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POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA

Series Editors: Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and Thomas J. Sugrue

CONvENTION CENTER FOLLIEs Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities Heywood T. Sanders
Written by one of the nations foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the inner workings of Americas convention center boom through case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis.
American Business, Politics, and Society Jun 2014 | 592 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4577-6 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96

THE EMPLOYEE A Political History Jean-Christian Vinel

This brilliant new book traces the origins of the blurry and shifting lines surrounding the legal category of the employee and asks why democratic rights in the workplace have been denied to over ten million workers. Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
2013 | 304 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4524-0 Cloth | $47.50 | $38.00

LET Us FIGHT as FREE MEN Black Soldiers and Civil Rights Christine Knauer
A valuable contribution. . . . Christine Knauer draws on prodigious research and thorough analysis to bring to life the story of African Americans in the military following World War II. Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
May 2014 | 360 pages | 15 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4597-4 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96

DaNGEROUsLY SLEEPY Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness Alan Derickson
What do Silicon Valley, long-haul truckers, and Donald Trump all have in common? An Ill sleep when Im dead ethic that conflates manliness with lack of sleep. Dangerously Sleepy shows that this is not just silly: its downright dangerous.  Joan C. Williams, Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law
2013 | 256 pages | ISBN 978-0-8122-4553-0 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96

DEaTH OF a SUBURBaN DREaM Race and Schools in Compton, California Emily E. Straus
A unique contribution to our understanding of the interplay of place and education with community and politics in the United States. Straus embeds the history of Compton schools and of educational reform firmly within a spatial analysis of suburban Los Angeles. Eric Schneider, author of Smack: Heroin and the American City
May 2014 | 336 pages | 17 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4598-1 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00

BacKROaDs PRaGMaTIsTs Mexicos Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States Ruben Flores
A tremendously ambitious book, Backroads Pragmatists is uncommonly original and broad in conceptualization and research. The emphasis on ideas and their transnational circulation makes this the most important work on Mexican American civil rights struggles in the last decade. Benjamin Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Politics and Culture in Modern America Jun 2014 | 368 pages | 26 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4620-9 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

RETHINKING THE AMERIcaN CITY An International Dialogue Edited by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch Foreword by Dolores Hayden
While specialists in the history of the American city will enjoy this collection of essays and the provocative dialogue they spark, these investigations of the processes of shaping space will also appeal to readers in many interdisciplinary programs including American studies, cultural studies, urban studies, visual culture, technology studies, and environmental studies. From the Foreword, by Dolores Hayden
Architecture | Technology | Culture 2013 | 232 pages | 10 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4561-5 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

NEW In PApERbaCK THINGs AMERIcaN Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era Jeffrey Trask
Jeffrey Trasks well-researched and engagingly written history of New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the expanding educational role of museums during the Progressive Era. . . . Trask successfully establishes the Mets efforts at cultural democracy and their unintended consequences.Journal of American History
The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America 2013 | 312 pages | 35 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2285-2 Paper | $27.50 | $22.00

NEW In PapERbaCK TaX aND SPEND The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism Molly C. Michelmore
Anyone wanting to grasp todays predicament should consult this incisive, disheartening, vivid, and informed road map to fiscal hell.Journal of American History
Jun 2014 | 256 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2299-9 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

TO MaRcH FOR OTHERs The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers Lauren Araiza
A well-written, nuanced, and thought-provoking contribution. To March for Others joins a growing body of scholarship that looks at ethno-racial groups not only comparatively but relationally, and advances our understanding of the factors necessary for alliances across racial and other divides.  Shana Bernstein, author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
2013 | 264 pages | 14 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4557-8 Cloth | $39.95 | $31.96

NEW In PApERbaCK WHY DONT AMERIcaN CITIEs BURN? Michael B. Katz

Katzs work begins to move us away from a story of inevitable urban crisis and decline to a more balanced interpretation that incorporates structural inequities and human agency, as well as policy failures and successes. Indeed, Katz is working toward nothing less than a revision of our understanding of urban America in the late twentieth century.Journal of American History
The City in the Twenty-First Century 2013 | 224 pages | 15 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2280-7 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

NEW In PapERbaCK BEYOND THE ARcHITEcTs EYE Photographs and the American Built Environment Mary N. Woods
A ground-breaking study, handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated.  Journal of the Society of Architectual Historians
Feb 2014 | 368 pages | 150 duotone, 21 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2309-5 Paper | $29.95 | $23.96

NEW In PapERbaCK MORaL MINORITY The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism David R. Swartz
In this remarkably rigorous, richly contextualized, and generally exhaustive exploration of the evangelical Left, Swartz returns readers to a time when theologically conservative Protestantism was politically up for grabs.Journal of American History
Mar 2014 | 384 pages | 25 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2306-4 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

TOP DOWN The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism Karen Ferguson
Karen Fergusons Top Down is a provocative and often brilliant history of the single most important philanthropic institution in the long civil rights era. The Ford Foundation and similar philanthropies, she argues compellingly, shaped Black Power and other radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont
2013 | 336 pages | 15 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4526-4 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

NEW In PapERbaCK PaYING THE TOLL Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge Louise Nelson Dyble
Winner of the Abel Wolman Award sponsored by the Public Works Historical Society A splendid blend of narrative political history and political science theory based mostly on deep archival digging, newspaper research, and interviews. Journal of American History
American Business, Politics, and Society Feb 2014 | 296 pages | 29 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2278-4 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

NEW In PapERbaCK SUNBELT RIsING The Politics of Space, Place, and Region Edited by Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk
This well-written and insightful book mirrors the very region it attempts to understand. . . . the real strength of Sunbelt Rising is the innovative scholarship found within its pages. Western Historical Quarterly
May 2014 | 480 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2300-2 Paper | $27.50 | $22.00

NEW In PapERbaCK AsTOUNDING WONDER Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America John Cheng
Astounding Wonder is an absorbing book. It tells fascinating tales of an often-neglected period of SFs history and brings contemporary actors to life through frequent quotation from archival sources.Los Angeles Review of Books
Feb 2014 | 400 pages | 20 Illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2293-7 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

CUTTING ALONG THE COLOR LINE Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America Quincy T. Mills
Quincy T. Millss important book provides fascinating insight into the history of African American barbers. He vividly captures their culture, traditions, and perseverance to succeed against tremendous odds. A brilliant overview of this prestigious tradition. Zariff, barber to President Barack Obama
2013 | 336 pages | 19 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4541-7 Cloth | $34.95 | $27.96

EMPIRE OF VINEs Wine Culture in America Erica Hannickel

Erica Hannickel interweaves several strands of historical inquiry, literary and visual interpretation, cultural geography, and environmental awareness to create a compelling argument that American grape culture carried with it the tenets of national expansion.Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Nature and Culture in America 2013 | 312 pages | 40 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4559-2 Cloth | $39.95 | $31.96

THE BIsHOPs UTOPIa Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru Emily Berquist Soule
Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-breaking study of the monumental work of Bishop Martnez Compan, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history. Gary Urton, Harvard University
The Early Modern Americas Apr 2014 | 336 pages | 24 color, 1 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4591-2 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

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Series Editors: Daniel K. Richter, Kathleen M. Brown, Max Ca

TaMING LUsT Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown
Strange sexual perversities can provide a window into basic values of ordinary people at a particular time and place. Taming Lust does just that, offering a perceptive peek at New England near the end of the eighteenth century, and doing so in prose that almost sings. Joseph J. Ellis, author of Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Apr 2014 | 224 pages | 21 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4581-3 Cloth | $34.95 | $27.96

NEW In PapERbaCK ZOOT SUIT The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style Kathy Peiss
Peiss is a creative and brilliant scholar and her book is a much-welcomed addition to the body of scholarship dedicated to unlocking the riddle of the zoot.American Historical Review
Mar 2014 | 248 pages | 28 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2303-3 Paper | $19.95 | $15.96

NEW In PapERbaCK INDEPENDENcE HaLL IN AMERIcaN MEMORY Charlene Mires

Winner of the Literary Award from The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Miress book frees us from any one-dimensional view of the past, and of ourselves, by showing that Independence Hall, like America, always has been and must be a work in progress. Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb 2014 | 368 pages | 60 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2282-1 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

NEW In PApERbaCK COLLEcTING AcROss CULTUREs Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World Edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall
The essays in Collecting Across Cultures offer a fascinating new perspective on Europes encounters with an ethnically and culturally diverse early modern world. British Journal for the History of Science
The Early Modern Americas 2013 | 392 pages | 12 color, 65 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2220-3 Paper | $29.95 | $23.96

CORPORaTION NaTION Robert E. Wright

Drawing from newly collected data, Corporation Nation offers a provocative perspective on the history of the American business corporation and argues for reforms that would improve the governance of modern business enterprises. Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Haney Foundation Series 2013 | 328 pages | 6 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4564-6 Cloth | $69.95 | $55.96

NEW In PApERbaCK LUcRETIa MOTTs HEREsY Abolition and Womens Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Faulkner
This is the first biography of Mott in thirty years, and it proves to be thoroughly researched, well written, and fascinating. Library Journal
2013 | 312 pages | 13 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2279-1 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

ROBERT LOvEs WaRNINGs Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger
My admiration for what the authors have done in Robert Loves Warnings grew with each chapter. They have made the streets of colonial Boston come alive in ways no other scholar has done. And their achievement in research is simply amazing. . . . What a book!  Alfred F. Young, author of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
Apr 2014 | 280 pages | 11 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4593-6 Cloth | $34.95 | $27.96

BIOGRaPHY aND THE BLacK ATLaNTIc Edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet
A fascinating and timely collection, written by some of the most important and outstanding scholars in Atlantic studies, which shows that the history of the Black Atlantic goes beyond the slave trade. Biography and the Black Atlantic allows us to re-imagine how individuals negotiated this complex and evolving social, economic, and political space. Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University
The Early Modern Americas 2013 | 384 pages | 1 map | ISBN 978-0-8122-4546-2 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00

THE PEOPLEs NETWORK The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age Robert MacDougall
Original, impressive, and a tremendous pleasure to read. The independent telephone movement has been utterly neglected by historians; with wide-ranging research, Robert MacDougall makes a persuasive case for its significance.Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College
American Business, Politics, and Society 2013 | 344 pages | 11 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4569-1 Cloth | $55.00 | $44.00

NEW In PapERbaCK ELIzaBETH PaTTERsON BONaPaRTE An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Readers will be captivated by this well-crafted portrait of a woman who challenges us to rethink our presumptions about gender and the emergence of democratic sensibility in the early republic.Journal of American History
Jun 2014 | 288 pages | 14 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2292-0 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

DOMEsTIc INTIMacIEs Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America Brian Connolly
Domestic Intimacies is pathbreaking. It lays bare the ways destabilizing sexual desires penetrated American liberal thought and shifted sovereignty from the state to the individual, who in turn emerged as a desiring subject, obsessed with his rights, disdainful of government and constraint. I predict the book will transform our understanding of Victorian America. I know it has mine.  Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity
Jun 2014 | 288 pages | 5 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4621-6 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

SLavEs aND ENGLIsHMEN Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World Michael Guasco
With an admirable global perspective and a breathtaking array of sources, Michael Guasco recasts the history of the English experience with slavery.Alison Games, Georgetown University
The Early Modern Americas Feb 2014 | 328 pages | 8 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4578-3 Cloth | $45.00 | $36.00

PaPER SOvEREIGNs Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 16041664 Jeffrey Glover
A persuasive story that draws on much of the best historical work, and rigorously avoids romanticizing (or demonizing) any of the involved parties, showing how indigenous leaders used the tools and strategies available to them to advance their individual and communal interests. Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
Apr 2014 | 352 pages | 14 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4596-7 Cloth | $59.95 | $47.96

ith the McNeil Center for Early American Studies avitch, and David Waldstreicher
SEasONs OF MIsERY Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America Kathleen Donegan
A provocative and remarkably original contribution that considers the agony of settlement in early America. Donegan writes so beautifully that readers might miss the audacity and innovation of her argument. Jill Lepore, Harvard University
2013 | 288 pages | 2 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4540-0 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96

LOUIsIaNa Crossroads of the Atlantic World Edited by Ccile Vidal

These smart essays make good on the transnational promises and post-colonial potential of Atlantic history. No one, ever again, will refer to Louisiana as the neglected stepchild of United States or French colonial history.Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
2013 | 304 pages | 3 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-4551-6 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96

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NEW In PApERbaCK THE EMPIRE REFORMED English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution Owen Stanwood
In a British historiographical context, Owen Stanwood has produced a timely intervention; in an Americanist one, a fresh interpretation of the Glorious Revolution. . . . Stanwoods masterful research and writing make an invaluable contribution to debate over this ever-intriguing event.American Historical Review
2013 | 288 pages | 9 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2283-8 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

NEW In PapERbaCK WILD FRENcHMEN aND FRENcHIFIED INDIaNs Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Sophie White
Historians dream of writing a book that will give us a new lens to make sense of the past. Sophie White has done that with Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians. Her insistence on finding a way to look at colonial people allows the rest of us to see them with a new clarity that reveals how much we have missed in the contested process that made race in the Atlantic World. Emily Clark, Tulane University
Jun 2014 | 360 pages | 33 color, 17 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2308-8 Paper | $24.95 | $19.96

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NEW In PApERbaCK AN INFINITY OF NaTIONs How the Native New World Shaped Early North America Michael Witgen
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Witgen implores readers to re-imagine native peoples as agents of their own destiny well into the nineteenth century. As such, An Infinity of Nations invites scholars to reconsider crucial tenets of early American history. Journal of American History
2013 | 456 pages | 10 illus. | ISBN 978-0-8122-2286-9 Paper | $26.50 | $21.20

CONTEsTED SPacEs OF EaRLY AMERIca Edited by Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman
Bold, innovative, and ambitious, Contested Spaces of Early America is an excellent volume that engages with the state of the field like few others. Andrs Resndez, University of California, Davis
Apr 2014 | 480 pages | 4 color, 25 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4584-4 Cloth | $49.95 | $39.96

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