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NOW AVAILABLE . . . The official journal of the App Society of Civil War Historians everything you love, plus a lot more! journalofthecivilwarera.com african american history Ku-Klux Liberated Threads The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of ELAINE FRANTZ PARSONS Soul TANISHA C. FORD The first comprehensive examination of the nine- From the civil rights and teenth-century Ku-Klux Klan Black Power era of the 1960s since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pin- through antiapartheid activism points the group’s rise with in the 1980s and beyond, black startling acuity. Historians have women have used their cloth- traced the origins of the Klan to ing, hair, and style not simply Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but as a fashion statement but as the details behind the group's a powerful tool of resistance. emergence have long remained Whether using stiletto heels shadowy. By parsing the ear- as weapons to protect against liest descriptions of the Klan, police attacks or incorporat- Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals ing African-themed designs that it was only as reports of into everyday wear, these the Tennessee Klan’s mysterious and menacing activities fashion-forward women cel- began circulating in northern newspapers that whites ebrated their identities and pushed for equality. In this enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout thought-provoking book, Tanisha C. Ford explores how the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately con- and why black women in places as far-flung as New York nected with the politics and mass media of the North. City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism. Elaine Frantz Parsons is associate professor of history at Duquesne University. Tanisha C. Ford is assistant professor of women, gender, and “This is the first book to really apply cultural history to the sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. questions that historians of Reconstruction have been asking Gender and American Culture for a long time. This is a great, groundbreaking work that will clearly be a major milestone in the study of Reconstruction and “This book skillfully weaves together black women's political the history of the Klan.” culture, fashion, and transnational cultural exchange, empha- —Bruce Baker, Newcastle University sizing the complexities of soul style. Ford’s wonderful prose brings her sources to life. A stellar achievement.” “Exciting, impeccably researched, and much-needed, Parsons' —Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University book goes far beyond providing a social or political history of the organization, and examines the Klan as a complex, cultural “Liberated Threads is innovative, impeccably researched, and phenomenon that carried social and political force through bound to make a significant contribution to scholarly under- the cultural meanings that it conveyed and that were imposed standings of black beauty, fashion, and politics. In exploring upon it.” the soul of style, Tanisha C. Ford offers a rare and much need- —Amy Wood, Illinois State University ed window into the activism and experiences of black women January 2016 in the United States and abroad.” 978-1-4696-2542-3 $34.95 Cloth —Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware 400 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 4 figs, notes, bibl., index October 2015 978-1-4696-2515-7 $29.95 Cloth 272 pp., 5.5 x 8, 26 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 1 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history Florynce “Flo” Kennedy Unjust Deeds The Life of a Black Feminist Radical The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making SHERIE M. RANDOLPH of the Civil Rights Movement JEFFREY D. GONDA Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle In 1945, six African finger held defiantly in the air, American families from St. Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916– Louis, Detroit, and Washington, 2000) left a vibrant legacy as a D.C., began a desperate fight leader of the Black Power and to keep their homes. Unjust feminist movements. In the Deeds explores the origins and first biography of Kennedy, complex legacies of their dra- Sherie M. Randolph traces the matic campaign, culminating life and political influence of in a landmark Supreme Court this strikingly bold and contro- victory in Shelley v. Kraemer versial radical activist. (1948). Restoring this story to Sherie M. Randolph is its proper place in the history associate professor of history and African American Studies at the of the black freedom struggle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jeffrey D. Gonda’s ground- breaking study provides a critical vantage point to the Gender and American Culture simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions “Florynce Kennedy is one of the founders of modern feminism, of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new yet too few people now know her spirit and words, her coura- understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow geous and outrageous example. I was lucky to have her as a in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America. teacher and friend. You will be, too, once you meet her in the pages of Sherie M. Randolph’s welcome and important biogra- Jeffrey D. Gonda is assistant professor of history in phy.” the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse —Gloria Steinem University.

“Florynce “Flo” Kennedy absolutely shatters any notion that Justice, Power, and Politics African American women came to feminism after white women. Sherie M. Randolph’s biography of Flo Kennedy forces us to “The time is more than ripe for a new look at restrictive cove- rethink civil rights, Black Power, and feminist history. A fasci- nant litigation, and Unjust Deeds is invaluable in this regard. nating and revolutionary book.” With top-rate scholarship and original treatment, this is an —Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, author of Common important new work. It's definitely among the top books on Sense and a Little Fire legal civil rights history from the past decade.” —Susan Carle, American University Washington College of Law “A tour de force: thoroughly researched, well-written, and com- October 2015 pelling. Randolph's analysis of the life of the flamboyant and fierce Flo Kennedy challenges many popular notions about 978-1-4696-2545-4 $34.95 Cloth both the Black Power and the women’s movements.” 312 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index —Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement October 2015 978-1-4696-2391-7 $30.00 Cloth 328 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index Most UNC Press books are available as BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 2 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history In Love and Struggle Robert Parris Moses The Revolutionary Lives of James and A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grace Lee Boggs Grassroots STEPHEN M. WARD LAURA VISSER-MAESSEN

James Boggs (1919-1993) One of the most influential and Grace Lee Boggs (1915- leaders in the civil rights move- 2015) were two largely unsung ment, Robert Parris Moses was but critically important figures essential in making Mississippi in the black freedom struggle. a central battleground state James Boggs was the son of an in the fight for voting rights. Alabama sharecropper who As a leader of the Student came to Detroit during the Nonviolent Coordinating Great Migration, becoming an Committee (SNCC), Moses automobile worker and a union presented himself as a mere leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese facilitator of grassroots activism American scholar who studied rather than a charismatic fig- Hegel, worked with Caribbean ure like Martin Luther King Jr. political theorist C. L. R. James, Examining the dilemmas of a and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American leader who worked to cultivate local leadership, historian revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influen- Laura Visser-Maessen explores the intellectual underpin- tial in the early stages of what would become the Black nings of Moses’s strategy, its achievements, and its strug- Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for gles. labor and urban struggles during one of the most active is assistant professor in American social movement periods in modern U.S. history. Stephen Laura Visser-Maessen studies at Utrecht University. Ward details both the personal and the political dimen- sions of the Boggses’ lives, highlighting the vital contribu- "A brilliant assessment of the complexities of social movement tions these two figures made to black activist thinking. leadership. Visser-Maessen superbly explores the story of how a leader helped to shape the civil rights movement without Stephen Ward is associate professor of Afroamerican and imposing his own will, and by encouraging grassroots activists African studies at the University of Michigan. to make their own decisions.” —William H. Chafe, author of Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and Justice, Power, and Politics the Politics of the Personal “This fascinating biography examines the intellectual founda- “Laura Visser-Maessen has written a deeply researched, tions of Black Power, labor, and urban struggles for equality thoughtful study on one of the most compelling figures of the through the lives of two estimable but understudied figures: civil rights movement. Her account presents the most complex James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs. The lovely thing about this and accurate portrayal of Bob Moses and makes a great con- book is that readers are privy not only to the personal stories tribution to the literature by trying to reconcile his impact with of the Boggses, but also to a multilayered narrative that chal- the inherent contradictions of his leadership style.” lenges us to think broadly about people’s political and emo- —Chris Myers Asch, University of the District of Columbia tional journeys into activism.” May 2016 —Rhonda Y. Williams, author of Concrete Demands: The 978-1-4696-2798-4 $35.00 Cloth Search for Black Power in the 20th Century 456 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 map, appends., notes, bibl., August 2016 index 978-0-8078-3520-3 $39.95 Cloth 432 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 3 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare The Wilmington Ten A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of South Carolina Black Politics in the 1970s SEAN M. KELLEY KENNETH ROBERT JANKEN

From 1754 to 1755, the slave In February 1971, racial ship Hare completed a journey tension surrounding school from Newport, Rhode Island, desegregation in Wilmington, to Sierra Leone and back to the North Carolina, culminated in United States—a journey that four days of violence and skir- transformed more than seven- mishes between white vigilantes ty Africans into commodities, and black residents. The tur- condemning some to death moil resulted in two deaths, six and the rest to a life of bond- injuries, more than $500,000 in age in North America. In this damage, and the firebombing of engaging narrative, Sean Kelley a white-owned store, before the painstakingly reconstructs this National Guard restored uneasy tumultuous voyage, detailing peace. Despite glaring irregu- everything from the identities larities in the subsequent trial, of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in A powerful movement arose within North Carolina and South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley beyond to demand their freedom, and after several wit- provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and nesses admitted to perjury, a federal appeals court, also cit- sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence ing prosecutorial misconduct, overturned the convictions on the formation of African American culture. in 1980. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power is senior lecturer in history at the University Sean M. Kelley and the transformation of post–Civil Rights era political of Essex. organizing. “Sean Kelley successfully explores a single ship and its forced migration of Africans to South Carolina as a means to under- Kenneth Janken is professor of African American and stand slavery and the reduction of Africans to a life of bondage Diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in North America. The book adds to the tradition of works that and director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South. attempt to break the silence about the individual lived experi- “Kenneth Janken’s unraveling of the tangled skein of one legal ences of ‘slaves’ who came from Africa. The scholarship here is miscarriage of justice after another gives this work a cumula- impeccable.” tive and damning force. A riveting and important study of injus- —Paul Lovejoy, York University tice in the modern South, Janken’s work is especially import- “Sean Kelley uses a single voyage to re-create the experience ant because he situates an engaging legal history against a of the slave trade for the 200 or so blacks and whites direct- fascinating backdrop of local, national, and even international ly affected by this transatlantic venture on a small sloop. politics. This is an unflinching work of history that makes a tre- Incredibly, in this intensive study of the Hare, Kelley is able to mendously important contribution.” keep the big picture and the context clear on every page. A —David Carter, Auburn University wide range of readers will draw on this book, as it is one of the “Kenneth Janken provides us unique insights into one of the very few successful microhistories in any field.” many violent battles in America’s misrepresented racial war of —David Eltis, Emory University the 1960s and 1970s—a war that has quieted but not ended.” May 2016 —John Sayles, director of Matewan and author of A Moment in 978-1-4696-2768-7 $30.00 Cloth the Sun 304 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 12 tables, appends., January 2016 notes, bibl., index 978-1-4696-2483-9 $30.00 Cloth 256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 4 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history Not Straight, Not White A Chance for Change Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom the AIDS Crisis Struggle KEVIN MUMFORD CRYSTAL R. SANDERS

This compelling book In this innovative study, recounts the history of black Crystal Sanders explores how gay men from the 1950s to the working-class black women, 1990s, tracing how the major in collaboration with the fed- movements of the times—from eral government, created the civil rights to black power to Child Development Group of gay liberation to AIDS activ- Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, ism—helped shape the cul- a Head Start program that not tural stigmas that surrounded only gave poor black children race and homosexuality. In access to early childhood edu- locating the rise of black gay cation but also provided black identities in historical con- women with greater opportuni- text, Kevin Mumford explores ties for political activism during how activists, performers, and a crucial time in the unfolding writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual of the civil rights movement. objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists—from James Baldwin and Crystal R. Sanders is assistant professor of history and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fitzgerald—Mumford analyzes the ways in which move- The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and ments for social change both inspired and marginalized Culture black gay men. “A Chance for Change tells an important part of the history Kevin J. Mumford is professor of history at the University of of the struggle for racial equality in Mississippi, as well as Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. the political evolution of a Deep South state. Extensively researched, the book makes a signal contribution to the The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and study of the modern civil rights movement, the 1960s, African Culture American studies, educational studies, poverty studies, wom- en’s studies, and the modern South.” “Not Straight, Not White is a landmark book that adds a differ- —Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Oxford College at Emory ent voice, approach, and substa nce to the field of black queer University studies. A joy to read, this astonishing and refreshing book is sure to be read closely, lauded, and debated.” “An extraordinary work, rich and revealing, A Chance for Change —Marlon Ross, University of Virginia challenges common assumptions about what the movement March 2016 was. I doubt any work on the struggle captures the process of individual transformation as vividly as this one does. At the 978-1-4696-2684-0 $32.95 Cloth same time, knowing that CDGM lost support because it was 272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, notes, bibl., index too successful changes our conceptions of what the War on Poverty might have been.” —Charles M. Payne, author of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom April 2016 978-1-4696-2780-9 $27.95 Paper Most UNC Press books are available as 266 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 23 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 5 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history Beyond Integration Charleston in Black and White The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Florida, 1960-1980 Movement J. MICHAEL BUTLER STEVE ESTES

In 1975, Florida’s Escambia Once one of the wealthiest County and the city of cities in America, Charleston, Pensacola experienced a South Carolina, established pernicious chain of events. a society built on the racial A sheriff's deputy killed a hierarchies of slavery and young black man at point- segregation. By the 1970s, the blank range. Months of pro- legal structures behind these tests against police brutality racial divisions had broken followed, culminating in the down and the wealth built arrest and conviction of the upon them faded. Like many Reverend H. K. Matthews, the southern cities, Charleston leading civil rights organizer in had to construct a new public the county. Viewing the events image. In this important book, of Escambia County within the Steve Estes chronicles the rise context of the broader civil rights movement, J. Michael and fall of black political empowerment and examines the Butler demonstrates that while activism of the previous ways Charleston responded to the civil rights movement, decade destroyed most visible and dramatic signs of racial embracing some changes and resisting others. segregation, institutionalized forms of cultural racism still persisted. Steve Estes is professor of history at Sonoma State University and author of I AM a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights J. Michael Butler is associate professor of history at Flagler Movement and Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. College. “There are a number of books that explore the conservative “An important topic and valuable study, J. Michael Butler’s work reaction to the civil rights movement and the rise of the offers insight into aspects of the civil rights movement that Republican South and modern rights; Steve Estes’s brilliantly have not yet had this kind of attention. Clear and focused, written Charleston in Black and White complicates that story. Beyond Integration makes an important contribution to our Once again, we see how a local case study can provide the knowledge about the movement outside the spotlight and the ‘yes, but’ story that illustrates the complexity of social trends challenges African Americans faced in influencing public policy often painted with too broad a brush.” when they were an electoral minority.” —Tracy K’Meyer, University of Louisville —Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo “Steve Estes brings to life fascinating characters and important “Beyond Integration does a superb job of using the civil rights changing dynamics in racial politics in Charleston since the movement in Pensacola, Florida, to tell larger truths about 1960s. Charleston in Black and White is an illuminating book United States history. Arguing that the ‘long civil rights move- that suggests new ways of thinking about complex issues of ment’ endured far beyond standard periodization, Butler continuity and change in the closing decades of the twenti- likewise demonstrates that ‘white resistance’ to the fragile eth-century South.” gains of the civil rights movement in the Deep South was far —Joseph Crespino, Emory University more robust, long-lasting and multifaceted than historians September 2015 have generally argued. Beyond Integration will make an imme- 978-1-4696-2232-3 $29.95 Cloth diate impact on debates over change and continuity in the 232 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index civil rights movement as well as the nagging persistence of inequality in American life.” —Paul Ortiz, University of Florida May 2016 978-1-4696-2747-2 $32.95 Paper 346 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 10 figs., 1 tables, notes, bibl., index For more great books in American History, visit www.uncpress.unc.edu.

40% off use code 01DAH40 6 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history No Mercy Here A Refugee from His Race Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Modernity Supremacy SARAH HALEY CAROLYN L. KARCHER

In the late nineteenth During one of the darkest and early twentieth centuries periods of U.S. history, when imprisoned black women faced white supremacy was entrench- wrenching forms of gendered ing itself throughout the nation, racial terror and heinous struc- the white writer-jurist-activist tures of economic exploitation. Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) Subjugated as convict laborers forged an extraordinary alliance and forced to serve addition- with African Americans. Here, al time as domestic work- Carolyn L. Karcher provides ers before they were allowed the first in-depth account of their freedom, black women this collaboration. Drawing on faced a pitiless system of vio- Tourgée’s vast correspondence lence, terror, and debasement. with African American intel- Drawing upon black feminist lectuals, activists, and ordinary criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah folk, on African American newspapers, and on his news- Haley uncovers imprisoned women’s brutalization in local, paper column, “A Bystander’s Notes,” in which he quoted county, and state convict labor systems, while also illumi- and replied to letters from his correspondents, the book nating the prisoners’ acts of resistance and sabotage, chal- also captures the lively dialogue about race that Tourgée lenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and and his contemporaries carried on. offering alternative conceptions of social and political life. Carolyn L. Karcher is the author of The First Woman in the Sarah Haley is assistant professor of gender studies and Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child and the editor African American studies at the University of California, Los of Tourgee’s novel Bricks Without Straw. Angeles. “A Refugee from His Race unfolds the meaning of Albion Tourgée before and beyond his role in Plessy v. Ferguson. Justice, Power, and Politics With painstaking attention to abundant nineteenth-century “This fascinating book is a chilling reminder of the relationship sources, Carolyn L. Karcher brilliantly laces together Tourgée’s between Jim Crow modernity and gendered violence against cross-racial work and cultural activism with that of his African black women in the carceral South. Haley expands our under- American compatriots—Charles Chesnutt, T. Thomas Fortune, standing of racialized labor exploitation and the myriad dismal Ida B. Wells, and more—to provide a compelling, even-hand- prison conditions overall.” ed, and over-arching panorama of social justice in the 1890s. —Cheryl D. Hicks, UNC Charlotte Focusing on the white Tourgée’s empathy, advocacy, and writ- April 2016 ings as a way of accessing often-contentious civic alliances and blurred societal transformations during a volatile period in 978-1-4696-2759-5 $34.95 Cloth U.S. race relations, Karcher presents a brave model of vision- 360 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 2 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index ary political stances that speak directly to ongoing racial chal- lenges and inequities today.” —Thadious M. Davis, author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature May 2016 978-1-4696-2795-3 $34.95 Paper 464 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 7 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 african american history Heading South to Teach Seeds of Empire The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845 Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the KIM TOLLEY Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 ANDREW J. TORGET Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many Seeds of Empire tells the teachers to venture south across remarkable story of how the the Mason-Dixon line in the cotton revolution of the early Second Great Awakening. From nineteenth century trans- 1815 to 1841, she kept journals formed northeastern Mexico about her career, family life, into the western edge of the and encounters with slavery. United States, and how the rise Drawing on these journals and and spectacular collapse of the hundreds of other documents, Republic of Texas as a nation Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's built on cotton and slavery life to explore the significance proved to be a blueprint for the of education in transforming Confederacy of the 1860s. American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, Andrew J. Torget is assistant professor of history at the University educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for of North Texas. economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History Kim Tolley is professor of education at Notre Dame de Namur University and author of The Science Education of American Girls. Published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center “Kim Tolley is a brilliant social historian. Here, she ventures far for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, beyond Hutchison's diary to find details and build a deep con- Texas text, searching local newspapers, combing census returns and “Seeds of Empire is a masterfully researched, elegantly written, church records, and exhausting every other source that would and intellectually sophisticated study of the forces that shaped reveal aspects of Hutchison's life. Tolley works in a number of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands during the first half of the nine- fields in this book and makes fascinating contributions to all teenth century. Andrew Torget has written a fine and important of them.” book.” —Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia —Gregg Cantrell, author of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of “Heading South to Teach vividly and effectively brings Susan Texas Nye Hutchison’s career, communities, and writings to life in an September 2015 engaging fashion, shedding new light on women’s religious, 978-1-4696-2424-2 $34.95 Cloth educational, professional, marital, and communal experiences 368 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 20 halftones, 3 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, in nineteenth-century America.” appends., notes, bibl., index —Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University October 2015 978-1-4696-2433-4 $29.95 Paper 278 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones, 4 tables, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 8 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 civil war Cold Harbor to the Crater The Free State of Jones, The End of the Overland Campaign Movie Edition EDITED BY GARY W. GALLAGHER AND Mississippi’s Longest Civil War CAROLINE E. JANNEY VICTORIA E. BYNUM With a New Afterword by the Author Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Piercing through the myths Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and that have shrouded the “Free Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the State of Jones,” Victoria Bynum transition between the Overland uncovers the fascinating true campaign—a remarkable saga history of this Mississippi of maneuvering and brutal Unionist stronghold, wide- combat—and what became a ly believed to have seceded grueling siege of Petersburg from the Confederacy, and the that many months later com- mixed-race community that pelled Confederates to abandon evolved there. She shows how Richmond. Although many the legend—what was told, historians have marked Grant’s what was embellished, and what crossing of the James River on was left out—reveals a great June 12–15 as the close of the Overland campaign, this deal about the South’s transition volume interprets the fighting from Cold Harbor on June from slavery to segregation the racial, gender, and class 1–3 through the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last politics of the period and the contingent nature of history phase of an operation that could have ended without a and memory. In a new afterword, Bynum updates readers prolonged siege. on the recent scholarship, the current issues of race and Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the Southern heritage, and the coming movie that make this History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. Civil War story essential reading. Caroline E. Janney is professor of history at Purdue University. Victoria E. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Military Campaigns of the Civil War history at Texas State University. “The eagerly anticipated Cold Harbor to the Crater was worth “An important book that may cause historians who are skeptical the wait. It provides insightful analysis of the significant bat- about putting too much stress on an ‘inner’ Civil War to rethink tles, the home front, leadership, and common soldier experi- their position.” ences, all while noting the connections between these themes —American Historical Review and linking them to the larger issues of the Civil War era. This “Bynum is to be saluted not only for her profound scholarship volume is superb.” but for her evenhanded accounts of matters that remain vola- —Susannah J. Ural, University of Southern Mississippi tile and controversial. . . . [This] book should be praised as an “Filled with impressive research and superb writing, Cold original and cogent piece of scholarship on a devilishly compli- Harbor to the Crater provides wholly new perspectives on cated and demanding subject.” Grant's Overland campaign and stands as a vital contribution —Washington Times to our understanding of the Civil War.” January 2016 —Steven E. Woodworth, Texas Christian University 978-1-4696-2705-2 $18.00 Paper September 2015 352 pp., 5.75 x 9.25, 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables, appends., 978-1-4696-2533-1 $35.00 Cloth notes, bibl., index 360 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 31 halftones, 5 maps, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 9 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 civil war Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery The World the Civil War Made The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the EDITED BY GREGORY P. DOWNS AND KATE MASUR Struggle to Save the Union DANIEL W. CROFTS At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the mil- In this landmark book, itary conflict that began in Daniel Crofts examines a lit- South Carolina and was fought tle-known episode in the most largely east of the Mississippi celebrated aspect of Abraham River had changed the politics, Lincoln’s life: his role as the policy, and daily life of the “Great Emancipator.” Lincoln entire nation. In an expansive always hated slavery, but he reimagining of post–Civil War also believed it to be legal America, the essays in this where it already existed, and volume explore these profound he never imagined fighting a changes not only in the South war to end it. In 1861, as part but also in the Southwest, in of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Great Plains, and abroad. the Union and prevent war, the new president even offered to Gregory P. Downs is associate professor of history at University of California, Davis. accept a constitutional amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the slave states. Lincoln Kate Masur is associate professor of history at Northwestern made this key overture in his first inaugural address. University.

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40% off use code 01DAH40 10 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 civil war Tales from the Haunted South Bonds of Union Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Civil War Era Borderland TIYA MILES BRIDGET FORD

In this book Tiya Miles This vivid history of the explores the popular yet trou- Civil War era reveals how bling phenomenon of “ghost unexpected bonds of union tours,” frequently promoted forged among diverse peoples and experienced at plantations, in the Ohio-Kentucky border- urban manor homes, and cem- lands furthered emancipation eteries throughout the South. through a period of spiraling As a staple of the tours, guides chaos between 1830 and 1865. entertain paying customers Moving beyond familiar argu- by routinely relying on stories ments about Lincoln’s deft of enslaved black specters. politics or regional commercial But who are these ghosts? ties, Bridget Ford recovers the Examining popular sites and potent religious, racial, and stories from these tours, Miles political attachments holding shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew the country together at one of its most likely breaking African American history to produce representations of points, the Ohio River. slavery for commercial gain. In an incisive and engaging Bridget Ford is associate professor of history at California work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on State University, East Bay. how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us. Civil War America “In a sweeping tour of the Ohio River Valley, Bridget Ford fur- is Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor at the Tiya Miles nishes an appealing and ingenious interpretation of the ante- University of Michigan. bellum and Civil War eras. This fresh, original analysis of the The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era conflicts and compromises that brought on and then ended the Civil War is presented in graceful prose, informed by perceptive “In her captivating exploration of southern ghost tours, Tiya readings of diverse texts, and enlivened with striking vignettes Miles shows how spirits act as guides to a troubled American of individual figures.” past and how they continue to raise the specter of slavery —Robert Gross, University of Connecticut today. This absorbing book confirms that no matter how hard we try, we can’t quite keep the past buried like we used to.” “A richly rewarding and fascinating book that provides a fresh —Stephen Berry, University of Georgia perspective on the complicated connections between Ohio and Kentucky as a Civil War borderland during a time of great sec- “Investigating southern fright culture, Tiya Miles uncovers the tional tension and strife. Original insights and nuanced obser- connections between antebellum nostalgia, African American vations appear on almost every page—this is cultural history history, and mystical ideas about slavery. Stories of Voodoo at its finest.” queens and scorned lovers fuel this dark-tourist industry, while —Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine the author sets the record straight. Readers will find it impos- March 2016 sible to put this book down.” 978-1-4696-2622-2 $45.00 Cloth —Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin 424 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 halftone, notes, bibl., index October 2015 978-1-4696-2633-8 $24.95 Cloth 176 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 11 halftones, notes, index

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Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern A Place Called Appomattox Mountains Community at the Crossroads of History STEVEN E. NASH WILLIAM MARVEL

Steven E. Nash chronicles Although Appomattox the history of Reconstruction Court House is one of the most as it unfolded in the mountains symbolically charged places in of western North Carolina. America, it was an ordinary Nash presents a complex story tobacco-growing village both of the region’s grappling with before and after an accident of the war’s aftermath, examining fate brought the armies of Lee the persistent wartime loyal- and Grant together there. It is ties that informed bitter power that Appomattox—the typical struggles between factions of small Confederate town—that white mountaineers determined William Marvel portrays in this to rule. For a brief period, an deeply researched, compelling influx of federal governmental study. He tells the story of the power enabled white anti-Con- Civil War from the perspective federates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the of one of the conflict’s most famous sites. Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a ’s many books include Lincoln’s Autocrat, whole. Republican success led to a violent response from William Marvel Andersonville: The Last Depot, Lincoln’s Darkest Year, and a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legiti- Tarnished Victory. macy from the antebellum period while pushing for great- er integration into the market-oriented New South. Civil War America Steven E. Nash is assistant professor of history at East “Thanks to Marvel’s treatment, we have an even better appre- Tennessee State University. ciation of the significance of Appomattox beyond its common perception today.” Civil War America —Civil War News “In his compelling book, Steven E. Nash explores the rich com- “Marvel’s elegantly written book offers scholars valuable evi- plexity of western North Carolina’s Reconstruction politics, dence about antebellum, wartime, and Reconstruction Virginia offering new insights and evidence while challenging—and by interweaving the actions and perspectives of soldiers and correcting—previous historical misconceptions about the civilians over nearly eighty years in this ‘place.’” unfolding of Reconstruction in the mountain South.” —Civil War History —Aaron Astor, Maryville College “This is local history at its best.” “This deeply researched study challenges our traditional under- —North & South standing of Reconstruction. Steven E. Nash demonstrates that March 2016 a biracial, class-based political alliance was possible in the 978-1-4696-2839-4 $26.00 Cloth Appalachian highlands and that the elite could only return to 416 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 59 illus., 7 maps, notes, bibl., index power through economic coercion and violence. An insightful and impressive work.” —Gordon McKinney, Berea College April 2016 978-1-4696-2624-6 $39.95 Cloth Most UNC Press books are available as 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 3 maps, 3 tables, notes, bibl., index BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 12 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 early america The Common Cause Boy Soldiers of the American Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution Revolution CAROLINE COX ROBERT G. PARKINSON Foreword by Robert Middlekauff

When the Revolutionary Between 1819 and 1845, as War began, the odds of a unit- veterans of the Revolutionary ed, continental effort to resist War were filing applications the British seemed nearly to receive pensions for their impossible. Few on either side service, the government was of the Atlantic expected thir- surprised to learn that many teen colonies to stick together of the soldiers were not men, in a war against their cultural but boys, many of whom were cousins. In this pathbreaking under the age of sixteen, and book, Robert Parkinson argues some even as young as nine. In that to unify the patriot side, Boy Soldiers of the American political and communications Revolution, Caroline Cox leaders linked British tyranny reconstructs the lives and sto- to colonial prejudices, stereo- ries of this young subset of types, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, to join the army and what they actually did in service. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators Giving us a rich and unique glimpse into colonial child- broadcast stories of British agents inciting African hood, Cox traces the evolution of youth in American cul- Americans and Indians to take up arms against the ture in the late eighteenth century, as the accepted age for American rebellion. Using rhetoric like “domestic insur- children to participate meaningfully in society—not only rectionists” and “merciless savages,” the founding fathers in the military—was rising dramatically. rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. Caroline Cox (1954-2014) was professor of history at the University of the Pacific and author of A Proper Sense of Honor: Robert G. Parkinson is assistant professor of history at Service and Sacrifice in George Washington’s Army. Binghamton University. “Vividly re-creating both the lived experience and shifting cul- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History tural significance of boy soldiers, Caroline Cox offers a rich and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia account of what military service meant to boys and those around them. Persuasive and effective, this book will become “The field of the American Revolution has not seen many the standard work on boy soldiers in the eighteenth and early game-changing books in the twenty-first century, but this is nineteenth centuries.” one. Political history meets military history meets cultural —Corinne T. Field, University of Virginia history here in an argument about both the nature of the Revolutionary War and the emerging U.S. political culture. “Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution explores, both nar- The narrative integrates white fears of native Americans and ratively and analytically, questions surrounding the service of African Americans into the story, explaining what happened boys in the Continental army during the Revolutionary period. between 1775 and 1783 with tremendous implications for the The stories are wonderful, and they leap out of the chapters to future of the nation.” help make the period come alive. This book is a testament to —David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, City University of Cox’s prowess as a scholar.” New York —Holly Brewer, University of Maryland June 2016 April 2016 978-1-4696-2663-5 $45.00 Cloth 978-1-4696-2753-3 $29.95 Cloth 768 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 32 tables, 232 pp., 6.125 x 9.25 notes, index

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Selling Empire Atlantic Africa and the Spanish India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600- Caribbean, 1570-1640 1830 DAVID WHEAT JONATHAN EACOTT This work resituates the Linking four continents Spanish Caribbean as an over three centuries, Selling extension of the Luso-African Empire demonstrates the cen- Atlantic world from the late six- trality of India—both as an teenth to the mid-seventeenth idea and a place—to the mak- century, when the union of the ing of a global British imperial Spanish and Portuguese crowns system. In the seventeenth facilitated a surge in the trans- century, Britain was economi- atlantic slave trade. They played cally, politically, and militarily a dynamic role in the social weaker than India, but Britons formation of early Spanish colo- increasingly made use of India’s nial society in the fortified port strengths to build their own cities of Cartagena de Indias, empire in both America and Havana, Santo Domingo, Asia. Early English colonial and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce the “Africanization” of the Spanish Caribbean two centu- Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, ries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. These Britain’s circulation of Indian manufactured goods—from ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies umbrellas to cottons—to Africa, Europe, and America constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African then established an empire of goods and the supposed worlds, while they made possible Spain’s colonization of good of empire. the Caribbean. Jonathan Eacott is associate professor of history at the David Wheat is assistant professor of history at Michigan University of California, Riverside. State University.

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia “Dismantling the old notion of a swing to the east (India) after “David Wheat’s Atlantic Africa boldly rewrites the early history the American Revolution in favor of an earlier imperial system, of the Spanish Caribbean, demonstrating how Africans and Selling Empire will come to stand as one of the most articu- their descendants became Spain’s ‘surrogate colonists’ in the late arguments about the integrated nature of Britain’s global sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exhaustively researched, empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” this book reveals the indelible imprint of various groups of —Tillman Nechtman, Skidmore College Africans on the history of the Spanish Caribbean.” February 2016 —James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison 978-1-4696-2230-9 $45.00 Cloth “Brilliantly researched and elegantly written, Wheat’s study 472 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 25 halftones, 7 figs, notes, index of the centrality of slavery and Africans in the pre-sugar Caribbean challenges much of what we think we know about the early Caribbean, New World slavery, and the early Spanish empire. This is a must-read book for students of Atlantic, African diaspora, and colonial Latin American history.” —Ada Ferrer, New York University May 2016 978-1-4696-2341-2 $45.00 Cloth 352 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, 2 maps, 19 tables

40% off use code 01DAH40 14 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 early america Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power Building the British Atlantic World of Numbers Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850 How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, EDITED BY DANIEL MAUDLIN AND Science, and the Sea Changed American Life BERNARD L. HERMAN TAMARA PLAKINS THORNTON Spanning the North In this engagingly written Atlantic rim from Canada biography, Tamara Plakins to Scotland, and from the Thornton delves into the Caribbean to the coast of West life and work of Nathaniel Africa, the British Atlantic Bowditch (1773-1838), a man world is deeply interconnect- Thomas Jefferson once called ed across its regions. In this a “meteor in the hemisphere.” groundbreaking study, thirteen Bowditch was a mathemati- leading scholars explore the cian, astronomer, navigator, idea of transatlanticism—or seafarer, and business exec- a shared “Atlantic world” utive whose Enlightenment- experience—through the lens inspired perspectives shaped of architecture, built spaces, nineteenth-century capitalism and landscapes in the British while transforming American Atlantic world from the seventeenth century through life more broadly. By examining Bowditch’s pathbreak- the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, ing approaches to institutions, as well as the political and churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm social controversies they provoked, Thornton’s biography houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American sci- language of architecture and design allowed the people of ence, and social elites in the early republic. this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. Tamara Plakins Thornton is professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth. Bernard L. Herman is George B. Tindall “Thornton tells a fascinating story with considerable grace, and Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Folklore at the her conclusions make a significant contribution to the issue of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. social, economic, and cultural transformation in the early nine- teenth century. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series is, among other things, a fluent biography of a significant if curious American public figure who possessed a broad splash “With real intellectual agility, Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L. of eccentricity that any reader would enjoy encountering.” Herman have shaped a volume that wonderfully captures the —Daniel Vickers, University of British Columbia range and depth of the British Atlantic world. These well-ar- “I loved this book from beginning to end. Well written, well gued, fascinating essays are a pleasure to read and set a high argued, well organized, thoroughly researched, interesting, benchmark for this emerging field.” and thought-provoking, Tamara Thornton writes with complete —Robert Blair St. George, University of Pennsylvania command of both her immediate subject, Nathaniel Bowditch, April 2016 and all the larger issues surrounding his life.” 978-1-4696-2682-6 $39.95 Paper —Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College 352 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 drawings, 74 halftones, 2 tables, notes, April 2016 bibl., index 978-1-4696-2693-2 $35.00 Cloth 416 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 19 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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The Ashley Cooper Plan The Short Life of Free Georgia The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Class and Slavery in the Colonial South Southern Political Culture NOELEEN MCILVENNA THOMAS D. WILSON In The Short Life of Free Thomas D. Wilson offers Georgia, Noeleen McIlvenna surprising new insights into the chronicles the years between origins of the political storms 1732 and 1752 and challeng- we witness today. Wilson es the conventional view that connects the Ashley Cooper Georgia's colonial purpose Plan—a seventeenth-centu- was based on unworkable ry model for a well-ordered assumptions and utopian ide- society imagined by Anthony als. Rather, Georgia largely Ashley Cooper (1st Earl of succeeded in its goals—until Shaftesbury) and his protégé self-interested parties con- John Locke—to current debates vinced England that Georgia about views on climate change, had failed, leading to the colo- sustainable development, ny’s transformation into a repli- urbanism, and professional ca of slaveholding South Carolina expertise in general. In doing so, he examines the ways that the city design, political culture, ideology, and gov- Noeleen McIlvenna is associate professor of history at Wright State University and author of A Very Mutinous People. erning structures of the Province of Carolina have shaped political acts and public policy even in the present. “The Short Life of Free Georgia is the best synthesis of Trustee Georgia's history I've ever read. Basing her work firmly in pri- Thomas D. Wilson is an urban planner, writer, and indepen- mary sources, Noeleen McIlvenna offers a compelling interpre- dent scholar. tation that is a story both of the past and for our time. This is exactly what the best historical writing should do.” “The product of long thought and careful research, this book —Jonathan Bryant, Georgia Southern University has force, coherence, and relevance. Wilson’s invocation of the power of historical experience challenges modern U.S. October 2015 historians in their monolithic focus on a chronologically shal- 978-1-4696-2403-7 $24.95 Paper low neoliberalism as the essential framework for the analysis 158 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 halftone, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index of contemporary politics. The Ashley Cooper Plan is a heroic effort to unravel the historical roots of contemporary southern politics. It is a grand synthesis of history, political criticism, and the contemporary paradoxes of public policy.” —John L. Brooke, The Ohio State University March 2016 978-1-4696-2628-4 $34.95 Paper 320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 figs., 12 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 16 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 indigenous studies Engines of Diplomacy Real Native Genius Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became American Empire Famous Indians DAVID ANDREW NICHOLS ANGELA PULLEY HUDSON

As a fledgling republic, the Weaving together histories United States implemented a of slavery, Mormonism, pop- series of trading outposts to ular culture, and American engage indigenous peoples medicine, Angela Pulley and to expand American inter- Hudson offers a fascinating ests west of the Appalachian tale of ingenuity, imposture, Mountains. Under the author- and identity. While illuminat- ity of the executive branch, ing the complex relationship this Indian factory system between race, religion, and was designed to strengthen gender in nineteenth-centu- economic ties between Indian ry North America, Hudson nations and the United States, reveals how the idea of the while eliminating competition “Indian” influenced many of from unscrupulous fur traders. the era’s social movements. In this detailed history of the Indian factory system, David Through the remarkable lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson Andrew Nichols demonstrates how Native Americans and uncovers both the complex and fluid nature of antebellum U.S. government authorities sought to exert their power identities and the place of “Indianness” at the very heart of in the trading posts by using them as sites for commerce, American culture. political maneuvering, and diplomatic action. Angela Pulley Hudson is associate professor of history at David Andrew Nichols is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. Indiana State University. “This book is mesmerizing and ingeniously researched. Angela “In this much-needed and fascinating look into the role of Pulley Hudson threads together Mormonism, Indian removal, Indian trading factories in American history, David Nichols popular culture, revolution, and slavery with engaging stories illustrates with nuance and detail the myriad ways that and beautiful writing.” America’s expansion hinged on Native dispossession.” —Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California —Michael Witgen, University of Michigan “With its exploration of American Indian self-representation “David Nichols’s book shows that the Indian factories of the and performance, Real Native Genius tells the story of how two early republic cannot be understood simply as economic people simultaneously capitalized on and subverted popular ventures. Rather, they performed far more important work ideas about race and gender in the mid-nineteenth century. as extensions of politics and diplomacy between the United Angela Pulley Hudson has created an extraordinary contribu- States and Indigenous people. Astounding in its research, this tion to our understanding of the American past.” book is bound to be an important contribution to the field.” —Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University —Rebecca Kugel, University of California, Riverside September 2015 May 2016 978-1-4696-2443-3 $29.95 Paper 978-1-4696-2689-5 $32.95 Paper 270 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 halftones, 1 figs., 2 maps, 12 tables, notes, bibl., index

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Say We Are Nations Cattle Colonialism Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous An Environmental History of the Conquest of America since 1887 California and Hawai'i EDITED BY DANIEL M. COBB JOHN RYAN FISCHER

In this wide-ranging and Environmental historians carefully curated anthology, have too often overlooked Daniel M. Cobb presents the California and Hawai'i, despite words of Indigenous peo- the roles the regions played ple who have shaped Native in the colonial ranching fron- American rights movements tiers of the Pacific World. from the late nineteenth cen- In ###Cattle Colonialism#, tury through the present day. John Ryan Fischer significant- Presenting essays, letters, ly enlarges the scope of the interviews, speeches, govern- American West by examining ment documents, and other the trans-Pacific transforma- testimony, Cobb shows how tions these animals wrought tribal leaders, intellectuals, and on local landscapes and native activists deployed a variety economies. of protest methods over more than a century to demand is visiting assistant professor of history Indigenous sovereignty. As these documents show, Native John Ryan Fischer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. peoples have adopted a wide range of strategies in this struggle, invoking “American” and global democratic Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges ideas about citizenship, freedom, justice, consent of the “Building on a rich body of scholarship, John Ryan Fischer tells governed, representation, and personal and civil liberties a fascinating and nuanced story about the environmental, eco- while investing them with indigenized meanings. nomic, and cultural impacts of the development of the Pacific cattle market and culture in California and Hawai’i. Cattle Daniel M. Cobb is associate professor of American Studies at Colonialism is an excellent and significant book.” the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. —Virginia DeJohn Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series “In this fascinating book, John Ryan Fischer pioneers new ideas in the history of the American West by moving away from the “Daniel Cobb's work breathes new life into the voices of established comparison between California and Hawai’i and Indigenous peoples and highlights the incredible breadth and toward a particularly impressive transcultural study.” sweep of American Indian political thought.” —Andrew Isenberg, Temple University —Brian Hosmer, University of Tulsa October 2015 “Say We Are Nations provides a new and nuanced window into 978-1-4696-2512-6 $39.95 Cloth the twentieth-century Native American political and intellectu- 280 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, 1 tables, notes, bibl., index al world.” —Paul Rosier, Villanova University November 2015 978-1-4696-2480-8 $29.95 Paper 316 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 9 halftones, 1 maps, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 18 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 history of medicine Remaking the American Patient The End of a Global Pox How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Turned Patients into Consumers Cold War Era NANCY TOMES BOB H. REINHARDT

In a work that spans the By the mid-twentieth cen- twentieth century, Nancy tury, smallpox had vanished Tomes questions the popular— from North America and and largely unexamined—idea Europe but continued to per- that in order to get good health sist throughout Africa, Asia, care, people must learn to shop and South America. In 1965, for it. Tracing the robust devel- the United States joined an opment of advertising, market- international effort to erad- ing, and public relations within icate the disease, and after the medical profession and the fifteen years of steady progress, vast realm we now think of as the effort succeeded. Bob H. “health care,” Tomes considers Reinhardt demonstrates that what it means to be a “good” the fight against smallpox drew patient. As she shows, this his- American liberals into new tory of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he tells us much about our current predicament over health narrates the history of the only cooperative international care in the United States. effort to successfully eliminate a disease. Nancy Tomes is professor of history at Stony Brook University Bob H. Reinhardt is executive director of the Willamette and author of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon. in American Life. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Studies in Social Medicine “Reinhardt makes a significant contribution to our understand- ing of the success and limitations of smallpox eradication, “No historian other than Nancy Tomes could have succeeded the history of international public health projects, and the so admirably in tracing the complicated path of medical con- contested application of American soft power throughout the sumerism through the major political and social developments world during and after the Cold War. This is a terrific and much of the twentieth century. A novel and highly readable account needed book about a fascinating history.” of the rise of the patient-consumer in the United States, —David Kinkela, State University of New York at Fredonia Remaking the American Patient defines a new area of inquiry.” —Christopher Crenner, University of Kansas Medical Center September 2015 January 2016 978-1-4696-2409-9 $39.95 Cloth 978-1-4696-2277-4 $45.00 Cloth 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 1 fig., 2 maps, 1 table, notes, bibl., index 560 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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Antiracism in Cuba An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom The Unfinished Revolution Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in DEVYN SPENCE BENSON Hispaniola, 1789-1809 GRAHAM T. NESSLER Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba Reinterpreting the Haitian and south Florida during the Revolution as both an island- early years of the Cuban revo- wide and a circum-Caribbean lution, Devyn Spence Benson phenomenon, Graham Nessler argues that ideas, stereotypes, examines the intertwined his- and discriminatory practices tories of Saint-Domingue, the relating to racial difference French colony that became persisted despite major efforts Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the by the Cuban state to generate Spanish colony that became the social equality. Drawing on Dominican Republic. Tracing Cuban and U.S. archival mate- conflicts over the terms and rials and face-to-face inter- boundaries of territory, liberty, views, Benson examines 1960s and citizenship that transpired government programs and campaigns against discrimina- in the two colonies that shared tion, showing how such programs frequently negated their one island, Nessler argues that the territories’ borders and efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolu- governance were often unclear and mutually influential tionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials. during a tumultuous period that witnessed emancipation in Saint-Domingue and reenslavement in Santo Domingo. Devyn Spence Benson is assistant professor of history and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University. Graham T. Nessler is visiting professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. Envisioning Cuba “This first full-scale account of revolutionary Hispaniola casts “Devyn Spence Benson places cultural artifacts, individuals, a brilliant new light on the complex politics of the Haitian and policies in carefully reconstructed contexts full of promise, Revolution, which Nessler persuasively reinterprets as an insu- opportunities, and contradictions—and sensitively locates the lar, as well as circum-Caribbean, phenomenon. An engaging, continuing limitations of the Cuban revolution’s approach to lucid, and artfully written work of historical scholarship.” racial equality, nation building, and racial integration. Also one —Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the first studies to include Afro-Cuban exiles in the history of race in postrevolutionary Cuba.” “An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom demonstrates a truly —Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University original point: that events in Saint-Domingue/Haiti during the revolutionary era were influenced at every turn by events in “Insightful and impressively researched, this is a rare, archivally the other half of the island of Hispaniola, the Spanish colony based study of Cuban racial politics in the post-1959 era. It has of Santo Domingo—and vice versa. This is a major contribution contemporary resonance because it provides a badly needed to the scholarship on the Haitian Revolution and to the larger historical context for the ongoing struggle for racial equality in story of the struggle over slavery in the American world.” revolutionary Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson pushes beyond the —Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky 'raceless' rhetoric of the Castro government to find glimpses of the ways Afro-Cubans subtly challenge attempts to silence May 2016 their aspirations for racial equality.” 978-1-4696-2686-4 $29.95 Paper —Frank Andre Guridy, The University of Texas at Austin 312 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index April 2016 978-1-4696-2672-7 $29.95 Paper 332 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 20 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 latin american & caribbean studies Revolution within the Revolution Haitian Connections in the Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962 Atlantic World MICHELLE CHASE Recognition after Revolution JULIA GAFFIELD A handful of celebrated photographs show armed On January 1, 1804, Haiti female Cuban insurgents shocked the world by declaring alongside their compañeros independence. Historians have in Cuba's remote mountains long portrayed Haiti’s post- during the revolutionary revolutionary period as one struggle. However, the story of during which the international women’s part in the struggle’s community rejected Haiti’s success has only now received Declaration of Independence comprehensive consideration and adopted a policy of isola- in Michelle Chase’s history of tion designed to contain the women and gender politics in impact of the world’s only suc- revolutionary Cuba. Restoring cessful slave revolution. Julia to history women’s participa- Gaffield, however, anchors a tion in the all-important urban insurrection, and resisting fresh vision of Haiti’s first ten- Fidel Castro’s triumphant claim that women’s emancipa- tative years of independence to its relationships with other tion was handed to them as a “revolution within the revo- nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of lution,” Chase’s work demonstrates that women’s activism the country’s supposed isolation. and leadership was critical at every stage of the revolution- ary process. Julia Gaffield is assistant professor of history at Georgia State University. Michelle Chase is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. “Timely and compelling, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World is on the leading edge of a new wave of Haitian Envisioning Cuba Revolution scholarship. Eschewing platitudes about Haiti's enforced isolation after the revolution, Gaffield traces the “Michelle Chase challenges both official and anti-Castro complex history—and legacies—of an Atlantic World variably accounts of women’s roles during the critical periods of confronting, evading, ignoring, and interacting with the new anti-Batista activism, the armed stage of the Cuban Revolution, Haitian state.” and the consolidation of the Castro regime, demonstrating —Ada Ferrer, New York University how both gender ideologies and women’s activism pushed the revolutionary movement in new directions. Chase argues October 2015 convincingly that women activists led—rather than followed— 978-1-4696-2562-1 $29.95 Paper many of the revolutionary government's most important policy 270 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index changes.” —Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University “Engaging, well written, and well argued, this is an important intervention in debates about gender, sexuality, the family, and political struggle in the Cuban Revolutionary victory of 1959.” —Carrie Hamilton, Roehampton University November 2015 978-1-4696-2500-3 $29.95 Paper Most UNC Press books are available as 310 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 21 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 latin american & caribbean studies The Logic of Compromise in Mexico Mapping the Country of Regions How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth- of Authoritarianism Century Colombia GLADYS I. MCCORMICK NANCY P. APPELBAUM

In this political history of twen- The nineteenth century was tieth-century Mexico, Gladys an era of breathtakingly ambi- McCormick argues that the key tious geographic expeditions to understanding the immense across the Americas. The semi- power of the long-ruling nal Chorographic Commission Partido Revolucionario of Colombia, which began in Institucional (PRI) is to be 1850 and lasted about a decade, found in the countryside. was one of Latin America’s Using newly available sources, most extensive. The commis- including declassified secret sion’s mandate was to define police files and oral histories, and map the young republic McCormick looks at large-scale and its resources with an eye sugar cooperatives in Morelos toward modernization. In this and Puebla, two major agri- history of the commission, cultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers’ fieldwork the nation. She argues that Mexico’s rural peoples, despite practices and visual production as the men traversed the shouldering much of the financial burden of moderniza- mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty tion policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of provinces in order to delineate the country’s territorial support. and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national Gladys McCormick is assistant professor of history at imaginary. Syracuse University. Nancy P. Appelbaum, associate professor of history at “A truly groundbreaking quest for answers about the enduring Binghamton University, The State University of New York, is co-ed- power of the PRI, The Logic of Compromise in Mexico is an itor of Race and Nation in Modern Latin America and author of engaging foray into the key role of rural land relations and Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, peasantry. Gladys McCormick's argument is innovative, bold, 1846–1948. and well supported, and rarely have I seen such a well-con- ceived and thoughtful analysis of oral interviews.” “This insightful and ground-breaking book shows the multi- —Susan M. Gauss, University at Albany, SUNY ple contradictions and paradoxes of mid-nineteenth-century nation building in Colombia, in particular, and in the Americas, “Staking out new theoretical terrain in the study of Mexican more generally. Mapping the Country of Regions takes us a politics, Gladys McCormick's compelling and uniquely import- step closer to understanding the phenomenon of regionalism ant book offers an unprecedented, on-the-ground account of as an intermediate step in the creation of nations.” the relationships between peasants and the powerful Mexican —Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin state. Her ability to understand the experiences of peasants is original and eye-opening, and the book is inspired in its meld- “A fine addition to a growing body of work in Latin American ing of biography and regional history.” cartographic history, Mapping the Country of Regions also —Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University makes a distinctive contribution to the history of mid-nine- April 2016 teenth-century Colombia. Meticulously researched, thoughtful, 978-1-4696-2774-8 $32.95 Paper and engaging.” 300 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 map, notes, bibl., index —Ernesto Capello, Macalester College May 2016 978-1-4696-2744-1 $34.95 Paper 320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 38 figs, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 22 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 latino studies From South Texas to the Nation Corazón de Dixie The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 Twentieth Century JULIE M. WEISE JOHN WEBER When Latino migration In the early years of the to the U.S. South became twentieth century, newcomer increasingly visible in the farmers and migrant Mexicans 1990s, observers and advocates forged a new world in South grasped for ways to analyze Texas. In just a decade, this “new” racial dramas in the vast region, previously consid- absence of historical reference ered too isolated and desolate points. However, as this book for large-scale agriculture, is the first to comprehensive- became one of the United ly document, Mexicans and States’ most lucrative farming Mexican Americans have a regions and one of its worst long history of migration to the places to work. By encouraging U.S. South. Corazón de Dixie mass migration from Mexico, recounts the untold histories paying low wages, selectively of Mexicanos’ migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older polit- Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as ical arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the heart of Dixie, where workforce, growers created a system of labor controls they navigated the Jim Crow system, cultivated commu- unique in its levels of exploitation. nity in the cotton fields, purposefully appealed for help to Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back the Mexican government, shaped the southern conserva- by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations tive imagination in the wake of the civil rights movement, around the United States where employers eagerly hired and embraced their own version of suburban living at the them—and continued to exploit them. In From South turn of the twenty-first century. Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United is assistant professor of history at the States’ record on human and labor rights. This important Julie M. Weise University of Oregon. book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History on which so many industries continue to depend. Published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center John Weber is assistant professor of history at Old Dominion for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, University. Texas

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History “Based on extensive research, Julie Weise's book presents com- pelling new analyses of Mexican immigration and racial forma- Published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center tion. Corazón de Dixie engages key scholarly debates, and the for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, author's clear, elegant writing style makes the book a pleasure Texas to read for academics and beyond.” —Mary Odem, Emory University “This is an absolutely terrific work that is clearly written, thor- oughly researched, and sweeping in its chronological scope. “Corazón de Dixie expands the scope of borderland studies The story Weber tells will be relevant to contemporary debates and establishes a foundation that scholars will build upon for about the nature of immigration and low-wage labor markets. years.” From South Texas to the Nation will surely join a growing list —Natalia Molina, University of California at San Diego of books that move these issues from the fringes to the center November 2015 of our understanding of the evolution of race and labor rela- 978-1-4696-2496-9 $32.50 Paper tions in the Southwest." 358 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 37 halftones, 8 maps, 4 tables, appends., —Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University notes, bibl., index October 2015 978-1-4696-2523-2 $34.95 Cloth 336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 23 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 religious history St. Francis of America The Long Shadow of Vatican II How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Living Faith and Negotiating Authority since the Most Popular Saint Second Vatican Council PATRICIA APPELBAUM EDITED BY LUCAS VAN ROMPAY, SAM MIGLARESE, AND DAVID MORGAN How did a thirteenth-cen- tury Italian friar become one With the Second Vatican of the best-loved saints in Council (1962–65), the Roman America? Around the nation Catholic Church for the first today, St. Francis of Assisi is time took a positive stance on embraced as the patron saint of modernity. Its impact on the animals, beneficently presiding thought, worship, and actions over hundreds of Blessing of the of Catholics worldwide was Animals services on October enormous. Benefiting from a 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast half century of insights gained day. Not only Catholics, how- since Vatican II ended, this ever, but Protestants and other volume focuses squarely on the Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, ongoing aftermath and rein- Jews, and nonreligious terpretation of the Council in Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite the twenty-first century. In five spiritual figures. Drawing on a dazzling array of art, music, penetrating essays, contributors examine crucial issues at drama, film, hymns, and prayers, Patricia Appelbaum the heart of Catholic life and identity, primarily but not explains what happened to make St. Francis so familiar exclusively within North American contexts. On a broader and meaningful to so many Americans. level, the volume as a whole illuminates the effects of the radical changes made at Vatican II on the lived religion of Patricia Appelbaum, an independent scholar of religion and everyday Catholics. American culture, is author of Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era. Lucas Van Rompay is professor of religious studies at Duke “A fascinating trip through American cultural history. St. Francis University. is a wonderful way to see how popular and elite are deftly Sam Miglarese is adjunct instructor of religious studies interwoven into the life-worlds of actual people. A welcome and education and director of community engagement at Duke scrutiny of the literary and material culture surrounding a fig- University. ure who is able to inspire reformers, moralists, and consumers David Morgan is professor of religious studies and professor alike. There is no other study of Francis like this one.” of art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. —David Morgan, author of The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling “An illuminating contribution to the effort to figure out what happened after Vatican II. The timing of this volume could not “In this outstanding book, Patricia Appelbaum explores the be more fortuitous: the election of Pope Francis has now intro- paradox of American devotion to Saint Francis: each generation duced a significant inflection in the post@-Vatican II world. has adapted Francis to its own cultural context, yet he has Whether that inflection eventually turns out to have been a never lost the power to challenge prevailing norms of violence blip, a pause, a turning point, or a revolution remains to be and consumerism. Everyone deserves to know the story of how seen. But however brief or long, the new chapter alters the the Catholic Francis became an American saint.” postconciliar story, and this collection will assist many readers —Dan McKanan, author of Prophetic Encounters: Religion and trying to reread the past half century in light of it.” the American Radical Tradition —Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago October 2015 September 2015 978-1-4696-2374-0 $35.00 Cloth 978-1-4696-2529-4 $24.95 Paper 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 15 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index 178 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 24 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 religious history Hittin’ the Prayer Bones The Last Puritans Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past ANDERSON BLANTON MARGARET BENDROTH

Anderson Blanton illumi- Congregationalists, the nates how prayer, faith, and oldest group of American healing are intertwined with Protestants, are the heirs of technologies of sound repro- New England’s first founders. duction and material culture in While they were key characters the charismatic Christian wor- in the story of early American ship of southern Appalachia. history, from Plymouth Rock From the radios used to broad- and the founding of Harvard cast prayer to the curative faith and Yale to the Revolutionary cloths circulated through the War, their luster and num- postal system, material objects bers have faded. But Margaret known as spirit-matter have Bendroth’s critical history of become essential since the Congregationalism over the 1940s, Blanton argues, to the past two centuries reveals how Pentecostal community’s understanding and performances the denomination is essential for understanding mainline of faith. Protestantism in the making. Anderson Blanton is a research scholar at the Max Planck Margaret Bendroth is executive director of the Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Congregational Library and Archives in Boston. She is author of Germany. Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present, among other books. “A brilliant and deeply fascinating analysis of Appalachian icon- oclastic Pentecostal mystical practice. Beautifully written and “The Last Puritans is a splendid contribution to American reli- cogently argued, Anderson Blanton’s book has far-ranging sig- gious history. Analyzing the doings of Congregationalists from nificance for contemporary trends in cultural theory. It carefully early seventeenth-century New England through the present, and powerfully guides the reader through dense (and riveting) Margaret Bendroth demonstrates how the denomination most terrains of daily religious life and into truly exciting philosoph- symbolically integrated into American origins—the Mayflower, ical, religious, and poetic forms of recognition of the power of the City on a Hill, Thanksgiving, and all that—became messages resounding in the ordinary world.” entrapped by those origins but then was parlayed by its iconic —Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin status into a style of Protestantism that could function in an increasingly plural society.” “An engaging and insightful contribution to our understand- —David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley ings of American Christianity, especially the vibrant traditions of Christianity in the Blue Ridge and surrounds. Anderson “Increase Mather has been called the Last Puritan; so has Blanton’s work tacks between equally engaging accounts of Jonathan Edwards. But Margaret Bendroth's new work mas- classic charismatic texts and his own fieldwork, giving us a terfully shows us that the ‘last’ of anything can be the first sense of the charismatic world here, especially how it sounds of something else. This beautifully researched story of the and feels. In Blanton, we have a wonderful new voice on reli- Congregationalists and mainline Protestantism judiciously gion and media.” reveals the nature of institutional change, religious allegiance, —Matthew Engelke, The London School of Economics and and the slipperiness of historical memory.” Political Science —Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University October 2015 October 2015 978-1-4696-2397-9 $27.95 Paper 978-1-4696-2400-6 $27.95 Paper 236 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 258 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 13 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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Migrating Faith Reforming Sodom Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights in the Twentieth Century HEATHER R. WHITE DANIEL RAMÍREZ With a focus on mainline Daniel Ramírez’s his- Protestants and gay rights tory of twentieth-century activists in the twentieth centu- Pentecostalism in the U.S.- ry, Heather R. White challenges Mexico borderlands begins in the usual picture of perennial Los Angeles in 1906 with the adversaries with a new narra- eruption of the Azusa Street tive about America’s religious Revival. The Pentecostal phe- and sexual past. White argues nomenon—characterized by that today’s antigay Christian ecstatic spiritual practices that traditions originated in the included speaking in tongues, 1920s when a group of liberal perceptions of miracles, inter- Protestants began to incorpo- racial mingling, and new rate psychiatry and psychother- popular musical worship tra- apy into Christian teaching. A ditions from both sides of the new therapeutic orthodoxy, influenced by modern medi- border—was criticized by Christian theologians, secular cine, celebrated heterosexuality as God-given and advocat- media, and even governmental authorities for behaviors ed a compassionate “cure” for homosexuality. considered to be unorthodox and outrageous. Today, many is a visiting assistant professor in religion scholars view the revival as having catalyzed the spread of Heather R. White and queer and gender studies at the University of Puget Sound. Pentecostalism and consider the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as one of the most important fountainheads of a religious “Important, gracefully written, and interpretively original, movement that has thrived not only in North America but Reforming Sodom brings together two historical subjects— religion and gay/lesbian activism—that are often seen as not worldwide. intersecting. Heather White makes notable new arguments Daniel Ramírez is assistant professor of American culture about the collaboration between religion and medicine in the post–World War II generation and the ways religious organiz- and history at the University of Michigan. ing and activism intersected so thoroughly with the expanding “Daniel Ramírez’s groundbreaking work will invigorate Latino gay liberation movement of the 1970s.” religious history with the study of culture, art, and music. —John D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago Adding many rich, deep layers, Migrating Faith without a doubt will become a standard text in the field of Latino religious his- “Rigorous, bold, and wholly original. Heather White shows no tory.” fear about entering into the most difficult terrain in the con- —Arlene Sánchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University joined histories of sexuality and religion. This book moves me with its bravery, its specificity, and its complexity.” “With a great deal of creativity and sophisticated theoretical —Kathryn Lofton, Yale University analysis, Ramírez tells the fascinating and largely unexplored August 2015 history of transnational Pentecostalism in the borderlands 978-1-4696-2411-2 $29.95 Paper of the United States and Mexico. He helps us hear the voices 260 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index of men and women who negotiated new social and cultural settings while developing powerful new musical and worship practices, popular theologies, and religious innovation.” —Randall Stephens, Northumbria University October 2015 978-1-4696-2406-8 $29.95 Paper 306 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 26 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 religious history Religion, Art, and Money The Sacred Mirror Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep War to the Great Depression South, 1790-1860 PETER W. WILLIAMS ROBERT ELDER

This cultural history of Most histories of the mainline Protestantism and American South describe the American cities—most notably, conflict between evangelical New York City—focuses on religion and honor culture as wealthy, urban Episcopalians one of the defining features of and the influential ways they southern life before the Civil used their money. Peter W. War. The story is usually told as Williams argues that such a battle of clashing worldviews, Episcopalians, many of them but in this book, Robert Elder the country's most successful challenges this interpretation industrialists and financiers, by illuminating just how deeply left a deep and lasting mark on evangelicalism in Methodist, American urban culture. Their Baptist, and Presbyterian sense of public responsibility churches was interwoven derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to with traditional southern culture, arguing that evangeli- the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience cals owed much of their success to their ability to appeal and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished to people steeped in southern honor culture. Previous by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare accounts of the rise of evangelicalism in the South have endeavors. told this tale as a tragedy in which evangelicals eventually adopted many of the central tenets of southern society in , Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Peter W. Williams order to win souls and garner influence. But through an Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University, is the author or coeditor of several books, including Encyclopedia of examination of evangelical language and practices, Elder Religion in America. shows that evangelicals always shared honor’s most basic assumptions. “With great elegance and wit, Peter Williams examines the profound influence Episcopalians had on the United States as Robert Elder is assistant professor of history at Valparaiso it reached modernity. This immensely readable book, replete University. with telling humor, gives faith a very tangible dimension as it masterfully takes up the crucial subject of the impact of reli- “In this elegant and exciting book, Robert Elder sets himself gion on American culture.” apart by arguing that white southerners hastened moderni- —Anne Rose, Penn State University ty’s arrival when they accepted evangelicalism. Elder’s highly nuanced discussion of the relationship between the ‘secular’ “Religion, Art, and Money is a graceful exploration of the culture of southern honor and the ‘sacred’ culture of southern patronage and philanthropy of the Episcopal Church as cul- evangelicalism establishes him as part of a robust movement tural tastemaker and aesthetic arbiter in the late nineteenth of scholars quick to call attention to the ‘modern’ elements of and early twentieth centuries. Filled with lively characters and intellectual discourse in the antebellum South.” engaging anecdotes, this book reveals the unique religious —Charles F. Irons, Elon University contribution made by elite Episcopalians to the cultural history of the nation as it took its modern form.” “Well researched and well written, The Sacred Mirror makes a —Thomas Rzeznik, Seton Hall University sophisticated contribution to the field. Based on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, its careful documenta- May 2016 tion, straightforward prose, and clear argument will make this 978-1-4696-2697-0 $39.95 Cloth a widely noticed book.” 296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 24 halftones, notes, index —Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame May 2016 978-1-4696-2756-4 $34.95 Cloth 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 27 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 religious history Strangers Below The Valiant Woman Primitive Baptists and American Culture The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American JOSHUA GUTHMAN Culture ELIZABETH HAYES ALVAREZ Before the Bible Belt fas- tened itself across the South, Nineteenth-century competing factions of evan- America was rife with gelicals fought over their Protestant-fueled anti-Cathol- faith’s future, and a contrarian icism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez sect, self-named the Primitive reveals how Protestants nev- Baptists, made its stand. Joshua ertheless became surprisingly Guthman here tells the story of and deeply fascinated with the how a band of antimissionary Virgin Mary, even as her role as and antirevivalistic Baptists a devotional figure who united defended Calvinism, America’s Catholics grew. Documenting oldest Protestant creed, from the vivid Marian imagery that what they feared were the suffused popular visual and unbridled forces of evangel- literary culture, Alvarez argues ical greed and power. In their harrowing confessions of that Mary became a potent, faith and in the quavering uncertainty of their singing, shared exemplar of Christian womanhood around which Guthman finds the emotional catalyst of the Primitives’ Christians of all stripes rallied during an era filled with early nineteenth-century movement: a searing experience anxiety about the emerging market economy and shifting of doubt that motivated believers rather than paralyzed gender roles. them. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez is assistant professor of religion Joshua Guthman is assistant professor of history at Berea at Temple University. College. “The Virgin Mary has traditionally been identified with Roman “Beautifully and evocatively written, Guthman’s Strangers Catholic piety, but Alvarez argues that Protestants also had Below pulls a small group of persevering Calvinists out of the a deep affection for Mary. In this truly original study, Mary shadows of southern evangelical culture and thereby under- emerges as a powerful symbol of womanhood and motherhood cuts the image of the Bible Belt as a united front, revealing not just for Catholics but for Protestants as well. The Valiant anew the religious frictions that abraded that Protestant con- Woman will forever change the way people view the role of the sensus from within. At the same time, Guthman displays a Virgin Mary in nineteenth century American culture.” fine feel for the emotional register and lingering cultural influ- —Jay P. Dolan, author of The Irish Americans: A History ence of this Calvinist sensibility.” “The Valiant Woman makes a significant contribution to import- —Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Restless Souls: The Making of ant areas of recent religious research, including gender, American Spirituality Marianism, popular culture, and Catholic-Protestant interac- September 2015 tion. Alvarez shows how both Protestants and Catholics invest- 978-1-4696-2486-0 $27.95 Paper ed in Mary, creating and appropriating her formidable cultural 232 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index capital for common and divergent interests." —Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs April 2016 978-1-4696-2741-0 $27.50 Paper Most UNC Press books are available as 256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 28 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 women’s history Abortion after Roe Nursing and Empire JOHANNA SCHOEN Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States Abortion is—and always SUJANI K. REDDY has been—an arena for con- testing power relations between In this rich interdisciplinary women and men. When in study, Sujani Reddy exam- 1973 the Supreme Court made ines the consequential lives of the procedure legal throughout Indian nurses whose careers the United States, it seemed have unfolded in the contexts that women were at last able to of empire, migration, familial make decisions about their own relations, race, and gender. bodies. In the four decades that As Reddy shows, the nursing followed, however, abortion profession developed in India became ever more politicized against a complex backdrop of and stigmatized. Abortion after British and U.S. imperialism. Roe chronicles and analyzes After World War II, facing what the new legal status and changing political environ- limited vocational options at ment have meant for abortion providers and their patients. home, a growing number of female nurses migrated from India to the United States Johanna Schoen is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, during the Cold War. Complicating the long-held view of Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Indian women as passive participants in the movement of skilled labor in this period, Reddy demonstrates how these Studies in Social Medicine “women in the lead” pursued new opportunities afforded “This engaging book provides a nuanced and important analy- by their mobility. sis of abortion practice and antiabortion activism in the three decades after Roe v. Wade. Listening for the voices of her Sujani K. Reddy is associate professor of American studies at actors, asking hard questions, and examining the changing SUNY Old Westbury. roles of the state and its agencies, Johanna Schoen offers a “In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book, Sujani new way of thinking about abortion practice and the state.” Reddy demonstrates the urgency of understanding Indian —Naomi Rogers, author of Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the nurse migration to the United States in relation to the many Golden Age of American Medicine reconfigurations of ‘Anglo-American capitalist imperialism’ “This is a completely new, original, and needed book, filled over two centuries. This is an indispensable and groundbreak- with engaging stories and findings. Johanna Schoen addresses ing contribution to the history of women and labor migration, important questions about how and why changes in medical and it sets a new standard for the global study of imperialism, practice and politics occur and illuminates an area of social capitalism, and race.” life that receives intense public attention, but that few people —Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution know much about.” “Sujani Reddy neatly traces the development of modern racial- —Leslie J. Reagan, author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, ized nursing practices by going beyond simply analyzing Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America migration to examining the historical emergence of nursing November 2015 in India and the United States. Nursing and Empire explores 978-1-4696-2118-0 $35.00 Cloth labor markets, intimate industries, and gender with a writ- 352 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index ing style that is simultaneously deeply analytical and richly descriptive. An absolutely exciting and one-of-a-kind book.” —Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas at Austin November 2015 978-1-4696-2507-2 $32.95 Paper 290 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Sign up for e-alerts about new UNC Press books and special offers. Visit us at www.uncpress.unc.edu.

40% off use code 01DAH40 29 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 american studies Bad Girls Archives of Desire Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the The Queer Historical Work of New England Sixties Regionalism AMANDA H. LITTAUER J. SAMAINE LOCKWOOD

In this innovative and In this thought-provoking revealing study of midcentu- study of nineteenth-century ry American sex and culture, America, J. Samaine Lockwood Amanda Littauer traces the offers an important new origins of the “sexual revolu- interpretation of the literary tion” of the 1960s. She argues movement known as American that sexual liberation was much regionalism. Lockwood more than a reaction to 1950s argues that regionalism in repression because it largely New England was part of a involved the mainstreaming widespread woman-dominat- of a counterculture already ed effort to rewrite history. on the rise among girls and Lockwood demonstrates that young women decades earlier. New England regionalism From World War II–era “vic- was an intellectual endeavor tory girls” to teen lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s, these that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included nonconforming women and girls navigated and resisted fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial intense social and interpersonal pressures to fit existing home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers mores, using the upheavals of the era to pursue new sexual and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne freedoms. Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, Amanda H. Littauer is assistant professor of history such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northern Illinois Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modern- University. ist moment. Gender and American Culture J. Samaine Lockwood is associate professor of English at “Amanda Littauer challenges the image of the sexually George Mason University. repressed 1950s, narrating the volatile stories of young women who found their voices and defied conventional morality. A Gender and American Culture much-needed and compelling exploration of the sexualized “Archives of Desire is filled with ingenious scholarship and daz- rebellion that catalyzed change in the years before the highly zling re-creations of the past. The women J. Samaine Lockwood touted ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s.” describes are not merely curators of vanishing histories, but —Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola University Chicago also narrators of intimate domestic issues that shape the “From victory girls and wartime prostitutes to teenage girls present and create connections between the past and the near petting and going steady, American women in the mid-twen- future. A new standard in gender studies.” tieth century challenged conceptions of sexual respectability. —Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois Champaign–Urbana In a fresh and compelling book, Amanda Littauer reconsiders “In this landmark contribution to the study of American histo- the roots of the transformation of U.S. sexual culture in the ry and literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, J. 1960s.” Samaine Lockwood offers a nuanced analysis of New England’s —Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara ties to the nation and its queer past. The women at the heart September 2015 of this book were revolutionary, intriguing, sexual, and often 978-1-4696-2378-8 $27.95 Paper radical. Archives of Desire chronicles their legacies of dissent.” 280 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones, notes, bibl., index —Marjorie Pryse, University at Albany, State University of New York November 2015 978-1-4696-2536-2 $27.95 Paper 238 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 15 halftones, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 30 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 american studies Kıka Kila Lost Sound How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling Sound of Modern Music JEFF PORTER JOHN W. TROUTMAN From Archibald MacLeish Since the nineteenth to David Sedaris, radio story- century, the distinct tones telling has long borrowed from of kīkā kila, the Hawaiian the world of literature, yet the steel guitar, have defined narrative radio work of well- the island sound. Here his- known writers and others is torian and steel guitarist a story that has not been told John W. Troutman offers the before. And when the literary instrument’s definitive his- aspects of specific programs tory, from its discovery by such as The War of the Worlds a young Hawaiian royalist or Sorry, Wrong Number were named Joseph Kekuku to its considered, scrutiny was super- revolutionary influence on ficial. In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter American and world music. examines the vital interplay Using rich musical and his- between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in torical sources, including interviews with musicians and the growth of radio. He identifies the ways radio chal- their descendants, Troutman provides the complete story lenged the conventional distinctions between highbrow of how this Native Hawaiian instrument transformed not and lowbrow cultural content to produce a dynamic popu- only American music but the sounds of modern music lar culture. throughout the world. Jeff Porter teaches English at the University of Iowa. John W. Troutman is associate professor of history at the “Jeff Porter has brilliantly filled the huge gap on radio's great- University of Louisiana at Lafayette. est contributions to twentieth-century American culture by “John W. Troutman’s Kıka Kila is a deeply researched, definitive offering the strongest argument to date that the first electronic history of the Hawaiian steel guitar, but more than that, it is an mass medium brought something of genuine significance to eloquent and convincing argument for the influence and cen- the nation’s literary canon. Lost Sound is thorough and timely, trality of Hawaiian music—and, in particular, Hawaiian musi- and the narrative is lucid and consequential. I’m pleased and cians—in the broader history of American music.” thrilled that there will now exist—at long last—a definitive —Elijah Wald, author of Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson work on the subject.” and the Invention of the Blues —Michael C. Keith, Boston College “Kıka Kila is a magisterial work. John W. Troutman eloquently “Lost Sound shows that in our phonophobic culture, we have links the steel guitar with the arrival of white missionaries forgotten to attend to radio’s literary past, preferring to see our and the dispossession of indigenous Hawaiian people from precious written word as the primary source of literary expres- their land in the nineteenth century. The instrument became sion. As Jeff Porter reveals, however, sound technologies such a powerful voice for the Hawaiian people and inspired music as radio offer powerful and alternative modes of artistic pro- throughout North America in the twentieth century.” duction. Writing with real beauty, energy, and verve, Jeff Porter —William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of has made a significant contribution to our critical understand- the Mississippi Blues ing of this important medium.” —Kathy M. Newman, Carnegie Mellon University May 2016 978-1-4696-2792-2 $35.00 Cloth May 2016 392 pp., 7 x 9, 14 color plates., 51 halftones, notes, bibl., index 978-1-4696-2777-9 $29.95 Paper 296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 31 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 american studies Sin City North Calypso Magnolia Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit- The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Windsor Borderland Literature HOLLY M. KARIBO JOHN WHARTON LOWE

The early decades of the In this far-reaching literary twentieth century sparked history, John Wharton Lowe the Detroit–Windsor region’s remakes the map of American ascendancy as the busiest culture by revealing the deep, crossing point between Canada persistent connections between and the United States, setting the ideas and works produced the stage for socioeconomic by writers of the American developments that would link South and the Caribbean. Lowe the border cities for years to demonstrates that a tendency come. As Holly M. Karibo to separate literary canons by shows, this border fostered the national and regional bound- emergence of illegal industries aries has led critics to ignore alongside legal trade, rapid deep ties across highly perme- industrial development, and able borders. Focusing on writ- tourism. Tracing the growth of the two cities’ cross-border ers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states prostitution and heroin markets in the late 1940s and the in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, 1950s, Sin City North explores the social, legal, and nation- Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as al boundaries that emerged there and their ramifications. encompassing the “circumCaribbean,” a dynamic frame- work within which to reconsider literary history, genre, is assistant professor of history at Tarleton Holly M. Karibo and aesthetics. State University. John Wharton Lowe is the Barbara Methvin Professor of The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History English at the University of Georgia. Published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center New Directions in Southern Studies for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas “Only John Wharton Lowe could have written such a magiste- rial and comprehensive literary study, one with an incredible “Dr. Karibo is to be congratulated on what can only be historical and geographic sweep. This monumental book described as a compelling narrative of vice on the borders and will change the way we think about the literary landscape of the intricate relationships between various borderlands, both America and the Caribbean.” real and metaphorical, in the Detroit-Windsor area.” —Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida —Dan Malleck, Brock University “The range of material that Lowe has found, absorbed, and put “Holly Karibo's lively and engaging Sin City North makes a to use is startling—lost texts, unfamiliar critics, information so strong contribution to scholarship on urban history and U.S.- relevant one wonders why it seems so new. Without a doubt an Canadian relations. Its investigation of the informal economy excellent and important book.” of vice in the Motor City and its Canadian sister shows us the —Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel underside of the consumer culture of the postwar decades.” Hill —Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State University March 2016 October 2015 978-1-4696-2620-8 $39.95 Paper 978-1-4696-2520-1 $29.95 Paper 464 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index 226 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 13 halftones, notes, bibl., index

40% off use code 01DAH40 32 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 american studies Long Past Slavery Rightlessness Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps CATHERINE A. STEWART since World War II A. NAOMI PAIK From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal’s Federal Writers' In this bold book, A. Naomi Project collected life stories Paik grapples with the history from more than 2,300 former of U.S. prison camps that have African American slaves. These confined people outside the narratives are now widely boundaries of legal and civil used as a source to understand rights. Removed from the social the lived experience of those and political communities that who made the transition from would guarantee fundamental slavery to freedom. But in this legal protections, these detain- examination of the project and ees are effectively rightless, its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart stripped of the right even to shows it was the product of have rights. Rightless people competing visions of the past, thus expose an essential par- as ex-slaves’ memories of bondage, emancipation, and adox: while the United States life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and purports to champion inalienable rights at home and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. By internationally, it has built its global power in part by cre- shedding new light on a critically important episode in the ating a regime of imprisonment that places certain pop- history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery ulations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a States’ status as the guardian of rights coincides with, prominent archive used to construct that history. indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness. Catherine A. Stewart is professor of history at Cornell A. Naomi Paik is assistant professor of Asian American studies College. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“It is a rare delight to read a book as authoritative and cap- Studies in United States Culture tivating as this one. Stewart narrates the racial politics of the Federal Writers’ Project, tracing with clarity and force an “A. Naomi Paik’s meticulous book opens new interpretative on-the-ground reading of how race operates in American soci- approaches to fundamental problems of U.S. sovereignty and ety and culture.” democracy. A challenging historical survey of the relationship —Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa between normal styles of government and states of emergency “In this provocative history of the ex-slave narratives compiled has been artfully combined with a bold defense of the value of by the Federal Writers’ Project, Catherine A. Stewart provides rights in the struggles of the excluded, racialized, and incar- an essential text for understanding race relations in America cerated.” before the civil rights era.” —Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature, —Nina Silber, Boston University King's College London April 2016 “This original and convincing book shows how the United 978-1-4696-2626-0 $29.95 Paper States relies on prison camps in an era of both rights assertion 372 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index and global dominance. A. Naomi Paik persuasively explains why these camps were created, why they persist, and why we must listen to those who are detained.” —Leti Volpp, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law April 2016 978-1-4696-2631-4 $29.95 Paper 332 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 halftones, notes, bibl., index Sign up for e-alerts about new UNC Press books and special offers. Visit us at www.uncpress.unc.edu.

40% off use code 01DAH40 33 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 american studies Sugar and Civilization Jack London American Empire and the Cultural Politics of A Writer’s Fight for a Better America Sweetness CECELIA TICHI APRIL MERLEAUX Jack London (1876–1916) In the weeks and months found fame with his wolf-dog after the end of the Spanish- tales and sagas of the fro- American War, Americans zen North, but Cecelia Tichi celebrated their nation’s tri- challenges the long-standing umph by eating sugar. Each view of London as merely of the nation’s new imperial a mass-market producer of possessions, from Puerto Rico potboilers. A onetime child to the Philippines, had the laborer, London led a life of potential for vastly expanding poverty in the Gilded Age sugar production. As victory before rising to worldwide parties and commemorations acclaim for stories, novels, and prominently featured candy essays designed to hasten the and other sweets, Americans social, economic, and politi- saw sugar as the reward for cal advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that London’s career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to leveraged his written words as a force for the future. understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic inter- Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and ventions. Connecting the history of sugar to its producers, professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University. She is author consumers, and policy makers, Merleaux shows that the of Civic Passions, Exposés and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation. modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire. “This book is a brilliant integration of the age and its literatures, reaching deeply into London's significance as an artist and April Merleaux is assistant professor of history at Florida political and public figure of his era. Cecelia Tichi has created a International University. stunning contribution to Jack London studies.” —Jeanne Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio “April Merleaux deftly shows how sugar crystallized the “Cecelia Tichi reflects Jack London's astounding energy and American empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. By emphasizes the importance of journalism to the essential drive uncovering connections between sugar, capitalist imperialism, that defines him. This is a valuable and rewarding work.” and racial ideologies, Sugar and Civilization stands as an —Joseph Flora, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill essential and highly original analysis of the past." —Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto, Scarborough September 2015 978-1-4696-2266-8 $34.95 Cloth “In a book of breathtaking scope and research, April Merleaux 296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 33 halftones, notes, bibl., index expertly weaves together the issues of empire, immigration, economy, consumption, and race, creating an innovative explo- also available as an enhanced BOOK ration of sugar’s role in molding the modern United States. Extraordinary, ambitious, and a pleasure to read.” —Jason Colby, University of Victoria September 2015 978-1-4696-2251-4 $32.95 Paper 320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 29 halftones, 5 figs Most UNC Press books are available as BOOKS UNC Press books are now available through Books@JSTOR and Project Muse – and North Carolina Scholarship Online (NCSO) on Oxford Scholarship Online.

40% off use code 01DAH40 34 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 political history Right Moves The Virgin Vote The Conservative Think Tank in American Political How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Culture since 1945 Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the JASON STAHL Nineteenth Century JON GRINSPAN From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks There was a time when have played an indelible role in young people were the most the rise of American conser- passionate participants in vatism. Positioning themselves American democracy. In against the alleged liberal bias the second half of the nine- of the media, academia, and teenth century—as voter turn- the federal bureaucracy, con- out reached unprecedented servative think tanks gained peaks—young people led the the attention of politicians way, hollering, fighting, and and the public alike and were flirting at massive midnight instrumental in promulgating rallies. Drawing on hundreds conservative ideas. Yet, in spite of diaries and letters of diverse of the formative influence these young Americans—from bar- institutions have had on the media and public opinion, maids to belles, sharecroppers little has been written about their history. Here, Jason to cowboys—this book explores how exuberant young Stahl offers the first sustained investigation of the rise and people and scheming party bosses relied on each other historical development of the conservative think tank as a from the 1840s to the turn of the twentieth century. It also source of political and cultural power in the United States. explains why this era ended so dramatically and asks if aspects of that strange period might be useful today. Jason Stahl is an historian and lecturer in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Policy Development at the University Jon Grinspan is a historian of American democracy, youth, of Minnesota, Twin Cities. and popular culture. He is a curator at the Smithsonian’s National “Right Moves is the right book for anyone hoping to understand Museum of American History and a frequent contributor to the New how America's political discourse has been influenced by York Times. private think tanks funded by corporate money. It's fair mind- “The Virgin Vote vividly captures just how immersive politics ed, well documented, and fills an important gap in scholarly could be in the wide-open nineteenth century, especially for research.” the young people who constituted such a large and noisy part —Jane Mayer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Magazine of the electorate. In our era of rising indifference to big-money April 2016 politics, it is bracing to be reminded how deep the passions 978-1-4696-2786-1 $34.95 Cloth ran when democracy was close to a contact sport.” 264 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index —Ted Widmer, author of Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City and editor of Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation May 2016 978-1-4696-2734-2 $28.00 Cloth 264 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 19 halftones, 1 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index

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40% off use code 01DAH40 35 uncpress.unc.edu • 800-848-6224 diplomatic history Us versus Them Sacred Interests The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of The United States and the Islamic World, the Green Threat 1821-1921 DOUGLAS LITTLE KARINE V. WALTHER

In this important new Throughout the nineteenth book, Douglas Little explores and early twentieth centuries, the political and cultural as Americans increasingly came turmoil that led U.S. policy into contact with the Islamic makers to shift their atten- world, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, tion from containing the political, and religious beliefs “Red Threat” of international about Islam began to shape communism to combatting their responses to world events. the “Green Threat” of rad- In Sacred Interests, Karine V. ical Islam after 1989. Little Walther excavates the deep his- analyzes America’s confron- tory of American Islamophobia, tation with Islamic extrem- showing how negative percep- ism through the traditional tions of Islam and Muslims ideological framework of “us shaped U.S. foreign relations versus them” that has historically pitted the United States from the Early Republic to the end of World War I. against Native Americans, Mexicans, Asian immigrants, Nazis, and the Soviets. Karine Walther is an Assistant Professor of History at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. She holds a PhD in history from Douglas Little is the Robert and Virginia Scotland Professor Columbia University, a Maîtrise and Licence in Sociology from of History and International Relations at Clark University. the University of Paris VIII and a BA in American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. “Us versus Them is a marvelous read on a hot topic. With crisp and witty prose, the book is by far the liveliest read in its field, “Delving into a relatively little-known field, Karine V. Walther and Little demonstrates a mastery of sources with the sure recovers an important period of the United States’ history and hand of a mature historian who knows not only the topic of its relations with the Islamic world. Sacred Interests is a very U.S. relations with the Middle East, but also the broad sweep important book.” of U.S. history. No book presently on the market commands —Julian Go, Boston University the strengths of Us versus Them.” September 2015 —Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut 978-1-4696-2539-3 $39.95 Cloth “Douglas Little’s cogent, perceptive, and well-reasoned work 480 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 halftones, notes, bibl., index emerges as one of the best books on recent U.S. diplomacy across the Middle East. Moving energetically through twen- ty-five years of U.S. diplomacy, Little’s compelling and memo- rable thesis will draw more visibility and attention to his work than that enjoyed to date by any other book on this subject.” —Peter Hahn, Ohio State University May 2016 978-1-4696-2680-2 $30.00 Cloth 328 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index

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A groundbreaking con- tribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Crafting Lives African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, Alabama's repressive, racist 1770-1900 police state to fight for eco- CATHERINE W. BISHIR nomic justice, civil and political 2015 392 pp. 978-1-4696-2657-4 $24.95 paper rights, and racial equality. After Seeing Race in Modern America discussing the book’s origins MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL and impact in a new preface 2015 248 pp. 978-1-4696-2651-2 $24.95 paper written for this twenty-fifth-an- Jim Crow Wisdom niversary edition, Robin Kelley Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social 2015 288 pp. 978-1-4696-2641-3 $27.95 paper movements confronting rampant inequality, police vio- From Brown to Meredith The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, lence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism. Kentucky, 1954-2007 Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Professor of American TRACY E. K’MEYER 2016 240 pp. 978-1-4696-2725-0 $30.00 paper history at UCLA. Atlanta, Cradle of the New South “A fascinating and indispensable contribution to the history of Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath American radicalism and to black history.” WILLIAM A. LINK —Nation Civil War America 2015 264 pp. 978-1-4696-2655-0 $24.95 paper “Reshaping southern history by restoring its radical past to historical salience, Robin Kelley writes an account that beauti- Doctoring Freedom The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and fully balances culture, government, economics, and ideology. Emancipation His handling of race represents one of the book’s greatest GRETCHEN LONG strengths, for Kelley keeps race at the center—as it was in The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture the South in the 1930s—yet at the same time he traces the 2016 248 pp. 978-1-4696-2833-2 $30.00 paper complexity of working-class consciousness among blacks and whites and realizes that matters of class and chronology influ- Stories of the South Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 enced the severity of the color line.” —Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University K. STEPHEN PRINCE 2016 336 pp. 978-1-4696-2728-1 $27.95 paper August 2015 What’s Wrong with the Poor? 978-1-4696-2548-5 $29.95 Paper Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty 412 pp., 6 x 9 MICAL RAZ Studies in Social Medicine 2016 264 pp. 978-1-4696-2730-4 $24.95 paper W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk Stephanie J. Shaw The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture 2015 288 pp. 978-1-4696-2643-7 $27.95 paper

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