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Living the California Dream “Jefferson brings the multi-decade campaign African American Leisure Sites during for black access to leisure areas into the long civil rights movement and reminds us that the Jim Crow Era recreation and racial justice propelled black alison rose jefferson Southern California’s desire to enjoy the Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African beaches, lakes, and valleys of the region.” Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of —Quintard Taylor, Scott and Dorothy Bullitt leisure” by creating communities and business Professor of American History (emeritus) at projects in conjunction with their growing the University of Washington, Seattle population in Southern California during the “This is an important book. It brings to life nation’s Jim Crow era. By presenting stories those Southern California places fundamental of five Southern California African Ameri- to the construction of an African American can leisure destinations, Jefferson illustrates California Dream. And it does so by thought- how these places created leisure production, fully considering the lives of those people purposes, and societal encounters. Black whose tough struggles for a piece of the communal practices and economic develop- California sun were marked by inspirational ment around leisure helped define the practice courage.”—William Deverell, director of the and meaning of leisure for the region and Huntington–USC Institute on California and the nation, confronted the emergent power the West politics of recreational space, and set the stage for the sites as places for remembrance of January 2020 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 8 invention and public contest. illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0130-0

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 1 Looking at the Stars Reclaiming 42 AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN Black Celebrity Journalism in Public Memory and the Reframing of Jim Crow America Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy Carrie Teresa David Naze Looking at the Stars explores the meaning Reclaiming 42 illuminates how the Jackie of “celebrity” as enumerated by black journal- Robinson memory has gone through various ists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow– changes over the last sixty-plus years. David era segregation and disenfranchisement. Carrie Naze moves his story beyond Robinson the Teresa argues that journalists and editors baseball player to open new interpretations of working for these black-centered publications, an otherwise seemingly convenient narrative to rather than simply mimicking the reporting show how Robinson’s legacy ultimately should conventions of mainstream journalism, instead both challenge and inspire public memory. framed celebrities as collective representations “A must-read for anyone interested in the of the race who were then used to symbolize relationship between sports and politics. It will the cultural value of artistic expression influ- appeal to baseball novices and baseball experts enced by the black diaspora and to promote alike. David Naze’s exploration of Jackie Rob- political activism through entertainment. inson’s vocal critiques of racial inequalities, and “Excellent. . . . Carrie Teresa shows that the modern-day efforts to erase any controversial black press played an integral role in the devel- elements from Robinson’s memory, are espe- opment of celebrity journalism and culture. cially timely.”—Jonathan J. Cavallero, associate That alone makes the work significant. But the professor of rhetoric, film, and screen studies at work also should lead to opening a conversa- Bates College tion and spurring robust and critical discussion “Through a skillful analysis that addresses of historical and contemporary issues of celeb- Robinson’s political activism and his prolific rity, race, gender, and representation in the writings, as well as the ways that he has been media and society.”—Jinx Coleman Broussard, memorialized, Naze invites us to understand Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Profes- that Jackie Robinson speaks not only to the sor and professor of mass communications at ages but to our own time.”—Robert E. Terrill, Louisiana State University professor of rhetoric in the Department of 2019 • 264 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index English at Indiana University, Bloomington $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9992-4 2019 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9082-2

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The Allure of Blackness among their understanding of our past—and how it Mixed-Race Americans, has affected the world we live in today.” —Gary B. Nash, author of Forbidden Love: The 1862–1916 Hidden History of Mixed-Race America Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly “A masterful examination. Dineen-Wimberly An examination of generations of mixed-race brings considerable depth, breadth, and nuance African Americans after the Civil War and into to explaining the disproportionate number the Progressive Era, The Allure of Blackness of mixed-race individuals among the ranks among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916, of African American leadership. The riveting overturns the “passing” trope that has domi- first-person testimony of mixed-race individu- nated much Americanist scholarship and social als themselves is an indispensable component thought about the relationship between race of her analysis. Consequently, this book will and social and political transformation in Black be essential reading for scholars and students America. alike.”—G. Reginald Daniel, professor of “Masterful. . . . Admirably researched and writ- sociology at the University of California, ten with éclat, The Allure of Blackness sparkles Santa Barbara with life stories rarely encountered in the his- 2019 • 318 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 3 illustrations, tory books from which young Americans derive index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0507-0

BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES PAUL SPICKARD AND PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, SERIES EDITORS A venue for the scholarly study of borderlands—of the encounters, intersections, and collisions between peoples and cultures—the books in this series focus on comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters.

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 Shape Shifters Intermarriage from Central Journeys across Terrains of Europe to Central Asia Race and Identity Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes Edited by Lily Anne Y. Welty Edited and introduced by Tamai, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly, Adrienne Edgar and and Paul Spickard Benjamin Frommer Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial Asia examines the practice and experience of identity across a broad swath of space and interethnic marriage in a range of countries time to understand the fluid nature of racial and eras, from imperial Germany to pres- identities. ent-day Tajikistan. This interdisciplinary vol- “The essays in this field-shaping work on shape ume draws contributions from anthropologists shifters in world history are breathtaking in and historians who explore the phenomenon their breadth and fresh insights, challenging of intermarriage both from the top down, in readers to think in provocative new ways about the form of state policies and official categories, race, social mobility, and belonging from the and from the bottom up, through an intimate borderlands of the ancient world to our own look at the experience and agency of mixed border-crossing moment.”—Samuel Truett, families in modern states determined to con- associate professor of history at the University trol the lives and identities of their citizens to of New Mexico an unprecedented degree. AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN “Shape Shifters offers a kaleidoscope of fresh “A real eye-opener. Intermarriage from Central vantage points from which to rethink the Europe to Central Asia addresses a crucially enduring riddle of identity. The contributors important topic that demonstrates what is bring to life a diverse array of border-crossers, lost when we neglect the subject of intimacy, tricksters, and chameleons who previously gender, and intermarriage from studies of remained hidden from view but who could European nation-states. This book enlivens and not be more important or more timely to our deepens our understanding of how ethnic and present-day discussions of race and ethnic- civic nationalisms operate to join, divide, and ity.”—Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange differentiate people. . . . It provides a rich com- Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who parative context for scholars of intermarriage in Became a Mexican Millionaire colonial and settler colonizer contexts.”—Ann McGrath, author of Illicit Love: Interracial Sex January 2020 • 432 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, and Marriage in the United States and Australia index $80.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0663-3 June 2020 • 372 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 tables, 2 charts, 2 graphs, index $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0211-6

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How the West Was Drawn The Limits of Liberty 

Mapping, Indians, and the Construction Mobility and the Making of the Eastern BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES of the Trans-Mississippi West U.S.-Mexico Border David Bernstein James David Nichols How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and The Limits of Libertychronicles the formation interdisciplinary understanding of the global of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspec- imperial contest for North America’s Great tive of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in Plains that provides the fine details of the determining the international boundary from Pawnees’, Iowas’, and Lakotas’ strategies of both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. survival from and accommodation to preda- “The Limits of Liberty makes significant tory Euro-American and Native empires. historiographical interventions and is an out- “David Bernstein’s How the West Was Drawn standing contribution to border studies, Texas offers an important reassessment of the history, and the history of the American West cartographic history of the American West, and northern Mexico.”—Mark A. Goldberg, exploring how Plains Indians—specifically, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Iowas, Pawnees, and Lakotas participated in “In this excellent and timely work of transna- the mapping and remapping of the region in tional history, James David Nichols assesses the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.” the multidirectional nature of human migra- —Alessandra Link, Environmental History tion between South Texas and northeastern “A fascinating analysis of the factors that Mexico during the period 1821–1861, with contributed to the creation of maps of the an emphasis on independent Indians, chattel Trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth slaves, and debt peons.”—William S. Kiser, century. The focus on tribal contributions Journal of Arizona History to this process makes the subject even more 2018 • 312 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photos, 5 illustrations, 3 worthy of analysis. This book has the poten- maps, index tial to alter significantly the way we view the $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0579-7 maps resulting from treaties, exploratory expeditions, and other projects.”—John P. Bowes, author of Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal 2018 • 324 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 figures, 46 maps, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4930-1

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Risking Immeasurable Harm “This carefully researched and elegantly crafted book provides timely lessons on the impor- Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican tance of building and sustaining bilateral Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932 diplomatic relationships across the Mexico- Benjamin C. Montoya U.S. border. Montoya’s new analysis of early Benjamin C. Montoya explains how the twentieth-century legislative practices reminds prospect of immigration restriction affects us how marginalized immigrants have always diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts been central to discourses and practices of state to place a quota on immigration from Mexico sovereignty and nation formation.”—Mark during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Overmyer-Velázquez, editor of Beyond la Fron- controversial quota raised important questions tera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration about how domestic immigration policy “Timely and pathbreaking. . . . [It] sheds new debates had international consequences, light on U.S.-Mexican diplomatic develop- primarily on how the racist justifications for ments related to controversies over quotas, immigration restriction threatened to under- racism, sovereignty, and immigration restric- mine U.S. relations with Mexico. tion.”—Christopher McKnight Nichols, author “In his rich and nuanced study Montoya of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a examines immigration both as a transnational Global Age phenomenon and—critically—as a diplomatic April 2020 • 360 pp.• 6 x 9 • 9 tables, 1 graph, index issue between states. Rigorously researched, $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0129-4 this timely history shows that immigration policy is best addressed not with walls but with diplomacy.”—Julia F. Irwin, author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening

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Blood in the Borderlands protect their Cheyenne kin. As told by David Beyreis, their story forces us to think hard Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, about what it took for a family to survive in 1821–1920 the West.”—Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The David C. Beyreis Comanche Empire Tracing the story of the Bent family from the “Blood in the Borderlands brings all the major fur trade days of the 1820s to Teresina Bent players of this fascinating borderlands family Scheurich’s death in 1920, David C. Beyreis into a single frame in a brisk, well-told story offers a unique perspective on the transforma- that illuminates the transformation during the tion of the borderlands during a pivotal period. nineteenth century of the central plains and For each alliance the Bents cultivated, they what became the U.S. Southwest.”—Andrew R. also made powerful enemies, and the familial Graybill, author of The Red and the White: A relationships that proved essential to survival Family Saga of the American West and prosperity in the borderlands also exposed the family to horrific violence. The Bent family May 2020 • 270 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 photographs, 5 history is a remarkable story of intercultural illustrations, 2 maps, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0242-0 cooperation and pragmatic adaptability in the face of expanding American power. “This is a remarkable book about what may well have been the most remarkable family of the American West. . . . Nimbly negotiating the color line, the Bents sometimes sided with the American state and sometimes challenged it to

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 7 AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN Legacies of Dust Power-Lined Land Use and Labor on the Electricity, Landscape, and the Colorado Plains American Mind Douglas Sheflin Daniel L. Wuebben 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Power-Lined weaves together personal narra- Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, tive, historical research, cultural analysis, and social science to provide a sweeping investiga- Legacies of Dust evaluates the impact of the Dust Bowl on both agricultural production tion of overhead wires’ varied influence on the and the people who fueled it, demonstrating American landscape and the American mind. how the drought fractured Colorado’s estab- Daniel L. Wuebben shows how power lines— lished system of agricultural labor. Drawing from Morse’s telegraph to our high-voltage from western, environmental, transnational, grid—not only carry electricity between and labor history, Douglas Sheflin investigates American places but also create electrified how the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and its spaces that signify and complicate notions complex consequences transformed the south- of technology, nature, progress, and, most eastern Colorado agricultural economy. recently, renewable energy infrastructure. “The discussion of the environment and “With historical detail and carefully con- migrant labor in the decades after the Dust structed analysis, Wuebben offers an engaging Bowl distinguishes this volume from others narrative that fills important gaps in our on the subject and broadens its importance understanding of the power grid and its phys- ical and cultural ramifications for the twen- beyond the regional.”—C. K. Piehl, Choice ty-first century.”—Julie A. Cohn, author of “Sheflin deftly threads an analysis of the Dirty The Grid: Biography of an American Technology Thirties together with the broadest questions of postwar agricultural history.”—Sarah “Eloquent and engaging. . . . The result of T. Phillips, associate professor of history [Wuebben’s] impressive attention to detail and director of graduate studies at Boston is a book that will enlighten any reader who University is interested in technology, literature, and culture.”—Jennifer L. Lieberman, author of 2019 • 426 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 photographs, 1 illustra- Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and tion, 4 maps, 2 tables, index Letters, 1882–1952 $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8553-8 2019 • 264 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 16 illustra- tions, 1 map, index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0366-3

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The Fault Lines of Farm Policy Theodore Roosevelt, A Legislative and Political History Naturalist in the Arena of the Farm Bill Edited by Char Miller and Jonathan Coppess Clay S. Jenkinson The Fault Lines of Farm Policy explores the Drawing on an array of approaches— legislative and policy history of the farm bill, biographical, ecological and environmental, with important perspectives for future policy literary and political—Theodore Roosevelt, discussions and more effective policy out- Naturalist in the Arena analyzes different comes. This history concentrates on the three elements of Roosevelt’s manifold encounters major commodities central to policy debates with the great outdoors. George Bird Grinnell, and farm politics: cotton, wheat, and corn. Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and William Jonathan Coppess examines policy develop- Hornaday were among the many conservation- ment for these commodities, including basic ists with whom Roosevelt corresponded, col- drivers such as coalition building, external and laborated, hiked, and governed—and in turn internal pressures on the coalition and its fault inspired. Together, they and their contempo- lines, and the impact of commodity prices. raries developed a progressive argument for the conservation of natural resources as a way “Jonathan Coppess’s understanding of farm to construct a more democratic nation-state. policy since 1990 is especially impressive, and his ability to root this discussion in a larger “A remarkable collection of smart essays . . . that historical context makes this book a first-rate is compulsively readable and thought-provok- work of scholarship.”—David Hamilton, ing. . . . It is a volume full of spritely writing author of From New Day to New Deal: and rich insights.”—Virginia Scharff, distin- American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, guished professor of history emerita, Univer- 1928–1933 sity of New Mexico “Without question, Coppess instills in readers “A marvelous job of reminding the world why the importance of reflecting on the origins Theodore Roosevelt was America’s first green and evolution of the farm policy before, president. All the essays included in this during, and after embarking on future farm volume are first rate. A dazzling addition to policy-making processes.”—Sheila Fleisch- Progressive Era and environmental history hacker, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, studies. Highly recommended!”—Douglas and Community Development Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history, Rice 2018 • 504 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 appendixes, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0512-4 University March 2020 • 258 pp. • 6 x 9 • 31 photographs, 5 illustrations, index $24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1314-3

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 9 Sea Otters dreds of white missionary children born and A History raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nine- Richard Ravalli teenth century, and the impact these children had on U.S. foreign policy of the era. 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN “A superb study at the dynamic intersection of An examination of sea otters in a Pacific World imperial, Hawaiian, cultural, and childhood context and an exploration of how this iconic histories. Joy Schulz is a passionate writer, and sea mammal once defined the world’s largest her work is filled with surprising implica- oceanscape. tions for the history of nineteenth-century “[Contributes] significantly to our understand- Hawai‘i.”—David Igler, author of The Great ing of the contingent nature of the historical Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the experiences of one animal species and human’s Gold Rush relationships with it. . . . Ravalli’s deft reading of July 2020 • 240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 photographs, 7 the history of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) as illustrations, 1 map, index a history of a global Pacific, and especially the $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1949-7 trade in highly valued sea otter pelts, demon- strates how global events might affect a raft of otters and regional otter populations.”—J. W. How to Reach Japan by Subway Cox, Choice America’s Fascination with Japanese Cul- 2018 • 216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 7 illustrations, ture, 1945–1965 2 graphs, 1 appendix, index Meghan Warner Mettler $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8440-1 A study of the shibui phenomenon, in which middle-class American consumers embraced new in paperback Japanese culture as familiar yet exotic in the Hawaiian by Birth two decades following the end of World War II. Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, “Mettler’s study does a fine job of bringing and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific much nuance and texture to the place of Japan Joy Schulz in postwar American life and culture.”—Mari Yoshihara, Journal of American History 2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the 2018 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 7 illustra- Western History Association tions, index An exploration of competing parental, cultural, $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9963-4 and educational interests affecting the hun-

STUDIES IN PACIFIC WORLDS RAINER F. BUSCHMANN AND KATRINA GULLIVER, SERIES EDITORS By examining the connections between nations, peoples, and resources that have shaped the Pacific as a ‘world,’ as well as a borderlands region, this series uncovers the importance of this geopolitical space.

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Queering Kansas City Jazz is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the intersectional workings of state violence.”— Gender, Performance, and the Carine Mardorossian, author of Framing the History of a Scene Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone “The accessibility of the language and the fact Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an that it focuses on events in recent history that interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical were heavily covered in the popular press mean deconstruction of the jazz scene in Kansas that this work will have broad appeal.”—Ari- City—a phenomenon that shaped leisure ana E. Vigil, author of War Echoes: Gender culture and offered a space for nonnormative and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural gender practice and performance—as a site of Production contested identity and spatial territory. 2019 • 228 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index “A new and exciting perspective. . . . It will $45.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0556-8 potentially change the way in which we Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches understand regional identity and recognize to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality those who were pushed into the margins of our social histories.”—Tammy Kernodle, author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Policing Sex and Marriage in the Williams American Military 2018 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, index The Court-Martial and the Construction of $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6291-1 Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950–2000 Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches Kellie Wilson-Buford to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Kellie Wilson-Buford explores how the Amer- ican military justice system policed the marital Abuses of the Erotic and sexual relationships of the service com- Militarizing Sexuality in the munity in an effort to normalize heterosexual, Post-Cold War United States monogamous marriage as the linchpin of the Josh Cerretti military’s social order. Josh Cerretti offers a comprehensive picture “Kellie Wilson-Buford has thrown open a of how military values have permeated the surprising window on the contested workings civilian cultural sphere since the late 1980s of patriarchy. If you’re digging into the politics and provides an intersectional analysis of of marriage, read this book! If you’re exposing militarism to explore how sexual and gender the militarization of morality, read this book! politics have been deployed to bolster U.S. If you’re questioning the gendered history of military policies. the Cold War, read this book!”—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and “Backed by rigorous historical documentation, Challenging Persistent Patriarchy Abuses of the Erotic demonstrates that sexual- ized violence is neither incidental nor external 2018 • 342 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 1 table, index to militarization but endemic to it. This book $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9685-5 Studies in War, Society, and the Military

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 11 Choosing to Care Phoebe Apperson Hearst A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in A Life of Power and Politics San Diego, 1850–1950 Alexandra M. Nickliss Kyle E. Ciani Phoebe Apperson Hearst is the first biography of Kyle E. Ciani examines the long history of inter- one of the Gilded Age’s most powerful woman actions between parents and social reformers philanthropists.

AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN from diverse backgrounds in the development of “Phoebe Apperson Hearst is deeply researched, and social welfare programs in San Diego, California. the persistent reader will be rewarded with a “A vividly constructed historical account, Choos- vivid portrait of the challenges faced by women ing to Care provides a remarkably comprehensive with ambitions outside the home in the latter and readable account of a painful but import- part of the nineteenth century. . . . [Hearst’s] ant chapter in California history. The amount life story shows how women—especially rich and breadth of research are most impressive, women—exercised power before they had the enabling the author to place the San Diego story right to vote.”—Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street in a broad historical context yet move beyond Journal it.”—David W. Adams, professor emeritus at 2018 • 664 pp. • 6 x 9 • 20 photographs, index Cleveland State University $39.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0227-7 2019 • 342 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1459-1 When Sunflowers Bloomed Red new in paperback Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America Ellen Browning Scripps R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox New Money and American Philanthropy When Sunflowers Bloomed Red provides a Molly McClain synopsis of a Kansas style of radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement Molly McClain presents a biography of Ellen transformed and coalesced with socialist and Browning Scripps, an American newspaper- syndicalist political movements to influence woman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, social politics and culture in the twentieth century and reformer, and philanthropist who made her beyond. fortune in the rapidly expanding Scripps chain of newspapers and used her wealth and influence to “The history of socialists in [Kansas] is significant, support philanthropic causes. and in drawing together a number of disparate strands in this history, When Sunflowers Bloomed “What a life! Ellen Browning Scripps made an Red brings into clearer focus the ways Kansas was astonishing amount of money, lived a very long a setting in which radicalism consolidated and time, and gave millions away. In doing so, she developed.”—Bryan Palmer, author of Revo- changed the landscape of the far West and earned lutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ for herself a pivotal place in American philan- Strikes of 1934 thropy. This fine book gives Scripps her due.” —William Deverell, director of the Huntington– April 2020 • 360 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 photographs, 2 illus- USC Institute on California and the West trations, 2 tables, index $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1623-6 2019 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 30 photographs, 2 illustrations, index $24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1665-6 12 university of nebraska press AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES

Finding a New object in the metaphorical department store Midwestern History window feels necessary to the overall picture, Edited and with an introduc- never overfurnished.”—Madison L. Heslop, tion by Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Western Historical Quarterly Whitney, and Joseph Hogan 2018 • 498 pp. • 6 x 9 • 35 photographs, 33 illus- trations, 3 maps, 6 tables, index Society of Midland Authors Award $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7880-6 This collection of essays revives and identifies anew the neglected study of the U.S. Midwest new in paperback by promoting a diversity of viewpoints on midwestern history and culture. Homesteading the Plains “This new edited collection stands as an import- Toward a New History ant guidepost for some of the more recent Richard Edwards, Jacob K. trends and issues in the new midwestern history. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo It is a superb collection on an important topic. 2018 Nebraska Book Award It is a unique contribution to the rebirth of mid- 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title western history.”—Gregory Schneider, professor of history at Emporia State University A study that draws on a new dataset to reexamine established critical interpretations 2018 • 396 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 illustration, 4 maps, 1 table, 1 graph, index of the Homestead Act, including the overall $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0182-9 success of homesteading, fraudulent claims, Indian land dispossession, the participation of women in homesteading, and the formation The Trans-Mississippi and Interna- of both farms and communities in the home- tional Expositions of 1898–1899 steading process. Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture “Homesteading the Plains, the first major at the Fin de Siècle scholarly study in a generation, uses new data Edited by Wendy Jean Katz sources and new digital techniques to present a nuanced account of an important govern- This edited volume illuminates visions of ment program that scholars will need to progress, empire, and Indigeneity at Omaha’s reevaluate.”—Richard White, Margaret Byrne Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions Professor of American History at Stanford of 1898–1899. University “[The contributors] demonstrate exceptional 2019 • 272 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, 2 illustra- skill in interrogating the overlapping discourses tions, 13 maps, 11 tables, 4 charts, 27 graphs, 2 of Whiteness and gender at the fairs. . . . Taken appendixes, index all together, perhaps this volume’s greatest $19.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1394-5 strength is the consistent excellence of each scholar’s granular attention to detail aligned with tightly organized analysis such that each

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 13 AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN Great Plains Politics Great Plains Indians Peter J. Longo David J. Wishart The Great Plains has long been home to From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first unconventional and progressive politics, from contact with Europeans to land disposses- the country’s first female U.S. representative sion to claims cases and much more, David and first female governor to the nation’s only J. Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of single-house state legislature. Great Plains the most significant groups of people in the Politics provides a lively tour of the Great country. Myriad internal and external forces Plains region through the civic and political have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the contributions of its citizens. Great Plains. Wishart spans the vastness of “A lively and engaging work on the subtle Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the layerings between individuals, community, reader up to date on reservation conditions political identity, and political life in the and rebounding populations in a sea of rural Great Plains, with narrative, biography, and population decline. analysis that reveal the people-place-politics “Essential reading for any westerner. Great synergies of Great Plains politics and commu- Plains Indians is a magnificent encapsulation nity.”—James M. Scott, Herman Brown Chair of a story we all need to know.”—Elizabeth and Professor at Texas Christian University Fenn, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning “Peter Longo reveals how these engaged citi- Encounters at the Heart of the World: A His- zens shaped their communities and how the tory of the Mandan People future will be decided by those who likewise “An accessible and highly readable book that is embrace the call of citizenry.”—Joe Blanke- undoubtedly the best overview of the Plains nau, professor of political science at Wayne Indians. The use of Native American sources State College combined with archaeological and historical 2018 • 152 pp. • 5 x 8 • 9 photographs, 1 map, sources produces a balanced review of 13,000 index years of Plains Indians history.”—Mark R. $14.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9071-6 Ellis, Historical Geography 2016 • 168 pp. • 5 x 8 • 12 illustrations, 8 maps, 1 graph, index $14.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-6962-0

DISCOVER THE GREAT PLAINS RICHARD EDWARDS, SERIES EDITOR

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The Spanish Craze of Hispanism. This book is very expansive, America’s Fascination with the Hispanic wonderfully original, and well narrated.” —John Nieto-Phillips, associate professor of World, 1779–1939 history at Indiana University, Bloomington Richard L. Kagan “The historical evolution of Hispanism is par- The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of ticularly relevant at this time, when the United the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the States government is again at metaphorical bat- history, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. tle with the Hispanic world and its Hispanic Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revision- population. By understanding this history, U.S. ist understanding of the origins of hispanidad citizens today will be able to better assess and in America, tracing its origins from the early make decisions about how to move forward in republic to the New Deal. the future.”—M. Elizabeth Boone, professor of “Interesting reading for students of cultural the history of art, design, and visual culture at history as well as Spanish-American relations the University of Alberta over the centuries.”—Kirkus 2019 • 640 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 color plates, 50 photo- “Distinct. It not only encompasses an ambi- graphs, 40 illustrations, 2 maps, index tious span of time, but it also provides novel $39.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0772-2 and captivating glimpses into [discrete] faces

nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 15 AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES & TRANSCULTURAL HISTORY AMERICAN The Spanish Caribbean and the Political Culture in Spanish Atlantic World in the Long America, 1500–1830 Sixteenth Century Jaime E. Rodríguez O. Edited and with an intro- 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title duction by Ida Altman and David Wheat Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500– 1830 reexamines the nature of Spanish This edited collection brings together recent American political culture by reevaluating the research on the Spanish Caribbean in the political theory, institutions, and practices of sixteenth century, breaking new ground in the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a studies with a focus on New Spain and Quito, distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely Jaime E. Rodríguez O. demonstrates that Span- united under Spanish rule for roughly a ish America’s process of independence differs century prior to the establishment of other from previous claims. European colonies. “Distinguished historian [Rodríguez O's] doc- “This work provides a wonderful window on umentation of extensive Indian participation the early Americas.”—Franklin W. Knight, in the political process in Ecuador following Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor the crisis of 1808 warrants special mention. Emeritus and Academy Professor at Johns Clearly written, thoughtful, and persuasive, Hopkins University this important volume belongs in every college “This excellent volume brings together the and university library.”—M. A. Burkholder, work of veteran historians with that of a new Choice generation of scholars in a series of detailed “A leading scholar of Spanish American inde- and innovative studies.”—Stuart B. Schwartz, pendence, Jaime E. Rodríguez O. brings to the George Burton Adams Professor of History at English-speaking world a collection of articles Yale University that he published in Spanish over the last two 2019 • 330 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps, 3 tables, index decades. The volume aims to put the political $40.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9957-3 to the forefront of discussions on the creation of Spanish American nations, a long-term commitment of Rodríguez O.’s and a complex matter worth discussion in the case of such an influential scholar.”—Mónica Ricketts, Hispanic American Historical Review 2018 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 tables, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0088-4

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The Mysterious Sofía Catholic activist and lay leader. Yet Andes has done more than write a biography: he has One Woman’s Mission to Save Catholicism also vividly portrayed the transnational world in Twentieth-Century Mexico in which Sofía lived—a world in which lay Stephen J. C. Andes activists and clergy circulated between Mexico, Stephen J. C. Andes uses the remarkable story Europe, the Vatican, and the United States, of Sofía del Valle to tell the history of Cathol- exchanging ideas and plans, founding vibrant icism’s global shift from north to south and new organizations and publications, and the importance of women to Catholic survival working to engage Catholics in new ways with and change over the course of the twentieth their Church. . . . Andes has brilliantly narrated century. Women such as Del Valle took on a an essentially Mexican story, one that explains pronounced role as leaders in apostolic and and investigates the long and often contentious missionary work, not just in Mexico but interplay between Church, state, and society in around the globe. Told through the eyes of a twentieth-century Mexico.”—Julia G. Young, little-known laywoman from Mexico, Andes author of Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, shows how ordinary women like Del Valle and Refugees of the Cristero War journeyed from the pews into the heart of the 2019 • 450 pp. • 6 x 9 • 27 photographs, 2 illustra- modern world. tions, index “With a sensitive, creative, and highly readable $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1760-8 $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1466-9 style, Andes narrates the life of Sofía del Valle, a complex, dynamic, and fascinating Mexican

THE MEXICAN EXPERIENCE WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY, SERIES EDITOR This series explores the rich and varied character of the Mexican experience through narrative, description, and analysis. With an emphasis on the many Mexican cultures, the series examines his- torical, anthropological, geographical, ethnographical, and environmental issues in modern Mexico.

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Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs Matters of Justice Mining, Water, and Public Health in Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Zacatecas, 1835–1946 Reform in Revolutionary Mexico LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY HISTORY AMERICAN LATIN Rocio Gomez Helga Baitenmann Rocio Gomez examines the detrimental Helga Baitenmann offers a highly original effects of the silver mining industry on water interpretation of Mexico’s revolutionary resources and public health in the city of agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover Zacatecas, arguing that the human labor by the executive of the judiciary’s authority necessary to the mining industry made the over contentious land matters, and examines worker and the mine inseparable through villagers’ role in shaping the postrevolution- the land, water, and air. By emphasizing ary state by siding with one branch of govern- the perspective of water and public health, ment over another. Matters of Justice provides Gomez illustrates that the human body and the first detailed account of the Zapatista the environment are not separate entities but and Carrancista land reforms as they were a dynamic partnership in a state of constant implemented in practice and reconfigured in interaction. response to unanticipated inter- and intravil- “Tracing the ‘ecology of extraction,’ Gomez lage conflicts. brilliantly connects the ecosystems of city, “A landmark history of the Mexican agrarian mountain, body, and microbe into a compre- reform’s juridical underpinnings and the logis- hensive and compelling story. . . . In doing so, tical considerations that shaped its execution. Gomez reminds us that silver mining haunts Matters of Justice punctures historiographical the past and the present of Zacatecas and shibboleths and paints a new portrait of what that reckoning with those legacies greatly lawmakers believed the land reform was and enhances our understandings of Mexican how it should be executed. It provides crisp history and our capacity to imagine a more insight into how communities learned to nav- just and sustainable future.”—Emily Wakild, igate the land reform’s sometimes labyrinthine author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, legal structures.”—Christopher Boyer, author Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, 1910–1940 and Community in Mexico July 2020 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 photographs, 2 May 2020 • 342 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 8 maps, 3 tables, 3 graphs, index illustrations, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9089-1 $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1558-1 $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-2111-7 $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1948-0

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Death Is All around Us Women Made Visible Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Feminist Art and Media in Post- Porfirian Mexico City 1968 Mexico City Jonathan M. Weber Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Death Is All around Us examines how Mexican Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves state officials tried to resolve public health Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisci- dilemmas facing the capital city. To this end plinary lens to analyze the fundamental and the government used new forms of technology overlooked role played by artists and feminist and scientific knowledge to deal with the thou- activists in changing the ways female bodies sands of unidentified and unburied corpses were viewed and appropriated. Through their found in hospital morgues, cemeteries, and concern for self-representation (both visually on the streets. Jonathan M. Weber explores and in formal politics), these women played a how the state’s attempts to exert control over crucial role in transforming existing regimes procedures of death and burial became a of media and visuality—increasingly import- powerful weapon for controlling the behavior ant intellectual spheres of action. Aceves of its citizens. Sepúlveda demonstrates that these women “Weber goes beyond monolithic studies of an feminized Mexico’s mediascapes and shaped oppressive dictatorship. Rather, he creatively the debates over the female body, gender assembles narratives culled from multiple difference, and sexual violence during the last archival sources demonstrating how burial decades of the twentieth century. practices, cemetery construction, cremation, “Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda brilliantly coffin design, and embalming advanced contrasts two primary sources that are not goals to create a modern, cosmopolitan, and normally read together: private artist archives hygienic citizen. An important contribution (and interviews with the artist-archivists) and to our understanding of Mexico City and the state security archives. The author’s deeply Porfiriato, Weber’s book furthers understand- researched—and theoretically and method- ings about the history of medicine, public ologically sophisticated—study will be an health, technology, and modernity.”—Heather extraordinary resource for this subfield of McCrea, author of Diseased Relations: Epi- video art and experimental film in Mexico.” demics, Public Health, and State-Building in —George Flaherty, author of Hotel Mexico: Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 Dwelling on the ’68 Movement 2019 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 13 illustra- 2019 • 408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 53 photographs, 9 illustra- tions, 3 maps, index tions, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8466-1 $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0203-1 $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1344-0 $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1324-2

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From Angel to Office Worker A Revolution Unfinished Middle-Class Identity and Female The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 of Revolutionary Democracy in Susie S. Porter Juchitán, Oaxaca 2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication Colby Ristow in Latin American Studies A Revolution Unfinished examines the mobi- To understand how office workers shaped mid- lization and subsequent repression of the dle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Chegomista Rebellion of 1911.

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY HISTORY AMERICAN LATIN Office Workerexamines the material conditions “A perceptive ‘micro-history’ that also tells us of women’s work and analyzes how women a great deal about the macro-history of the themselves reconfigured public debates over Mexican Revolution.”—Alan Knight, author their employment. of The Mexican Revolution “In this fine study Porter contributes to our 2018 • 312 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 illustrations, 5 tables, index understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0365-6 movement.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0782-1 Sex in Revolution 2018 • 372 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, 11 tables, 3 new in paperback graphs, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0421-9 The Heart in the Glass Jar $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0578-0 Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico Apostle of Progress William E. French Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, 2016 Thomas McGann Award for best publication and the Engineering of in Latin American Studies Revolutionary Mexico A history of love and courtship in Mexico, J. Justin Castro from the 1860s through the 1930s, based on An examination of the life of Modesto C. love letters preserved in legal cases involving Rolland, a talented engineer who helped build courtship. modern Mexico by implementing liberal ideas “Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and to combat complex Mexican realities after the accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally revolution. well suited to graduate seminars and under- “Thoroughly researched and written in engag- graduate courses in Mexican history as well as ing prose, this work promises to be a wonderful specialized history and/or theory courses on addition to Mexican history courses at any love, courtship, gender relations, and the writ- level.”—M. C. Galván, Choice ten word.”—Robert M. Buffington,Historian 2018 • 318 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index 2019 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 38 photographs, 12 illustra- $25.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0639-8 tions, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1173-6 $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1174-3

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Landscapes of Inequity “Environmental injustice most often plays out of sight and mind. Landscapes of Inequity’s bril- Environmental Justice in the liant analysis helps ensure this can never hap- Andes-Amazon Region pen again. A must-read.”—Thomas E. Lovejoy, Edited and with an introduc- University Professor of Environmental Science tion by Nicholas A. Robins and and Policy at George Mason University Barbara J. Fraser “Landscapes of Inequity provides a sensitive and Landscapes of Inequity explores the environ- nuanced road map of the last thirty years of mental justice issues arising from the debate efforts to introduce new models of develop- over rights to resources and addresses funda- ment in Amazonia and is an unusually coherent mental questions that inform the debate in the collection for understanding the good the Andes and western Amazon basin. Landscapes bad and the ugly in the transformation of the of Inequity explores the issue from two inter- Latin American tropics.”—Susanna B. Hecht, locking perspectives: of indigenous peoples and professor at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, economic development in a global economy, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, and examining communities’ complex relationship professor of international history at the Grad- with local, national, and international political uate Institute for International Development, and economic powers that strongly influence Geneva, Switzerland their fate. July 2020 • 414 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 maps, 7 tables, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0802-6

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Soldiers of the Nation even cultural creativity rather than as a period Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, consumed by caudillismo, corruption, and 1868–1952 political fragmentation. . . . The book is tremen- dously successful.”—Fidel J. Tavárez, Harry Franqui-Rivera Journal of Interdisciplinary History An exploration of the military and political 2018 • 402 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 photograph, 14 illustrations, mobilization of popular sectors of Puerto 3 maps, 3 tables, index Rican society as the island transitioned from $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9074-7 Spanish to U.S. imperial rule. $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0548-3 “The book’s real contribution is to show how, with every war and military mobilization, the new in paperback United States and Puerto Rico wove a complex web of connections, agreements, and partic- The Sovereign Colony ipatory hierarchies. Franqui-Rivera helps us Olympic Sport, National Identity, and Inter- understand how the class contradictions that national Politics in Puerto Rico Puerto Rican men in the military brought to anticolonial politics helped seal Puerto Rico’s Antonio Sotomayor fate in the mid-twentieth century.” 2017 winner of the José Toribio Medina —Aldo Lauria-Santiago, professor of history Book Award at Rutgers University and author of To Rise in The Sovereign Colony explores the development Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory of the Olympic movement in Puerto Rico in the in El Salvador context of national and political identity. 2018 • 342 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 photographs, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7867-7 “Sotomayor gives undergraduate students and Studies in War, Society, and the Military specialists an authoritative compendium of Puerto Rico’s politics during a period when the territory was billed as a regional showcase for Crafting a Republic for the World the benefits of American power.”—American Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Historical Review Inventions of Colombia “An innovative approach to Puerto Rico's Lina del Castillo coloniality through the prism of sports. . . . This accessible account of Puerto Rican sport Examines how the vibrant postcolonial public provides a great introduction to the complex sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the issues of contemporary coloniality and will be Spanish colonial legacy and developed inno- an excellent addition to undergraduate collec- vative social sciences and geographic practices tions.”—B. A. Lucero, aimed at extirpating that legacy. Choice 2018 • 324 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 photographs, 2 illustrations, “This ambitious and invigorating book will 2 maps, 2 tables, index incite discussion for years to come. It sets an $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0638-1 important precedent for describing nine- teenth-century Latin America as a period of immense political, economic, scientific, and

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Geographies of Urban Female The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Labor and Nationhood in Modern Spain Spanish Culture, 1880–1975 Edited by Eduardo Olid Mar Soria Guerrero and Esther Fernández Foreword by Susan Doran Mar Soria presents an innovative cultural anal- ysis of female workers in Spanish literature and This volume explores the fictionalized, historical, films. Drawing from nation-building theories, and visual representations of Elizabeth I the work of feminist geographers Doreen and their impact on the Spanish collective Massey and Linda McDowell, and Michel imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Foucault’s and Julia Kristeva’s ideas about the Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pedro de Ribadeneira, construction of the marginal subject in society, Luis de Góngora, Cristóbal de Virués, Antonio Soria examines how working women were per- Coello, and Calderón de la Barca, among others, ceived as Other in Spain from 1880 to 1975. the contributors limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth’s physical appearance, private “Highly significant and unique. . . . This study life, personality, and reign. In doing so they certainly will make an important contribution articulate the various and sometimes conflicting to the field. To date no similar studies have so ways in which the Tudor monarch became both exhaustively addressed how the working woman the primary figure in English propaganda efforts became a pivotal and contested figure during against Spain and a central part of the Spanish Spain’s long and uneven path toward modern- political agenda. ization.”—Juli Highfill, author ofModernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde “Covering everything from images to plays, from and Material Culture, 1920–1930 works of political theory to popular poetry, these accessibly written and illuminating essays May 2020 reveal the ways this alternative Black Legend 360 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1766-0 was constructed and disseminated.”—Jan Machielsen, author of The Lion, the Witch, and the King 2019 • 420 pp. • 6 x 9 • 29 illustrations, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0844-6

NEW HISPANISMS ANNE J. CRUZ, SERIES EDITOR

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Nomad’s Land and paralleled the solidification of Western narratives condemning the pastoral tradition, Pastoralism and French Environmental leading to sometimes tragic outcomes for both Policy in the Nineteenth-Century the environment and pastoralists. Mediterranean World Andrea E. Duffy “In this succinct and lucidly written book, Andrea Duffy shows how French ideas about Andrea E. Duffy investigates the relationship forests provided ammunition for sustained between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism campaigns against herders, sheep, goats, and and nineteenth-century French forestry the pastoralist way of life in Mediterranean through case studies in Provence, French France, colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Ana- colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia. The tolia. An insightful and delightful addition to French government used forest management Mediterranean environmental history.”—J. R. policy to regulate both people and forests, with McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology forest science reflecting not only environ- and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 mental concerns but also French imperial ambitions. In this context French efforts to 2019 • 336 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 2 illustra- tions, 1 map, 2 tables, 2 graphs, index promote scientific forestry both internally and $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9097-6 abroad were intimately tied to empire building

FRANCE OVERSEAS Studies in Empire and Decolonization A. J. B. JOHNSTON, JAMES D. LE SUEUR, AND TYLER STOVALL, SERIES EDITORS This series explores France’s overseas colonies in both their colonial and postcolonial phases. By examining French colonial history in a global context, the series uncovers the importance of the French colonial experience in the creation of the modern world.

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Apostles of Empire new in paperback The Jesuits and New France Paradise Destroyed Bronwen McShea Catastrophe and Citizenship in the Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing French Caribbean research on the Jesuits, New France, and Christopher M. Church Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early 2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner modern French society, print culture, Catholi- cism, and imperialism. Bronwen McShea goes Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of beyond traditional discussions of the mission- natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of- aries’ transmission of religious beliefs and ritu- the-century French Caribbean, examining the als to Native American societies to examine the social, economic, and political implications Jesuits’ secular preoccupations, such as colonial of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. warfare and trade, and their efforts from both Environmental disasters brought to the fore sides of the Atlantic to build up a French and existing racial and social tensions and severely Catholic empire in North America through tested France’s ideological convictions of assim- significant indigenous cooperation. ilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France’s “old colonies” subscribed “One comes away from the book with a sense of to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the a lost world recovered and portrayed in loving sociopolitical and cultural struggles of the fin detail. McShea has done for early modern de siècle. North America and New France what Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State did for “Church’s study is a nuanced and rich addition the France of the thirteenth century. The result to a growing body of work that demonstrates is a triumph of the historian’s art.”—Adrian the relationship between nature- and human-in- Vermeule, America: The Jesuit Review duced disasters set against the backdrop of government management.”—Caroline Grego, “A meticulously researched, elegantly written, and precisely aimed salvo intended to demol- Environmental History ish some of historiography's most cherished “[Paradise Destroyed ] makes a significant myths about the Jesuits in North America.” historiographical intervention at the intersec- —Maru Dunn, Journal of Jesuit Studies tion of French colonial studies and environ- 2019 • 378 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index mental studies and should become a model for $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0890-3 future work in this area.”—Jeffrey H. Jackson, H-France Review 2019 • 324 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 9 illustrations, 5 maps, 9 tables, 15 graphs, index $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1392-1

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Colonial Suspects Franco-America in the Making Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial The Creole Nation Within WORLD HISTORY HISTORY WORLD Society in Interwar French West Africa Jonathan K. Gosnell Kathleen Keller A study of the manifestation and persistence Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, set up by the French government during the culinary, and media cultures in North America, twentieth century as France’s empire slipped particularly New England and southern into crisis. Louisiana. “Kathleen Keller offers a tightly framed account “Gosnell presents a wealth of information and of the efforts of the French imperial state to statistics on French institutions, organizations, maintain surveillance of individuals deemed and clubs, as well as giving the names and titles suspicious in French West Africa between of a diverse range of North American literature the world wars.”—Gregory Mann, American in French, including folktales from the tradi- Historical Review tions of Ti-Jean, Boudreau, and Br’er Rabbit. 2018 • 264 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, index His work will be of great interest to teachers of $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9691-6 French and to anyone interested in the French history of North America.”—Erika E. Hess, French Review Medical Imperialism in French 2018 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs, 5 illustrations, North Africa index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8527-9 Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis Richard C. Parks The Moroccan Soul An examination of the role of medicine and French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and science in French colonial regeneration policies Muslim Resistance, 1912–1956 within the North African Jewish community of Spencer D. Segalla French-colonial Tunisia. The Moroccan Soul is an innovative study of the “Adds much to our understanding of French French education system in colonial Morocco. colonial policies towards minority communities in colonial North Africa and of gender and “This clearly written book captures the elaborate crosscurrents of its history.”—David H. Slavin, empire in general.”—Nancy Gallagher, Journal of the History of Medicine American Historical Review 2017 • 216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 maps, index “Will offer much to both undergraduate and $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6845-6 graduate audiences. It should command the attention of all historians of empire and historians of education, and anyone interested in the modern construction and reconstruction of French and Moroccan identities.”—John Strachan, H-France 2018 • 340 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0214-7

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History on the Margins professor of history at the University of Texas People and Places in the Emergence of at Austin Modern France 2019 • 426 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 2 illustra- John Merriman tions, 1 appendix, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1771-4 This volume collects some of John Merriman's most notable and significant explorations of French history and culture. Black French Women and the “Leave it to John Merriman to treat us to his Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 personal and remarkable tour de France, which Edited and with an introduc- has taken him from Paris to Limoges to Perpig- tion by Félix Germain and nan to Balazuc and back. To join Merriman on Silyane Larcher his tour is to smell, touch, and taste the earthy Foreword by T. Denean terroir that has created Francophiles for gener- Sharpley-Whiting ations.”—James B. Collins, professor of history Black French Women and the Struggle for at Georgetown University Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black 2018 • 240 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index women in France, the French Caribbean, $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9589-6 Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis expe- rienced and reacted to French colonialism. new in paperback “This corpus of work importantly showcases the research of minority scholars and advances Daughters of 1968 the literature concerning gender and race Redefining French Feminism and the in francophone, colonial, and postcolonial Women’s Liberation Movement studies. Black French Women investigates Lisa Greenwald struggles for equality and provides a model for centering those struggles in academic work.” Lisa Greenwald demonstrates that the history —Sarah Zimmerman, Journal of of the French feminist movement is the history Interdisciplinary History of women’s claims to the individualism and citizenship that had been granted their male “In its interdisciplinary approach, its melding of counterparts, at least in principle, in 1789. colonial and postcolonial France and overseas France into one analytic field, it offers rich “‘Femininity and womanhood had long been possibilities for future research and theoriz- expressions of women’s power and the root of ing about black feminisms, resistance, and, their identity in French society,’ writes Lisa perhaps the single most contested political Greenwald. Her lively, smart, and thoroughly ideology in the world, equality.”—Brett A. researched book shows how those terms—and Berliner, H-France the power arrangements and identities they stood for—were revised, reinterpreted, and 2018 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index repudiated.”—Judith G. Coffin, associate $40.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0127-0 France Overseas

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Mussolini’s Children new in paperback Race and Elementary Education in Global Jewish Foodways Fascist Italy A History Eden K. McLean Edited and with an intro- Mussolini’s Children uses the lens of state-man- duction by Hasia R. Diner and dated youth culture to analyze the evolution of Simone Cinotto official racism in Fascist Italy. Foreword by Carlo Petrini “[An] extensively researched, clearly written, and An exploration of many facets of the history of Jewish food around the world in which carefully argued study.”—Maria Truglio, Journal Jews struggled with, embraced, modified, or of Modern Italian Studies rejected the foods and foodways that sur- “McLean’s book engages readers with an inno- rounded them, from Renaissance Italy to the vative approach and engaging narrative. It is post–World War II era in Israel, Argentina, highly recommended to those who seek a more and the United States. comprehensive understanding of Fascist racism and the evolution of elementary education “While kosher foods are widely known for during the Fascist regime.”—Stephanie De marking the Jewish people’s distinctiveness, this outstanding volume shows that food also Paola, H-Italy has been a historical source of connection 2018 • 348 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index between diasporic Jews and their gentile $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0642-8 neighbors around the world. An unrivaled mosaic of the rich, global diversity of Jewish new in paperback cuisines.”—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Opposing Jim Crow Faculty Scholar African Americans and the Soviet Indict- 2019 • 354 pp. • 6 x 9 • 15 photographs, 13 illustra- ment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 tions, index Meredith L. Roman $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1393-8 At Table Opposing Jim Crow examines the Soviet policy of antiracism from 1927 to 1937, during which leaders gained propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism and the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as U.S. citizens. “Well written and well argued.”—Randi Storch, Journal of Southern History 2019 • 320 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1812-4 Justice and Social Inquiry

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Women and Community in Medi- The Politics of Female Alliance in eval and Early Modern Iberia Early Modern England Edited and with an intro- Edited and with an introduc- duction by Michelle Armstrong- tion by Christina Luckyj and Partida, Alexandra Guerson, Niamh J. O’Leary and Dana Wessell Lightfoot 2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society Women and Community in Medieval and Early for the Study of Early Modern Women Modern Iberia draws on recent research to The essays comprising this collection identify, underscore the various ways Iberian women examine, and critically discuss political influenced and contributed to their communi- elements of female relations in literature from ties, engaging with a broader academic discus- the early modern period. Organized accord- sion of women’s agency and cultural impact in ing to female alliances within the spheres the Iberian peninsula. of domesticity, court life, and kinship, the “This well-conceived volume gathers and chapters highlight the political complexities fruitfully juxtaposes fresh material from many of female alliances in different literary genres sites and communities and provides an entrée and in both male- and female-authored works into the specialized research of a rich range of in early modern England. scholars. Many essays also suggest comparative “An excellent exploration of the ways that links to developments not only within Iberia politics—writ large—resonated and were rep- but beyond it. Altogether the collection makes resented in literary and dramatic productions a distinctive and valuable contribution to the in early modern England.”—Amanda Herbert, history of European women before 1700.” assistant director at the Folger Institute and —Elizabeth S. Cohen, coauthor of Daily Life in author of Female Alliances Renaissance Italy 2017 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index June 2020 • 312 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 tables, index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0199-7 $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0511-7

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD ALLYSON POSKA AND ABBY ZANGER, SERIES EDITORS

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Deza and Its Moriscos Producing Early Modern London Religion and Community in Early A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616 Modern Spain Kelly J. Stage Patrick J. O’Banion London comedies of the seventeenth century Deza and Its Moriscos reframes historiograph- used the city's places in their staging, but they ical debates about the so-called Morisco prob- simultaneously explored the properties of the lem, a defining crisis for early modern Spain city as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. by focusing on the lives and local context of Producing Early Modern London examines this a community that experienced it. Drawing era’s drama mediation of the tension between deeply on a diverse collection of archival representing place and producing urban space. material as well as early printed works, this In analyzing the theater’s use of city spaces and study illuminates internal conflicts, external city places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satir- pressures brought to bear by the Inquisition, ical comedies of the early seventeenth century the episcopacy, and the crown, and the possi- came to embody the city as the city embodied bilities and limitations of negotiated commu- the plays. nal life at the dawn of modernity. “Many of these case studies will be important “It’s not easy to piece together the information reading for future scholars looking to continue needed to make sense of Morisco life on the the work of mapping the territory of the city ground, but O’Banion has done it admirably comedy.”—Matteo Pangallo, Early Theatre well. Deza and Its Moriscos is a major contri- “Kelly Stage’s excellent and focused close reading bution to the field.”—Trevor J. Dadson, author of plays is characteristically insightful, com- of Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern pelling, and provocative while simultaneously Spain: Old Christians and Moriscos in the illustrating her key thesis about the existential Campo de Calatrava ‘dual gaze’ required by this specific genre of August 2020 • 396 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 maps, 5 family comedy.”—Steven Mullaney, author of The Ref- trees, index ormation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1672-4 2018 • 354 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0181-2

EARLY MODERN CULTURAL STUDIES CAROLE LEVIN AND MARGUERITE A. TASSI, SERIES EDITORS

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At the First Table Courage and Grief Food and Social Identity in Early Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War Modern Spain Mary Elizabeth Ailes Jodi Campbell Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced At the First Table provides a broad overview of fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s Spanish food customs and their connections destructive Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). to identity and social change in the sixteenth Focusing on the various roles women per- and seventeenth centuries, demonstrating the formed in the bloody and extended conflict, ways in which early modern Spaniards used Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods food as a mechanism for the performance of of warfare and Swedish society were changing social identity. People perceived themselves in profound ways. This study considers the and others as belonging to clearly defined cat- experiences of unmarried camp followers and egories of gender, status, age, occupation, and officers’ wives as well as peasant women who religion, and each of these categories carried remained in the countryside during times of certain assumptions about proper behavior and conflict and upheaval. appropriate relationships with others. “Ailes believes that her depiction of the Thirty “An immensely useful handbook that shows Years’ War calls for alternative and more clearly how food formed part of the web of comprehensive perspectives on war than those connections and divisions that structured this perspectives just focused on traditional battle- world.”—Rebecca Earle, Journal of Interdisci- fields. That call is easy to agree with.”—Maria plinary History Sjöberg, American Historical Review “Rich, nuanced. . . . Well written and clearly “As the author successfully argues, women’s organized, the book includes an extensive hard work, financial acumen, social networks, bibliography of recent Spanish-language and sometimes physical courage are essential to scholarship and will be of use to scholars in a explaining how Sweden, with a small popula- wide variety of fields. In paperback, affordable, tion and limited resources, emerged victorious and interesting, At the First Table’s focus on in what is often seen as the first ‘modern’ war.” food and identity would also work well to —M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Choice introduce undergraduate students to the rich 2018 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index complexities of early modern Spanish culture $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0086-0 and daily life.” —Grace E. Coolidge, Renais- sance Quarterly 2017 • 252 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9081-5

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Death at the Edges of Empire Friendly Enemies Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Soldier Fraternization throughout the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921 American Civil War Shannon Bontrager Lauren K. Thompson Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of Lauren K. Thompson analyzes the relations and death, burial, and commemoration of fallen fraternization of American soldiers on opposing American soldiers. By focusing on the Civil War, sides of the Civil War and argues that these the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philip- relations represented common soldiers’ efforts pine-American War, and World War I, to fight the war on their own terms.Friendly Bontrager produces a history of collective Enemies traces the evolution of fraternization memories of war expressed through American and reveals that despite different commanders, cultural traditions emerging within broader terrain, and outcomes on the battlefield, soldiers transatlantic and transpacific networks. Death constructed a space to lessen hostilities and at the Edges of Empire shows how Americans make their daily lives more manageable. imposed modern order on the inevitability of “This first study of fraternization during the death, as well as how they used the war dead to American Civil War reveals that the topic yields reimagine political identities and opportunities more than anecdotes to color campaign nar- into imperial ambitions. ratives—it provides much-needed insight into “Shannon Bontrager’s Death at the Edges of soldier resistance and survival, trade networks, Empire joins a list of other seminal works on war and veteran memory.”—Lorien Foote, author of and memory, such as Kristin Hass’s Carried to The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, the Wall. He shows the importance of culture and Manhood in the Union Army on shaping American narratives regarding war. August 2020 • 228 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 8 It is a very important addition to the literature. illustrations, index Highly recommended!”—Kyle Longley, author $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0245-1 of Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam February 2020 • 432 pp. • 6 x 9 • 28 photographs, 2 appendixes, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0184-3

STUDIES IN WAR, SOCIETY, AND THE MILITARY KARA DIXON VUIC AND RICHARD S. FOGARTY, SERIES EDITORS This series focuses on books in which military history is placed in a larger social and cultural con- text. The implications of war extend far beyond the battlefield, and the series seeks to engage per- spectives from the histories of gender, environment, technology, and politics, broadly construed.

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Remembering World War I On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger in America War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Remembering World War I in America explores Transition the American public’s collective memory Kenneth M. Swope and common perception of World War I by On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger examines the analyzing the extent to which it was expressed social and demographic effects of the Ming- through the production of cultural artifacts Qing transition on southwest China and the related to the war. Through the analysis of war devastation wrought by the warlord Zhang histories, memoirs, fiction, and film, Kimberly Xianzhong. Kenneth M. Swope traces the ongo- J. Lamay Licursi shows that no consistent ing contested memory of these events in China images or messages about the war arose that and considers their implications for understand- resonated with a significant segment of the ing modern China and conflicts elsewhere. American population. “Zhang Xianzhong, known as the butcher of “Furnishes some sound explanations for why Sichuan, is one of the most riveting—and America’s second experience with total war— frightening—figures in Chinese history, yet the Civil War being the first—one which saw no book in English has ever been published the nation making an indispensable contribu- on him. In this accessible and vivid study, Ken tion to victory and emerging as a global power, Swope assesses the history and legacy of this found so little purchase in the imagination infamous rebel leader, showing that his bloody of its citizens.”—Robert Teigrob, American reign was of signal importance in the emergence Historical Review of China’s last imperial dynasty. It belongs on “Provides a broad critique of the most signifi- the bookshelf of anyone interested in Qing cant American literary writings, pulp fiction, history or global military history.”—Tonio and movies about World War I produced Andrade, professor of history at Emory Univer- during the interwar years.”—Jeffery S. Under- sity and author of The Gunpowder Age wood, Journal of American History 2018 • 456 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 10 maps, 1 2018 • 294 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 4 illustrations, 4 tables, chronology, 3 appendixes, index 2 appendixes, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4995-0 $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9085-3

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An Unladylike Profession An Army in Crisis American Women War Correspondents Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in in World War I Germany, 1968–1975 Chris Dubbs Alexander Vazansky Foreword by Judy Woodruff Alexander Vazansky analyzes the social crisis Chris Dubbs tells the dramatic stories of more that developed among the U.S. Army forces than thirty women who traveled to Europe stationed in Germany between 1968 and 1975. to write about World War I for America’s news- This crisis was the result of shifting deployment papers and magazines. At a time when women patterns across the world during the Vietnam were still novelties in the newsroom, these War; changing social and political realities of journalists defied gender norms and official life in postwar Germany and Europe; and racial restrictions to establish a new role for them- tensions, drug use, dissent, and insubordination selves in reporting the greatest war in history. within the U.S. Army influenced by the civil “This superbly written book brings to life the rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the achievements and personalities of almost three youth movement in the States. With particular dozen women who challenged conventions and attention to 1968, Vazansky examines the sometimes risked their lives to report on the changing relationships between American and First World War. Each woman’s story is unique, German soldiers and the effects that a pro- and all of them are compelling.”—Edward G. longed military presence in Germany had on American military personnel, their dependents, Lengel, author of Never in Finer Company: The and the lives of Germans. Men of the Great War’s Lost Battalion “Dubbs tells his story with an unerring eye “Written with verve and sophistication, Vazan- for unforgettable anecdotes and dramatic sky’s book impressively traces the contours of situations, nicely balanced by careful attention the U.S. Army’s crisis of the long 1970s and to historical background. He is a master at situates it within the context of America’s distilling complex historical information into complex relationship with the Federal Republic readable and intelligent works for an audience of Germany.”—Adam R. Seipp, professor of of academics and non-academics alike.” history at Texas A&M University —Steven Trout, author of On the Battlefield of 2019 • 348 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index Memory: The First World War and American $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1519-2 Remembrance, 1919–1941 July 2020 • 336 pp. • 6 x 9 • 30 photographs, 4 maps, 1 appendix, index $34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-306-9

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Maryland, My Maryland The Ultimate Engineer Music and Patriotism during the The Remarkable Life of NASA’s American Civil War Visionary Leader George M. Low James A. Davis Richard Jurek Foreword by Gerald D. Griffin James A. Davis offers a thorough exploration of the contradictions underlying the Civil War The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer anthem “Maryland, My Maryland.” George M. Low’s remarkable life, accomplish- ments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader. “Davis gives us some useful and often insightful observations about life, society, and popular “It took four hundred thousand people for NASA culture during the war, and is at times quite to reach the moon, but one was absolutely amusing. Maryland, My Maryland is a good essential: a soft-spoken, brilliant engineer named read for anyone with an interest in the Home George Low. As this detailed, well-written Front during the war, or in American musical account reveals, from Apollo’s very conception to history, and, of course, in the still unfinished its recovery from tragedy to its historic triumphs, issues that brought about the war.”—A. A. Nofi, Low was Apollo’s essential man.” —Andrew Strategy Page Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon 2019 • 390 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 photographs, 22 illustra- 2019 • 344 pp. • 6 x 9 • 38 photographs, 1 appendix, tions, index index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1072-2 $32.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9955-9 Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight Unlikely Heroes The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Shattered Dreams Research and Teaching The Lost and Canceled Space Missions Edited by Ari Kohen and Colin Burgess Gerald J. Steinacher Foreword by Don Thomas Unlikely Heroes traces the evolution of the Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in and recollections of several men and women which historians, politicians, and filmmakers who were in line to fly a specific or future space have treated individual rescuers like Raoul mission but lost that opportunity due to personal Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. “An overdue and moving account of the almost-as- “An excellent resource for scholars and teachers. tronauts, a group of extraordinary people who . . . It offers new insights into well-known came tantalizingly close to leaving Earth and cases of rescue and encourages consideration seeing our planet from orbit. An important of lesser-known examples. It also provides an contribution to the history of human space excellent set of resources for teachers to reflect exploration.”—Robert Pearlman, space historian on their own practices.”—Dominic Williams, and editor of collectSPACE.com Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at 2019 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 4 tables, the University of Leeds index $32.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0675-6 2019 • 270 pp. • 6 x 9 • 19 photographs, 2 maps, 1 Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight table, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0892-7 Contemporary Holocaust Studies nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com 35 ORDER FORM To receive a 40% discount on the books in this catalog: 1. Visit nebraskapress.unl.edu and enter discount code 6HT20 in the shopping cart or 2. Call our customer service number below and mention source code 6HT20 or 3. Complete the order form below and send it to the address below. University of Nebraska Press Email: [email protected] c/o Longleaf Services, Inc. Online: nebraskapress.unl.edu 116 S. Boundary Street Order by phone: 800-848-6224 or 919-966-7449 Chapel Hill, nc 27514-3808 Order by fax: 800-272-6817

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