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spring & summer 2012

Contents 

General Interest 2 

New in Paperback 22 

Special Interest 43 

Distribution Books 58 

Gift Books 65 

Recent Award-Winners 66 

Journals 68 

Index 72 

Ordering Information 74 

Subject Guide 

African American Studies 9, 16, 25, 28, 45 

Archaeology 11, 52 

Art /Art History 30, 46, 62 

Baseball 16–21, 39–40 

Biography 7, 20–21, 26, 38, 40, 64 

California 3, 12, 14 

Cooking/Wine 34 

Ecology 13, 33 

Energy 33 

Ethnic Studies 49 

Europe 6, 7, 26, 34, 37, 45, 55 

Fiction 8, 9 

Great Plains 9–10, 30, 35, 42, 51 

History 

World 37, 44–45, 48–49, 52–53 

American 11, 17–19, 39, 42, 45, 50–51, 53, 64 

Western 11, 25, 35, 56–57, 64 

Military 4, 10, 23–27 

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Jewish Studies 6–7, 37, 44–45 

Journalism 16 

Juvenile Fiction 60 

Latin American Studies 48, 52–53 

Literary Collections 5, 50 

Literary Criticism 37, 54–55 

Literary Nonfiction 29, 32 

Memoir 1–6, 12, 27–29, 32–34, 36, 41–42 

Native Studies 8, 10, 35–36, 38, 48–52, 64 

Natural History 3, 14, 30, 32, 54, 60 

Nature Writing 3, 30, 32–33, 54, 60 

Nebraska 30, 54, 60, 62 

Photography 30, 60 

Sports 15–21, 38–42, 53 

Sustainability 13–14 

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Women’s Studies 4–5, 7, 15 

World War II 6, 7, 26, 36, 45 

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memoir 

nebraska paperback 

Such a Life 

lee martin 

Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, “I was never meant to come 

along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my 

mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he 

asked the doctor, ‘Can you get rid of it?’” From such an inauspicious 

beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, 

through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, 

have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life. 

Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, 

understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of 

neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers us a richly 

detailed, highly personal view that effortlessly expands to illuminate 

our world. 

At a tender age Martin moved to a new level of complexity, 

of negotiating silences and sadness, when his father lost both 

of his hands in a farming accident. His stories of youth (from 

a first kiss to a first hangover) and his reflections on age (as a 

vegan recalling the farm food of his childhood or as a writer 

contemplating the manual labor of his father and grandfather) 

bear witness to the observant child he was and the insightful 

and irresistible storyteller he’s become. His meditations on family 

form a highly evocative portrait of the relationships at the 

heart of our lives. 

Lee Martin is a professor of English and teaches creative writing 

at Ohio State University. He is the author of the novels The 

Bright Forever, finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 

and most recently, Break the Skin, as well as two other memoirs, 

Turning Bones and From Our House, both available from the 

University of Nebraska Press. Visit Martin's website at 

www.leemartinauthor.com. 

“Rich with empathy, wisdom, and wry humor, each essay in this 

remarkable book rewards the reader with exquisitely captured 

detail and brilliant characterization. In Such a Life, Pulitzer Prize 

finalist Lee Martin proves once again that he is the consummate 

storyteller, no matter where he puts his talents. An extraordinary, 

unforgettable book.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic 

and Desire 

“In vivid and lyrical prose, [Martin] explores the relationship between 

childhood and the adult self. . . . Martin’s quest to unite his 

past and present forces him to confront the fundamental issues of 

mortality and meaning with the largeness of his big, easily broken, 

but irrepressible midwestern heart.”—Sue William Silverman, 

author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir 

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american lives series 

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also of interest by lee martin 

Turning Bones 

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From Our House 

A Memoir 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2290-8 

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also of interest 

Sleep in Me 

Jon Pineda 

See page 29 

memoir • family & relationships 

a bison original 

Descanso for My Father 

Fragments of a Life 

harrison candelaria fletcher 

When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite 

two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the 

boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” 

remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare 

appearances in stories when Fletcher or his siblings inquired. 

Meanwhile, his young Hispanic mother transformed herself 

into an artist, scouting the back roads and secondhand shops 

of New Mexico for relics and unlikely treasures to add to her 

“little shrines,” or descansos. “Look closely,” she’d say to her son. 

“Everything tells a story.” 

This book is Fletcher’s literary descanso, a piecing together— 

from moments and objects and words—of a father’s life, of the 

life lived without that father, and of his own mixed-race identity. 

Fletcher’s reflections unfold like a collage, offering a rich array 

of images and stories of life with his single mother, organizing 

weekend family car trips to explore graveyards and adobe ruins; 

of growing up on the fault lines of class and culture; of being a 

father who never had one of his own to learn from. From incidents 

and observations, Fletcher assembles a beautifully crafted 

portrait of his family’s unspoken affliction with loss over the 

decades, a portrait that finally evokes the father at its heart. 

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is a New Letters Literary Award 

winner, four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and finalist for the 

Bakeless Literary Prize, National Magazine Award, and pen 

Center usa contest. He is also the editor of Shadowbox magazine. 

“Fletcher deftly shows us the meaning of the word ‘quest’—investigation, 

dream, and religious pursuit all cohere around the essential 

mystery of one man’s life. In the process, the author faces 

his own relics, making a large picture out of the bright shards of 

memory and uncertainty.”—Judith Kitchen, author of Distance and 

Direction 

“There are so many things to recommend with this book, starting 

with its gorgeous prose. The essays, which build in an associative 

manner, create a memorial that is deeply personal yet rendered 

so precisely the reader feels party to the completion.”—Robin 

Hemley, author of Do Over and director of the Nonfiction Writing 

Program at the University of Iowa

memoir • natural history • california 


Mountains of Light 

Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite 

r. mark liebenow 

The environment may surround us, but when that environment 

is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches 

what’s inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and 

did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, winner 

of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Liebenow takes 

us deep into the heart of this wilderness, introducing us to its 

grand and subtle marvels—and to the observations, reflections, 

and insights its scenery evokes. Acting as our guide, Liebenow 

calls on the spirit and legacy of naturalist John Muir to rediscover 

nature and recover his own exuberance for life. Whether 

celebrating the giant sequoias, massive granite mountains, and 

wild, untamed rivers, or losing himself on an unmarked trail, 

Liebenow is always accompanied by thoughts of his wife of 

eighteen years, whose recent and sudden death tempers and 

informs his journey. 

Interwoven with his experiences are the stories of the Native 

Americans who lived in the valley for thousands of years and of 

the early settlers who followed. Melding documentary with introspection, 

environmental reportage with a search for meaning, 

Liebenow’s work draws on the lore of geology, botany, biology, 

and history to show how each aspect of the environment is connected 

to the rest. 

Mark Liebenow has won the Chautauqua Nonfiction Prize, 

among other awards. His work has been published in such 

journals as the Colorado Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, 

and the Clackamas Literary Review. Visit Liebenow's website at 

www.markliebenow.com. 

“With his poet’s eye and sensibilities, Mark Liebenow leads us 

through one of the great American wild lands, Yosemite National 

Park. He also marks out a trail through an even wilder landscape— 

that of grief in the human heart. . . . The terrain he explores is 

rough and dramatic, exuberant and awe-inspiring.”—Kelsea 

Habecker, author of Hollow Out 

“This is a book of a hero’s journey—of a journey deep into the 

wilderness of our hearts among the wild flowing rivers we try to 

navigate in the face of pain, the glacial movement of recovering 

from tragic loss. It’s about how when we listen to the gifts of 

nature we can find deep spiritual power; we can find grace. This is 

a beautiful book.”—Jeff Knorr, author of Keeper and The Third Body 

Watch the Mountains of Light book trailer on YouTube! 

march 

232 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4017-9 

$18.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK 


river teeth literary 

nonfiction prize series 

Daniel Lehman and Joe Mackall, 

series editors 


Yellowstone Autumn 

A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land 

W. D. Wetherell 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1130-8 

An Inside Passage 

Kurt Caswell 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3214-3 


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$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3504-5 

$27.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK 



Black Elephants 

A Memoir 

Karol Nielsen 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3537-3 

This Is Not the Ivy League 

A Memoir 

Mary Clearman Blew 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3011-8 

memoir • military history • women's studies 

Eyes Right 

Confessions from a Woman Marine 

tracy crow 

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, 

Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And 

sure enough, in the Corps she became a respected public affairs 

officer and military journalist—one day covering tank maneuvers 

or beach assaults, the next interviewing the secretary of the 

navy. But success didn’t come without a price. 

When Crow pledged herself to God, Corps, and Country, 

women Marines were still a rarity, and gender inequality 

and harassment were rampant. Determined to prove she 

belonged, Crow always put her career first—even when, after 

two miscarriages and a stillborn child, her marriage to another 

Marine officer began to deteriorate. And when her affair with 

a prominent general was exposed—and both were threatened 

with court-martial—Crow was forced to re-evaluate her loyalty 

to the Marines, her career, and her family. 

Eyes Right is Crow’s story. A clear-eyed self-portrait of a 

troubled teen bootstrapping her way out of a world of alcoholism 

and domestic violence, it is also a rare inside look at 

the Marines from a woman’s perspective. Her memoir, which 

includes two Pushcart Prize–nominated essays, evokes the 

challenges of being a woman and a Marine with immediacy and 

clarity, and in the process reveals how much Crow’s generation 

did for today’s military women, and at what cost. 

Tracy Crow is an assistant professor of creative writing at Eckerd 

College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the nonfiction editor 

of Prime Number magazine. Her essays and short stories have 

appeared in a number of literary journals and been nominated 

for three Pushcart Prizes. Under the pen name, Carver Greene, 

Crow published the conspiracy thriller, An Unlawful Order, the 

first in a new series to feature a military heroine. Visit Crow's 

website at www.writingformercy.blogspot.com 

“A riveting memoir!”—Fred Leebron, author of Six Figures 

“Eyes Right kicks ass! It’s truly marvelous to read a nonfiction book 

that is not an indictment nor an apologia nor a self-justifying hagiography. 

. . . It is written with a large and open heart.”—Pinckney 

Benedict, author of Dogs of God 

“Terrific! . . . What I keep coming back to is the interrogation room. 

That is the room the memoir lives in. The suspense. The way in 

which information is given out bit by bit to make a whole and layered 

history, so that it’s clear that no interrogation could ever yield 

the true story.”—Kathryn Rhett, author of Near Breathing

literary collections • women’s studies • africa 


Writings from the Sand, 

Volume 1 

Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt 

isabelle eberhardt 

Edited and with an introduction by 

Marie-Odile Delacour and Jean-René Huleu 

Translated by Melissa Marcus 

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became 

a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have 

access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and 

scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, 

German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and 

Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam and joined 

a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. Eberhardt traveled throughout 

North Africa and wrote about her experiences in short stories, 

journals, and reflections. She married an Algerian and led a 

legendary and stormy life that included subversive political 

anarchism, the mysticism of Islam, numerous love affairs, and 

most importantly, writing unmatched by her contemporaries. 

Writings from the Sand, Volume 1, at once the document of a 

remarkable life and a literary treasure, appears here in English 

for the first time. Volume 1, including journals, diary entries, 

and observations of life in North Africa, offers a view of the 

culture and people of French Algeria rarely seen by outsiders— 

the peasants, prostitutes, mystics, criminals, and other marginalized 

members of a colonized society. This translation brings 

to life a brilliant woman ahead of her time while also raising 

questions—about North African history, colonialism, gender 

representation, and writing—that resonate in our day. 

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) died at the age of twenty-seven 

in a flash flood in the desert town of Aïn Sefra, Algeria. Melissa 

Marcus is professor emerita of French at Northern Arizona 

University. She is the translator of Fawzia Assaad’s Layla, An 

Egyptian Woman and Malika Mokeddem’s The Forbidden 

Woman (Nebraska, 1998). 

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560 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map 

$39.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1611-2 

$44.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK 


The Forbidden Woman 

Malika Mokeddem 

Translated by Melissa Marcus 

$19.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-8240-7 


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288 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 13 illustrations, 

1 genealogy, 1 map, 1 chronology 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3012-5 

$21.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 



Good Neighbors, Bad Times 

Echoes of My Father’s German Village 

Mimi Schwartz 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2640-1 

What They Saved 

Pieces of a Jewish Past 

Nancy K. Miller 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3001-9 

memoir • jewish studies • world war ii 


We Are Here 

Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust 

ellen cassedy 

Ellen Cassedy’s longing to recover the Yiddish she’d lost with 

her mother’s death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the 

“Jerusalem of the North.” As she prepared for her journey, her 

uncle, sixty years after he’d left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a 

shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly 

man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. 

Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened 

into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews 

and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move 

forward into the future. How does a nation—how do successor 

generations, moral beings—overcome a bloody past? How do 

we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, 

and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We 

Are Here, one woman’s exploration of Lithuania’s Jewish history 

combined with a personal exploration of her own family’s place 

in it. 

Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives 

are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old 

man who wants to “speak to a Jew” before he dies; discovering 

the complications encountered by a country that endured both 

Nazi and Soviet occupation—Cassedy finds that it’s not just the 

facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them. 

Ellen Cassedy has explored the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust 

for ten years. Her translations and articles have appeared 

in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary 

Journal of Jewish Studies, the Forward, and Hadassah. Visit 

Cassedy's website at www.ellencassedy.com. 

“Pioneering. . . . [We Are Here] will reach out to . . . all those who 

care about not replaying in this new century the disasters of the 

century that has just ended.”—Michael Steinlauf, author of Bondage 

to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust 

“This eloquent book can help us to reach out, open our hearts, and 

rediscover one another in a spirit of mutual understanding.” 

—Hon. Valdas Adamkus, former president of Lithuania 

“A most captivating read. Cassedy offers an extraordinary perspective, 

human and moving, to concerns that often are hidden by tired 

clichés, sentimentality, or anger. A rare document.”—Samuel Bak, 

survivor of the Vilna ghetto and author of Painted in Words

iography • women’s studies • jewish studies • world war ii 

Epistolophilia 

Writing the Life of Ona Šimaite ˙ 

julija šukys 

The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady 

with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly 

no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she 

was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto 

of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, 

money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often 

she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even 

sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by 

the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau. 

Through Epistolophilia, Julija Šukys follows the letters and 

journals—the “life-writing”—of this woman, Ona Šimaitė 

(1894–1970). A treasurer of words, Šimaitė carefully collected, 

preserved, and archived the written record of her life, including 

thousands of letters, scores of diaries, articles, and press 

clippings. Journeying through these words, Šukys negotiates 

with the ghost of Šimaitė, beckoning back to life this quiet 

and worldly heroine—a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad 

Vashem’s honored “Righteous Among the Nations”) and yet so 

little known. The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a 

measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning 

of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and 

privately, and how their words attach them—and us—to life. 

Julija Šukys is the author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work 

of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007). She lives in Montreal, Quebec. 

Visit Šukys' website at www.julijasukys.com. 

“An intelligent, humane, and noble book that rescues from obscurity 

an intelligent, humane, and noble woman. It stands as a testament 

to the power of reading, writing, compassion, and extraordinary 

courage.”—David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World 

“With this searching, nuanced biography, Julija Šukys introduces 

the English-speaking world to a genuine heroine of the Holocaust, 

while at the same time raising vital questions about the role of 

trauma, poverty, and ill health on women’s literary production.” 

—Susan Olding, author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays 

“This is an important new take on the legacy of the Holocaust. 

Eloquent and elegantly written, it reads like a Sebald text but with 

a voice profoundly its own.”—Laura Levitt, professor of Religion, 

Jewish Studies, and Gender, Temple University 

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2 maps 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3632-5 

$27.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK 



Outwitting the Gestapo 

Lucie Aubrac 

Translated by Konrad Bieber 

with the assistance of Betsy Wing 

$15.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-5923-2 

Silence Is Death 

The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout 

Julija Šukys 

$26.95s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4320-0 


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152 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3840-4 

$18.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK 


native storiers: a series of 

american narratives 

Gerald Vizenor and Diane Glancy, 



Hiroshima Bugi 

Atomu 57 

Gerald Vizenor 

$20.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3284-6 

fiction • native studies 


Chair of Tears 

gerald vizenor 

The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated 

Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction 

of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears 

is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup of sacred 

poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar places from reservations 

to universities. The novel begins with generous stories 

about Captain Eighty, his young wife the poker-playing genius 

named Quiver, and their children and grandchildren who live 

on a rustic houseboat. 

Captain Shammer, an extraordinary grandson reared on 

the houseboat, and with no formal education, is appointed the 

chairman of a troubled Department of Native American Indian 

Studies at a prominent university. Shammer is a natural enterpriser 

and ironic showman in the tradition of trickster stories. 

He arrives at the first faculty meeting dressed in the uniform of 

Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Native students celebrate his 

conversion of the department into an academic poker parlor 

and casino, and a panic radio station. The most sensational enterprise 

is the training of service mongrels to detect the absence 

of irony. 

An irresistible novel of original ideas, Chair of Tears gets to 

the heart of questions about identity politics, multiculturalism, 

pedantry, and timely virtues. 

Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies 

at the University of New Mexico and professor emeritus at the 

University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and editor of 

more than thirty books, including Hiroshima Bugi (available in 

a Bison Books edition) and, most recently, the novel Shrouds of 

White Earth. 

Praise for Gerald Vizenor’s novel Hiroshima Bugi: 

“Vizenor has a reputation for taking chances with his novels, for 

pushing the form in new directions. He outdoes himself in his 

latest. . . . Readers who have shared other adventures with Vizenor 

will not be disappointed.”—Library Journal 

“Vizenor is at full speed in Hiroshima Bugi. This book is a natural 

dance of concepts. Vizenor does for Native literature what James 

Joyce does for Irish literature in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.” 

—Diane Glancy, author of Designs of the Night Sky 

“Vizenor offers us another sophisticated, alternately sensitive and 

ironic meditation on the importance of cross-fertilization and 

remembrance.”—Thomas Hove, Review of Contemporary Fiction

fiction • african american studies • great plains 


Twelfth and Race 

eric goodman 

Life takes a strange turn when Richard Allan Gordon, thirty 

years old and as white as they come, discovers that, as a result of 

identity theft, five-year-old Jada Reece Gordon bears his name. 

The product of a middle-class Jewish upbringing, Richie finds 

himself completely in love and lust with Jada’s mother, LaTisha, 

a twenty-five-year-old African American nursing student, and 

longs to be a father to her child. 

Richie and LaTisha’s story takes place at the intersection of 

love, race, and identity, as the couple is forced to examine their 

relationship in light of the terrible event that takes the life of 

a young black father and catapults their midwestern city into 

chaos. As riots erupt around them and Richie discovers a secret 

about his own past that challenges his long-held ideas, he and 

LaTisha must come to grips with the forces that threaten to tear 

their relationship apart. A novel that doesn’t shy away from the 

racism that dwells within the unexamined hearts of so many 

Americans, Twelfth and Race may shock or outrage some readers, 

yet its story is ultimately timely, honest, and hopeful. 

Eric Goodman, director of the creative writing program at 

Miami University of Ohio, has published four previous novels, 

including Child of My Right Hand and In Days of Awe. 

“Eric Goodman brilliantly dramatizes the complex workings of 

the skin game in our supposedly ‘post-racial’ America. . . . This is 

fiction at its best, prose that touches, prose that asks us to think 

more about who we are, that demands that we be more than we 

are. A significant achievement.”—Jeffery Renard Allen, author of 

Rails under My Back 

“A wonderful puzzle, leaving us wondering who has stolen whose 

identity. There’s an amazing amount of wit, soul, candor, and erotic 

and intoxicating energy in this deeply probing and suspenseful 

novel. An amazingly and gloriously fulfilling read.”—Josip 

Novakovich, author of April Fool’s Day and Salvation and Other 

Disasters 

“I know of no other writer who has put all the race cards on the 

table with such honesty and humanity. Twelfth and Race may very 

well be a first of its kind.”—Jim Heynen, author of The One-Room 

Schoolhouse 

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288 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3980-7 

$20.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


flyover fiction series 

Ron Hansen, series editor 


Stolen Horses 

Dan O’Brien 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3108-5 

The Sacred White Turkey 

Frances Washburn 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2846-7 


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152 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3636-3 

$18.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK 



A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity 

Dispatches from the Dakota War 

Mary Butler Renville 

Edited by Carrie Reber Zeman and 

Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 

See page 51 

native studies • military history • great plains 


Birch Coulie 

The Epic Battle of the Dakota War 

john christgau 

In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive 

battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President 

Lincoln’s private secretaries wrote: “There has hardly been an 

outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, 

as that which filled the State of Minnesota with sorrow and 

lamentation.” Even today, at the 150th anniversary of the Dakota 

War, the battle still raises questions and stirs controversy. In 

Birch Coulie John Christgau recounts the dramatic events surrounding 

the battle. American history at its narrative best, his 

book is also a uniquely balanced and accurate chronicle of this 

little-understood conflict, one of the most important to roil the 

American West. 

Christgau’s account of the war between white settlers and 

the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities 

torn by internal dissent and external threat, whites and Native 

Americans equally traumatized by the short and violent war. 

The book also delves into the aftermath, during which thirtyeight 

Dakota men were hanged without legal representation or 

the appearance of defense witnesses, the largest mass execution 

in American history. With its unusually nuanced perspective, 

Birch Coulie brings a welcome measure of clarity and insight to 

a critical moment in the troubled history of the American West. 

John Christgau, an award-winning writer on issues of 

restitution and reconciliation, is the author of several books, 

including Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, available 

in a Bison Books edition. Visit Christgau's website at 

www.johnchristgau.com. 

“Birch Coulie is a great re-telling of a great story. Birch Coulie accurately 

captures not only the events leading up to this historic 

battle, but also the emotions of its participants. Christgau seems 

to understand the depth of Dakota frustrations that produced 

one of the most determined Native attacks on US troops in all of 

American History.”—Carl Colwell, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.), director of 

the Renville County (Minnesota) Historical Society and director of 

the Minnesota Valley History Learning Center

american history • american west • archaeology 


Virginia City 

Secrets of a Western Past 

ronald m. james 

Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper 

Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists 

each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site 

tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it 

is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at 

one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the 

Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, 

became a boomtown microcosm of the American West. 

Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, 

and professional archaeologists, Virginia City: Secrets of a 

Western Past shows how every detail—from unearthed artifacts 

to reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery to 

surviving nineteenth-century buildings—adds to our view of 

Virginia City when it was one of the richest places on earth. 

James recreates this unlikely epitome of frontier industry and 

cosmopolitan living, the thriving hub of corporate executives, 

middle-class families, miners, prostitutes, and barkeepers—and 

more foreign-born residents per capita than anywhere else in 

the country—in a spot that had begun its life a few years earlier 

as the mining camp of several lucky guys. An excavation of the 

history of Virginia City, a window on the heyday of the American 

frontier, James’s book is also an enlightening look at how 

archaeology brings the story of the past to life. 

Ronald M. James is the long-term state historic preservation 

officer for Nevada and chairman of the National Historic 

Landmarks Committee of the National Park Service. He is the 

author or editor of numerous books, including The Roar and the 

Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. 

“Framing his inquiry within the cultural context of a nineteenthcentury 

urban mining community, Ronald James elaborates on 

the ways in which artifacts, ecofacts, architecture, abandoned 

cemeteries, probate records, journals, newspapers, and maps 

offer new directions for understanding the dynamic history of the 

American West’s great Comstock Lode and ‘people from another 

century.’”—Kelly J. Dixon, author of Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology 

and History in Virginia City 

may 

216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 36 illustrations, 1 map 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3848-0 

$18.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


historical archaeology of 

the american west series 

Annalies Corbin, series editor 


A Mine of Her Own 

Women Prospectors in the American West, 

1850–1950 

Sally Zanjani 

$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9916-0 


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232 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3784-1 

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Barolo 

Matthew Gavin Frank 

See page 34 

memoir • outdoor adventure • california 


Pot Farm 

matthew gavin frank 

After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother 

through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife 

were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary 

in the most unlikely place—amid a collection of outcasts and 

eccentrics on a plot of land miles outside their comfort zone: a 

“mostly medical” marijuana farm in California. 

Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous 

goings-on at Weckman Farm, a place with hidden politics 

and social hierarchies, populated by recovering drug addicts, 

alternative healers, pseudo-hippie kids, and medical marijuana 

users looking to give back. There is also Lady Wanda, the 

massive, elusive, wealthy, and heavily armed businesswoman 

who owns the farm and runs it from beneath a housedress 

and a hat of peacock feathers. Frank explores the various roles 

that allow this industry to work—from field pickers to tractor 

drivers, cooks to yoga instructors, managers to snipers, illegal 

immigrants to legal revisionists, and the delivery crew to the 

hospice workers on the other end. His book also looks at the 

blurry legislation regulating the marijuana industry as well as 

the day-to-day logistics of running such an operation and all 

the relationships that brings into play. 

Through firsthand observations and experiences (some influenced 

by the farm’s cash crop), interviews, and research, Pot 

Farm exposes a thriving but unsung faction of contemporary 

American culture. 

Matthew Gavin Frank is an assistant professor of creative writing 

at Northern Michigan University. He is the author of Barolo, 

available in a Nebraska Paperback, and the poetry collections 

Sagittarius Agitprop, Warranty in Zulu, and The Morrow Plots. 

Visit Frank's website at www.matthewgfrank.com. 

“Pot Farm is the curious and compelling tale of a hazy season spent 

harvesting medical marijuana. The cast of characters rivals those 

found in the finest comic fiction, except these folks are real, and 

really peculiar. Pot Farm is smart, sly, revelatory, often laughout-loud 

funny, and entirely legal.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of 

Between Panic and Desire 

“Sex, politics, intrigue, crime, adventure, life and death—it’s all 

here, in a strangely compelling hybrid of action flick meets postmodern 

philosophical meditation meets Cheech and Chong. This 

compulsively readable exposé from a self-proclaimed ‘unreliable 

narrator’ has it all, including a cast of outcast characters who simply 

jump off the page.”—Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies

sustainability • ecology 

Green Illusions 

The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy 

and the Future of Environmentalism 

ozzie zehner 

We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. 

And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions 

regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s 

wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. 

Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems 

with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and 

biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side 

effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause 

harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? 

Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation 

lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will? 

This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book 

persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption 

is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need 

to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving 

social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, 

improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most 

notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are 

surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a 

simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s 

solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our 

energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, 

he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly 

fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually 

improve our well-being. 

“Provocative and essential! Green Illusions shakes us awake to the 

true challenges we face as a species . . . and inspires us to take action.”—John 

Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 

“At once prophetic and pragmatic—must be read by anyone concerned 

about our collective future.”—Joel Bakan, author of The 

Corporation and Childhood Under Siege 

“An extremely important message for a society whose best-intentioned 

members have lost themselves in a wilderness of wishful 

thinking.”—James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency 

“Terrific book. . . . Zehner is especially good at untangling sloppy 

thinking.”—David Owen, author of Green Metropolis 

Ozzie Zehner, a philanthropy advisor 

who has collaborated on numerous 

projects in industry, government, and 

academia, is a visiting scholar at the 

University of California, Berkeley. 

Visit Zehner's website at 

www.ozziezehner.com. 

june 

456 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 illustrations, 17 charts, 

1 table • Printed on 100% recycled paper 

with soy-based ink 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3775-9 

$33.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK 


our sustainable future series 

Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Flora, 

and Paul A. Olson, series editors 


Green Plans, Revised Edition 

Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth 

Huey D. Johnson 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6020-7 

Crisis and Opportunity 

Sustainability in American Agriculture 

John E. Ikerd 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1142-1 


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1 map 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3834-3 

$24.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 



Uphill against Water 

The Great Dakota Water War 

Peter Carrels 

$26.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-6397-0 

Kayaking Alone 

Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho’s Mountains 

to the Pacific Ocean 

Mike Barenti 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1382-1 

sustainability • natural history • california 


River in Ruin 

The Story of the Carmel River 

ray a. march 

The thin ribbon of the Carmel River is just thirty-six miles long 

and no wider in most places than a child can throw a stone. It 

is the primary water supply for the ever-burgeoning presence 

of tourists, agriculture, and industry on California’s Monterey 

Peninsula. It is also one of the top ten endangered rivers in 

North America. The river’s story, which dramatically unfolds in 

this book, is an epic tale of exploitation, development, and often 

unwitting degradation reaching back to the first appearance of 

Europeans on the pristine peninsula. 

River in Ruin is a precise weaving of water history—local and 

larger—and a natural, social, and environmental narrative of 

the Carmel River. Ray A. March traces the river’s misuse from 

1879 and details how ever more successful promotions of Monterey 

demanded more and more water, leading to one dam after 

another. As a result the river was disastrously depleted, cluttered 

with concrete rubble, and inhospitable to the fish prized 

by visitors and residents alike. 

March’s book is a cautionary tale about squandering precious 

water resources—about the ultimate cost of a ruined river and 

the slim but urgent hope of bringing it back to life. 

Ray A. March, the author of several nonfiction books, is 

a career journalist and cofounder and editor of the Modoc 

Independent News. He is also the cofounder of Modoc Forum, 

a nonprofit perpetuating an awareness of rural life through 

literature and the arts. Visit March's website at www.redroom. 

com/member/ray-march. 

“Painstakingly researched, this enlightening book by Ray March 

does westerners a considerable favor. We need more books like 

this. We need to understand how we created, and how to cure, 

the watershed chaos we currently inhabit.”—William Kittredge, 

author of A Hole in the Sky: A Memoir 

“The story of a river, when best told, is the story of the region it succors, 

and Ray March has told that story with deep research, clarity 

of vision, and personal involvement. When it is told particularly 

well, as March has done, it is also the story of other rivers.” 

—Philip L. Fradkin, author of A River No More: The Colorado River 

and the West

sports • soccer • women’s studies 


Beyond Bend It Like Beckham 

The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer 

timothy f. grainey 

Foreword by Brittany Timko 

Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 

World Cup, women’s soccer has been around almost as long as 

its male counterpart, flourishing in England during and after 

World War I. From the rise of women’s soccer following Title 

IX legislation in the early seventies to the watershed 1999 World 

Cup performance that turned the American team into instant 

celebrities, soccer is now the most popular sport for girls and 

women, with participation growing exponentially worldwide. 

Beyond “Bend It Like Beckham” presents the first in-depth global 

analysis of the women’s game—both where it has come from 

and where it is headed. With commentary from key players, 

coaches, and administrators, Timothy F. Grainey follows the 

sport’s reach into the unlikeliest places today, even countries 

where women were banned from playing soccer just a few short 

years ago. 

Though women in the United States and Canada still fight 

for equal treatment and funding, their situation differs markedly 

from the hostility, abuse, and even outright bans that some 

women still encounter in trying to pursue an activity they love. 

Through the prism of soccer this book explores the struggle for 

women’s rights abroad, in countries as diverse as Sweden, Russia, 

South Africa, Pakistan, Australia, and Iran. 

Timothy F. Grainey is a sports journalist who has written 

extensively on soccer for World Football Pages, the Seattle Post 

Intelligencer, Soccer365.com, Equalizersoccer.com, and 

TheGlobalGame.com. 

“Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ serves as a great history lesson for a 

sport where persistent struggle has led to remarkable growth. It 

is a wonderfully insightful look at the development of the sport in 

the United States and abroad. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and 

would recommend it to any women’s soccer enthusiast.”—Tiffany 

Roberts Sahaydak, Olympic gold medalist, World Cup champion, 

and co-head coach of women’s soccer at Virginia Commonwealth 

University 

“The fascinating history of women’s soccer around the world is 

a story that transcends sports. . . . This important book tells the 

interesting story of the past, present, and future of the sport that 

woke up Americans to the success of Title IX during the wildly 

popular 1999 Women’s World Cup. But there’s much more to 

women’s soccer than those memorable few weeks, and Grainey 

covers it all.”—Christine Brennan, abc News commentator and 

author of Best Seat in the House 

may 

328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations, 15 tables 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3470-3 

$21.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 



The Global Game 

Writers on Soccer 

Edited by John Turnbull, Thom Satterlee, 

and Alon Raab 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1078-3 

Soccer Stories 

Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats 

Donn Risolo 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3014-9 


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408 pp. • 6 x 9 

$39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1076-9 

$44.95 Canadian/£28.99 UK 



Blackout 

The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s 

First Spring Training 

Chris Lamb 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8047-2 

Invisible Men 

Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues 

Donn Rogosin 

Introduction by Monte Irvin 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5969-0 

sports • baseball • african american studies • journalism 

Conspiracy of Silence 

Sportswriters and the Long Campaign 

to Desegregate Baseball 

chris lamb 

The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most 

important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of 

white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream 

newspapers said little about the color line and less about 

the efforts to end it. Even today, as far as most Americans know, 

the integration of baseball revolved around Branch Rickey’s 

signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ organization 

in 1945. This book shows how Rickey’s move, critical as it 

may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by 

black and left-leaning journalists to desegregate the game. 

Drawing on hundreds of newspaper articles and interviews 

with journalists, Chris Lamb reveals how differently black 

and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed 

racial equality. He shows how white mainstream sportswriters 

perpetuated the color line by participating in what their black 

counterparts called a “conspiracy of silence.” Between 1933 and 

1945, black newspapers and the Communist Daily Worker published 

hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to 

baseball’s color line. The efforts of the alternative presses to end 

baseball’s color line, chronicled for the first time in Conspiracy 

of Silence, constitute one of baseball’s—and the civil rights 

movement’s—great untold stories. 

Chris Lamb, a professor of media studies at the College of 

Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina, is the author of 

Blackout: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training, 

available in a Bison Books edition. 

“An invaluable addition to studies about the tragic barring of 

blacks from Major League Baseball for almost half of the twentieth 

century. . . . An independent, moving analysis of a crucial era in 

American race relations.”—Arnold Rampersad, author of Jackie 

Robinson: A Biography 

“Sure, everyone knows about baseball’s color line and the man who 

crossed it. But no one has ever sifted the soil where that line was 

drawn, and found as much gold, as Chris Lamb does in Conspiracy 

of Silence.”—Gary Smith, writer for Sports Illustrated 

“Understanding the curious intersection of sports and politics is 

always a perilous journey. But with Chris Lamb as a guide, it’s 

more than a joy. It’s a revelation.”—Dave Zirin, author of A People’s 

History of Sports in the U.S.

sports • baseball • american history 

Banzai Babe Ruth 

Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination 

during the 1934 Tour of Japan 

robert k. fitts 

In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward 

war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe 

Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, 

and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising 

Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese 

and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of “Banzai! 

Banzai Babe Ruth!” The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 

games, spawning professional baseball in Japan, and spreading 

goodwill. 

Politicians on both sides of the Pacific hoped that the amity 

generated by the tour—and the two nations’ shared love of the 

game—could help heal their growing political differences. But 

the Babe and baseball could not overcome Japan’s growing nationalism, 

as a bloody coup d’état by young army officers and an 

assassination attempt by the ultranationalist War Gods Society 

jeopardized the tour’s success. A tale of international intrigue, 

espionage, attempted murder, and, of course, baseball, Banzai 

Babe Ruth is the first detailed account of the doomed attempt 

to reconcile the United States and Japan through the 1934 All 

American baseball tour. Robert K. Fitts provides a wonderful 

story about baseball, nationalism, and American and Japanese 

cultural history. 

Robert K. Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania 

and received a PhD from Brown University. Originally trained 

as an archeologist of colonial America, Fitts left that field to 

focus on his passion, Japanese baseball. He is also the author of 

Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game 

and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball 

(Nebraska, 2008). Visit Fitts' website at www.robfitts.com. 

“An intelligent, well-crafted account of an important period in the 

history of U.S.-Japan relations. Painstakingly researched, rich in 

color and detail, it goes beyond baseball, illuminating the social, 

economic, and political life of a distant era, the impact of which 

can still be seen today.”—Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta 

Have Wa and The Meaning of Ichiro 

“How did two nations that shared the values of the same national 

pastime go from baseballs to bullets? Historian Rob Fitts tells a 

dark tale of baseball caught between democracy and fascism in 

prewar Japan. Banzai Babe Ruth is a sayonara home run!”—John 

Thorn, official historian for Major League Baseball 

march 

368 pp. • 6 x 9 • 35 illustrations, 1 map, 

28 tables 

$34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2984-6 

$38.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK 



Wally Yonamine 

The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball 

Robert K. Fitts 

$26.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1381-4 

Taking in a Game 

A History of Baseball in Asia 

Joseph A. Reaves 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9001-3 


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announcing a new series: 

memorable teams in baseball history 

Mark Armour and Bill Nowlin, series editors 

The University of Nebraska Press and the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr) continue their longstanding 

partnership with this series which focuses on iconic teams with an unquestionable legacy in baseball 

history. Each book focuses on a team's memorable single season and collects essays detailing the players, 

moments, and games that define these teams. The essays bring together contributions of many sabr writers 

and devoted fans who share passions for these teams and wish to relive those exceptional seasons. 

Lyle Spatz’s many books include Dixie 

Walker: A Life in Baseball and (with 

coauthor Steve Steinberg) 1921: The 

Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for 

Baseball Supremacy in New York, 

winner of the Seymour Medal (see 

page 39). 

april 

400 pp. • 8 x 10 • 67 illustrations, 44 tables 

$26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3992-0 

$29.95 Canadian/£19.99 UK 




The Team That Forever 

Changed Baseball 

and America 

The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers 

edited by lyle spatz 

Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can 

lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 

Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League 

team of the twentieth century. The addition of Jackie Robinson 

to its roster changed not only baseball but also the nation. Yet 

Robinson was just one member of that memorable club, which 

included Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Pete Reiser, 

Duke Snider, Eddie Stanky, Arky Vaughan, and Dixie Walker. 

Also present was a quartet of baseball’s most unforgettable characters: 

co-owners Branch Rickey and Walter O’Malley, suspended 

manager Leo Durocher, and radio announcer Red Barber. 

This book is the first to offer biographies of everyone on that 

incomparable team as well as accounts of the moments and 

events that marked the Dodgers’ 1947 season: Commissioner 

Happy Chandler suspending Durocher, Rickey luring his old 

friend Burt Shotton out of retirement to replace Durocher, and 

brilliant outfielder Reiser being sidelined after running into 

a fence. In spite of all this, the Dodgers went on to win the 

National League pennant over the heavily favored St. Louis 

Cardinals. And of course, there is the biggest story of the season, 

where history and biography coalesce: Jackie Robinson, who 

overcame widespread hostility to become Rookie of the Year— 

and to help the Dodgers set single-game attendance records in 

cities around the National League. 

“The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers were all heroes to me. . . . 1947 started 

one of the most heroic decades in baseball history. Lyle Spatz’s 

book captures that time which set the stage for Brooklyn’s world 

championship.”—Carl Erskine, the Dodgers’ pitcher in 1948



Pitching, Defense, 

and Three-Run Homers 

The 1970 Baltimore Orioles 

edited by mark armour 

and malcolm allen 

For the Baltimore Orioles the glory days stretched to decades. 

Through the 1960s and 1970s the team arguably had the best 

players, the best manager, the best Minor League teams, the 

best scouts and front office—and, unarguably, the best record 

in the American League. But the best of all, and one of baseball’s 

greatest teams ever, was the Oriole's team of 1970. Pitching, 

Defense, and Three-Run Homers documents that paradoxically 

unforgettable yet often overlooked World Champion team. 

Led by the bats of Frank Robinson and Boog Powell and a 

trio of 20-win pitchers, the Orioles won 108 regular season 

games and dropped just 1 postseason game on their way to winning 

the World Series against the Reds. The club featured three 

future Hall of Fame players (Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, 

and Jim Palmer), a Hall of Fame manager (Earl Weaver), and 

several other star players in the prime of their careers. Featuring 

biographical articles on Weaver, his coaches, the broadcasters, 

and the players of the 1970 season, this book tells what happened 

in and out of the game. It details highlights and timelines, 

the memorable games, spectacular plays, and the team’s working 

philosophy, “the Oriole Way”—and in sum recreates the 

magic of one of the greatest seasons in baseball history. 

Mark Armour, the director of the Society for American Baseball 

Research’s Baseball Biography Project, is the author of three 

books on baseball, most recently Joe Cronin (Nebraska, 2010). 

Baltimore native Malcolm Allen has served as associate editor 

of La Prensa del Beisbol Latino, the quarterly newsletter of the 

Society for American Baseball Research’s Latino baseball committee. 

Visit Armour's website at 1 

“I’ll never forget the men whose efforts earned the 1970 Orioles 

consideration as one of the best ball clubs of all time and after 

reading Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers, you won’t either.” 

—Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame third baseman 

“After the embarrassment of the year before and the shock of losing 

to the Miracle Mets, the 1970 Orioles couldn’t wait to avenge that 

defeat and show the baseball world what the fans of Baltimore 

already knew. Brooks Robinson and his cast of All-Stars were 

knocking on dynasty’s door. The Oriole Way was alive and well on 

33rd Street.”—Ted Patterson, Orioles history expert 

may 

272 pp. • 8 x 10 • 43 illustrations • 32 tables 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3993-7 

$27.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 


memorable teams 

in baseball history series 

Mark Armour and Bill Nowlin, series 

editors; copublished with the Society 

for American Baseball Research 


Miracle Collapse 

The 1969 Chicago Cubs 

Doug Feldmann 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2637-1 

A Game of Brawl 

The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle 

for the 1897 Pennant 

Bill Felber 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1136-0 


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664 pp. • 6 x 9 • 39 illustrations 

$39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2039-3 

$44.95 Canadian/£28.99 UK 



Connie Mack and the 

Early Years of Baseball 

Norman L. Macht 

See page 40 

Branch Rickey 

Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman 

Lee Lowenfish 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2453-7 

sports • baseball • biography 

Connie Mack 

The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 

1915–1931 

norman l. macht 

The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of 

the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under 

the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. 

But beginning in 1915, where the second volume in Norman L. 

Macht’s three-part biography picks up the story, Mack’s teams 

fell from pennant winners to last place and, in an unprecedented 

reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven years. World 

War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack’s rebuilding 

efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made his teams 

the objects of public ridicule. 

At the age of fifty-nine and in the face of widespread skepticism 

and seemingly insurmountable odds, Connie Mack reasserted 

his genius, remade the A’s, and rose again to the top, even 

surpassing his earlier success. Baseball biographer and historian 

Macht recreates what may be the most remarkable chapter in 

this larger-than-life story. He shows us the man and his time 

and the game of baseball in all its nitty-gritty glory of the 1920s, 

and how Connie Mack built the 1929–31 champions of Foxx, 

Simmons, Cochrane, Grove, Earnshaw, Miller, Haas, Bishop, 

and Dykes—a team many consider baseball’s greatest ever. 

Norman L. Macht is the author of more than thirty books, 

including Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (see page 

40). 

“I can’t think of a better match between biographer and subject. 

Like the man he continues to so capably chronicle, Norman Macht 

is astute, authoritative, and meticulous. If you want to learn about 

twentieth-century baseball, you’ll have to read this book. The best 

part is that you’ll want to.”—Tom Swift, author of Chief Bender’s 

Burden

sports • baseball • biography 


Double No-Hit 

Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic 

Night under the Lights 

james w. johnson 

The average pitcher has about a .000645 chance of throwing a 

no-hitter. In the spring of 1938, Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher 

Johnny Vander Meer pitched two, back-to-back. The feat has 

never been duplicated, which comes as no surprise to sports 

professionals and aficionados alike. Decade after decade, in one 

poll after another (from Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and 

espn), Vander Meer’s consecutive no-hitters turn up as one of 

baseball’s greatest and most untouchable achievements. 

Double No-Hit offers an inning-by-inning account of that 

historic second consecutive no-hitter accomplished during the 

first night game in New York City, with the Cincinnati Reds 

facing the Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets Field. James W. Johnson 

sets the stage and assembles the colorful cast of characters. 

Highlighting the story with recollections and observations from 

owners, managers, and players past and present, he fills in the 

details of Vander Meer’s accomplishment—and his baseball 

career, which never lived up to expectations heightened by his 

sensational performance. In the end, Double No-Hit brings to 

life a bygone era of the national pastime and one shining spring 

night, June 15, 1938, when a twenty-two-year-old fireballing 

lefthander with lousy control pitched his way into the top tier of 

baseball’s record book. 

James W. Johnson, professor emeritus of journalism at the 

University of Arizona, is the author of several books including 

The Dandy Dons and The Wow Boys, both available in Bison 

Books editions. 

“Johnny Vander Meer’s extraordinary feat of pitching back-to-back 

no-hitters is truly one of baseball’s unique records. The story of 

how he went about pitching no-hitters four days apart deserves to 

be told for future generations of baseball fans. The phenomenal 

accomplishment is a record that is unlikely to be tied or broken.” 

—Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame pitcher and ceo and president of the 

Texas Rangers 

“There was out-of-the-blue, lottery-winner magic in Vander Meer’s 

accomplishment, two no-hitters in a row, something never done 

before or since, probably never to be repeated. Pose! Smile! Pop! 

That magic has been captured here in fine detail and preserved 

between the covers of Double No-Hit by James Johnson. A terrific 

job.”—Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: The Biography of an 

American Hero 

april 

208 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 1 appendix 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7139-5 

$17.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 



The Dandy Dons 

Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, 

and One of College Basketball’s Greatest 

and Most Innovative Teams 

James W. Johnson 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1877-2 

Streak 

Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of ’41 

Michael Seidel 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9293-2 


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memoir • military history • psychology 

Shadow of the Sword 

A Marine’s Journey of War, Heroism, 

and Redemption 

jeremiah workman 

With John R. Bruning 

Foreword by Sergeant Major Carlton W. Kent 

Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’s 

best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and 

inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service 

overseas—and of the emotional wars that continue long after 

fighting soldiers come home. 

In the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004, Workman 

faced the challenge that would change his life. He and his 

platoon came upon a building in which insurgents had trapped 

their fellow Marines. Leading repeated assaults on that building, 

Workman killed more than twenty of the enemy in a firefight 

that left three of his own men dead. 

But Workman’s most difficult fight lay ahead, in the battlefield 

of his mind. He returned stateside, was awarded the Navy 

Cross for gallantry under fire, and was then assigned to the 

Marine base at Parris Island as a drill instructor. Haunted by 

the thought that he had failed his men overseas, Workman suffered 

a psychological breakdown in front of the soldiers he was 

charged with preparing for war. 

In Shadow of the Sword, a memoir that brilliantly captures 

both wartime courage and its lifelong consequences, Workman 

candidly reveals the ordeal of post-traumatic stress. 

“A raw, heartfelt account of how a man of valor lost his bearings and 

eventually found the courage to share his story.”—Bing West 

“Searing. . . . In its depiction of combat, Shadow of the Sword ranks 

with Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor.”—Wall Street Journal 

“This superior addition to the literature on the Iraq War is an 

exceptionally vivid account of combat and its aftermath. . . . Workman’s 

testimony gives hope that those suffering the nightmare of 

ptsd can free themselves sufficiently to avoid becoming additional 

casualties of the current war.”—Booklist 

“An important book about a debilitating injury that thousands of 

warriors struggle with each day. It is only fair that Americans understand 

the true costs of war. Be informed. Be inspired. Read this 

book.”—Wesley R. Gray, U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings 

Jeremiah Workman is a military service 

coordinator with the Department of 

Veteran Affairs. John R. Bruning is 

the author or coauthor of ten books, 

including How to Break a Terrorist and 

Bombs Away!: The World War II Bombing 

Campaigns over Europe. Carlton W. Kent 

served as the sixteenth Sergeant Major 

of the Marine Corps. Visit Workman's 

webiste at www.jeremiahworkman.com. 

april 


$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4096-4 

$19.95 Canadian 

No sales in British Commonwealth (excluding 

Canada), Republics of Eire, and South Africa 


The Warriors 

Reflections on Men in Battle 

J. Glenn Gray 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7076-3 


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military history • civil war 

The Approaching Fury 

Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861 

stephen b. oates 

Biographer and 

historian Stephen B. 

Oates tells the story 

of the coming of the 

American Civil War 

through the voices and 

perspectives of thirteen 

principal players in the 

drama, from Thomas 

Jefferson and Henry 

Clay in the Missouri 

crisis of 1820 down to 

Stephen A. Douglas, 

Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final 

crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the 

crucial role that perception of events played in the 

sectional hostilities that pushed the United States 

irreversibly toward a national calamity. 

Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, John C. 

Calhoun, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher 

Stowe, George Fitzhugh, John Brown, and Mary 

Boykin Chesnut also provide perspectives. Each 

character takes a turn onstage, narrating critical 

events in which he or she was a major participant 

or eyewitness. For the dramatic monologues, Oates 

draws on the actual words of his speakers—in letters, 

speeches, interviews, recollections, and other 

recorded utterances—and then simulates how, were 

they reminiscing aloud, they would describe these 

events in which they were the principal actors or 

witnesses. All the events and themes reflect the 

historical record. 

“This book powerfully re-creates some of the momentous 

events that produced the catastrophe of 1861. 

Oates succeeds in bringing his characters alive . . . 

[and] in getting inside each of them.” 

—Robert V. Remini, New York Times Book Review 

“There can be few complaints about the historical accuracy 

and authenticity of Oates’s material. It comes 

from the printed record, either what his characters 

said or wrote or what other historians have written 

about them. . . . Oates has written a lively book.” 

—Jean H. Baker, American Historical Review 

april 

512 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6931-6 

$27.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 

military history • civil war 

The Whirlwind of War 

Voices of the Storm, 1861–1865 

stephen b. oates 

The Whirlwind of War 

builds on the great 

themes and follows 

many of the important 

figures who were 

introduced in The 

Approaching Fury. Stephen 

B. Oates’s riveting 

narrative brings to 

life the complex and 

destructive war that 

is the central event 

in American history. 

He writes in the first person, assuming the viewpoints 

of several of the principal figures: the rival 

presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis; 

the rival generals, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, 

and William Tecumseh Sherman; the great black 

abolitionist, editor, and orator, Frederick Douglass; 

the young Union battlefield nurse, Cornelia 

Hancock; the brilliant head of the Chicago Sanitary 

Commission and cocreator of the northern Sanitary 

Fair, Mary Livermore; the Confederate socialite and 

political insider, Mary Boykin Chesnut; the assassin, 

John Wilkes Booth; and the greatest poet of the era, 

Walt Whitman, who speaks in the coda about the 

meaning of war and Lincoln’s death. 

Stephen B. Oates is Kendall Professor of History 

Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst 

and has published eighteen books, includig 

With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham 

Lincoln. Oates is a recipient of the Nevins-Freeman 

Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for 

lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. 

“A sweeping, fast-moving story, smoothly readable, 

broader in scope than many one-volume histories of 

the war.”—New York Times Book Review 

“Oates’s intensive research has brought new light to 

some of the more complex issues of the time.” 

—Washington Post Book World 

april 

864 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$28.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6930-9 

$32.50 Canadian/£20.99 UK

military history • civil war • african american studies • american west 

Men of Color to Arms! 

Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, 

and the Quest for Equality 

elizabeth d. leonard 

In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass 

promised African Americans that serving in the military offered 

a sure path to freedom. More than 180,000 black men 

heeded his call to defend the Union, only to find that the path 

to equality would not be so straightforward. 

Drawing on eye-opening firsthand accounts, Elizabeth D. 

Leonard restores black soldiers to their place in the arc of 

American history, from the Civil War and its promise of 

freedom up to the dawn of the twentieth century and the full 

retrenchment of Jim Crow. Along the way, Leonard offers a 

nuanced account of black soldiers’ involvement in the Indian 

wars, their attempts to desegregate West Point and gain proper 

recognition for their service, and their experiences during Reconstruction, 

as blacks worked to secure their place in an everchanging 

nation. With abundant primary research, enlivened by 

memorable characters and vivid descriptions of army life, Men 

of Color to Arms! is an illuminating portrait of a group of men 

whose contributions to American history, as this book abundantly 

demonstrates, merit a more thorough examination. 

Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson 

Professor of History at Colby College and the author of five 

books, including Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and 

Reunion after the Civil War and Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge 

Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. 

“The richness of [Leonard’s] stories shines through, and firstperson 

accounts of hardships suffered on the plains are especially 

gripping.”—Publishers Weekly 

“Brimming with life and in the words of those who struggled, Men 

of Color to Arms! is an indispensable addition to African-American 

historical literature. Those unfamiliar with this overlooked and 

long-neglected story will find illumination in Leonard’s highly 

recommended book.”—James A. Percoco, Civil War News 

“One of the most useful books to come out of the United States in 

recent years. . . . Leonard looses a cannon of detail that embraces 

both Army life and the tests that they faced to gain equality.” 

—Colin Gardiner, Oxford Times 

june 


$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4071-1 


No sales in British Commonwealth except Canada 


A Regiment of Slaves 

The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 

1863–1866 

Edward G. Longacre 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3794-0 

Black Cadet in a White Bastion 

Charles Young at West Point 

Brian G. Shellum 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9315-1 


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biography • military history • civil war 

General Jo Shelby’s March 

anthony arthur 

One of the most remarkable 

but surprisingly 

little known stories of 

the post-Civil War era 

is the unforgettable account 

of how a famous 

Confederate general 

forged a defiant new life 

out of crushing defeat 

and finally achieved forgiveness 

and respect in 

his own reunited land. 

General Jo Shelby, a 

daring and ruthless cavalry commander renowned 

and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union 

lines, declared after Appomattox that he would never 

surrender. With three hundred men, some from his 

fighting “Iron Brigade” regiment, others adventurers, 

fortune hunters, and deserters, he headed for Mexico. 

In vivid detail, General Jo Shelby’s March describes 

the dusty and dangerous 1,200-mile trek that this 

“last holdout of the Confederacy” made through a 

lawless Texas. Shelby arrived to present a quixotic 

proposal to Emperor Maximilian: he and his fellow 

Americans would take over the Mexican army 

and, after being reinforced by forty thousand more 

Confederate soldiers, the government itself. Though 

a dramatic, doomed, and brave endeavor, Shelby’s 

actions changed both him and American history 

forever. 

Historian Anthony Arthur then recounts the 

astonishing end of Shelby’s career: his return to the 

United States and his renouncing of slavery, his nomination 

by President Grover Cleveland to become U.S. 

marshal for western Missouri, and his eventual fame 

as a model of nineteenth-century progressivism. 

Anthony Arthur (1937–2009) was a professor 

emeritus of literature at California State University, 

Northridge, and the author of five books, including 

Clashes of Will: Great Confrontations That Have 

Shaped Modern America. 

“Arthur fluidly crafts an exciting narrative for Civil War 

buffs.”—Booklist 

may 


$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4077-3 


No sales in British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), 

Republics of Eire, and South Africa 

military history • world war ii 

Abundance of Valor 

Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944–45 

will irwin 

The operation known as 

“Market-Garden”—made 

famous in the book and 

film A Bridge Too Far— 

was the largest airborne 

assault in history up 

to that time, a highrisk 

Allied invasion of 

enemy territory that 

has become a legend of 

World War II even as 

it still invites criticism. 

Abundance of Valor 

re-creates for the first time the full adventures of the 

bold “Jedburgh” paratroopers, whose exploits were 

equally risky and heroic. 

Kicked off on September 17, 1944, Market-Garden 

was intended to secure crucial bridges in Nazi-occupied 

Holland by a parachute assault conducted by 

three Allied airborne divisions. Jedburgh teams—Allied 

Special Forces—were dropped into the Netherlands 

to train and use the Dutch resistance in support 

of the larger operation. Based on new firsthand 

testimony of survivors and declassified documents, 

Abundance of Valor concentrates on the three teams 

that operated farthest behind enemy lines, the nine 

men whose treacherous missions resulted in deaths, 

captures, and hairbreadth escapes. 

With piercing criticism of the mission’s failure 

through faulty use of intelligence, Abundance of Valor 

is a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of 

fighting men in a noble cause who did their jobs with 

extraordinary honor and courage. 

Will Irwin retired from the U.S. Army in January 

2000 after a career of more than twenty-eight years, 

half of that in Special Forces. He is the author of The 

Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special 

Forces, France 1944 and currently works as a defense 

consultant in Tampa, Florida. 

“A thoroughly enthralling book for serious students of 

World War II, this is the labor of love of a Special Forces 

veteran with a rare talent for writing and research.” 

—Booklist 

april 

432 pp. • 6 x 9 • 83 illustrations, 4 maps 

$22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4068-1 


No sales in British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), 

Republics of Eire, and South Africa

memoir • military history • vietnam 

Desertion in the Time 

of Vietnam 

A Memoir 

jack todd 

With a new introduction by the author 

In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his 

dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small 

Nebraska town, had an exciting job as a reporter for the Miami 

Herald, and was in love with his beautiful Cuban American girlfriend. 

As the war in Vietnam drew closer, he assumed that he 

would fight, as the men in his family had always fought, though 

he was increasingly troubled by America’s role there. His oldest 

friend, who had just returned from Vietnam, pleaded with Jack 

to dodge the draft and go to Canada, but Jack entered the army. 

He had almost completed basic training when, on Christmas 

leave, he made an agonizing decision. By now deeply opposed 

to the war, he crossed the border into Canada, leaving behind 

his family, the girl he loved, and his homeland. 

Now one of Canada’s most successful journalists, Jack Todd 

is a remarkable writer of great power and vibrancy. It has taken 

him thirty years to come to terms with the guilt and shame 

of desertion, to break the silence, and to tell this controversial, 

moving, and profoundly American story. The result is an 

eloquent account of a tortured time in our nation’s history told 

with searing honesty, passion, and literary verve. 

“Through his personal story, Todd conveys, in a voice that haunts 

and sings, the impact of an unpopular war on a generation of 

young Americans.”—Publishers Weekly 

“A powerful, well-written account.”—Library Journal 

“From Jack Todd we come closer to understanding the terrible costs 

to those who stayed back and survived.”—Quill & Quire 

“I doubt that Mr. Todd would call himself a hero—certainly most 

so-called ‘patriotic’ Americans would not—but having read this 

frank, beautiful memoir, I can think of no better term to describe a 

man of such incredible integrity and moral courage. In tight, powerful 

prose, Mr. Todd captures the terrors and doubts and humiliations 

that must necessarily accompany such acts of spiritual and 

political valor.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried 

and Going After Cacciato 

“America lost some of its best men in the Vietnam war—including 

those who chose exile. . . . Jack Todd’s [voice] is a clear, brave, 

truthful rendition of the other experience this nation had, and we 

need it now more than ever.”—James Carroll, author of An American 

Requiem and Constantine’s Sword 

Jack Todd is a sports columnist for the 

Montreal Gazette, where he won the 

National Newspaper Award for sportswriting. 

He is also the author of three 

novels, Rain Falls Like Mercy, Come Again 

No More, and Sun Going Down. Visit Todd's 

website at www.jacktoddtheauthor.com. 

march 

312 pp. • 5 ¼ x 8 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3981-4 

$20.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


When We Walked Above the Clouds 

A Memoir of Vietnam 

H. Lee Barnes 

$29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3448-2 

Looking for a Hero 

Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper 

and the Vietnam War 

Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2493-3 


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march 

256 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4095-7 


No sales in British Commonwealth (excluding 

Canada), Republics of Eire, and South Africa 


The Last Street Before Cleveland 

An Accidental Pilgrimage 

Joe Mackall 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3255-6 

memoir • african american studies 

Street Shadows 

A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, 

and Redemption 

jerald walker 

Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the 

“thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of 

Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents 

had always dreamed of for their children. By turns ironic, 

humorous, angry, and poignant, Walker’s narrative dramatically 

captures his pursuit and embodiment of the “American dream”: 

the effort to rise above obstacles such as racism and poverty 

through hard work and determination. 

Walker explores questions of race and identity through the 

lens of personal choice—including decisions he made as a high 

school dropout, a drug and alcohol abuser, a returning student, 

a young academic, a visitor to Africa in search of his roots, and 

a husband and father, as well as the diverse choices made by his 

blind parents, his six siblings, and his wife and her family. He 

highlights the importance of education, the values of self-help 

and self-reliance, and his rejection of the victim mentality that 

many feel pervades black communities. 

Winner of the 2011 pen New England/L. L. Winship Award 

for Nonfiction, Street Shadows is an eloquent account of how 

the past shadows but need not determine the present. It is also 

a stirring portrait of two Americas—one hopeless, the other 

inspirational—embodied within the same man. 

Jerald Walker is an associate professor of creative writing at 

Emerson College. His work has appeared in numerous magazines 

and anthologies, including multiple times in Best American 

Essays. 

“[A] spectacular debut. . . . A funny, poignant, thoughtful and 

exceptionally well-written memoir. . . . While delivering a thorough, 

personal take on race relations, opportunity, and privilege, Walker 

hooks readers with his prose and honesty, without plying for sympathy 

or playing to readers’ preconceptions.”—Publishers Weekly 

“[Walker] has written an inspiring book about willfully redirecting 

his life. But this is also a larger story about racial self-consciousness. 

. . . As his book makes clear, racism of a sort—latent, 

systemic or otherwise—is a simple fact of life in America. Destiny 

is another matter.”—Economist 

“Walker never fails to be honest where truth is needed and he never 

fails to be gracious where generosity is possible.”—Marilynne 

Robinson, author of Gilead and Home

memoir 

2010 Holiday Barnes & Noble Discover 

Great New Writers program selection 

Named one of the top memoirs of 2010 by Library Journal 

Sleep in Me 

jon pineda 

Against the backdrop of 

his teenage sister’s car 

accident—in which a 

dump truck filled with 

sand slammed into the 

small car carrying her 

and her friends—Jon 

Pineda chronicles his 

sister Rica’s sudden 

transformation from 

a vibrant high school 

cheerleader to a girl 

wheelchair bound and 

unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, 

her only ability to communicate was through her 

rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its 

approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me 

is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a 

boy haunted by a family tragedy. 

A prize-winning poet’s account of the irreparable 

damage and the new understanding that tragedy 

brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda’s 

book is a remarkable story maneuvering between 

childhood memories of his sister cheerleading 

and moments of monitoring her in a coma and 

changing her adult diapers. Pineda adeptly navigates 

between these moments of idyllic youth and 

heartbreaking sadness. Vivid and lyrical, his story is 

an exploration of what it means to live deeply with 

tragedy and of the impact such a story can have on 

a boy’s journey to manhood. 

Jon Pineda teaches in the mfa creative writing 

program at Queens University of Charlotte and is 

the author of two books of poetry, The Translator’s 

Diary and Birthmark. Visit Pineda's website at 

www.jonpineda.com. 

“Pineda lays bare his struggles with family duty and 

identity in this literary standout.”—Library Journal 

march 

168 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4341-5 





literary nonfiction 

In Rooms of Memory 

Essays 

hilary masters 

This exquisite, mature 

collection of personal 

essays by Hilary Masters 

offers a rare pleasure. 

One of the most illustrious 

contemporary 

essayists transfigures 

incidents and observations 

into something far 

more—a finely crafted 

window into the workings 

of experience and 

memory. 

Masters makes readers privy to a youthful love 

affair; an adolescent’s discovery in Defoe’s Robinson 

Crusoe of the key to an immigrant grandfather’s 

plight; and the significance of growing trees, making 

gravy, and playing cards. He draws intimate 

portraits of such characters as his famous father, 

Edgar Lee Masters; his literary friends Wright Morris 

and William Humphrey; and the strangers who 

both complicated and enriched his life. In glimpses 

of moments from naive youth through heady young 

adulthood to aging maturity, these essays tell the 

story of a life deeply, broadly, and thoroughly lived. 

Hilary Masters’s novels, short fiction, and 

nonfiction have been cited in Best American Short 

Stories, Best American Essays, and Pushcart Prize 

anthologies. In 2003 the American Academy of Arts 

and Letters gave his work its award for literature. 

Best known for his memoir Last Stands: Notes from 

Memory, Masters’s most recent publications include 

the book-length essay Shadows on a Wall: Juan 

O’Gorman and the Mural in Pátzcuaro, the collection 

of short stories How the Indians Buried Their 

Dead, and the novel Post. 

“Hilary Masters offers humor, insight, anecdote, foodappreciation 

and more—all while demonstrating the 

ability to zig (or zag) when others around him would 

forge straight ahead. . . . Masters proves a companionable 

and erudite guide.”—Pittsburgh City Weekly 

may 

264 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4002-5 






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may 

160 pp. • 8 x 9 • 78 photographs 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4053-7 

$27.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 


The Last Prairie 

A Sandhills Journal 

Stephen R. Jones 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7630-7 

Sales in United States and its dependencies 

and territories, Canada, and Mexico 

Portraits of the Prairie 

The Land that Inspired Willa Cather 

Richard Schilling 

$44.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2260-1 

Along the Edge of Daylight 

Photographic Travels from Nebraska 

and the Great Plains 

Georg Joutras 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2603-6 

Nebraska 

Under a Big Red Sky 

Joel Sartore 

$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5970-6 

nebraska • photography • travel • natural history • nature writing 

Like No Other Place 

The Sandhills of Nebraska 

david a. owen 

Covering nearly twenty thousand square miles, the Sandhills 

of Nebraska is a rich and layered region that is home to one of 

the most productive ranching areas in the country. In 2008 

and 2009, photographer and storyteller David A. Owen traveled 

through western Nebraska to capture the unconventional 

beauty of the geography and singular way of life of the residents 

there. Connecting the everyday activities of the ranchers 

and residents he encounters to the vast, isolated landscape, 

Owen provides a fascinating window into this dazzling area of 

America. 

Through Owen’s fine ear and eye, Like No Other Place takes 

the reader on a memorable journey into an out-of-the-way 

destination that is part of a modern American West and yet still 

organically linked to its past. Owen’s photographs and stories 

tell of a remarkable region where history, legend, memory, and 

reality are all intertwined. 

David A. Owen is a retired Episcopal minister. His photographs 

of the Sandhills have been exhibited in Nebraska and Connecticut 

and were twice featured in Nebraska Life magazine. 

“David Owen has beautifully captured the rhythms of the Nebraska 

Sandhills in his new book. His essays and photographs convey his 

affection and deep respect for the land and the people, and he 

captures the essence of this distinctive and magnificent American 

place.”—David J. Wishart, editor of The Encyclopedia of the Great 

Plains 

The original schoolhouse in Ellsworth.

Clockwise from top: Ellsworth at night; Brody Brennan; Bill Shrewbury's place; Gordon Jones; and Wrenches. 


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memoir • natural history • alaska 

Rock, Water, Wild 

An Alaskan Life 

nancy lord 

For Nancy Lord, what 

began as a yearning 

for adventure and a 

childhood fascination 

with a wild and distant 

land culminated in a 

move to Alaska in the 

early 1970s. Here she 

discovered the last place 

in America “big and 

wild enough to hold the 

intact landscapes and 

the dreams that are so 

absent today from almost everywhere else.” In Rock, 

Water, Wild, Lord takes readers on a journey among 

salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and 

indigenous languages, and ultimately into a new 

understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our 

intricate and intimate connections to the natural 

world. 

Vast and beautiful, and much more than a mere 

place, Alaska is nonetheless inescapably a land of 

natural extremes and exquisite subtleties. In Lord’s 

explorations, “the country” of Alaska evokes reflections 

on the importance of place and space in our 

lives; arguments over roads carved in the wilderness; 

musings on the role of location and landscape 

in the Dena’ina Athabascan language; accounts 

of sport fishing in the Russian Far East in the first 

days of perestroika and of climbing in the Arrigetch 

Peaks of Alaska’s Brooks Range; and considerations 

of the politics of whaling. Lord proves an excellent 

guide to the challenges and pleasures of making 

oneself at home on this Earth. 

Nancy Lord is a former Alaska Writer Laureate 

and a Pushcart Prize–winning author. Her previous 

acclaimed books include Fishcamp, Green Alaska, 

The Man Who Swam with Beavers, and Beluga Days. 

Visit Lord's website at www.nancylord.alaskawriters.com. 

“A protective love story of a place of vast, otherworldly 

beauty.”—Kirkus Reviews 

may 

248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4000-1 

$19.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


literary nonfiction • natural history • antarctica 

The Entire Earth and Sky 

Views on Antarctica 

leslie carol roberts 

More than a distant 

continent, Antarctica is 

a land of the imagination, 

shaping and shaped 

for centuries by explorers, 

adventurers, scientists, 

and dreamers. The 

Entire Earth and Sky, a 

kaleidoscope of legends, 

stories, field notes, images, 

reports, history, letters, 

and research, renders an 

impression, both vast and 

microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land 

we call Antarctica, and its effect on us. It balances the 

reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance 

of international researchers against the crystalline 

dream-scape of a continent at the bottom of the 

world. 

When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for 

the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to 

save the world. In the twenty years since then, she has 

shifted to the no less difficult task of saving Antarctica 

itself, compiling memoirs and stories, learning the 

biology and geography of the icy land, and documenting 

her own journey. This book weaves the tragic 

and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, 

interviews with scientists, and the author’s personal 

observations into a remarkable collage that evokes the 

beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards 

of a lifelong engagement with the earth’s last wilderness. 

Leslie Carol Roberts (mfa, University of Iowa) 

was a Fulbright Fellow at Gateway Antarctica New 

Zealand and now teaches in the Graduate Design 

Program at the California College of the Arts, San 

Francisco. She has written hundreds of articles and 

essays for publications, including the Bellevue Literary 

Review, and the Christian Science Monitor. Visit 

Roberts' website at www.lesliecarolroberts.org. 

“Roberts shows a poet’s attention to detail. . . . [She] tells 

many forgotten stories of Antarctica in an engaging style 

that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cold places, 

travel adventures, and overlooked history.”—Booklist 

july 

328 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 11 photographs, 1 map 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4001-8 

$20.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 

e-book available • 978-0-8032-6764-0

memoir • ecology • energy 

Oil Notes 

rick bass 

With a new introduction by the author 

Oil Notes is about the excitement of the earth below us, the 

passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, 

and its gradual disappearance. Writing in the form of a journal, 

Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist’s craft, 

measuring people’s short lives and relationships against the 

seemingly immutable history of the earth, showing mountains 

and forests that do not move while we are free to race across 

them, living our lives in the ultimate freedom of speed. To 

dig for oil is a way to dig deep into human experience, a kind 

of subterranean exploration of self. And nothing escapes this 

writer’s eye or imagination. 

In lean, considered prose, Bass’s essays and notes offer fascinating 

insights into the oil industry while skillfully painting 

the picture of a young man on the verge of adulthood. Oil Notes 

successfully conveys the excitement of possibility—a stimulating 

career, the pursuit of a wonderful woman, the beautiful 

mystery of the earth—that so addresses and captivates us in our 

own lives. 

Bass provides a new introduction for this edition reflecting 

how much—and how little—has changed since his youth in the 

oil industry. 

Rick Bass, a former petroleum geologist and wildlife biologist, 

is the author of seventeen works of fiction, nonfiction, and 

memoir, including the novel Nashville Chrome and Platte River, 

a collection of short stories available in a Bison Books edition. 

“[Bass] knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is 

extravagant and natural.”—Time 

“Oil Notes pierces the human condition and drills deeply into the 

heart of man’s search for his place on the planet. It is a wildcat 

find, as rich and textured as the oil Bass sought in this chronicle of 

life and exploration in Mississippi. His voice hums with the power 

and rhythm of derricks, pumping language for the last drop of 

natural beauty.”—Jackson Clarion-Ledger 

“With the awareness and eye of a naturalist and a writer’s gift with 

language, [Bass] offers a low-key, upbeat work that celebrates 

youthful energy and optimism.”—Publishers Weekly 

“Rick Bass has accomplished the remarkable feat of doing for oil 

exploration what Izaak Walton did for fishing.”—Times Literary 

Supplement 

april 


$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4040-7 

$18.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK 


Platte River 

Rick Bass 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5973-7 

Breaking into the Backcountry 

Steve Edwards 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2653-1 


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italy • wine • travel 

Palmento 

A Sicilian Wine Odyssey 

robert v. camuto 

Inspired by a deep passion 

for wine, an Italian 

heritage, and a desire 

for a land somewhat 

wilder than his home 

in southern France, 

Robert V. Camuto set 

out to explore Sicily’s 

emerging wine scene. 

What he discovered 

during more than a year 

of traveling the region, 

however, was far more 

than a fascinating wine frontier. 

Chronicling his journey through Palermo to 

Marsala, and across the rugged interior of Sicily to 

the heights of Mount Etna, Camuto captures the 

personalities and flavors, the traditions and natural 

riches that have made Italy’s largest and oldest wine 

region the world traveler’s newest discovery. 

Amid wild landscapes, lavish markets, dramatic 

religious rituals, deliciously contrasting flavors, 

and the astonishing natural warmth of its people, 

Camuto finds an expression of humanity and 

nature—and the space where the two merge into 

something more. He takes readers into the nascent 

anti-Mafia movement in the former mob vineyards 

around infamous Corleone; tells stories of some of 

the island’s most prominent landowning families; 

and introduces entertainment celebrities and other 

foreigners drawn to Sicily’s vineyards. He takes 

wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent 

identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off 

its legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to 

emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact. 

Robert V. Camuto is an award-winning journalist 

and travel writer. He is a contributor to Wine 

Spectator and the Washington Post and the author 

of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine 

Country, available in a Bison Books edition. Visit 

Camuto's website at www.robertcamuto.net. 

“A beautiful, enthralling work, eternally wistful and 

hopeful, much like Sicily itself.”—New York Times 

march 

312 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 30 illustrations, 1 map 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3995-1 

$20.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


at table series 

italy • wine/cooking • memoir • travel 

Barolo 

matthew gavin frank 

After a childhood of microwaved 

meat and saturated 

fat, Matthew Gavin 

Frank got serious about 

food. His “research” ultimately 

led him to Barolo, 

Italy, where, living out of a 

tent in the garden of a local 

farmhouse, he resolved 

to learn about Italian 

food from the ground up. 

Barolo is Frank’s account 

of those six months. 

At once an intimate travelogue and a memoir of 

a culinary education, Barolo details the adventures 

of a not-so-innocent abroad in a region known for 

its food and wine. Upon arrival, Frank began picking 

wine grapes for famed vintner Luciano Sandrone. 

He tells how, between lessons in the art of the grape 

harvest, he discovered, explored, and savored the 

gustatory riches of Italy’s Piemonte region. Along 

the way we meet the region’s families and the many 

eccentric vintners, butchers, bakers, and restaurateurs 

who call Barolo home. Rich with details of real Italian 

small-town life, local foodstuffs, strange markets, and 

a circus-like atmosphere, Frank’s story also offers a 

wealth of historical and culinary information, moments 

of flamboyance, and musings on foreign travel 

(and its many alien seductions), all filtered through 

food and wine. 

Matthew Gavin Frank is an assistant professor of 

creative writing at Northern Michigan University. He 

has published essays in Gastronomica, Creative Nonfiction, 

and Best Food Writing 2006 and is the author of 

Pot Farm (Nebraska, 2012). 

“This remarkable and enchanting tale makes me want 

to set the clock back many years and to book passage 

to Italy and to the sips of the world’s greatest wine, and 

to be inspired by all the things that make life such a 

wonderful journey! Kudos to Matthew Gavin Frank for 

reminding us what really makes life worth living!” 

—Charlie Trotter, host of pbs’s The Kitchen Sessions with 

Charlie Trotter 

march 


$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4006-3 

$19.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


at table series

western history • native studies • great plains 

Voices of the American West 

eli s. ricker 

Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen 

In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West 

became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular 

consciousness, Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker (1843–1926) began 

interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to 

write a multivolume series about its last days. For years Ricker 

traveled across the northern plains, determinedly gathering 

information on and off reservations in winter and in summer. 

Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his interviews are priceless 

sources of information about the Old West that offer more 

balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time. 

Volume 1 

The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 

Among the many individuals he interviewed were American 

Indians, mostly Sioux, who spoke extensively about a range 

of subjects, some with the help of an interpreter. Richard E. 

Jensen brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with American 

Indians, annotating the conversations and offering an extensive 

introduction that sets forth important information about 

Ricker, his research, and the editorial methodology guiding the 

present volume. The valuable interviews conducted by Ricker 

with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the 

Little Bighorn battle, the Grattan incident, and other events and 

personages of the Old West are finally made readily accessible in 

this long-awaited volume. 

Volume 2 

The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 

In this second volume of interviews Ricker focuses on white 

eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of 

the American West in the nineteenth century. Richard E. Jensen 

brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with those men and 

women who came to the American West from elsewhere—settlers, 

homesteaders, and veterans. These interviews shed light 

on such key events as the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Little 

Bighorn battle, Beecher Island, Lightning Creek, the Mormon 

cow incident, and the Washita massacre. Also of interest are 

glimpses of everyday life at different agencies, including Pine 

Ridge, Yellow Medicine, and Fort Sill School; brief though 

revealing memoirs; and snapshots of cattle drives, conflicts with 

Natives, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. 

“Amazing personal accounts [are] in these 

volumes. . . . Here is western history at its finest—vivid 

oral narratives that very well may 

become the stuff of prize-winning stories, 

novels, and films.”—Bloomsbury Review 

“A magnificent achievement to the oralhistory 

sources available on the American 

West. . . . The strength of the volumes is in 

the stories told by the interviewees, with 

their perspectives on key historical events 

from the Old West, which is equally suited 

to the student and the academic scholar.” 

—American Studies 

“The interviews are a gold mine of information, 

and researchers will be rewarded 

for digging through them.”—Great Plains 

Quarterly 

Richard E. Jensen is retired from the 

Nebraska State Historical Society, where 

he was senior research anthropologist. 

His most recent books are The Pawnee 

Mission Letters, 1834–1851 and Eyewitness 

at Wounded Knee, both available from the 

University of Nebraska Press. 

Volume 1 

june 


2 appendixes 

$34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3996-8 

$38.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK 


Volume 2 

june 


1 appendix 

$34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3997-5 

$38.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK 



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native studies • religion 

The Island of the Anishnaabeg 

Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional 

Ojibwe Life-World 

theresa s. smith 

In this study, Theresa 

S. Smith explores the 

lived experience of the 

contemporary Ojibwes 

(or Anishnaabeg) amid 

the remarkable revival 

of both belief in and 

practice of the Ojibwe 

religion. Scholars 

have contended that 

traditional Ojibwe 

religion was gradually 

lost during the three 

centuries following Euro-American contact. And 

yet even though traditional religion no longer exists 

as a plausibility structure for a hunting-gathering 

culture, historic and contemporary accounts and 

a revival in the arts attest to the changing and vital 

nature of Ojibwe religion. The Island of the Anishnaabeg 

is a nuanced look at traditional Ojibwe 

religion and its structure, interpretation, and revival 

among contemporary Ojibwes. 

The Ojibwe life-world, as experienced and 

described through religious symbols, beliefs, and 

practices, is alive with the presence of other-thanhuman 

people, known as manitouk. This book 

is the first thorough and systematic interpretive 

treatment of the relationship between Thunderers 

and Underwater manitouk. Smith’s work reveals 

the Thunderers and Water monsters as determinative 

beings and symbols in the Ojibwe world and 

explores how their relationship inscribes a dialectic 

that both reflects the lived reality of that world and 

helps to determine the position and existence of the 

human subject in it. 

Theresa S. Smith is a professor of religious studies 

at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

july 

240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 16 illustrations, 3 appendixes 

$25.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3832-9 

$27.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK 

memoir • world war ii 

Daddy’s War 

Greek American Stories 

irene kacandes 

When she was very 

young, Irene Kacandes 

knew things about her 

father that had no plot, 

no narrator, and no 

audience. To her childhood 

self these things 

resembled beings who 

resided with her family, 

like the ancestresses 

who’d thrown themselves 

off cliffs rather 

than be taken by the 

Turks, or the forefathers who’d fought the Trojans. 

For decades she thought of these cohabitants as 

Daddy’s War Experiences and tried to stay away 

from them. When tragedy touched the adult life she 

had constructed for herself, however, she realized 

she had to confront her family’s wartime past. 

Kacandes begins with what she did know: that 

her immigrant grandmother returned to Greece 

with four young children—and without her 

husband—only to get trapped there by the Nazi 

occupation. Though still a child himself, her father, 

John, helped feed his younger siblings by taking 

up any task possible, including smuggling arms to 

the Resistance. Kacandes painstakingly uncovers a 

complex truth her father chose not to tell, a truth 

inextricably entwined with the Holocaust, discovering, 

too, a common but little-told story about how 

the telling of such memories is negotiated between 

survivors and their children. Daddy’s War brings 

new understanding to how trauma, like the revenge 

of Greek gods, can visit each generation and offers a 

model for breaking the cycle. 

Irene Kacandes is a professor of German and 

comparative literature at Dartmouth College in 

Hanover, New Hampshire, and the author of several 

books, including Talk Fiction: Literature and the 

Talk Explosion (Nebraska, 2001). 

june 

408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 51 illustrations, 1 glossary, 6 appendixes 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4005-6 

$21.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 

e-book available • 978-0-8032-2299-1

history • jewish studies 

Named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine 

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia 

Facing the Holocaust 

livia rothkirchen 

“We were both small 

nations whose existence 

could never be 

taken for granted,” 

Václav Havel said of 

the Czechs and the 

Jews of Israel in 1990, 

and indeed, the complex 

and intimate link 

between the fortunes 

of these two peoples 

is unique in European 

history. This book by 

one of the world’s leading authorities on the history 

of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period 

is the first to thoroughly document this singular 

relationship and to trace its impact on the fate 

of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the 

Holocaust. 

Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive 

history of how Nazi rule in the Czech 

lands was shaped as much by local culture and 

circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary 

nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges 

in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in 

Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement 

and the German occupation; the reaction of the 

local population to the persecution of the Jews; the 

policies of the London-based government in exile; 

the question of Jewish resistance; and the Theresienstadt 

ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia 

is based on a wealth of primary documents, many 

uncovered only after the 1989 November revolution, 

and includes an epilogue on the post-1945 period. 

The historian Livia Rothkirchen has worked for 

the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem 

for more than twenty-five years. She is the author 

of The Destruction of Slovak Jewry and was awarded 

the Max Nordau Prize for history. 

may 

464 pp. • 6 x 9 

$40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4007-0 

$44.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK 

No sales in Israel or Palestinian Authority 


comprehensive history 

of the holocaust series; 

Copublished with Yad Vashem 

literary criticism 

Named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine 

Russian Formalist Criticism 

Four Essays, Second Edition 

translated and with an 

introduction by lee t. lemon 

and marion j. reis 

New introduction by Gary Saul Morson 

The Russian formalists 

emerged from 

the Russian Revolution 

with ideas about 

the independence of 

literature. They enjoyed 

that independence until 

Stalin shut them down. 

By then, however, they 

had produced essays 

that remain among the 

best defenses ever written 

for both literature 

and its theory. 

Included here are four essays representing key 

points in the formalists’ short history. Victor 

Shklovsky’s pioneering “Art as Technique” (1917) 

defines the literary as a way to make us see familiar 

things as if for the first time. His 1921 essay on 

Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the 

centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from 

Boris Tomashevsky’s “Thematics” (1925) inventories 

the elements of stories. In “The Theory of the 

‘Formal Method’” (1927), Boris Eichenbaum defends 

Russian Formalism against various attacks. An 

able champion, he describes Formalism’s evolution, 

notes its major figures and works, clears away decayed 

axioms, and rescues literature from “primitive 

historicism” and other dangers. 

These essays set a course for literary studies that 

led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and 

postmodern poetics. 

Lee T. Lemon is an emeritus professor of English 

at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the 

author of several books, including Portraits of the 

Artist in Contemporary Fiction. Marion J. Reis was 

affiliated with the Oak Park and River Forest High 

School in Oak Park, Illinois. Gary Saul Morson is 

the author of numerous books, including The Words 

of Others: From Quotations to Culture. 

july 

176 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$20.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3998-2 

$21.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 


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march 


$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4089-6 


No sales in British Commonwealth except Canada 


Chief Bender’s Burden 

The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star 

Tom Swift 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1498-9 

Native Athletes in Sport and Society 

A Reader 

Edited by C. Richard King 

$26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7828-8 

biography • native studies • sports 

Winner of the 2011 Larry Ritter Award 

Winner of the 2010 Nelson Ross Award 

Native American Son 

The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe 

kate buford 

The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who 

defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably 

the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. history. 

With clarity and an eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the 

pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career: growing 

up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading 

the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team to victories 

against the country’s finest college teams; winning gold medals 

in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the 

burgeoning sport of professional football; and playing long, 

often successful—and previously unexamined—years in professional 

baseball. 

At the same time, however, Buford recounts the difficulties 

Thorpe faced as a Native American. We also see the infamous 

loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had 

previously played professional baseball, an event that would 

haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with 

alcoholism and personal misfortune, and how he came to distrust 

many of the hands extended to him. We learn the details 

of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he 

chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed 

reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982. 

Here is the story of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented 

man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and 

truly extraordinary achievements. 

Kate Buford is the author of Burt Lancaster: An American 

Life. She has written for the New York Times and has been 

a commentator on npr’s Morning Edition and American 

Public Media’s Marketplace. Visit Buford's website at 

www.katebuford.com. 

“Impeccably researched. . . . This retrospective is not the first to 

tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it’s the most comprehensive. 

. . . [It] captures Thorpe’s breathtaking highs and heartrending 

lows.”—Kirkus 

“[Buford] knows about mythic heroes and draws a complex portrait 

of Jim Thorpe: from his superhuman athletic talents to his all-toohuman 

flaws.”—Washington Post 

“[Buford] lays a firm, clear historical groundwork for the reservation 

life and Indian world in which Thorpe grew up in Oklahoma. 

. . . [It] brims with life in its depiction of Hollywood during the 

1930s and ’40s. . . . Through Thorpe’s struggles and striving, 

Buford recreates this period of Los Angeles history in all its glorious 

strangeness.”—New York Times (Editors’ Choice)


Winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal 

1921 

The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle 

for Baseball Supremacy in New York 

lyle spatz and steve steinberg 

Foreword by Charles C. Alexander 

At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to 

overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during 

a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At 

this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to 

fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts 

and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the 

pinnacle of the baseball world. 

1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees 

against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John 

McGraw’s Giants, in the first all–New York City World Series. 

Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg re-create the drama that featured 

the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in 

the face of McGraw’s disdain for the American League and the 

Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with 

the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, 

Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun, and with more than fifty 

photographs, offering a vivid picture of the colorful characters, 

the crosstown rivalry, and the incomparable performances of 

this classic season. 

Lyle Spatz is the editor of The Team That Forever Changed Baseball 

and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers (Nebraska, 2012). 

Steve Steinberg is the author of Baseball in St. Louis, 1900–1925. 

Charles C. Alexander is the author of several baseball books, 

including John McGraw (Nebraska, 1995) and Spoke: A Biography 

of Tris Speaker. 

“As Steinberg states on his web site, ‘Time travel is possible.’ In 

1921, he and Spatz will take you back to see this pivotal season for 

yourself.”—Baseball America 

“1921 is an incredibly comprehensive look at a pivotal baseball 

season—for the sport, for New York, for an America finally distancing 

itself from war. Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz have created a 

mosaic of a year in baseball that is both illuminating and entertaining.”—Frank 

Deford 

“Two decades into the twentieth century, much of baseball was still 

playing a turn-of-the-century game. 1921 represents one of the 

pivot points in baseball history, as the old style and its proponents, 

embodied by John McGraw and his Giants, began to give way to 

what would become the modern game, as embodied by Babe Ruth 

and his Yankees.”—Bob Costas 

march 

544 pp. • 6 x 9 • 53 illustrations, 16 tables, 

4 appendixes 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3999-9 

$27.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 



Babe Ruth’s Own Book of Baseball 

George Herman Ruth 

$19.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-8939-0 

John McGraw 

Charles C. Alexander 

$29.95x paperback • 978-0-8032-5925-6 


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biography • sports • baseball 

Winner of the 2008 Larry Ritter Award 

Connie Mack and the Early Years 

of Baseball 

norman l. macht 

Foreword by Connie Mack III 

Connie Mack (1862– 

1956) was the Grand 

Old Man of baseball 

and one of the game’s 

first true celebrities. 

This book, spanning 

the first fifty-two years 

of Mack’s life, covers 

his experiences as 

player, manager, and 

club owner through 

1914. 

Norman L. Macht 

chronicles Mack’s little-known beginnings, recounting 

how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created 

strategies for winning baseball and principles for 

managing men long before there were notions of 

defining such subjects. And he details how, as a key 

figure in the launching of the American League in 

1901, Mack won six of the league’s first fourteen pennants 

while serving as manager, treasurer, general 

manager, traveling secretary, and public relations 

and scouting director (all at the same time) for the 

Philadelphia Athletics. 

This book brings to life the unruly origins of 

baseball as a sport and a business and provides the 

first complete and accurate picture of a character 

who was larger than life and yet little known: the 

tricky, rule-bending catcher; the peppery field 

leader and fan favorite; the hot-tempered young 

manager. Illustrated with previously unpublished 

family photographs, it affords unique insight into a 

colorful personality who helped shape baseball as 

we know it today. 

Norman L. Macht is a member of the Society 

for American Baseball Research and the author of 

more than thirty books, including Connie Mack: 

The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915–1931 and 

Football’s Last Iron Men: 1934, Yale vs. Princeton, 

and One Stunning Upset, both available from the 

University of Nebraska Press. 

april 


$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4003-2 

$33.50 Canadian/£21.99 UK 


sports • baseball • pacific northwest 

Pitchers of Beer 

The Story of the Seattle Rainiers 

dan raley 

In 1937, when local 

beer baron Emil Sick 

stepped in, the Seattle 

Indians were a struggling 

minor league 

baseball team teetering 

on collapse. Moved to 

mix baseball and beer 

by his good friend and 

fellow brewer, New 

York Yankees owner 

Jacob Ruppert, Sick 

built a new stadium 

and turned the team into a civic treasure. The Rainiers 

(newly named after the beer) set attendance 

records and won Pacific Coast League titles in 1939, 

1940, 1941, 1951, and 1955. 

Pitchers of Beer: The Story of the Seattle Rainiers 

spans the end of the Great Depression, World War 

II, the rise of the airline industry, and the incursion 

of Major League Baseball into the West Coast 

(which ultimately spelled doom for the club). It features 

well-known personalities such as Babe Ruth, 

who made an unsuccessful bid to manage the team; 

Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby, who did manage the 

Rainiers; and Ron Santo, a batboy who went on to 

a storied career with the Chicago Cubs. Mixing traditional 

baseball lore with tales of mischief, Pitchers 

of Beer relates the twenty-seven-year history of the 

Rainiers and showcases fifty-two photographs of 

players and memorabilia from noted Northwest 

baseball collector David Eskenazi. 

Dan Raley is an editor with the Atlanta Journal- 

Constitution. Previously a sportswriter for the 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer for nearly three decades, 

he has won over fifty national and regional writing 

awards. He is also the author of Tideflats to Tomorrow: 

The History of Seattle’s SoDo. 

“Raley brings these characters back to life with deft 

storytelling and very readable text. The result is a rich 

team history that will rekindle long-forgotten memories 

for old Rainiers enthusiasts.”—James Bailey, 

Baseball America 

april 

352 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 52 illustrations, 1 table 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4085-8 

$21.95 Canadian/£14.99 UK 

e-book available • 978-0-8032-3502-1

sports • golf • memoir 

Straight Down the Middle 

Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and 

How I Learned to Stop Worrying 

and Love My Golf Swing 

josh karp 

Josh Karp first played golf in the sixth grade before going on to 

become one of the worst players on some very bad high school 

and college golf teams. In his early twenties, his handicap hit 18, 

where it remained until he went to work on this book, which 

helped bring it down to 11. 

In this hilarious memoir, journalist Karp tries it all—from 

quantum physics to the Feldenkrais Method—in an attempt to 

transform his mind-set, lower his score, and tap into the mystical 

connection between golf and spirituality. 

Throughout the ages, the arts of Zen and meditation have 

helped warriors prepare for battle, brought philosophers to 

enlightenment, and opened the path to inner peace for countless 

practitioners. Perhaps most important, however, they have 

allowed golfers to transcend their game and shave precious 

strokes off their handicap. 

Assisted by a quirky roster of Zen-influenced golf masters, 

this journey of a common man in search of an uncommon 

kingdom across the fairways of North America (and Scotland, 

of course!) is funny and enlightening, inspired and frustrating, 

yet always entertaining. 

Josh Karp is an adjunct lecturer in journalism at Northwestern 

University and a freelance journalist whose work has appeared 

in numerous publications and websites, including Salon, the 

Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago 

Magazine, and the Huffington Post. He is the author of A Stupid 

and Futile Gesture, named Best Biography of 2006 at the Independent 

Publisher Book Awards and the Midwest Book Awards. 

“The perfect antidote for anyone who’s ever read Golf in the Kingdom 

or Zen Golf and wondered what really goes on in the shrouded 

world of mystical golf.”—Golf Tips Magazine 

“A very entertaining account of Josh Karp’s attempt to improve his 

golf game by reconnecting with his spiritual side. . . . I enjoyed 

the book immensely, and recommend it to everyone who loves the 

game.”—Golf Blogger Review 

“Karp’s work is in a league of its own. . . . Without a doubt, Straight 

Down the Middle is a book worthy of any golfer’s attention.” 

—Adam Fonseca, ChicagoDuffer.com 

may 

256 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4064-3 

$20.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 


Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch 

Growing Up on America’s First Heroic Golf Course 

Bill Kilpatrick 

$16.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3642-4 

Let There Be Pebble 

A Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s 

Garden of Golf 

Zachary Michael Jack 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3357-7 


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memoir • sports • basketball 

I Grew Up with Basketball 

Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage 

Greats of Yesterday 

frank j. basloe 

Introduction by Michael A. Antonucci 

Frank J. Basloe grew 

up in Herkimer, New 

York, where ymca 

director Lambert Will 

developed the game of 

basketball. Basloe’s classic 

memoir, I Grew Up 

with Basketball, offers 

an eyewitness account 

of the humble roots of 

the imposing enterprise 

that is professional 

basketball today. At age 

sixteen, Basloe began his career as a promoter and 

managed several teams that regularly toured New 

York, New England, and the Midwest, including the 

Oswego Indians and Basloe’s Globe Trotters. Until 

the 1920s and the advent of the New York Original 

Celtics, New York Renaissance, and Harlem Globetrotters, 

Basloe’s clubs reigned supreme among 

barnstormers. 

I Grew Up with Basketball is a fascinating and 

entertaining memoir of basketball’s infancy and, for 

some, fuels the debate about the game’s true origins 

by providing a counternarrative to the sanctioned 

history offered by the Hall of Fame. Though James 

Naismith’s original concept is acknowledged, Basloe 

credits ymca director Will for altering the game to 

be more exciting and fun to play as well as establishing 

early rules of play. 

This rare firsthand glimpse of the early days of 

basketball is complimented by Michael A. Antonucci’s 

introduction, which tracks the game—from 

Basloe’s Globe Trotters to LeBron James—and its 

trappings as a business vehicle. 

Frank J. Basloe (1887–1966) was born in Hungary, 

and his family immigrated to the United 

States in the late nineteenth century. Michael A. 

Antonucci is a professor of English and American 

studies at Keene State College. 

march 

256 pp. • 5 ¼ x 8 • 45 illustrations, 2 tables 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4023-0 

$18.95 Canadian/£11.99 UK 

sports • boxing • great plains • history 

Shelby’s Folly 

Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown 

of a Montana Boomtown 

jason kelly 

In 1923, not long after 

oil had started gushing 

from northern Montana 

fields, declining realestate 

sales in nearby 

Shelby were dimming 

the little town’s prospects 

of becoming the 

“Tulsa of the West.” Then 

the mayor’s son dreamed 

up a marketing ploy: 

offer to host heavyweight 

champion Jack 

Dempsey’s next fight. What began as a publicity stunt 

soon spiraled into a civic drama unlike any Montana 

had ever seen. Shelby’s Folly tells this story in full for 

the first time. 

Against the background of boom-and-bust Montana 

history, the folly of Shelby’s would-be promoters 

unfolds in colorful detail. It took months to persuade 

Dempsey’s conniving manager, Jack “Doc” Kearns, to 

sign a $300,000 contract. With less than two months 

before the July 4 fight, the town still had no stadium 

and no accommodations for tens of thousands of 

expected fans. Jason Kelly describes the promoters’ 

desperate measures and their disastrous results, from 

the first inkling of the idea to the bitter end of the fifteen-round 

boxing match. Shelby residents identified 

with the underdog challenger, Tommy Gibbons, who 

went toe-to-toe with the champion in an atmosphere 

crackling with tension. A soap opera of financial 

intrigue and chicanery, Shelby’s Folly chronicles how 

Big Sky ambition and Doc Kearns’s scheming mind 

collided to produce one of the most preposterous 

series of events in boxing history. 

Jason Kelly is an associate editor of the University 

of Chicago Magazine. He is the author of Mr. Notre 

Dame: The Life and Legend of Edward “Moose” Krause. 

“A simply marvelous book.”—usa Boxing News 

“Enjoyable.”—Wall Street Journal 

july 


$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4004-9 

$18.95 Canadian/£10.99 UK 

e-book available • 978-0-8032-3003-3

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june 

648 pp. • 6 x 9 

$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4076-6 

$62.00 Canadian/£36.00 UK 


studies in antisemitism series 

Copublished with the Vidal Sassoon 

International Center for the Study of 

Antisemitism 

also of interest in the series 

Laboratory for World Destruction 

Germans and Jews in Central Europe 

Robert S. Wistrich 

$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-1134-6 

Inventing the Jew 

Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other 

Central-East European Cultures 

Andrei Oisteanu 

Translated by Mirela Adascalitei 

$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2098-0 

The Catholic Church and the Jews 

Argentina, 1933–1945 

Graciela Ben-Dror 

$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-1889-5 

Offenders or Victims? 

German Jews and the Causes of Modern 

Catholic Antisemitism 

Olaf Blaschke 

$50.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2522-0 

jewish studies • history • middle east 

From Ambivalence to Betrayal 

The Left, the Jews, and Israel 

robert s. wistrich 

From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the 

transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, 

and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 

1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a 

striking continuity in negative stereotypes of Jews, contempt 

for Judaism, and negation of Jewish national self-determination 

from the days of Karl Marx to the current left-wing intellectual 

assault on Israel. World-renowned expert on the history of 

antisemitism Robert S. Wistrich provides not only a powerful 

analysis of how and why the Left emerged as a spearhead 

of anti-Israel sentiment but also new insights into the wider 

involvement of Jews in radical movements. 

There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard 

Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish 

intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist 

and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently 

exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a 

novel form of “anti-racist” racism. 

Robert S. Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and 

Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director 

of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of 

Antisemitism. He is the author of numerous books, including, 

most recently, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity 

to the Global Jihad (2010) and Laboratory for World Destruction: 

Germans and Jews in Central Europe (Nebraska, 2007).

history • germany • world war ii 

The Nazi Concentration Camps, 

1933–1939 

A Documentary History 

edited and with an introduction 

by christian goeschel and 

nikolaus wachsmann 

Weeks after Adolf 

Hitler came to power 

in 1933, the Nazi regime 

established the 

first concentration 

camps in Germany. 

Initially used for real 

and suspected political 

enemies, the camps 

increasingly came 

under ss control and 

became sites for the 

repression of social 

outsiders and German Jews. Terror was central to 

the Nazi regime from the beginning, and the camps 

gradually moved toward the center of repression, 

torture, and mass murder during World War II and 

the Holocaust. 

This collection brings together revealing primary 

documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi 

concentration camp system in the prewar years 

between 1933 and 1939, which have been overlooked 

thus far. Many of the documents are unpublished 

and have been translated into English for the first 

time. These documents provide insight into the 

camps from multiple perspectives, including those 

of prisoners, Nazi officials, and foreign observers, 

and shed light on the complex relationship between 

terror, state, and society in the Third Reich. 

Christian Goeschel teaches modern European 

history at the Australian National University in 

Canberra. He is the author of Suicide in Nazi 

Germany. Nikolaus Wachsmann teaches modern 

German history at Birkbeck College, University of 

London. He is the author of Hitler’s Prisons: Legal 

Terror in Nazi Germany and coeditor of Concentration 

Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories. 

july 

480 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, 2 tables, 1 graph, 1 chronology 

$65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2782-8 

$72.95 Canadian/£42.00 UK 

history • african american studies • europe 

Opposing Jim Crow 

African Americans and the Soviet Indictment 

of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937 

meredith l. roman 

Before the Nazis came 

to power in Germany, 

Soviet officials labeled 

the United States the 

most racist country in 

the world. Photographs, 

children’s stories, films, 

newspaper articles, 

political education 

campaigns, and court 

proceedings exposed 

the hypocrisy of 

America’s racial democracy. 

In contrast, the Soviets represented the ussr 

itself as a superior society where racism was absent 

and identified African Americans as valued allies in 

resisting an imminent imperialist war against the 

first workers’ state. 

Meredith L. Roman’s Opposing Jim Crow examines 

the period between 1928 and 1937, when 

the promotion of antiracism by party and trade 

union officials in Moscow became a priority policy. 

Although Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable 

propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing 

attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously 

directed attention to the routine violation of 

human rights that African Americans suffered as 

citizens of the United States. Soviet policy also challenged 

the prevailing white supremacist notion that 

blacks were biologically inferior and thus unworthy 

of equality with whites. African Americans of 

various political and socioeconomic backgrounds 

became indispensable contributors to Soviet antiracism 

and helped officials in Moscow challenge the 

United States’ claim to be the world’s beacon of 

democracy and freedom. 

Meredith L. Roman is an assistant professor 

of history at suny–Brockport. Her articles have 

appeared in the Journal of Communist Studies and 

Transition Politics and Critique: A Journal of Socialist 

Theory. 

july 


$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-1552-8 

$62.00 Canadian/£36.00 UK 


justice and social inquiry series 

Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker, series editors 


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july 

200 pp. • 9 x 12 • 37 color photographs, 

106 color plates 

$50.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4092-6 


Fabulous Harlequin 

orlan and the Patchwork Self 

Edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano 

and Rhonda K. Garelick 

$44.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3475-8 

Sculpture from the Sheldon 

Memorial Art Gallery 

Edited by Karen O. Janovy 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7629-1 

American Quilts in the Modern Age, 

1870–1940 

The International Quilt Study Center Collections 

Edited by Marin F. Hanson 

and Patricia Cox Crews 

$90.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2054-6 

art • criticism 


The Geometric Unconscious 

A Century of Abstraction 

edited by jorge daniel veneciano 

This stunning book, inspired by the Sheldon Museum of Art’s 

rich holdings in geometric abstraction, introduces adventurous 

new thinking about a visual approach that has captivated 

both artists and viewers for more than a century. Four richly 

illustrated essays explore the European genesis of geometric 

abstraction, its translation into an American context, and its 

current direction, charting the style’s aesthetic, intellectual, and 

social implications. 

Sharon L. Kennedy’s essay draws on the Sheldon’s collection 

to trace the style’s beginnings and its various transformations by 

twentieth-century American artists. Peter Halley invokes contemporary 

theory in rethinking how postmodern artists engage 

with geometry while challenging its most basic presumptions. 

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe delves into the work of four contemporary 

artists who are taking geometry in exciting new directions, and 

Jorge Daniel Veneciano reveals the persistent manner in which 

theorists and defenders of geometric abstraction have obscured 

aspects of its history and contributed to the esoteric aura of 

modern art. 

Featured throughout are full-color reproductions of masterpieces 

from both the Sheldon and private collections, including 

paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by diverse artists 

such as Ilya Bolotowsky, Carmen Herrera, Donald Judd, Agnes 

Martin, Piet Mondrian, Odili Donald Odita, Frank Stella, and 

Charmion von Wiegand. 

Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the director of the Sheldon Museum 

of Art. He is the coeditor of Fabulous Harlequin: orlan and 

the Patchwork Self (Nebraska, 2010) and the editor of Neo-Constructivism: 

Art, Architecture, and Activism and Play’s the Thing: 

Reading the Art of Jun Kaneko.

Clockwise from top left: Alice Aycock (American, born 1946). The Machine That Makes the World, 1979. Wood and steel. Sheldon Museum of Art, gift of the 

artist and Klein Gallery, u-4249. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson. Art © Alice Aycock. Top right: Patrick Henry Bruce (American, 1881–1936). Forms, 

1918. Oil and graphite on canvas. unl–Howard S. Wilson Memorial, u-510. Middle right: Mark Di Suvero (American, born China, 1933). Old Glory, 1986. 

Painted steel. unl–Olga N. Sheldon Acquisition Trust and friends of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, u-3930. Art © Mark di Suvero. Bottom right: Bruce 

Beasley (American, born 1939). Bateleur II, 1989. Bronze. unl–Gift of anonymous donor, u-4536. Art © Bruce Beasley. Bottom left: Lyman Kipp (American, 

born 1929). Ulysses, 1972. Painted aluminum. unl–F. M. Hall Collection, h-2298. Art © Lyman Kipp. Middle right: Balcomb Greene (American, 

1904–1990). Monument to Light, 1942. Oil on canvas. naa–Thomas C. Woods Memorial, n-141. Art © The Estate of Gertrude and Balcomb Greene. 


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Paul Spickard and Pekka Hämäläinen, series editors 

The Center for Borderlands and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a venue 

for the scholarly study of borderlands—of the encounters, intersections, and collisions between peoples and 

cultures—in present time and throughout human history. The books in this series focus on the center’s five 

themes: comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the 

American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters. 

july 

328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 maps, 1 glossary 

$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-3766-7 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 



The Blue Tattoo 

The Life of Olive Oatman 

Margot Mifflin 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5 

history • native studies • latin america • mexico 

Chiricahua and Janos 

Communities of Violence in the 

Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880 

lance r. blyth 

Borderlands violence, so explosive in our time, has deep roots 

in history. Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the 

presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how 

no single entity had a monopoly on coercion and how violence 

became the primary means by which relations were established, 

maintained, or altered both within and between communities, 

to include the Spanish-Mexican settlement of Janos in Nueva 

Vizcaya, present-day Chihuahua, and the Chiricahua Apaches. 

For more than two centuries violence was at the center of 

the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their 

communities. Violence created families by turning boys into 

men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to 

marriage, then also determined the provisioning and security 

of these families, with acts of revenge and retaliation governing 

their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange 

continued sporadically. This revisionist work reveals how during 

the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras both conflict and 

accommodation constituted these two communities that previous 

historians have often treated as separate and antagonistic. 

By showing not only the negative aspects of violence but also its 

potentially positive outcomes, Chiricahua and Janos helps us to 

understand violence not only in the southwestern borderlands 

but in borderland regions generally around the world. 

Lance R. Blyth is the deputy director of the Office of History 

at U.S. Northern Command and a research associate professor 

in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of 

New Mexico.

history • ethnic studies 


Transnational Crossroads 

Remapping the Americas and the Pacific 

edited by camilla fojas 

and rudy p. guevarra jr. 

The twentieth century 

was a time of unprecedented 

migration and 

interaction for Asian, 

Latin American, and 

Pacific Islander cultures 

in the Americas 

and the American 

Pacific. Some of these 

ethnic groups already 

had historic ties, but 

technology, migration, 

and globalization during 

the twentieth century brought them into even 

closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores 

and triangulates for the first time the interactions 

and contacts among these three cultural groups that 

were brought together by the expanding American 

empire from 1867 to 1950. 

Through a comparative framework, this volume 

weaves together narratives of U.S. and Spanish empire, 

globalization, resistance, and identity, as well 

as social, labor, and political movements. Contributors 

examine multiethnic celebrities and key figures, 

migratory paths, cultural productions, and social 

and political formations among these three groups. 

Engaging multiple disciplines and methodologies, 

these studies of Asian American, Latin American, 

and Pacific Islander cultural interactions explode 

traditional notions of ethnic studies and introduce 

new approaches to transnational and comparative 

studies of the Americas and the American Pacific. 

Camilla Fojas is Vincent de Paul Professor and 

the director of Latin American and Latino studies 

at DePaul University. She is the author of Border 

Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier. Rudy 

P. Guevarra Jr. is an assistant professor of Asian 

Pacific American studies at Arizona State University. 

He is author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic 

Identities and Communities in San Diego. 

june 

504 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 illustration 

$45.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3795-7 

$50.50 Canadian/£28.99 UK 


borderlands and transcultural 

studies series 

Paul Spickard and Pekka Hämäläinen, series editors 

native studies • film & theater 


Navajo Talking Picture 

Cinema on Native Ground 

randolph lewis 

Navajo Talking Picture, 

released in 1985, is one 

of the earliest and most 

controversial works 

of Native cinema. It 

is a documentary by 

Los Angeles filmmaker 

Arlene Bowman, who 

travels to the Navajo 

reservation to record 

the traditional ways 

of her grandmother in 

order to understand her 

own cultural heritage. For reasons that have often 

confused viewers, the filmmaker persists despite her 

traditional grandmother’s forceful objections to the 

apparent invasion of her privacy. What emerges is a 

strange and thought-provoking work that abruptly 

calls into question the issue of insider versus outsider 

and other assumptions that have obscured the 

complexities of Native art. 

Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduction 

and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, in which he 

shows that it is not simply the first Navajo-produced 

film but also a path-breaking work in the history of 

indigenous media in the United States. Placing the 

film in a number of revealing contexts, including 

the long history of Navajo people working in Hollywood, 

the ethics of documentary filmmaking, and 

the often problematic reception of Native art, Lewis 

explores the tensions and mysteries hidden in this 

unsettling but fascinating film. 

Randolph Lewis is an associate professor of 

American studies at the University of Texas at 

Austin. He is the author of Alanis Obomsawin: The 

Vision of a Native Filmmaker (available in a Bison 

Books edition) and Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker 

in Cold War America. 

july 


$30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3841-1 

$33.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK 


indigenous films series 

Randolph Lewis and David Delgado Shorter, 



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american history • native studies 

Murder State 

California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 

brendan c. lindsay 

In the second half of the 

nineteenth century, the 

Euro-American citizenry 

of California carried out 

mass genocide against 

the Native population of 

their state, using the processes 

and mechanisms 

of democracy to secure 

land and resources for 

themselves and their private 

interests. The murder, 

rape, and enslavement 

of thousands of Native people were legitimized 

by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule— 

through a discreetly organized and brutally effective 

series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and 

votes at every level of California government. 

Murder State is a comprehensive examination of 

these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions 

about Native Americans as shaped by the popular 

press and by immigrants’ experiences on the overland 

trail to California were used to further justify 

the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ 

quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of 

Native people was often merely their reaction to 

the atrocities committed against them as they were 

driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from 

their traditional resources. 

In this narrative history employing numerous primary 

sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship 

on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the 

darker side of California history, one that is rarely 

studied in detail, and the motives of both Native 

Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder 

State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to 

justify and commit genocide. 

Brendan C. Lindsay is a lecturer of history at the 

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He 

holds a PhD in history from the University of California, 

Riverside. 

june 

496 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 tables 

$70.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2480-3 

$78.50 Canadian/£46.00 UK 


native studies • literary collections 


Tales of the Old Indian 

Territory and Essays on 

the Indian Condition 

john milton oskison 

Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré 

At the beginning of the 

twentieth century, Indian 

Territory was a multicultural 

space in which 

various Native tribes, 

European Americans, 

and African Americans 

were equally engaged in 

struggles to carve out 

meaningful lives in a 

harsh landscape. John 

Milton Oskison (1874– 

1947), born in the territory 

to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English 

father, was brought up engaging in his Cherokee 

heritage, including its oral traditions, and appreciating 

the utilitarian value of an American education. 

Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college 

and went on to have a long career in New York City 

journalism, working for the New York Evening Post 

and Collier’s Magazine. He also wrote short stories and 

essays for newspapers and magazines, most of which 

were about contemporary life in Indian Territory and 

depicted a complex multicultural landscape of cowboys, 

farmers, outlaws, and families dealing with the 

consequences of multiple interacting cultures. 

Though Oskison was a well-known and prolific 

Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his 

works are known today. This first comprehensive collection 

of Oskison’s unpublished autobiography, short 

stories, autobiographical essays, and essays fills a significant 

void in the literature and thought of a critical 

time and place in the history of the United States. 

Lionel Larré is an associate professor of English at 

the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3. He 

has published two books in France and numerous 

articles on Native American subjects. 

june 

696 pp. • 6 x 9 • French flaps 

$60.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3792-6 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 


american indian lives series 

Kimberly Blaeser, Brenda J. Child, R. David Edmunds, 

Clara Sue Kidwell, and Tsianina K. Lomawaima, 

series editors

native studies • american history 

A Thrilling Narrative 

of Indian Captivity 

Dispatches from the Dakota War 

mary butler renville 

Edited by Carrie Reber Zeman and 

Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 

Foreword by Gwen N. Westerman 

This edition of A Thrilling 

Narrative of Indian 

Captivity rescues from 

obscurity a crucially 

important work about 

the bitterly contested 

U.S.-Dakota War of 

1862. Written by Mary 

Butler Renville, an 

Anglo woman, with 

the assistance of her 

Dakota husband, John 

Baptiste Renville, A 

Thrilling Narrative was printed only once as a book 

in 1863 and has not been republished since. The 

work details the Renvilles’ experiences as “captives” 

among their Dakota kin in the Peace Party camp. 

Their sympathetic portrayal of those Dakotas who 

opposed the war combats the stereotypical and 

inaccurate view that most Dakotas supported the 

war in 1862. What emerges from the Renvilles’ story 

is a complex and unique picture of race, gender, and 

class relations on the Minnesota frontier. 

As the state of Minnesota commemorates the 

150th anniversary of the Dakota War, this narrative 

provides fresh insights into the most controversial 

event in the region’s history. This new, annotated 

edition includes groundbreaking historical and 

literary contexts for both the war and the text. 

Mary Butler Renville (1830–1895) and John 

Baptiste Renville (1831–1903) dedicated their lives 

to education and mission work among the Dakotas. 

Carrie Reber Zeman, an independent historian 

specializing in the context and historiography of 

the U.S-Dakota War of 1862, is a consultant for the 

Minnesota Historical Society. Kathryn Zabelle 

Derounian-Stodola is a professor of English at the 

University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the author 

of The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict 

through the Captivity Literature (Nebraska, 2009). 

june 

416 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 illustrations, 4 maps, 2 appendixes 

$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-3530-4 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 


native studies • american history 

The Woman Who Loved Mankind 

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder 

lillian bullshows hogan 

As told to Barbara Loeb and 

Mardell Hogan Plainfeather 

The oldest living Crow 

at the dawn of the 

twenty-first century, 

Lillian Bullshows Hogan 

(1905–2003) grew up on 

the Crow reservation 

in rural Montana. In 

The Woman Who Loved 

Mankind she enthralls 

readers with her own 

long and remarkable life 

and the stories of her 

parents, part of the last 

generation of Crow born to nomadic ways. 

As a child Hogan had a miniature teepee, a fast 

horse, and a medicine necklace of green beads; she 

learned traditional arts and food gathering from 

her mother and experienced the bitterness of Indian 

boarding school. She grew up to be a complex, hardworking 

Native woman who drove a car, maintained 

a bank account, and read the local English paper but 

spoke Crow as her first language, practiced beadwork, 

tanned hides, honored clan relatives in generous 

giveaways, and often visited the last of the old 

chiefs and berdaches with her family. She married in 

the traditional Crow way and was a proud member 

of the Tobacco and Sacred Pipe societies but was also 

a devoted Christian who helped establish the Church 

of God on her reservation. 

Warm, funny, heartbreaking, and filled with 

information on Crow life, Hogan’s story was told 

to her daughter, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, and 

to Barbara Loeb, a scholar and longtime friend of 

the family who recorded her words, staying true to 

Hogan’s expressive speaking rhythms with its echoes 

of traditional Crow storytelling. 

Barbara Loeb taught Native art history at Oregon 

State University and is the author of Felice Lucero- 

Giaccardo: A Contemporary Pueblo Painter. Mardell 

Hogan Plainfeather is retired as a supervisory park 

ranger with the National Park Service and as a Crow 

field director of the American Indian Tribal Histories 

Project at the Western Heritage Center. 

july 

568 pp. • 6 x 9 • 23 illustrations, 1 map, 5 figures 

$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-1613-6 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 



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native studies • archaeology 


The Archaeology of the Caddo 

edited by timothy k. perttula 

and chester p. walker 

This landmark volume 

provides the most 

comprehensive overview 

to date of the 

prehistory and archaeology 

of the Caddo 

peoples. The Caddos 

lived in the Southeastern 

Woodlands for 

more than 900 years 

beginning around ad 

800–900, before being 

forced to relocate to 

Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular 

archaeological record, including the famous Spiro 

Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other 

mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and 

cemeteries. 

The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances 

in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, 

including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of 

settlement and regional histories of different Caddo 

communities, Geographic Information Systems 

and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial 

scales, the cosmological significance of mound and 

structure placements, and better ways to understand 

mortuary practices. Findings from major sites 

and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds 

in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro, the Oak Hill 

Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow 

Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress 

Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites 

are also summarized and interpreted. This volume 

reintroduces the Caddos’ heritage, creativity, and 

political and religious complexity. 

Timothy K. Perttula is the cultural resources 

director of Archeological & Environmental Consultants 

llc. He is the editor of The Prehistory of Texas 

and the author of “The Caddo Nation”: Archaeological 

and Ethnohistoric Perspectives. Chester P. 

Walker is the cultural resources director of 

Archaeo-Geophysical Associates llc. 

june 

632 pp. • 6 x 9 • 113 figures and 43 tables 

$60.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-2096-6 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 


history • latin america • mexico 


Gender and the Negotiation of 

Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 

sonya lipsett-rivera 

History is not just 

about great personalities, 

wars, and revolutions; 

it is also about 

the subtle aspects of 

more ordinary matters. 

On a day-to-day basis 

the aspects of life that 

most preoccupied 

people in late eighteenth- 

through mid 

nineteenth-century 

Mexico were not the 

political machinations of generals or politicians 

but whether they themselves could make a living, 

whether others accorded them the respect they 

deserved, whether they were safe from an abusive 

husband, whether their wives and children would 

obey them—in short, the minutiae of daily life. 

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera’s Gender and the Negotiation 

of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 explores the 

relationships between Mexicans, their environment, 

and one another, as well as their negotiation of the 

cultural values of everyday life. By examining the 

value systems that governed Mexican thinking of 

the period, Lipsett-Rivera examines the ephemeral 

daily experiences and interactions of the people 

and illuminates how gender and honor systems 

governed these quotidian negotiations. Bodies and 

the built environment were inscribed with cultural 

values, and the relationship of Mexicans to and 

between space and bodies determined the way 

ordinary people acted out their culture. 

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at 

Carleton University. She is the author of To Defend 

Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle 

for Resources in Colonial Puebla and coeditor of The 

Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial 

Latin America. 

may 


$40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3833-6 

$44.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK 


the mexican experience series 

William H. Beezley, series editor

history • latin america • mexico 


Malcontents, Rebels, 

and Pronunciados 

The Politics of Insurrection 

in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 

edited and with an 

introduction by will fowler 

Behind every pronunciamiento, 

a formal list of 

grievances designed to 

spark political change in 

nineteenth-century Mexico, 

was a disgruntled 

individual, rebel, or pronunciado. 

Initially a role 

undertaken by soldiers, 

a pronunciado rallied 

military communities 

to petition for local, regional, 

and even national 

interests. As the popularity of these petitions grew, 

however, they evolved from a military-led practice 

to one endorsed and engaged by civilians, priests, 

indigenous communities, and politicians. 

The second in a series of books exploring the 

phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this volume 

examines case studies of individual and collective 

pronunciados in regions across Mexico. Top scholars 

examine the motivations of individual pronunciados 

and the reasons they succeeded or failed; why 

garrisons, town councils, and communities adopted 

the pronunciamiento as a political tool and form 

of representation and used it to address local and 

national grievances; and whether institutions upheld 

corporate aims in endorsing, supporting, or launching 

pronunciamientos. The essays provide a better 

understanding of the rebel leaders behind these public 

acts of defiance and reveal how an insurrectionary 

repertoire became part of a national political culture. 

Will Fowler is a professor of Latin American 

Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. 

His many books include Forceful Negotiations: The 

Origins of the Pronunciamiento in Nineteenth-Century 

Mexico and Santa Anna of Mexico, both available 

from the University of Nebraska Press. 

june 

392 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 3 maps, 3 tables, 1 chronology 

$40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-2542-8 

$44.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK 


the mexican experience series 

William H. Beezley, series editor 

sports • american history 


Game Faces 

Five Early American Champions and the Sports 

They Changed 

thomas h. pauly 

This compelling blend 

of biography and cultural 

history depicts five 

important yet nearly 

forgotten athletes from 

the late nineteenth and 

early twentieth centuries 

who had a transformative 

effect on their 

sports and on the evolution 

of sports in general. 

Tom Stevens was the 

first man to ride a bicycle, 

“a high wheeler,” around the world (1884–87). 

Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions 

into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. 

Bill Reid, a Harvard football coach and one of the 

game’s first professionals, played a key role in saving 

the sport from a national movement to abolish it in 

1905. May Sutton became the National Champion 

of women’s tennis at the age of sixteen and was the 

first American woman to triumph at Wimbledon 

(1905). Barney Oldfield was an early champion of 

motor car racing (1902) whose aggressive pursuit of 

crowd appeal and “outlaw” style rankled his competitors 

but won him many races. 

Although they participated in different sports, 

these five athletes were central to the evolution of 

sports from casual leisure recreations into serious, 

commercialized competitions and recognizable 

approximations of our sports today. Game Faces 

tracks the powerful influence of money, rules, and 

mediating organizations on this transformation and 

examines pitched battles between these champions 

and their archrivals. The outcomes determined not 

only the winners but also the future of their sports. 

Thomas H. Pauly is a recently retired professor 

of American literature at the University of Delaware. 

He is the author of Zane Grey: His Life, His 

Adventures, His Women and American Odyssey: Elia 

Kazan and American Culture. 

april 


$25.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3817-6 

$27.95 Canadian/£17.99 UK 



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literary criticism • natural history 


Artifacts and Illuminations 

Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley 

edited and with an introduction 

by tom lynch and susan n. maher 

Loren Eiseley (1907– 

77) is one of the most 

important American 

nature writers of the 

twentieth century and 

an admired practitioner 

of creative 

nonfiction. A native 

of Lincoln, Nebraska, 

Eiseley was a professor 

of anthropology and a 

prolific writer and poet 

who worked to bring 

an understanding of science to the general public, 

incorporating religion, philosophy, and science 

into his explorations of the human mind and the 

passage of time. 

As a writer who bridged the sciences and the 

humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars 

locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts 

and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of 

critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his 

work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature 

writing. The contributing scholars apply a variety 

of critical approaches, including ecocriticism and 

place-oriented studies ranging across prairie, urban, 

and international contexts. Contributors explore 

such diverse topics as Eiseley’s use of anthropomorphism 

and Jungian concepts and examine how his 

work was informed by synecdoche. Long overdue, 

this collection demonstrates Eiseley’s continuing 

relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and 

a profound thinker about the human place in the 

natural world. 

Tom Lynch is an associate professor of English 

at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the 

author of Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in 

Southwestern Literature. Susan N. Maher is the 

dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University 

of Minnesota, Duluth. She is coeditor of John 

McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction. 

april 

384 pp. • 6 x 9 

$40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-3403-1 

$44.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK 



Writing at the Limit 

The Novel in the New Media Ecology 

daniel punday 

While some cultural 

critics are pronouncing 

the death of the novel, 

a whole generation of 

novelists have turned 

to other media with 

curiosity rather than 

fear. These novelists are 

not simply incorporating 

references to other 

media into their work 

for the sake of verisimilitude, 

they are also 

engaging precisely such media as a way of talking 

about what it means to write and read narrative in 

a society filled with stories told outside the print 

medium. 

By examining how some of our best fiction writers 

have taken up the challenge of film, television, 

video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers 

an enlightening look into the current status of such 

fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, 

and setting. He considers well-known post- 

modernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert 

Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine 

Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly 

overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth 

Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the 

nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling. 

Writing at the Limit explores how novelists locate 

print writing within the contemporary media ecology, 

and what it really means to be writing at print’s 

media limit. 

Daniel Punday is a professor in the Department 

of English and Philosophy at Purdue University– 

Calumet. His most recent books are Five Strands of 

Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary 

American Fiction and Narrative Bodies: 

Toward a Corporeal Narratology. 

may 


$60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-3646-2 

$67.50 Canadian/£39.00 UK 


frontiers of narrative series 

David Herman, series editor


Fictional Dialogue 

Speech and Conversation in the Modern 

and Postmodern Novel 

bronwen thomas 

Experimentation with 

the speech of characters 

has been hailed by 

Gérard Genette as “one 

of the main paths of 

emancipation in the 

modern novel.” Dialogue 

as a stylistic and 

narrative device is a key 

feature in the development 

of the novel as 

a genre, yet it is also 

a phenomenon little 

acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. 

Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and 

versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique 

in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by 

focusing on extended extracts and sequences of 

utterances. 

Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories 

and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range 

of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how 

the subject raises profound questions concerning 

our understanding of narrative and human communication. 

The first study of its kind to combine 

literary and narratological analysis with reference 

to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, 

cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, 

this book is also the first to focus in depth 

on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twentyfirst 

centuries and to bring together examples 

of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and 

nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing 

methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new 

method for analyzing fictional dialogue. 

Bronwen Thomas is a senior lecturer in linguistics 

and literature at Bournemouth University. She 

is the coeditor of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling 

in the Digital Age (Nebraska, 2011). 

may 

280 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 appendix 

$50.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4451-1 

$56.00 Canadian/£33.00 UK 


frontiers of narrative series 

David Herman, series editor 

literary criticism • france 

Pictures into Words 

Images in Contemporary French Fiction 

ari j. blatt 

The explosive proliferation 

of pictures in 

advertising and pop 

culture, mass media, 

and cyberspace following 

World War II, along 

with the profusion of 

critical thinking that 

tries to make sense of it, 

has had wide-ranging 

implications for cultural 

production as such. 

Pictures into Words 

explores how this proliferation of graphic images 

has profoundly affected narrative writing in France, 

especially, as Ari J. Blatt argues, the structure, content, 

and symbolic logic of contemporary French 

fiction. By examining a specific corpus of narratives 

by authors Claude Simon, Georges Perec, Pierre 

Michon, and Tanguy Viel—books that originate 

amid, conjure up, and indeed are essentially about 

pictures—Blatt addresses the most salient questions 

pertaining to the relationship between literature 

and visual culture today. 

Each of the novels considered here engages 

the work of several postwar artists—from Robert 

Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, 

and Orson Welles to Jeff Koons, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 

Pierre Huyghe, and Marcel Duchamp. As 

Blatt’s cross-disciplinary readings show, despite 

their gleeful raiding of the visual archive to generate 

and enrich their stories, many contemporary narratives 

that tell tales about pictures simultaneously 

express a cautious skepticism toward vision and 

visual representations. Pictures into Words examines 

how such novels, while seemingly complicit with 

the visual, simultaneously “write back” against the 

images they exploit, reclaiming some of literature’s 

lost ground in our visually inundated world. 

Ari J. Blatt is an assistant professor of French at 

the University of Virginia. 

may 


$50.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-3805-3 

$56.00 Canadian/£33.00 UK 

stages series 

Gerald Prince, general series editor 


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the jewish publication society 

The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce that we will now handle the 

publication, distribution, and marketing of books released by The Jewish Publication Society 

(JPS), starting January 1, 2012. 

Founded in 1888, JPS is the preeminent publisher of classic and contemporary Jewish texts for 

worldwide readers of English. The current list includes nearly 300 scholarly and popular works of 

history, philosophy, ethics, and theology. JPS is best known for its acclaimed Bible commentaries, 

and the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew Bible, the JPS Tanakh. 

JPS director Rabbi Barry Schwartz will carry forward the Society’s 120-year mission as an 

independent, not-for-profit publisher of Jewish books of enduring worth. Schwartz will continue to 

acquire new JPS titles while unp will handle production of those titles, including editing, design, 

typesetting, and printing. 

july 

112 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-1131-3 



The 

Jewish 

Publication 

Society 

religion • jewish studies • education 

Judaism’s Great Debates 

Timeless Controversies from Abraham 

to Herzl 

rabbi barry l. schwartz 

Ever since Abraham’s famous argument with God, Judaism has 

been full of debate. Moses and Korah, David and Nathan, Hillel 

and Shammai, the Vilna Gaon and the Ba’al Shem Tov, Spinoza 

and the Amsterdam Rabbis. . . the list goes on. Jews debate justice, 

authority, inclusion, spirituality, resistance, evolution, Zionism, 

and more. No wonder that Judaism cherishes the expression 

machloket l’shem shamayim, “an argument for the sake of heaven.” 

In this concise but important survey, Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz 

presents the provocative and vibrant thesis that debate and disputation 

are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the 

very heart of Jewish history and theology. In his graceful, engaging, 

and creative prose, Schwartz presents an introduction to an 

intellectual history of Judaism through the art of argumentation. 

Beyond their historical importance, what makes these disputations 

so compelling is that nearly all of them, regardless of their 

epochs, are still being argued. Schwartz builds the case that the 

basis of Judaism is a series of unresolved rather than resolved 

arguments. 

Drawing on primary sources, and with a bit of poetic license, 

Schwartz reconstructs the real or imagined dialogue of ten great 

debates and then analyzes their significance and legacy. This 

parade of characters spanning three millennia of biblical, rabbinic, 

and modern disputation reflects the panorama of Jewish history 

with its monumental political, ethical, and spiritual challenges. 

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz is the director of The Jewish Publication 

Society in Philadelphia and the spiritual leader of Congregation 

Adas Emuno in Leonia, New Jersey. He is the author of the 

acclaimed textbook, Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values and several 

other works. Judaism’s Great Debates is also being published in a 

student edition by Behrman House, Inc.

Selected Backlist from The Jewish Publication Society 

the jps bible commentary series 

The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth 

Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi 

and Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky 

2011 • 216 pp. • 8 x 10 

$40.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0744-6 

the jps torah commentary series 

The JPS Torah Commentary Series 

Individual volumes: $75.00 hardcover • 1996 • 8 x 10 

Genesis • 978-0-8276-0326-4 (414 pp.) 

Exodus • 978-0-8276-0327-1 (278 pp.) 

Leviticus • 978-0-8276-0328-8 (284 pp.) 

Numbers • 978-0-8276-0329-5 (520 pp.) 

Deuteronomy • 978-0-8276-0330-1 (548 pp.) 

Five-Volume Set: $360.00 • 978-0-8276-0331-8 

jps hebrew-english tanakh series 

JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh 

Edited by The Jewish Publication Society 

Hardcover Edition 

1999 • 2040 pp. 6 x 9 

$65.00 hardcover 978-0-8276-0656-2 

Student Edition 

1999 • 2040 pp. • 6 x 9 

$45.00 paperback (flex) • 978-0-8276-0697-5 

Pocket Edition 

1999 • 2030 pp. • 4 x 6 

$22.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0766-8 

the jps bible commentary series 

The Commentators’ Bible (Numbers) 

The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot: Numbers 

Michael Carasik 

2011 • 360 pp. • 9 x 12 

$75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0921-1 

the jps guides series 

Dictionary of Jewish Words 

A JPS Guide 

Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic 

2006 • 250 pp. • 7 x 10 

$18.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0832-0 

the jps tanakh series 

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures 


Hardcover Edition 

1985 • 1622 pp. • 6 x 9 

$35.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0252-6 

Paperback Edition 

1985 • 1622 pp. • 5 x 7 

$22.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0366-0 

Presentation Editions 

$42.00 each, leather 

The JPS Bible 


Pocket Edition (Moss) 

2008 • 1104 pp. • 4 x 6 

$15.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0877-1 

folktales of the jews series 

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3 

Tales from Arab Lands 

Edited by Dan Ben-Amos 

2011 • 820 pp. • 6 x 9 

$75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0871-9 

jewish choices, jewish voices series 

Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices 

Individual volumes: $16.00 paperback • 160 pages • 6 x 9 

Body (2008) • 978-0-8276-0860-3 

Money (2008) • 978-0-8276-0861-0 

Power (2009) • 978-0-8276-0862-7 

Sex and Intimacy (2010) • 978-0-8276-0905-1 

War and National Security (2010) • 978-0-8276-0906-8 

Social Justice (2010) • 978-0-8276-0907-5 

Six-Volume Set (2010) • $76.80 • 978-0-8276-0927-3 

celebrating the jewish year series 

Celebrating the Jewish Year: 

The Spring and Summer Holidays 

Passover, Shavuot, The Omer, Tisha B’Av 

Edited by Paul Steinberg and Janet Greenstein Potter 

2009 • 220 pp. • 7 x 10 

$22.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0850-4 


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caxton press 

The University of Nebraska Press is now the proud distributor of Caxton Press, an independent 

publisher based in Caldwell, Idaho. J. H. Gipson founded Caxton Press in 1925 to give a voice to 

emerging writers of the American West. Today Caxton continues to publish books on the people 

and culture of the American West, past and present, and has more than 100 titles in print. 

recently released 

Cecil Andrus 

Idaho’s Greatest Governor 

chris carlson 

A biography and political reminiscence of the life 

and career of Idaho’s only four-term governor, 

written by his friend and former press secretary, 

Chris Carlson. 

2011 • 298 pp. • 6 x 9 • photographs, index 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-505-9 

$19.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 

The San Juan Islands 

Into the 21st Century 

joann roe 

A detailed study of the past and present of Washington 

State’s San Juan Islands—one of the region’s 

most popular tourist destinations. 

2011 • 248 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • photographs, map, index 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-504-2 

$18.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 

The Settlers’ War 

The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s 

gregory michno 

During the 1860s, the bloodiest decade in the western 

Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in 

Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, 

the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the 

Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on 

the Texas frontier. Ironically, it was these noncombatants 

who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering 

far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there 

to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War 

tells for the first time. 

2011 • 480 pp. • 6 x 9 • maps, photographs, index 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-494-6 

$21.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-87004-503-5 


Selected Backlist from Caxton Press 

Ex America 

The 50th Anniversary of the People’s Pottage 

Garet Garrett 

Edited by Bruce Ramsey 

Foreword by Garet Garrett 

2004 • 190 pp. • 6 x 9 

$16.95 hardcover • 978-0-87004-442-7 

Sales in United States and possessions only 

Old-Fashioned Dutch Oven Cookbook 

Don Holm 

1969 • 131 pp. • 6 x 9 • illustrations, photographs, index 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-133-4 


Backcountry Roads—Idaho 

Lynna Howard 

Photography by Leland Howard 

2008 • 240 pp. • 8 ½ x 11 • photographs, map, index 

$27.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-459-5 

$30.95 Canadian/£20.99 UK 

Salmon River Country 

Photography by Mark Lisk 

Essays by Stephen Steubner 

2004 • 120 pp. • 10 x 10 • color photographs 

$27.95 hardcover • 978-0-87004-441-0 

$30.95 Canadian/£16.99 UK 

The Art of Contrary Thinking 

Humphrey B. Neill 

1954 • 201 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$10.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-110-5 


The Ruminator 

Humphrey B. Neill 

2011 • 120 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ 

$9.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-244-7 


Treaties and Treachery 

The Northwest Indians’ Resistance to Conquest 

Kurt R. Nelson 

2011 • 304 pp. • 6 x 9 • maps, photographs, index 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-499-1 

$20.95 Canadian/£12.99 UK 

Great Meals Dutch Oven Style 

Dale Smith 

2004 • 213 pp. • 6 x 9 • photographs, index 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-87004-440-3 


Dreamers 

On the Trail of the Nez Perce 

Martin Stadius 

1999 • 437 pp. • 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ • photographs, map, 

bibliography, index 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-87004-393-2 


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michael forsberg photography 

Jeff Kurrus is the associate editor of 

nebraskaland magazine, an awardwinning 

wildlife publication. He lives in 

Gretna, Nebraska, with his wife, Laura, 

and two-year-old daughter, Madeline. 

Michael Forsberg is an internationally 

acclaimed wildlife photographer. He 

is the author and photographer of On 

Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of 

North America and coauthor of Great 

Plains: America’s Lingering Wild. He 

lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife, 

Patty, and their two daughters, Elsa and 

Emme. 

january 

44 pp. • 9 ½ x 9 • 40 color photographs 

$16.99 hardcover • 978-0-9754964-1-1 

$19.50 Canadian/£10.99 UK 

juvenile fiction • natural history 

photography • nebraska 

Have You Seen Mary? 

jeff kurrus 

Photographs by Michael Forsberg 

“. . . and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the 

blurry confusion, John lost Mary.” So begins Have You 

Seen Mary?, a fictional account of one sandhill crane’s 

faithful search during spring migration for his lost 

mate. Set on Nebraska’s Platte River, Jeff Kurrus weaves 

a tender story of love while also teaching us about 

these majestic birds. Supported with wondrous color 

photographs taken by Michael Forsberg, this book will 

appeal to all ages for its ability to entertain as well as 

educate readers about sandhill cranes. 

“No one has photographed sandhill cranes as thoroughly 

or as well as Michael Forsberg. Here, author Jeff Kurrus 

cleverly weaves a story around these images, luring readers 

young and old into one of nature’s great spectacles.” 

—David Bristow, author of Sky Sailors: True Stories of the 

Balloon Era and editor of Nebraska History magazine 

“Have You Seen Mary? is an enchanting love song to Plains 

wildness, and its fragile, magnificent migrations of feather 

and heart. It will appeal to both children and adults, taking 

us all on an unforgettable journey of joy, knowledge, and 

hope. A beautiful book.”—John T. Price, author of Man 

Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships 

“An elegant, touching, and inspiring book to help reconnect 

our children to nature, and not a moment too late. May 

there be many more like this to come.”—Joel Sartore, 

author, conservationist, and contributing photographer for 

National Geographic magazine 

“Have You Seen Mary? is an appealing children’s story by 

Jeff Kurrus that blends sandhill crane natural history with 

Mike Forsberg’s spectacular photographs of cranes and 

their Great Plains wetlands habitats.”—Paul Johnsgard, 

Foundation Professor Emeritus and the University of 

Nebraska–Lincoln, and author of Sandhill and Whooping 

Cranes

On Ancient Wings 

The Sandhill Cranes of North America 

Michael Forsberg 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-9754964-0-4 

Beaver Steals Fire 

A Salish Coyote Story 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 

Illustrated by Sam Sandoval 

$12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1640-2 

Big Jinny 

The Story of a Grizzly Bear 

Frank B. Linderman 

Illustrated by Elizabeth Lochrie 

$15.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-8044-1 


Bull Trout’s Gift 

A Salish Story about the Value of Reciprocity 


Illustrated by Sashay Camel 

$21.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3491-8 

Field Journal *Snqeymintn 

A Component of the Explore the River Project 


Illustrated by Sashay Camel 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3528-1 

Photographs © Michael Forsberg / www.michaelforsberg.com 

Explore the River (dvd) 

Bull Trout, Tribal People, 

and the Jocko River 


$24.95 dvd • 978-0-8032-3788-9 

Explore the River Educational 

Project, 2-book, 1-dvd Set 

Bull Trout, Tribal People, 

and the Jocko River 


$44.95 set • 978-0-8032-3789-6 

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mary mitchell illustrations llc 

Mary Mitchell was born in Buffalo, 

New York, and credits her mother 

with inspiring her lifelong love of the 

arts. After marrying, Mitchell and her 

husband eventually settled in Omaha, 

where she became a successful fashion 

illustrator. Her collected works are the 

exclusive subject of a 2012 exhibition 

at Omaha’s Durham Museum. Jenna 

Gabrial Gallagher is a writer and editor 

who coauthored Harper’s Bazaar: 

Greatest Hits. She regularly writes for 

Bazaar and other luxury publications. 

january 

225 pp. • 8 ½ x 11 • 30 color illustrations, 

170 b&w illustrations 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-615-55880-6 

$50.50 Canadian/£28.99 UK 

art • fashion • art history 

Drawn to Fashion 

Illustrating Three Decades of Style 

mary mitchell 

Jenna Gabrial Gallagher, Contributing Writer and Editor 

Foreword by Oscar de la Renta 

In this era of nationally produced Sunday circulars, artistry in 

advertising is a rare luxury. But until the 1980s, clothing retailers 

regularly hired skilled illustrators to draw their merchandise for 

local papers. Without the benefit of color, these artists conveyed 

the most striking “buy me” details of an outfit with no more than 

a pencil and sheer talent. Their true contribution, however, goes 

beyond merchandising. It is an important part of fashion history. 

Mary Mitchell was the foremost illustrator in Omaha, Nebraska 

in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, counting the city’s most revered 

temples of style among her clients. After newspapers switched to 

photography, Mitchell lovingly preserved her archive of more than 

one thousand works. She presents many of them, as well as newer, 

color pieces, in Drawn to Fashion. With the unique authority that 

only a half-century in the industry brings, Mitchell also discusses 

her personal technique, the challenges she faced, and the state of 

fashion illustration today. 

Written in conjunction with an exhibition at Omaha’s Durham 

Museum, proceeds from this book will benefit the Mary Mitchell 

Fashion Illustration Scholarship Fund at the Textile, Clothing and 

Design Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 

Illustrations of fur invited women to dream, but also to see themselves wearing the coat 

in Omaha.

Clockwise from top left: Rich jewel tones enhance—rather than replace—Mitchell's elaborate 

detailing; no longer restricted by black and white, today's fashion illustrator sees la vie 

en rose; shadow and light capture the softness of fur; in the 1970s, more men began using 

personal style as a way to express themselves; the timeless elegance of Oscar de la Renta. 

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ida s. patterson 

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Montana Memories is the life story of a mixed-blood Indian 

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American Indian 

Quarterly 

amanda j. cobbgreetham, 

editor 

Revitalized and refocused, 

American Indian Quarterly (aiq) 

is building on its reputation as a 

dominant journal in American 

Indian studies by presenting the 

best and most thought-provoking 

scholarship in the field. aiq is 

a forum for diverse voices and 

perspectives spanning a variety 

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common thread is aiq’s commitment 

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field and to the sovereignty and 

continuance of American Indian 

nations and cultures. In addition 

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and exhibits. 

Histories of 

Anthropology Annual 

regna darnell and 

frederic w. gleach, 

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Histories of Anthropology Annual 

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Studies in American 

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and james h. cox, 

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Studies in American Indian Literatures 

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Native South 

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Native South focuses on the 

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A 

Abundance of Valor 26 

Alexander, Charles C. 39 

Allen, Malcolm 19 

American Indian Lives 

series 50 

American Indian Quarterly 

68 

American Lives series 

1, 2, 29 

American Transnationalism 

series 46 

Anthropological Linguistics 

68 

Antonucci, Michael A. 42 

Approaching Fury, The 24 

Archaeology of the Caddo, 

The 52 

Armour, Mark 18, 19 

Arthur, Anthony 26 

Artifacts and Illuminations 

54 

At Table series 34 

B 

Banzai Babe Ruth 17 

Barolo 34 

Baseball Research 

Journal. The 71 

Basloe, Frank J. 42 

Bass, Rick 33 

Beezley, William H. 52, 53 

Beyond Bend It Like 

Beckham 15 

Birch Coulie 10 

Bishop, Steve 70 

Blaeser, Kimberly 50 

Blatt, Ari J. 55 

Blyth, Lance R. 48 

Borderlands and 

Transcultural Studies 

series 49 

Brennan, Stephen C. 70 

Bruning, John R. 23 

Buford, Kate 38 

C 

Camuto, Robert V. 34 

Carlson, Chris 58 

Carson, James T. 68 

Cassedy, Ellen 6 

Caxton Press 56, 57 

Cecil Andrus 58 

Chair of Tears 8 

Child, Brenda J. 50 

Chiricahua and Janos 48 

Christgau, John 10 

Cobb-Greetham, 

Amanda J. 68 

Collaborative 

Anthropologies 68 

Comprehensive History of 

the Holocaust series 37 

Connie Mack 20 

Connie Mack and the Early 

Years of Baseball 40 

Conspiracy of Silence 16 

Cook, Samuel R. 68 

Corbin, Annalies 11 

Cox, James H. 68 

Crow, Tracy 4 

Cusick, Suzanne G. 69 

D 

Daddy’s War 36 

Darnell, Regna 68 

Dawes, Kwame 71 

Delacour, Marie-Odile 5 

Derounian-Stodola, 

Kathryn Zabelle 51 

Descanso for My Father 2 

Desertion in the Time of 

Vietnam 27 

Di Leo, Jeffrey R. 70 

Double No-Hit 21 

Drawn to Fashion 62 

E 

Eberhardt, Isabelle 5 

Edmunds, R. David 50 

Entire Earth and Sky, The 32 

Epistolophilia 7 

Ethridge, Robbie 68 

Eyes Right 4 

F 

Fictional Dialogue 55 

Figlerowicz, Marta 70 

Fitts, Robert K. 17 

Fletcher, Harrison 

Candelaria 2 

Flora, Cornelia 13 

Flyover Fiction series 9 

Fojas, Camilla 49 

Forsberg, Michael 60 

Fowler, Will 53 

Francis, Charles A. 13 

Frank, Matthew Gavin 

12, 34 

French Forum 69 

From Ambivalence to 

Betrayal 44 

Frontiers 69 

Frontiers of Narrative series 

54, 55 

G 

Game Faces 53 

Gallagher, Jenna Gabrial 62 

Gaul, Theresa Strouth 69 

Gender and the Negotiation 

of Daily Life in Mexico, 

1750–1856 52 

General Jo Shelby’s March 26 

Geometric Unconscious, The 

46 

Glancy, Diane 8 

Gleach, Frederic W. 68 

Goeschel, Christian 45 

Goodman, Eric 9 

Goulet, Andrea 69 

Grainey, Timothy F. 15 

Gray, Susan E. 69 

Green Illusions 13 

Guevarra Jr., Rudy P. 49 

Gullett, Gayle 69 

H 

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Hansen, Ron 9 

Have You Seen Mary? 60 

Herman, David 54, 55, 70 

Historical Archaeology of 

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Histories of Anthropology 

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Hogan, Lillian Bullshows 51 

Huleu, Jean-René 5 

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Island of the 

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Jensen, Richard E. 35 

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Johnson, James W. 21 

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Journal of Sports Media 71 

Judaism's Great Debates 56 

Justice and Social Inquiry 

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Karp, Josh 41 

Kelly, Jason 42 

Kent, Carlton W. 23 

Kidwell, Clara Sue 50 

Kurrus, Jeff 60 

L 

Lamb, Chris 16 

Lamb-Faffelberger, 

Margarete 69 

Larré, Lionel 50 

Lassiter, Luke Eric 68 

Legacy 69 

Lehman, Daniel 3 

Lemon, Lee T. 37 

Leonard, Elizabeth D. 25 

Levitt, Jeremy I. 45 

Lewis, Randolph 49 

Liebenow, R. Mark 3 

Like No Other Place 30 

Lindsay, Brendan C. 50 

Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya 52 

Loeb, Barbara 51 

Lomawaima, Tsianina K. 50 

Lord, Nancy 32 

Lynch, Tom 54 

M 

Macht, Norman L. 20, 40 

Mackall, Joe 3

Mack III, Connie 40 

Maher, Susan N. 54 

Malcontents, Rebels, and 

Pronunciados 53 

March, Ray A. 14 

Marcus, Melissa 5 

Martin, Lee 1 

Mary Mitchell Illustrations 

llc 60 

Masters, Hilary 29 

McComas, Grace 

Patterson 64 

Memorable Teams in 

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18, 19 

Men of Color to Arms! 25 

Met, Philippe 69 

Mexican Experience series, 

The 52, 53 

Michno, Gregory 58 

Miller, David 70 

Mitchell, Mary 62 

Montana Memories 64 

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Mountains of Light 3 

Murder State 50 

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Native American Son 38 

Native South 68 

Native Storiers series 8 

Navajo Talking Picture 49 

Nazi Concentration Camps, 

1933–1939, The 45 

Newlin, Keith 70 

NINE 71 

Nineteenth-Century French 

Studies 69 

1921 39 

Nouvelles Études 

Francophones 70 

Nowlin, Bill 18, 19 

O 

Oates, Stephen B. 24 

O’Brien, Greg 68 

Oil Notes 33 

Olds, Marshall C. 69 

Olson, Paul A. 13 

Opposing Jim Crow 45 

Oskison, John Milton 50 

Our Sustainable Future 

series 13 

Owen, David A. 30 

P 

Palmento 34 

Parks, Douglas R. 68 

Patterson, Ida S. 64 

Pauly, Thomas H. 53 

Perttula, Timothy K. 52 

Pictures into Words 55 

Pineda, Jon 29 

Pitchers of Beer 40 

Pitching, Defense, and 

Three-Run Homers 19 

Plainfeather, Mardell Hogan 

51 

Porzak, Simon 70 

Pot Farm 12 

Prairie Schooner 71 

Prince, Gerald 55 

Punday, Daniel 54 

Q 

Qui Parle 70 

R 

Raley, Dan 40 

Reis, Marion J. 37 

Renville, Mary Butler 51 

Ricker, Eli S. 35 

River in Ruin 14 

River Teeth Literary 

Nonfiction Prize series 3 

Roberts, Leslie Carol 32 

Rock, Water, Wild 32 

Roe, JoAnn 58 

Roman, Meredith L. 45 

Rothkirchen, Livia 37 

Russian Formalist 

Criticism 37 

S 

Salish Kootenai College 

Press 62 

San Juan Islands, The 58 

Schlossberg, Howard 71 

Schwartz, Rabbi Barry L. 56 

Settlers’ War, The 58 

Shadow of the Sword 23 

Shelby's Folly 42 

Shorter, David Delgado 49 

Simpson, Patricia Anne 69 

Sleep in Me 29 

Smith, Theresa S. 36 

Society for American 

Baseball Research 18, 19 

Spatz, Lyle 18, 39 

Spickard, Paul 49 

Stages series 55 

Steinberg, Steve 39 

Storyworlds 70 

Straight Down the Middle 41 

Strecker, Trey 71 

Street Shadows 28 

Studies in American Indian 

Literatures 68 


Naturalism 70 

Studies in Antisemitism 

series 44 

Such a Life 1 

Šukys, Julija 7 

symplokē 70 

T 

Tales of the Old Indian 

Territory and Essays on 

the Indian Condition 50 

Team That Forever 

Changed Baseball 

and America, The 18 

Thomas, Bronwen 55 

Thrilling Narrative of 

Indian Captivity, A 51 

Timko, Brittany 15 

Todd, Jack 27 

Tonkovich, Nicole 69 

Transnational Crossroads 49 

Tuttle, Jennifer S. 69 

Twelfth and Race 9 

V 

Veneciano, Jorge Daniel 46 

Vidal Sassoon International 

Center for the Study of 

Antisemitism 44 

Virginia City 11 

Vizenor, Gerald 8 

Voices of the American West 

35 

W 

Wachsmann, Nikolaus 45 

Walker, Chester P. 52 

Walker, Jerald 28 

We Are Here 6 

Whirlwind of War, The 24 

Whitaker, Matthew C. 45 

Wistrich, Robert S. 44 

Wolff, Tobias 1, 2, 29 

Woman Who Loved 

Mankind, The 51 

Women and Music 69 

Women in German Yearbook 

69 

Workman, Jeremiah 23 

Writing at the Limit 54 

Writings from the Sand, 

Volume 1 5 

Y 

Yad Vashem 37 

Z 

Zehner, Ozzie 13 

Zeman, Carrie Reber 51 

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