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AMERICAN HISTORY & TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
Hawaiian by Birth Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific Joy Schulz Hawaiian by Birth explores the tensions among competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting the hundreds of white missionary children born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nineteenth century, and the impact these children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.
“Hawaiian by Birth is a superb study at the dynamic intersection of imperial, Hawaiian, cultural, and childhood histories. Joy Schulz is a passionate writer, and her work is filled with surprising implications for the history of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i.” —David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush 2017 • 240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 photographs, 7 illustrations, 1 map, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8589-7
STUDIES IN PACIFIC WORLDS RAINER F. BUSCHMANN AND KATRINA GULLIVER, SERIES EDITORS This series is dedicated to the exploration of the vast and complicated region of the Pacific Ocean. By examining the connections between nations, peoples, and resources that have shaped the Pacific as a ‘world,’ as well as a borderlands region, the series uncovers the importance of this geopolitical space.
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How to Reach Japan by Subway America’s Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965 Meghan Warner Mettler How to Reach Japan by Subway studies the shibui phenomenon in which American middle-class consumers embraced Japanese culture while still exoticizing this new aesthetic. By examining shibui through the popularity of samurai movies, ikebana flower arrangement, bonsai cultivation, home and garden design, and Zen Buddhism, Meghan Warner Mettler shows how Americans created a new understanding of Japan. Popular publications reflected the context of U.S. post–World War II international hegemony, resulting in Americans exchanging one set of stereotypes based on race, gender, social class, and geography for another.
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“A wonderful contribution to our knowledge in the field of twentieth century U.S. history, American studies, Asian American studies, and America in the world. It is a fun and exciting read.” —Hiroshi Kitamura, associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary “With elegant erudition, Meghan Warner Mettler explains why and how Americans found themselves embracing the culture of their recently defeated enemy. . . . A pleasure to read, Mettler’s book ultimately suggests that war and peace-making also structures private, individual choices about taste in a consumer society.” —Naoko Shibusawa, associate professor of history at Brown University and author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy June 2018 • 300 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, 6 illustrations, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9963-4
many wests ari kelman, thomas andrews, mary e. mendoza, amy lonetree, and christina snyder, series editors Building on a tradition of excellence in the publication of western American history, including field-defining books like Colin Calloway’s One Vast Winter Count, Margaret Jacobs’s White Mother to a Dark Race, and Anne Hyde’s Empires, Nations, and Families, the University of Nebraska Press announces a new series in the history of the West and its borderlands. Many Wests will be a destination series for distinguished scholarship in the history of the American West, broadly construed.
Edited by renowned and award-winning scholars, this highly selective series will recruit manuscripts that are expected to make a major impact in the field of western history. The scope of the series will be broad, including environmental, indigenous, borderlands, gender, social, public, and legal history. To build a scholarly and intellectual community around the series, authors accepted for inclusion in the series will be given the opportunity to participate in a manuscript workshop with series editors and an invited outsider reader.
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Unpopular Sovereignty Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory Brent M. Rogers In examining the attempts of Mormons to establish popular sovereignty in Utah Territory, Brent M. Rogers analyzes the implementation of a republican form of government, the administration of Indian policy and Native American affairs, and gender and familial relations. “This excellent interpretation of the causes and results of the Mormon War is presented within the larger context of national events, which, in turn, led to the American Civil War.” —M. L. Tate, CHOICE 2017 • 402 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 illustrations, 1 map, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7677-2 $32.50 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9585-8
Producing Predators Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies Michael D. Wise Producing Predators is a study of the environmental and cultural histories of predator-prey relationships, colonialism, and capitalism in the Montana-Alberta borderlands from the 1870s through the 1930s.
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“An extraordinarily powerful narrative that will leave readers with a renewed appreciation of the profundity of the northern Rockies’ environmental transformation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” —Carol Medlicott, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 2016 • 210 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 illustrations, index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4981-3
Exceptional Mountains A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes O. Alan Weltzien Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. “Outdoors people will likely find much in Exceptional Mountains that will help them rethink their outdoor experiences. Likewise, anyone interested in understanding regional American identity, park management, and changing uses of wilderness will find stories of interest.” —Rachel S. Gross, H-Environment 2016 • 264 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 10 illustrations, index $40.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6547-9
How the West Was Drawn
Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border James David Nichols
Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West David Bernstein
The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century.
How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North America’s Great Plains that provides the fine details of the Pawnees’, Iowas’, and Lakotas’ strategies of survival from and accommodation to predatory Euro-American and Native empires.
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The Limits of Liberty
“James Nichols shows how a dizzying array of historical actors used the early U.S.-Mexico “A fascinating analysis of the factors that border for their own purposes, sometimes contributed to the creation of maps of the pleasing national authorities and sometimes Trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth cengreatly vexing them. We are accustomed to tury. The focus on tribal contributions to this thinking of borders as barriers, but Nichols process makes the subject even more worthy shows how this border invited crossing and of analysis. This book has the potential to alter inspired dreams of hope and freedom. This significantly the way we view the maps resultdeeply empathetic and creative study should be required reading for borderlands historians.” ing from treaties, exploratory expeditions, and other projects.” —John P. Bowes, professor of —Benjamin H. Johnson, associate professor history at Eastern Kentucky University and of history at Loyola University, Chicago author of Land Too Good for Indians: NorthJuly 2018 • 378 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photos, 5 illustrations, ern Indian Removal 3 maps, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0579-7
August 2018 • 402 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 figures, 46 maps, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4930-1
BORDERLANDS AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
PAUL SPICKARD AND PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, SERIES EDITORS A venue for the scholarly study of borderlands—of the encounters, intersections, and collisions between peoples and cultures—the books in this series focus on comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters. nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com
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Conquering Sickness
The Borderland of Fear
Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands Mark Allan Goldberg
Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami Homeland Patrick Bottiger
Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Allan Goldberg analyzes how colonizing powers evaluated, incorporated, and discussed local remedies and examines the racialist thinking of the region in order to understand evolving concepts of health, race, and place in the nineteenth-century borderlands.
The Borderland of Fear examines violence and the development of intertribal alliances and American nationalism among Native American tribes in the Ohio River Valley during the nineteenth century. Patrick Bottiger demonstrates that violence, rather than being imposed on the region’s inhabitants by outside forces, instead stemmed from the factionalism that was already present. The Borderland of Fear explores how these conflicts were not between nations and races but rather between cultures and factions.
“I can imagine Conquering Sickness finding its way onto many reading lists. It’s clear that “Much of what we know about Prophetstown, this is a book from which historians of the Patrick Bottiger tells us in this provocative American West, Native American history, colonial and early national Mexico, and Texas and fascinating new book, is a lie. But lies now have much to learn.” —Thomas Andrews, reveal as well as conceal, and in his hands the world of the Miami borderlands, which author of Coyote Valley: Deep History in the the lies both divulge and helped create, is far High Rockies more compelling than the clashing Indian 2017 • 258 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photos, 4 figures, and American nationalisms that the older 1 map, index stories tell about Tippecanoe.” —Richard $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8588-0 White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University 2016 • 270 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 figures, 3 maps, 2 tables, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5484-8
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Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War Todd W. Wahlstrom The Southern Exodus to Mexico considers the experiences of both white southern elites and common white and black southern farmers and laborers who moved to Mexico after the Civil War. Todd W. Wahlstrom examines how Native groups, along with local Mexicans, prevented southern colonies from taking hold in the region, where local tradition and careful balances of power negotiated over centuries held more sway than large nationalistic or economic forces.
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The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Captives How Stolen People Changed the World Catherine M. Cameron Catherine M. Cameron compares the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small-scale societies through time. Cameron illuminates the impact that captive-taking and enslavement have had on cultural change, with important implications for understanding the past. This book provides a framework that will enable archaeologists to understand the scale and nature of cultural transmission by captives.
“In this ambitious and learned work, award-winning archaeologist Catherine Cameron explores how violence against the few “Wahlstrom provides a well-researched study may transform the cultures of the many.” of the people, events, and ideas surrounding —James Brooks, author of Captives and Confederate migration and colonization efforts in Mexico.” —C. L. Sinclair, CHOICE Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands “A welcome contribution to the lately growing 2016 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 illustrations, index scholarship on the Confederate-exile experi$40.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9399-1 ence that is excellently grounded in historiography.” —Robert May, American Historical Review 2015 • 232 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 images, 1 map, 2 tables, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4634-8
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Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America
Edited and with an introduction by John W. I. Lee and Michael North
John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together international and interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide scope of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands. “This work ambitiously and successfully globalizes the study of borderlands. The articles interact with each other, bridge disciplines, and provide new conceptual contributions to the field.” —Jason Lavery, author of The History of Finland 2016 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps, 2 tables, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8562-0
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Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia Ann McGrath 2016 John Douglas Kerr Medal for Distinction in Research and Writing Australia History 2016 General History Prize, New South Wales Premier’s History Awards
“The real drama in Illicit Love lies with the lovers, in relationships, not regulations. . . . McGrath’s ‘love’—both for and between her characters—gives a depth to this fresh and sometimes dazzling book that must resonate with us all.” —Lisa Ford, American Historical Review March 2018 • 540 pp. • 6 x 9 • 49 photographs, 21 illustrations, 9 maps, index $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0384-7
Chiricahua and Janos Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880 Lance R. Blyth 2013 David J. Weber–William P. Clements Prize
Chiricahua and Janos is a history of the relationships between the Apaches, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands of Chihuahua. “At a time when western historians have rediscovered the borderlands to great effect, Chiricahua and Janos presents a valuable new framework for thinking about Spanish-Indian relations in the American Southwest. It is a substantial contribution to the fields of borderlands and Native American history.” —Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
“[An] example of the violent peace that A revisionist history of interracial love, sex, cultural differences and local goals can and marriage between Indigenous and settler produce.” —Robert C. Galgano, Journal of citizens in the United States and Australia from the late eighteenth century to the twen- American History tieth century against the backdrop of legal and 2015 • 296 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 maps, 1 glossary, index cultural barriers to precisely such liaisons. $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-7431-0
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Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910 Phillip B. Gonzales Política offers a revisionist history of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the body politic of the United States during the nineteenth century. “With the knowledge that this book focuses on the first thirty years of the American period of New Mexico history, historians will find Política a detailed and valuable contribution to our understanding of Nuevomexicanos that expands our horizons beyond the previous political histories of Americano leaders in this same era.” —Cameron L. Saffell, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2016 • 1080 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 illustrations, 20 photographs, 3 maps, 6 tables, index $90.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8465-4
Catholic Borderlands Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905–1935 Anne M. Martínez Anne M. Martínez explores the central role Mexico played in establishing an American Catholic narrative through the life and actions of Rev. Francis Kelley, founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society.
“The clear writing, strong analytical framing, and global scope make Catholic Borderlands an excellent book for undergraduate and graduate classes.” —Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Hispanic American Historical Review
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Política
2014 • 312 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 photographs, 5 drawings, index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4877-9
Borderland Films American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era Dominique Brégent-Heald Borderland Films examines the intersection of North American borderlands and culture as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema. Domique Brégent-Heald investigates the significance of national borders, concepts of race aand gender, racialized ideas of criminality, and wars that showed how conflict influenced the U.S.’s relations with its neighbors. “Original, incisive, and written in a clear and accessible style, Borderland Films delves into an area that has received too little attention.” —G. A. Foster, CHOICE 2015 • 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 photographs, 2 illustrations, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7673-4
“This is a well-researched book that I would recommend to anyone interested in the American Roman Catholic Church and its relationship with Hispanic Catholic communities (Mexico in particular).” —Michael P. Carroll, American Historical Review
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Bootleggers and Borders The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland Stephen T. Moore Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington, DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values.
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition Gregory D. Smithers
This revised and expanded edition of Gregory D. Smithers’s sociohistorical tour de force examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Smithers builds on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia.
“Combines a very ambitious synthesis of existing scholarship with original research into primary sources. This book could have a profound impact upon scholarly thinking in relevant fields.” —Ann McGrath, author of “Bootleggers and Borders provides a compelling Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia view of Prohibition’s impact on the distinct culture of the Pacific Northwest and the inter- “A keen critique of the impossible logic of play between liquor policies in this region racism in two major settler societies anxious and those in the rest of the United States and to strengthen their sense of nationhood.” Canada.” —James Klein, Journal of American —Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson History Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin 2014 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 5 illustra-
“Highly worthwhile for its deep archival research, its careful and sustained argument, and its sparkling prose.” —Andrew Graybill, American Historical Review
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2017 • 516 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations, 1 table, index $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9591-9
Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing Polly Reed Myers
original, nuanced book explains how these women discovered uniquely American answers to these questions.” —Kathy Olmsted, author of Real Enemies, Red Spy Queen, and Challenging the Secret Government
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Capitalist Family Values
Capitalist Family Values focuses on stories of 2015 • 286 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, index Boeing’s women to illustrate economic, polit- $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5475-6 ical, and social changes and analyze the ways gender roles are institutionalized in workplace Dressing for the Culture Wars culture. Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation “This book is both an indictment of corporate in the 1960s and 1970s Betty Luther Hillman greed and a snapshot of racial and social attitudes in an almost decade-by-decade exam- Dressing for the Culture Wars examines the ination.” —David Mills, Western Historical role of fashion, hairstyle, and dress in AmerQuarterly ican politics to understand the “culture wars” 2015 • 284 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 illustrations, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7869-1
Gendering Radicalism Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California Beth Slutsky Gendering Radicalism examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced in a gendered and raced context through the lives of three women who joined and led the California branches of the Communist Party from 1919 to 1992. “The three remarkable women in this book wrestled with some of the most compelling questions in the history of American reform movements. What was the best way to achieve social justice? Was economic inequality more important than sexism or racism? Slutsky’s
and the resulting discussion of gender, race, and sexuality in conservative and liberal party politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
“Dressing for the Culture Wars extends our understanding of the social impact of fashion by providing an extensive analysis of its role in recent political and social debates.” —Diana Crane, Journal of American History “Given its impressive sweep, scholarly rigor, and utter originality, Hillman’s monograph is all the more commendable for opening up fresh areas of investigation.” —Gretchen LemkeSantangelo, American Historical Review 2015 • 278 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 illustrations, index $40.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6975-0
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The Case of Rose Bird
Empress San Francisco
Gender, Politics, and the California Courts The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and Kathleen A. Cairns California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition This biography of Rose Elizabeth Bird is Abigail M. Markwyn an overdue look at California’s first female supreme court chief justice, against the backdrop of California’s political and cultural climate in the 1970s and 1980s.
Abigail M. Markwyn examines the 1915 San Francisco world’s fair, focusing on the local social and political climate of San Francisco during this period.
“Written in a style that is consistently clear and sprightly, The Case of Rose Bird offers both “Empress San Francisco is an excellent work, enlightenment and pleasure to readers interand it will be of interest to students and scholested in politics, the judiciary, women and ars of world’s fairs, American western settlegovernment, and California’s history.” —Susan ment, urban development, and Progressive-era Hartmann, author of The Other Feminists: racial, ethnic, and gender relations, reform Activists in the Liberal Establishment movements, and foreign relations.” —Elaine 2016 • 348 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, Naylor, American Historical Review 1 illustration, index $36.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5575-3
San Francisco’s Queen of Vice The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns Lisa Riggin Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortion-provider Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune providing her services to desperate women throughout California. “With a novelist’s eye for detail and pacing, Lisa Riggin recounts a chapter of San Francisco history that mixes vice and virtue as only the City by the Bay can. . . . It is a gripping narrative that chronicles America’s struggle with an issue that remains a critical political battleground even today.” —Ethan Rarick, author of California Rising 2017 • 280 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 photographs, index $27.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0207-9
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“Markwyn offers new insight into the limitations to the exercise of American power abroad and implicitly challenges accounts of fairs that are overly comfortable within the safe historiographical confines of the nation-state.”—Colin Fisher, Journal of American History 2014 • 384 pp. • 6 x 9 • 54 photographs, 5 illustrations, 32 color plates, index $35.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4384-2
Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle Edited by Wendy Jean Katz This edited volume illuminates visions of progress, empire, and Indigeneity at Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899.
“Homesteading encapsulates into a single term and a famous law a tangled history that becomes a simple success in popular memory and an increasingly marginal event in most scholarly accounts. Homesteading the Plains, the first major scholarly study in a generation, uses new data sources and new digital techniques to present a nuanced account of an important government program that scholars will need to reevaluate.” —Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University
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The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
2017 • 272 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs, 5 illustra“This is an excellent collection that offers tions, 12 maps, 11 tables, 28 graphs, 4 charts, 2 insight into the social and cultural history of these Omaha fairs and into the way that pop- appendixes, index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9679-4 ular culture offered a venue for the construction of both U.S. imperial aims and regional Great Plains Indians identity during the Progressive Era.” —Abigail David J. Wishart Markwyn, author of Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California Great Plains Indians is a concise history of at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present. February 2018 • 516 pp. • 6 x 9 • 35 photographs, 33 illustrations, 3 maps, 6 tables, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7880-6
Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo Homesteading the Plains draws on a new dataset to reexamine established critical interpretations of the Homestead Act, exploring the overall success of homesteading and the formation of both farms and communities in the homesteading process.
“[David Wishart’s] clear and succinct overview of Plains culture and history will enlighten the casual reader.” —Publishers Weekly “A magnificent encapsulation of a story we all need to know.” —Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World 2016 • 168 pp. • 5 x 8 • 12 illustrations, 8 maps, 1 graph, index $14.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-6962-0 Discover the Great Plains series
DISCOVER THE GREAT PLAINS
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Ellen Browning Scripps New Money and American Philanthropy Molly McClain Molly McClain presents a biography of Ellen Browning Scripps, an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, social reformer, and philanthropist, who made her fortune in the rapidly expanding Scripps chain of newspapers and used her wealth and influence to support philanthropic causes.
Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius R. Alton Lee
R. Alton Lee presents a new biography of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, one of the twentieth century’s greatest book publishers and socialist writers.
“Emanuel Haldeman-Julius was acquainted with an extraordinary number of important American writers and activists, and his life offers an interesting window into the world “What a life! Ellen Browning Scripps made an astonishing amount of money, lived a very of early twentieth-century radical politics long time, and gave millions away. In doing so, and publishing. . . . This book makes America she changed the landscape of the far West and during that period, at least on the socialist end earned for herself a pivotal place in American of the political spectrum, seem like a small village.” —Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb philanthropy. This fine book gives Scripps in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life her due.” —William Deverell, director of the Huntington–USC Institute on California and of “Ramparts” Magazine Changed America the West “The little-known story of the man who, a century ago, made Girard, Kansas, one of the 2017 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 32 images, index $34.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9595-7 world’s publishing capitals. . . . . The author’s subject is undoubtedly fascinating. . . . The Phoebe Apperson Hearst surprising story will propel readers through [it]. —Kirkus Reviews A Life of Power and Politics
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst is the first biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most powerful woman philanthropists. “A captivating portrait of a fascinating woman who insisted on her right to determine the possibilities of her fortune and to increase women’s ability to enter the public sphere on their own terms.” —Sarah Deutsch, author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 May 2018 • 696 pp. • 6 x 9 • 20 photographs, index $39.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0227-7
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February 2018 • 280 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, 1 appendix, index $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0128-7
LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
From Angel to Office Worker Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 Susie S. Porter From Angel to Office Worker explores how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico by examining the material conditions of women’s work and analyzing public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women’s movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers. This work is a major contribution to modern Mexican history, as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationship between labor, politics, and the cultural and public sphere.
“In this fine study, Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement by illuminating the relationship between professional women who served the federal state in education, health, and justice and a proliferating corps of female officer workers in the expanding bureaucracy. She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.” —Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico June 2018 • 426 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, 11 tables, 3 graphs, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0421-9 $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0578-0
THE MEXICAN EXPERIENCE WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY, SERIES EDITOR
This series explores the rich and varied character of the Mexican experience through narrative, description, and analysis. With an emphasis on the many Mexican cultures, the series examines historical, anthropological, geographical, ethnographical, and environmental issues in modern Mexico. nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com
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San Miguel de Allende
From Idols to Antiquity
Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site Lisa Pinley Covert
Forging the National Museum of Mexico Miruna Achim
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From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and development of the National Museum Lisa Pinley Covert explores the intersections of economic development and national iden- of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half tity formation in San Miguel de Allende to show how this once small, quiet town became of the nineteenth century. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home an emerging object shaped by the logic and to one of Mexico’s largest foreign-born popgoals of historical actors who soon found ulations. Covert offers new, critical insights themselves debating the origin of American into how Mexican towns and cities grappled civilizations, the nature of the American races, with economic and cultural change over the and the rightful ownership of antiquities. course of the twentieth century and provides vital historical context for the promise and “A riveting read. Based on meticulous research perils of a shift from an agricultural to a and full of astute observations, this study service-based economy. interrogates the uncertain and fragile beginnings of one of the world’s most acclaimed “San Miguel de Allende explores Mexican national identity from a bold new perspective. museums. Miruna Achim addresses fundamental questions focused on the construction Drawing on a remarkably broad range of of cultural and political authority and legitisources Covert makes a convincing case that the remaking of San Miguel de Allende’s past macy. It is an extraordinary achievement.” —Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, anticipates the modern Mexican right’s culPlanters, and Workers: The Making of the tural and economic project for the country’s Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico future.” —Ben Fallaw, author of Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico 2017 • 348 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 illustrations, index
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Routes of Compromise Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917–1952 Michael K. Bess
Redeeming the Revolution The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico Joseph U. Lenti
Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class. Joseph Lenti reveals the government’s objectives, constructs a chronology of its efforts to repress unsanctioned labor activity, and shows how the New “A compelling analysis of the essential but overFederal Labor Law of 1970 was a landmark looked impact of road building in modern piece of legislation that shaped future state, Mexico. Exhaustively researched and cogently organized labor, and business relations in argued, few recent works are as important to midcentury Mexico. understanding how state power, economic “An important new book that every Mexican modernization, and nation-building conhistorian should read. Joseph Lenti has delved verged in twentieth-century Mexico.” deeply into the archives to document the —Susan Gauss, associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University vitality of the Mexican labor movement for much of the twentieth century [as well as] its of Massachusetts, Boston weaknesses.” —John Mason Hart, John and 2017 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 photographs, 2 maps, Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of 8 tables, 3 graphs, index History at the University of Houston and $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9934-4 author of Empire and Revolution: The Ameri$30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0246-8 cans in Mexico since the Civil War Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local, national, and transnational levels, helped determine how Mexico would build and finance its roadways.
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Street Democracy Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico Sandra C. Mendiola García
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 J. Justin Castro
In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of street vendors, focusing on radical street vendors in Mexico’s fourth-largest city, Puebla, during the 1970s and 1980s. By examining the political activism and historical relationship of street vendors to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mendiola García offers insights into grassroots organizing, the Mexican Dirty War, and the politics of urban renewal, issues that remain at the core of street vendors’ experience even today.
Radio in Revolution, an innovative study of early radio technologies and the Mexican Revolution, examines the foundational relationship between electronic wireless technologies, single-party rule, and authoritarian practices in Mexican media. J. Justin Castro argues that the revolution had far-reaching ramifications for the development of radio and politics in Mexico and reveals how continued security concerns prompted the revolutionary victors to view radio as a threat even while they embraced it as an essential component of maintaining control.
“Mendiola García nimbly transports us to the streets of Puebla, where everyday men, women, and children redefine their roles from simple peddlers to organized vendors. She expertly traces the shift in organizing tactics and identity politics in response to state repression and the neoliberal bend.” —Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill 2017 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 photographs, 1 map, 1 glossary, index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7503-4 $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-6971-2
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“Radio in Revolution is a well-researched and engaging book that covers an understudied aspect of Mexican historiography.” —Sarah Foss, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews 2016 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 illustrations, 1 map, 4 graphs, index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6844-9 $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-8678-8
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new in paperback The Heart in the Glass Jar Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico William E. French 2016 Thomas McGann Book Prize in Modern Latin American History
The Heart in the Glass Jar is a history of love and courtship in Mexico, from the 1860s through the 1930s, based on love letters preserved in legal cases involving courtship. “Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally well suited to graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Mexican history as well as specialized history and/or theory courses on love, courtship, gender relations, and the written word.” —Robert M. Buffington, Historian May 2018 • 318 pp. • 6 x 9 • index $25.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0639-8
Deco Body, Deco City Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939 Ageeth Sluis Ageeth Sluis explores changing gender norms and the formation of urban space in post-revolutionary Mexico City by linking aesthetic and architectural discourses to political and
social developments. This cultural history brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history to demonstrate how changing gender norms formed a new urban modernity. “Deco Body, Deco City is a much needed addition to the existing literature on modern Mexican history.” —Washington Book Review 2016 • 396 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 illustrations, index $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9382-3
Seen and Heard in Mexico Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism Elena Jackson Albarrán 2016 Maria Elena Martinez Book Prize
Elena Jackson Albarran analyzes the Mexican government’s use of children to advance their state-formation goals following the Mexican Revolution, and the experiences of children during this campaign. “An engaging, well-researched, and well-argued contribution to our understanding of the role children played in the post-revolutionary Mexican state and identity formation.” —Nichole Sanders, American Historical Review 2015 • 414 pp. • 6 x 9 • 57 images, index $75.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6486-1 $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-6534-9
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Crafting a Republic for the World Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia Lina del Castillo Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy” while seeking ways to undo that supposed legacy. At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders forged a vision of a virtuous republic that abolished slavery and included Indians as citizens. They did so when hostile monarchies and empires eyed republican equality with suspicion. This book explores how the struggle to be at the vanguard of republican equality fomented innovative contributions to social sciences and geographic practices.
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“Crafting a Republic for the World reveals the shared culture of republican experimentation that united political elites in nineteenth-century Colombia. . . . Lina del Castillo’s work deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America as part of the vanguard of democracy.” —Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick “This is the rare scholarly work that will make valuable contributions to not just one but three historical fields: the political history of republicanism, the cultural history of nineteenth-century mentalités, and the global history of science.” —James E. Sanders, professor of history at Utah State University June 2018 • 402 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 photo, 14 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables, index $50.00 • hardcover • 0-8032-9074-7 $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0548-3
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Soldiers of the Nation
The Sovereign Colony
Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868–1952 Harry Franqui-Rivera
Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico Antonio Sotomayor
Harry Franqui-Rivera argues that the emergence of strong and complicated Puerto Rican national identities is deeply rooted in the long history of colonial military organizations on the island. He examines the patterns of inclusion-exclusion within the military and the various forms of citizenship that are subsequently transformed into socioeconomic and political enfranchisement. Analyzing the armed forces as a culture-homogenizing agent, Franqui-Rivera explains the formation and evolution of Puerto Rican national identities that eventually led to the creation of the Estado Libre Asociado in 1952.
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Antonio Sotomayor illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that developed within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. In the Olympic arena Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures —and the claim of the United States to democratic values —to their advantage. The Sovereign Colony uses Olympic sports to view broader issues of nation building and identity, “A game-changer. This book adds to our under- hegemony, postcolonialism, and international standing of the relationship between colonial diplomacy. citizens and the empire that rules them, while “An innovative approach to Puerto Rico’s bringing to the forefront the efforts of Puerto coloniality through the prism of sports. . . . Ricans to define what the impact of colonial- This accessible account of Puerto Rican sport ism would be in their daily lives.” —Teresita provides a great introduction to the complex Levy, associate professor of Latin American issues of contemporary coloniality and will and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College be an excellent addition to undergraduate and author of Puerto Ricans in the Empire: collections.” —B. A. Lucero, CHOICE Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism “Well written, meticulously researched, and June 2018 • 372 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 photos, index very timely, this book is highly recommended $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7867-7 to both scholar and lay reader alike.” —Sport in American History 2016 • 330 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 photographs, 2 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7881-3
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The Black Christ of Esquipulas
Of Love and Loathing
duras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. Douglass Sullivan-González explores the multifaceted appeal of this famous shrine, its mysterious changes in color over the centuries, and its deeper significance in the spiritual and political lives of Guatemalans. This “biography” sheds light on some of the most salient themes in Guatemala’s social and political history: state formation, interethnic dynamics, and church-state tensions.
Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy in colonial Charcas. Robins shows how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals, and, more importantly, the degree to which the policies were evaded. A surprising image of society emerges from Robins’s analysis, one with considerably more moral latitude than can be found from the perspectives of religious doctrine and regal edicts.
“This is a wonderful book, beautifully conceptualized and charmingly written. It will be an important contribution to the historiography of Guatemala.” —Virginia Garrard-Burnett, author of Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982–1983
“No one has so systematically and thematically mined the range of documents and sources to paint such a comprehensive portrait of the collective conjugal history of a society, especially for the Andean regions [as Robins has]. . . . Scholars of gender relations and sexuality as well as legal historians will find much to like about this book.” —Kathryn A. Sloan, author of Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in Religion and Identity in Guatemala Douglass Sullivan-González the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825 Nicholas A. Robins On the eastern border of Guatemala and Hon-
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Paradise Destroyed
“Trouble in paradise! In this engaging, innovative, and well-researched study, Christopher Catastrophe and Citizenship Church uses the history of disasters to explore in the French Caribbean interactions between environmental, colonial, Christopher M. Church and political history in the French West Indies. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural . . . Paradise Destroyed adds an important new dimension to the history of modern empire, and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-censhowing how France’s ‘colonies of citizens’ could tury French Caribbean, examining the social, be both exotic and familiar, colonial and French economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. Environmen- at the same time.” —Tyler Stovall, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Calital disasters brought to the fore existing racial fornia, Santa Cruz, and author of Transnational and social tensions and held to the fire France’s France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how 2017 • 324 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 illustrations, 5 maps, France’s “old colonies” laid claim to a definition 15 graphs, 9 tables, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9099-0 of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of the fin de siècle.
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Medical Imperialism in French North Africa Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis Richard C. Parks
Colonial Suspects Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa Kathleen Keller
Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French government during Richard C. Parks examines how notions of the twentieth century as France’s empire race, class, modernity, and otherness shaped slipped into crisis. In addition to implementthe French colonial project. Looking at such ing the policy of association and attempting issues as the plasticity of identity, the collabdevelopment plans, the post-World War I oration and contention between French and Tunisian Jewish communities, Jewish women’s administration increasingly monitored Africans forming political networks, foreigners negotiation of social power relationships involved in shady activity, and Frenchmen in Tunis, and the razing of the city’s Jewish quarter, Medical Imperialism in French North pursuing adventure. Africa fills the gap in current literature by “Colonial Suspects explores the obsessive French focusing on the broader transnational context colonial preoccupation with constructing othof French actions in colonial Tunisia. erness, monitoring outsiders, and persecuting those at the poorest margins of white society. “Richard Parks adds new layers to our underFrom high-profile criminal cases to intimate standing of the interactions between colonizer and colonized in Tunisia, demonstrating how lives, the book offers a fine-grained perspecEuropean ideologies and methodologies were tive on the culture of suspicion pervading the policing of subversion —real and imagined — challenged and reinterpreted on the ground. In doing so, he also sheds a new and powerful within France’s West African colonies after light on the complex interethnic landscape of World War I.” —Martin Thomas, author of colonial Tunisia.” —Maud S. Mandel, Dean of Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 the College at Brown University and author of Muslims and Jews in France: History of a April 2018 • 270 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, index Conflict $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9691-6 2017 • 216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 maps, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6845-6
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Contesting French West Africa Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950 Harry Gamble After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. As French authorities worked to develop truncated forms of education for colonial “subjects,” many African students framed educational projects of their own. Contests intensified after World War II, as African “citizens” demanded access to metropolitan-style schooling. After spending decades developing schools for subject populations, colonial authorities struggled to adjust their educational mission to fit a federation now composed of citizens.
Franco-America in the Making The Creole Nation Within Jonathan K. Gosnell Franco-America in the Making examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. Jonathan K. Gosnell seeks out hidden Franco identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence. This study explores the postcolonial story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World.
“While contemporary textbooks of French include references to the U.S. Franco-Amer“Contesting French West Africa deftly highlights ican and Cajun cultures, there is no single volume that can provide teachers with the the tensions, contradictions, and unique background and greater depth they need features of a complex colonial schooling to teach their students.” —Eloise A. Brière, system. Harry Gamble is to be commended editor of J’aime New York, Second Edition: A for his engagement with many themes, from Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New the sharp contrasts between urban and rural contexts to the windows of cultural opportu- York State nity that opened for Africans during World July 2018 • 378 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs, War II.” —Eric T. Jennings, Distinguished 5 illustrations, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8527-9 Professor in the History of France and the Francophonie at the University of Toronto and author of Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance 2017 • 378 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 photographs, 6 maps, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9549-0
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The Cult of the Modern Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity Gavin Murray-Miller This cultural and political history focused on nineteenth-century France and Algeria examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. “A provocative —and convincing —account of how the conception of modernity became a vital means to political action and legitimacy in nineteenth-century France.” —Benjamin Franklin Martin, Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of France in 1938 2017 • 336 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9064-8
The French Army and Its African Soldiers The Years of Decolonization Ruth Ginio Ruth Ginio examines the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964.
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“A key study in French colonialism, colonial Africa, and the French Army. With this book the vast region of West Africa gets its due, as do the famous and important indigenous soldiers recruited in this region.” —Richard Fogarty, author of Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914–1918 2017 • 282 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 illustrations, 2 tables, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5339-1
The Moroccan Soul French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912–1956 Spencer D. Segalla The Moroccan Soul is an innovative study of the French education system in colonial Morocco. “Segalla should be congratulated for an enlightening study that stimulates the reader’s mind far beyond the topic suggested in the title.” —Samia I. Spencer, French Review January 2018 • 340 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0214-7
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Global Jewish Foodways A History Edited and with an introduction by Hasia R. Diner and Simone Cinotto Foreword by Carlo Petrini Global Jewish Foodways explores many facets of the history of Jewish food around the world. These essays provide a critical study of the impact of food on Jewish lives, focusing on the Jewish dietary system, a complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that regulated what could be eaten, when, how, and with whom. It looks at the ways in which Jews engaged with the foods of their non-Jewish neighbors and how Jews struggled among themselves about food. The contributors offer a fresh perspective on how historical changes through migration, settlement, and accommodation transformed Jewish food and customs. “Global Jewish Foodways is a path-breaking collection, the first to track the extraordinarily diverse practices of a minority for whom food serves as a center of their identity. It will immediately become a classic in Jewish studies courses, open up food studies to Jewish perspectives, and excite general readers who want to better understand what constitutes Jewish food.”—Roger Horowitz, director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library
Falafel Nation Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel Yael Raviv Yael Raviv moves beyond the territorial to divulge the role food plays in power struggles, moral dilemmas, and religious and ideological affiliations of different ethnic groups making up the “Jewish State.” A study of the changes in practices and attitudes surrounding food and cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the relationship between Israelis and their food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism. “Falafel Nation is an extraordinary, insightful study of Zionism and modern Jewish nationalism.” —Washington Book Review “A thought-provoking read for someone interested in a detailed, intellectual exploration of the origins of Israeli identity from a new perspective.” —Joy Getnick, Jewish Book Council “An excellent cultural and culinary history in the making of Israel’s modern day identity, and how religious and secular ideologies surprisingly worked together to unify the nation. . . . Excellent writing and thorough research.” —Jordan Griffith, International Social Science Review 2015 • 304 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 illustrations, index $34.50 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9017-4
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Mussolini’s Children Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy Eden K. McLean
Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830 Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500– 1830 reexamines the nature of Spanish Mussolini’s Children uses the lens of state-man- American political culture by reevaluating the dated youth culture to analyze the evolution of political theory, institutions, and practices of official racism in Fascist Italy. With evidence the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case from state policies, elementary textbooks, studies with a focus on New Spain and Quito, pedagogical journals, and other educational Jaime E. Rodríguez O. demonstrates that materials, Eden K. McLean demonstrates Spanish America’s process of independence that racism was always a central tenet of the differs from previous claims. Fascist project to create New Italians. She “Jaime Rodríguez O. is a great historian of the explains how the most infamous period of Fascist racism, which began in the summer of Iberian Empires, and once again he shows 1938 with the publication of the “Manifesto of his command of the subject in his latest book, Political Culture in Spanish America, Race,” played a critical part in a more general 1500–1830. It is an insightful and in-depth and longer-term Fascist racial program. examination of independence within an “Mussolini’s Children will become the author- Atlantic framework. This analysis is both beauitative study of elementary education and tifully written and exciting to read.” race in Fascist Italy. . . . McLean convincingly —Christoph Rosenmüller, research fellow at argues that, from the 1920s onward, primary the Max Planck Institute for European Legal schools, youth groups, children’s radio broad- History and professor of Latin American casts, and other media focused on the health history at Middle Tennessee State University of the ‘race’ or ‘stock,’ laying the groundwork February 2018 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 tables, index for official racism and anti-Semitism.” $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0088-4 —Michael R. Ebner, associate professor of history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University “A vivid illustration of how hegemony works in transmitting the ideas of high culture to society at large.” —Richard Drake, Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History at the University of Montana July 2018 • 354 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 illustrations, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0642-8
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announcing a new series
ann j. cruz, series editor
New Hispanisms publishes innovative studies that investigate how the cultural production of the Hispanic world is generated, disseminated, and consumed. Ranging from the Iberian Middle Ages to modern Spain and Latin America, this series offers a forum for various critical and disciplinary approaches to cultural texts, including literature and other artifacts of Hispanic culture.
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Producing Early Modern London At the First Table A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616 Kelly J. Stage London comedies of the seventeenth century used the city’s places in their staging, but they simultaneously explored the properties of the city as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this era’s drama mediation of the tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater’s use of city spaces and city places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays.
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain Jodi Campbell At the First Table provides a broad overview of Spanish food customs and their connections to identity and social change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, demonstrating the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of social identity. People perceived themselves and others as belonging to clearly defined categories of gender, status, age, occupation, and religion, and each of these categories carried certain assumptions about proper behavior and appropriate relationships with others.
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Courage and Grief Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War Mary Elizabeth Ailes Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s destructive Thirty Years’ War, expanding the scholarly parameters of military history in Europe in the seventeenth century. “The Swedish kingdom was the most innovative military power in Europe from the middle of the sixteenth until well into the seventeenth century. The contributions of women to making those innovations and the impacts of those innovations offer an interesting and little-researched story. Mary Elizabeth Ailes makes a convincing case for the importance of women in Sweden’s war efforts.” —Jason Lavery, professor of early modern European history at Oklahoma State University and author of The History of Finland January 2018 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0086-0
Separation Scenes Domestic Drama in Early Modern England Ann C. Christensen
bean years. Ann Christensen’s readings of key domestic plays are both entirely fresh and historically true.” —Lena Cowen Orlin, professor of English at Georgetown University, executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Locating Privacy in Tudor London 2017 • 318 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 figures, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9065-5
The Other Exchange Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature Denys Van Renen The Other Exchange investigates how English literature reflects women, masterless men, and foreigners as forging the economic and sociocultural foundation for the development of middle-class consciousness in early modern England. “This subtle and perceptive book shakes many of our assumptions about early modern comic writing. Van Renen reads these texts as exchanges between the elite and the ‘formidable and fluid counterpublic’ of women and the poor, and does so convincingly.” —Matthew Steggle, professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University
In this analysis of five exemplary plays, Separation Scenes explores the connection between “[Van Renen’s] fascinating argument and men’s commercial travel, which expanded and nuanced readings make this book vital to any study of the early modern period.” —Rajani intensified from the 1590s onward, and the Sudan, professor of English at Southern Methinauguration of a popular English theatrical odist University form, domestic tragedy.
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The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England Edited and with an introduction by Christina Luckyj and Niamh J. O’Leary
The essays comprising this collection identify, examine, and critically discuss political elements of female relations in literature from the early modern period. Organized according to female alliances within the spheres of domesticity, court life, and kinship, the chapters highlight the political complexities of female alliances in different literary genres and in both male- and female-authored works in early modern England.
“An excellent exploration of the ways that politics —writ large —resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.” —Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain 2017 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0199-7
WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD ALLYSON POSKA AND ABBY ZANGER, SERIES EDITORS Over the past forty years the study of women and gender has become foundational for understanding the early modern period. By challenging scholarly discourse about the lives, power, prerogatives, and challenges of women across class and geographical boundaries, the field has broadened our understanding of art, literature, science, politics, music, families, sexuality, and other quotidian experiences from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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MILITARY HISTORY
Remembering World War I in America Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi
On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition Kenneth M. Swope
Remembering World War I in America explores the American public’s collective memory and common perception of World War I by analyzing the extent to which it was On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger examines the expressed through the production of cultural social and demographic effects of the MingQing transition on southwest China and the artifacts related to the war. Through the analysis of war histories, memoirs, fiction, and devastation wrought by the warlord Zhang Xianzhong. Kenneth M. Swope traces the ongofilm, Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi shows that ing contested memory of these events in China no consistent images or messages about the and considers their implications for understandwar arose that resonated with a significant ing modern China and conflicts elsewhere. segment of the American population. “Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail “In this accessible and vivid study, Ken Swope assesses the history and legacy of the infamous the American cultural memory of the Great rebel leader, Zhang Xianzhong, showing that War before 1941. Using understudied sources such as pulp fiction and abandoned state his- his bloody reign was of signal importance in the emergence of China’s last imperial dynasty. It tory projects, she deftly shows how the act of ‘forgetting’ the war was based on remembering belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Qing history or global military history.” it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading.” —Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of his- —Tonio Andrade, professor of history at Emory tory at Binghamton University (SUNY) and University and author of The Gunpowder Age author of Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics and Beyond the GI Bill and Bonus March
March 2018 • 300 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 4 illustrations, 4 tables, 2 appendixes, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9085-3
July 2018 • 474 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 photos, 10 maps, 1 chronology, 3 appendixes, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4995-0
STUDIES IN WAR, SOCIETY, AND THE MILITARY KARA DIXON VUIC AND RICHARD S. FOGARTY, SERIES EDITORS This series focuses on books in which military history is placed in a larger social and cultural context. The implications of war extend far beyond the battlefield, and the series seeks to engage perspectives from the histories of gender, environment, technology, and politics, broadly construed. nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com
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Music Along the Rapidan
Civil War Washington
Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community History, Place, and Digital Scholarship Edited by Susan C. Lawrence during Winter Quarters, Virginia James A. Davis This edited volume examines Civil War–era James A. Davis examines the role of music in defining the socio-military community that emerged during the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia’s winter encampment in the Piedmont region of central Virginia.
Washington, DC and the digital platform that informs and enables these interpretations.
“Archivally rich and impressively executed. For the growing number of people intrigued by the District of Columbia as the site of a social revolution during the 1860s, Civil War Wash“Music Along the Rapidan provides a model for ington is a particularly engrossing venture.” how we might consider music in this difficult —Stephen Berry, co-director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georperiod of American history —one that looks beyond who published what where and seeks gia and author of House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War rather to understand how, when, why, and under what circumstances Americans experi2015 • 232 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 11 figures, enced music.” —Civil War Book Review 2 tables, index “Delightfully readable. A complete study of the Civil War where it meets music and national life.” —Randal Allred, professor of English at Brigham Young University–Hawaii 2014 • 360 pp. • 6 x 9 • 23 photographs, 9 drawings, index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4509-9
$55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6286-7
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory Edited and with an introduction by Bradley R. Clampitt
This collection of essays give a nuanced look at the layers of fighting and struggles in Indian Territory, both on and off the battlefield during the Civil War. “The essays contained in this volume offer an excellent introduction to the intricate nature of the war and Reconstruction and how they affected Native peoples across the territory. . . . An excellent addition to any graduate book list or undergraduate Civil War course.” —David P. Hopkins, Journal of Southern History 2015 • 200 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, index $25.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-7727-4
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ALSO OF INTEREST
Flight to the Top of the World
Outposts on the Frontier
The Adventures of Walter Wellman David L. Bristow
A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations Jay Chladek Foreword by Clayton C. Anderson
David L. Bristow tells the story of Walter Wellman, a remarkable early twentieth-century journalist, polar explorer, Washington political insider, and airship captain who, though vilified as a failure and a fake by his journalistic rivals, endured hardships, took huge risks, and cheated death more than once. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, and made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air.
Outposts on the Frontier tells the story of how the Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and Soviets combined strengths to build the International Space Station. Jay Chladek has unearthed a vast trove of stories from the first half-century of space station history filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success. At the heart of these tales are people of both greatness and modesty.
“David Bristow does an admirable job of “From Salyut, Skylab, and Mir to the Internasetting Walter Wellman’s story in the broader tional Space Station: with each passing orbit context of both American history and the his- we learn and benefit from accumulated data tory of polar exploration. This is an importand ongoing studies not only relating to our ant addition not only to Wellman’s biography, precious, fragile environment but the human but to the history and impact of American physiology and possible long-term consequences journalism in the early years of the twentieth for astronauts on protracted space missions century.” —Tom D. Crouch, senior curator beyond Earth orbit. This book highlights the of aeronautics at the National Air and Space incredible history of the orbiting vehicles that Museum and author of The Bishop’s Boys enable us to continue that crucial work: the space stations.” —Duane Graveline (1931–2016), July 2018 • 392 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, NASA scientist-astronaut and author of Surly 5 illustrations, 4 maps, index Bonds and From Laika with Love $29.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9678-7 2017 • 520 pp. • 6 x 9 • 35 photographs, 19 illustrations, index $37.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-2292-2
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Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies Edited by Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Cindy Cruz For over thirty years Frontiers has explored the diversity of women’s lives as shaped by such factors as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and place. Multicultural and interdisciplinary, Frontiers presents a braod mix of scholarly work, personal essays, and the arts offered in accessible language.
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