins of empire, minorities such as the Hmong sway the direction of history.
“It is a mature and sophisticated work, showing a huge knowledge of the region and its peoples, and is also highly readable. In its blending of oral with written accounts, it should have a considerable impact in historical studies.”—Nicholas Tapp, Australian National University
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.
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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
Aſter tracking a clever killer in Death Stalks Door County, park ranger and former 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. ree 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.
Investigating, Cubiak discovers that the men’s veneer of success and respectability hides a trail of lies and betrayal that stems from a single, desperate act of treachery and eventually spreads a web of deceit across the peninsula. In a dark, 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.
JUNE LC: 2014038286 PS
232 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 1 MAP E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30453-9 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30450-8
“Skalka takes us back to Door County—this mystery is even better than the first.”—Mary Logue, author of the Claire Watkins mystery series
“Death at Gills Rock is an expertly
crafted, impressively researched novel with a gripping, multilayered plot; colorful, well-drawn characters that leap right off the page; tight, punchy dialog; and a pace that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t
let go.”—Michael Norman, author
of Haunted Wisconsin
PATRICIA SKALKA is a former freelance staff writer for Reader’s Digest specializing in medical and human interest stories. She has worked as a magazine editor, ghost writer, and writing instructor. A native of Chicago, she lives in the city and takes time off at her cottage in Door County, Wisconsin.
Of related interest
Death Stalks Door County: A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery
Patricia Skalka
“An atmospheric debut with enough twists to tempt puzzle aficionados.”
—Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHED MAY 2014 LC: 2013033800 PS 256 PP. 5½ × 8¼ 1 MAP E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29943-9 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-29940-8
“An impressive first novel.”
—Mystery Scene
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A Winsome Murder
James DeVita
“Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree.”—William Shakespeare
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. Acclaimed already for his young adult fiction, actor/director/playwright James DeVita now debuts an addictive, adult thriller that takes us from Chicago’s underbelly to the Wisconsin woods. In this fast-paced novel we meet a gorgeous waitress with a haunted past, an author juggling a failing career and motherhood, and a hard-bitten detective with unexpected inspiration from William Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays—and nobody escapes the nightmare created by a psychotic killer of women.
“A story of superior literary merit with a very hard edge and some biting social commentary. Detective James Mangan is complex and interesting, a tough, gritty Chicago cop whose vast reservoir of wonderfully spooky Shakespeare quotations informs his crime-solving skills. It’s a fine study of contrasts that folds into a taut, multilayered, highly enjoyable whodunit.”—Brian Rieselman, author of Where
Darkness Sleeps
JUNE LC: 2014042916 PS
208 PP. 5½ × 8¼ E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30443-0 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30440-9
“An unpredictable, intelligent mystery that illuminates the darkness simmering in the most idyllic of places. With a little help from the Shakespeare he knows so well, and a keen eye for the gritty realities of rural life, James DeVita brings an incredible cast to this novel’s stage, led by one of the most compelling detectives you’ll ever meet.”—Dean Bakopoulos, author of My American Unhappiness
“James DeVita has written a riveting thriller featuring a deranged killer and a detective who hears snatches of Shakespeare in his head. It’s
a terrific read.”—Michael Hinden, coauthor with Betsy Draine of the Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler mysteries
JAMES DEVITA is a core company member and
literary manager at the American Players eatre, a professional classical repertory company in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He has worked extensively as a playwright and has published two novels for younger readers, e Silenced and Blue. He is a native of Long Island, New York, and now lives near Spring Green.
Of related interest
The Body in Bodega Bay: A Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler Mystery
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
“e Draine and Hinden writing duo have now done for California’s North Coast what their earlier Murder in Lascaux did for France’s Perigord: brought it wonderfully—and eerily— to life.”—Aaron Elkins, Edgar-winning author of the Gideon Oliver mysteries
PUBLISHED MAY 2014 LC: 2013033798 PS 232 PP. 5½ × 8¼ E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29793-0 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-29790-9
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States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
Edmund White
“Commands attention and respect. . . . Mr. White doesn’t so much evoke the people he talks to as he dismantles them down to their cogs and springs.”
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
Edited by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman
“is book does an excellent job of tackling the major questions animating the field of LGBT history and also the breadand-butter challenges likely to be encountered by teachers incorporating this material in their classes.”—Lane Fenrich, Northwestern University
In a New Century: Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
“A collection from one of the finest, most thoughtful historians of gay and lesbian social history.” —David Bergman, editor of Gay
American Autobiography
—New York Times
PUBLISHED MAY 2014 LC: 2013033118 HQ 282 PP. 6 × 9 E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29773-2 PAPER $27.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29774-9
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2014 LC: 2014007459 HQ 364 PP. 5½ × 8 E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30263-4 PAPER $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30264-1
THE HARVEY GOLDBERG SERIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING HISTORY PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2014 LC: 2014009612 HQ 312 PP. 6 × 9 31 B/W ILLUS.
Assault with a Deadly Lie: A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense
Lev Raphael
E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30243-6 PAPER $29.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-30244-3
“Terrifying acts of harassment and intimidation. roughout, Raphael deſtly comments on the rights and freedoms lost since 9/11: everyone is suspect, and a militarized police force oſten stands
above the law.”—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2014 LC: 2014007468 PS 190 PP. 5½ × 8¼ E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30233-7 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30230-6
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JD
A Novel
Mark Merlis
“An important novel that masterfully evokes the tensions and social upheavals of the 1960s and sheds a fresh and highly insightful light on gay liberation, family life, and American masculinity.”—Trebor Healey,
author of A Horse Named Sorrow
Jonathan Ascher, a radical writer and cultural hero in the 1960s, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches his widow, Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband’s papers. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, Jonathan’s adventures in the sexual underground, and the social upheavals that led to his famous book JD. As Martha reads on, she finds herself in a longdistance conversation with her dead husband, fighting with him again about their rocky life together and learning about the unseen tragic drama in her own apartment that ended with the destruction of their son, Mickey. Learning about herself, finally, through her confrontation with a man who will not let her go, even in death. JD is a brilliant and harrowing view of a half century of the American experiment, acted out on a small stage by three people who cannot find a way—neither sex nor touch nor words—to speak their love for one another.
MARCH LC: 2014030801 PS
272 PP. 5½ × 8¼ E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-30353-2 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-30350-1
“Powered by stunning emotional, intellectual, and erotic complexities, JD is a trenchant portrait of a marriage and its heartbreaking casualties and at the same time something far more ambitious: a disquieting meditation on how and why America’s best hopes went so stupendously awry during the sixties and early seventies. What emerges is an angry, loving hymn to a generation’s failure to create the world we so passionately believed we longed for. ere is no better novelist at work in our troubled country right now than Mark Merlis.”—Paul Russell, author
of Immaculate Blue and e Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
“An amazing novel: beautifully written, ingeniously structured, involving and dangerous. This is a chamber drama about one family yet it’s full of windows that look out on the wider worlds of the Vietnam War, New York literary politics, and the gay revolution. Mark Merlis is a major writer and this is his best
novel yet.”—Christopher Bram,
author of Eminent Outlaws and Gods and Monsters
“It’s vintage Merlis: historical yet timely, intellectually rich, bracingly witty, unnervingly erotic, and, finally, deeply tender and affecting.”—Michael Lowenthal, author of e Paternity Test
MARK MERLIS is the author of the novels American Studies,
An Arrow’s Flight, and Man About Town. His work has won
the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband. For more information, visit
Of related interest
Little Reef and Other Stories
Michael Carroll
“ese stories, keenly—even cruelly— observant, occupy the verges of love and death where the truest and most recklessly aware emotions abide. Romantic yet bitterly insightful, this is a solid, smart collection.”—Joy Williams, author of Honored Guest
PUBLISHED JUNE 2014 LC: 2013038687 PS 280 PP. 5½ × 8¼ E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-299-29743-5 CLOTH $26.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-29740-4
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COOK BOOK S / FOOD / T R AV E L
The Norske Nook Book of Pies and Other Recipes
Jerry Bechard and Cindee Borton-Parker
Mmmm, pie! Mile-high meringue and dairy-state deliciousness attracts foodies, celebrities, and tourists from around the world, as well as the local guys and gals
e Norske Nook, founded as a small-town café in 1973, is now a foursome of revered pie shrines in Osseo, Rice Lake, Eau Claire, and Hayward, Wisconsin. e Nook’s international fame grew from a tradition of Midwest home baking, informed by Scandinavian roots and enriched by the luscious ripe fruit and sumptuous sour creams and cream cheeses of America’s dairyland.
is cookbook features the restaurants’ award-winning baking: Scandinavian specialties, cheesecakes, tortes, cookies, muffins, and more than seventy recipes (and variations) for pie. More than fiſty new pie recipes have been created by the Nook bakers since 1990, when Jerry Bechard purchased the Osseo café from founder Helen Myhre. e Norske Nook has won thirty-six blue ribbons at the National Pie Championships in Florida—including three in 2014, for Lemon Cream Cheese, Peaches and Cream, and Jamberry.
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visit www.norskenook.com
Recipes in the book include: Crusts
“is cookbook is a celebration of all of our pie and bakery recipes, with some memories, beautiful pictures of the pies, and a few instructional photos. Aſter years of many requests for our recipes, we couldn’t disregard the demand from our local guests and our travelers to take another piece of Norske Nook pie home.”—Jerry Bechard and Cindee Borton-Parker
Toppings and Puddings Dutch and Praline-Topped Pies Double-Crust Pies Candy Pies Berry Pies Cream Cheese Pies Sour Cream Pies Meringue Pies Single-Crust Pies Stirred Pudding Pies Frozen Pies
JERRY BECHARD has owned the Norske
Nook since 1990 and is a past winner of the Restaurateur of the Year award from the Wisconsin Restaurant Association. He also owns the Northwoods Brew Pub in Eau Claire and lives in Hayward, Wisconsin.
CINDEE BORTON-PARKER is the regional
manager for the Norske Nook restaurants and bakeries in northwest Wisconsin and lives in New Auburn, Wisconsin. Both are avid lovers of pie.
Sugar-Free Pies Cheesecakes Tortes Muffins Cookies Scandinavian Specialties
Of related interest
kids and the locals who give Osseo its Lake Wobegon qualities. I’m back home again.”—Joanne Stuttgen, author
of Cafe Wisconsin
Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook
Helen Myhre with Mona Vold
“is book makes me feel like a member of the Myhre family. Helen pulls out a dining room chair, inviting me to sit for a spell. Over melt-in-the-mouth pot roast and pie, we catch up on the
PUBLISHED APRIL 2001 LC: 2001017105 TX 286 PP. 7¼ × 9¼ PAPER $24.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-17234-3
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SPORTS & R ECR E AT ION / E N V I RON M E N T / U PPER M I DW E ST R EGION
Crossing the Driftless
A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
Lynne Diebel
Illustrated by Robert Diebel
“Engaging, multifaceted, and accessible, Crossing the Driftless is like no other canoe trip book. We learn a wealth of information about ecology, geology, people, and politics on the riverways.”—Mike Svob, author of
Paddling Southern Wisconsin
e Driſtless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Covering much of southwestern Wisconsin, its contours were deeply carved from bedrock, not by ice but by many rivers.
Crossing the Driſtless is both a traveler’s tale and an exploration of this dramatic environment, following the streams of geologic and human history. Lynne Diebel and her husband, Bob, crossed the Driſtless Area by canoe, journeying 359 river miles (and six Mississippi River locks and five portages) from Faribault, Minnesota, where her family has a summer home on Cedar Lake, to their Wisconsin home in Stoughton, one block from the Yahara River. Traveling by river and portage, they paddled downstream on the Cannon and Mississippi rivers and upstream on the Wisconsin River, in the tradition of voyageurs. Lynne tells the story of their trip, but also the stories of the rivers they canoed and the many tributaries whose confluences they passed.
