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Texas Tech University Press (TTU Press) has been the book publishing arm of Texas Tech University since 1971 and a member of the Association of American University Presses since 1987. The mission of TTU Press is to disseminate the fruits of original research by publishing rigorously peer-reviewed works that compel scholarly exchange and that entertain and enlighten the university’s broadest constituency throughout the state, the nation, and the world. TTU Press publishes 15-20 new titles each year and has approximately 450 titles in print. In addition to a diverse list of nonfiction titles focused on the history and culture of Texas, the Great Plains, and the American West, the Press publishes in the areas of natural history, border studies, and peace and conflict studies. Additionally, the Press publishes select titles in literary genres ranging from biography and memoir to young adult and children’s titles. It also publishes the annual winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry.
As a university press, we make available works of scholarship and literature that might otherwise not be published. We have a large list in topics showcasing and investigating West Texas, a historically underserved region. Our imprint extends the reach of Texas Tech University both nationally and globally. We promote books and literary culture in our Lubbock community through author events and outreach engagement opportunities.
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September 2025
280 pages
Memoir
Rights: World, English only
SARAH CURTIS
Born in a Dust Bowl dugout on the hard, flat plains outside Lubbock, Texas, Sonny Curtis picked cotton as a kid, formed a band with his high school friend Buddy Holly, and opened shows for Elvis—and that was just by the age of twenty-two. Now at the end of his long career, Curtis is considered a rock ‘n’ roll trailblazer. He toured the world with the Crickets and with Waylon Jennings. He wrote the classic songs “I Fought the Law,” “Love Is All Around” (the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show), and the country standard “I’m No Stranger to the Rain.” Curtis has left an impression on American myth and music that has gone heretofore undocumented.
But to the author, Sonny was a loving if cryptic father as elusive as the spotlight itself. Part biography, part memoir, Daughter of a Song braids together an insider’s perspective on an outsider’s life. With Sonny out on the road for long stretches, Sarah Curtis pieced his life and legacy together through research and recollection, following her father from the 1950s birth of rock ‘n’ roll in West Texas to the 1960s Hollywood scene where Sonny met his wife, a Vietnam War protester and California hippie. The two of them would leave Hollywood behind for the rural Tennessee cattle farm where they raised Sarah.
With vivid storytelling, cultural commentary, lyrical prose, and a dose of humor, Daughter of a Song considers the complexities of fate and fame, the cultures we shape and the ones that shape us. It is the story of a man saved by art, and the daughter who must navigate to the center of his creativity to reckon with her own.
Sarah Curtis’s essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Salon, The Threepenny Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the anthology River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Michigan. More of her writing can be found at sarahcurtiswriter.com.
Madame Nhu's Memoirs
LỆ XUÂN
EDITED BY TUONG VU
No other Vietnamese family in modern time had such an intense involvement in high politics and public affairs as the Ngô-Đìnhs. Through the tenure of President Ngô-Đình Diệm of the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963), this family helped shape Vietnamese history in numerous ways. President Diệm’s rule in South Vietnam was perceived by many to be authoritarian and nepotistic, but it is important for historians in general and for anyone interested in Vietnamese history in particular to learn more about his family members who played such important roles in his government. How did they see themselves, their country, and their compatriots? How did each member of the family think of others? How did they view the family’s role in history?
This book not only provides a unique account of Madame Nhu and the Ngô-Đình family by its members but also illuminates politics in Republican Vietnam and its relationship with the United States
Tuong Vu is Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, where he has taught since 2008. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University and the National University of Singapore. He is the director of the US-Vietnam Research Center based at the Global Studies Institute, University of Oregon.
A Gonzo Memoir
BOB LIVINGSTON
Born in San Antonio and raised in Lubbock, Bob Livingston drank from the same West Texas water that nourished musicians like Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, and others who were surfing the wake of Buddy Holly, Sonny Curtis, and the Crickets. He made his way to Austin and installed himself among the progenitors of the Cosmic Cowboy movement, who played outlaw country music and broke the rules (and the laws) that didn’t suit them.
Gypsy Alibi is Cosmic Bob’s origin story, but it also tells a tale of how music traverses the planet. Traveling since the ’80s as a Global Music Ambassador for the US State Department, Livingston has taken Texas music as far afield as India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Africa, Vietnam, and the Middle East.
Gypsy Alibi captures the life of a working musician, its flights of (and fights with) creative genius. Livingston’s romping narrative also serves as a gonzo travelogue that traces the spread and reception of uniquely Texan culture across the globe.
Bob Livingston toured and recorded with visionary misfits like Jerry Jeff Walker, Murphey, the Lost Gonzo Band and Ray Wylie Hubbard.
October 2025
280 pages
Political Biography & Autobiography/ Asian & Asian American Biography & Autobiography/History: Vietnam War Rights: World
September 2025
424 pages
Southwest U.S. History/Biography & Autobiography: Music/Music: Country & Bluegrass
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PAUL LINCZAK
This debut collection takes readers to small-town Ohio, New York City, and beyond, presenting the unique voices of troubled characters—Polish and Ukrainian, young and old, rich and poor—as they face life-altering challenges and struggle with their faith in religion, family, society, and themselves.
A Polish immigrant catches his son making porn and tries to punish the local video store for inspiring him; a Christian teenager keeps her rapist’s baby, only to be banned from her high school yearbook; a pastor shocks his congregation by using his sermon to confess to an old crime; a lawyer haunted by his sister’s murder is asked to witness the murderer’s execution; and a daughter of Russian immigrants, now successful on Wall Street, gets stuck in rapidly rising waters after ignoring warnings about Superstorm Sandy. In ten unforgettable stories that draw on a range of inspirations, from the Bible to recent headlines, Paul Linczak boldly probes the dark to ask about the ideals we believe in and illuminates the powerful human moments that spring from confrontations with an often merciless, and aggressively changing, world.
Unsparing and tender, with a vision that ranges across borders without missing the small, telling detail, Świnica vividly presents a slice of American life, full of danger, bewilderment, determination, and hope.
Paul Linczak was born in Ohio. He was educated at the University of Rochester, the Jagiellonian University, and Syracuse University, where he was a Cornelia Carhart Ward Fellow in the MFA program. His short fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Fiction International, Meridian, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
Since the frontiers of the American West were explored and settled, the horse has become its icon, representing freedom, individualism, toughness, determination, and the idiosyncratic way of life inherent to the region.
The horse was a vital partner of the cowboy, Native American, and settler of this new frontier. As time went on, the image of the horse came to represent a new romanticism of the West, with many artists devoted to depicting the singular partnership between horse and cowboy.
Building on their expertise in Western art and horses in particular, Heidi Brady and Scott White have collected pieces from artists who have spent their lives capturing and creating images of these majestic animals. The chapters, or profiles, were compiled from interviews with artists and are rendered in their own voices.
A study of award-winning contemporary artists, Artists of the Horse: Capturing the Spirit of America’s West profiles painters, photographers, and sculptors, each artist describing the circumstances that influenced how they approach the portrayal of the horse. Through different styles and perspectives, this book works to preserve the heritage of the Western way of life and the centrality of the horse in telling its story.
Dr. Heidi Brady is a professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at Texas Tech University, having taught equine-related classes for thirty-one years. She is co-author of two books, including Horses in the American West: Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists, which is used in her unique class, The Horse in World Art. She is also co-author of The Comprehensive Guide to Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapies She has a strong faith in God and enjoys spending time with her husband Wade and their family, riding horses, and traveling. Dr. Scott White grew up in the West Texas town of Odessa amid pumpjacks, sagebrush, horses, and cowboys. He attended Odessa High School then started on an accounting degree at Odessa College until deciding the world was too big to look at through a set of books. His parents introduced him to art when they owned a frame shop and art supply business. He was surrounded by the art of the West there. He pursued interests in music, art, and history while working as a construction contractor. After acquiring an AA, a BA, an MA, and a PhD, he combined all his interests in pursuing museum work. Now retired, he lives in Lubbock, Texas.
October 2025
240 pages
American Art
Rights: World
May 2026
312 pages
Memoir/Medicine
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FAZLUR RAHMAN
A veteran cancer physician, Dr Fazlur Rahman’s story is astonishing. He was born and raised in a Mullah family, an old-line Muslim clan, in a remote village in what is now Bangladesh, with its hardships and heartaches, its myths and superstitions. The people, places and cultures that he was a part of have almost entirely disappeared. The temples, mosques and palaces, though gone, come alive again in this beautifully written memoir.
And the tales of love, suffering and fate of the village occupants are intertwined with Rahman’s unlikely story of finding medicine and success in America. As a young boy, Rahman lost his mother, the heart of his family, and soon after, barely survived kala-azar, a parasitic illness.
The Temple Road: A Doctor’s Journey is an inspiring story of love, joy, suffering, medicine and achievement that takes readers from the jungles of Bangladesh to Dr Rahman’s training in leading medical centers in New York and Houston, and the overwhelming emotions that come with his work as one of the most talented oncologists in the US.
Fazlur Rahman was born and brought up in what is now Bangladesh. After his medical education in Dhaka, New York, and Houston, he practiced cancer medicine for thirty-five years in San Angelo, Texas. He is an adjunct professor of biology (medical humanities and ethics) at Angelo State University, a senior trustee of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and an advisory council member of the Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
August 2025
224 pages
Cooking: Indigenous Food of the Americas/ Cooking: Vegetarian/Cooking: Southwestern U.S.
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In 15,000-year-old archaeological sites throughout Texas and Northeastern Mexico, records left by Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Apache, and other Indigenous communities tell stories about their food practices, the roots of Texas Mexican cuisine. Author and chef Adán Medrano, a Coahuiltecan descendant, made it his life’s work to document these food practices and the stories they narrate. In The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook, he honors the plant-based cooking history, traditions, and knowledge that make up the comida casera (home cooking) of today’s Texas Mexican community.
Each of the 90 kitchen-tested recipes includes detailed cooking instructions intended for contemporary home cooks. The book provides explanations of the origins of iconic ingredients like squash, cactus, mesquite, and sunflowers, as well as more recent, post-Conquest ingredients like watermelon, rice, and cauliflower. Texas ancestors ate pecans and black walnuts, along with acorns, grapes, berries, seeds, and tubers.
Home cooks of all levels can discover and reclaim ancient ingredients and simple techniques in this volume and come away with deeper knowledge of the agricultural systems that belie our current foodways.
Adán Medrano is a chef, author, and Coahuiltecan descendant who researches and presents traditional Indigenous food practices that form the roots of Texas Mexican cuisine.
Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world.
The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. We currently publish 60–70 new books a year and have a long history of publishing significant scholarship (in fields such as Atlantic World and American history, American literature, African American studies, American studies, Southern studies, environmental studies, geography, urban studies, international affairs, and security studies), creative and literary works in conjunction with major literary competitions and series, and books about the state and the region for general readers.
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The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder begins the night Kristi D. Osorio's mother murdered her grandmother when the author was just fifteen years old in her bedroom down the hall. But this book is not simply about that crime. Instead, Osorio examines the true crime obsession that arose in popular American culture parallel to her life, from early 2000s “copaganda” to the Scream franchise to the more recent podcast boom. She uses her own story to interrogate the ways that true crime narratives often dehumanize the very real people at the center of those stories. Part memoir, part cultural critique, Osorio brings together memory, the lyric, and archival materials to tell her story of coming of age in the shadows of violence.
Kristi D. Osorio is the winner of the 2023 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize selected by Camonghne Felix and the Sonora Review "Mercy" Contest in Nonfiction selected by Maggie Nelson. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Guernica, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives and writes in Texas.
October 2026
200 pages
True crime/True stories of survival of abuse and injustice/Victimology and victims of crime
Rights: World
September 2026
232 pages
History
Rights: World
November 2026
200 pages
Cookery, food and drink, food writing Rights: World
Prince Rivers and the Lost City of Hamburg
STEPHEN BERRY
Prince Rivers is one of the most consequential Americans about whom Americans know nothing. Born enslaved, Rivers’s flight to freedom on horseback in November 1861 became legendary. One of the first Black men in Union uniform, Rivers was integral to the formation of the United States Colored Troops. “If there should ever be a black monarchy in South Carolina,” noted his colonel, “[Rivers] will be its king.” Rivers went on to serve as a state legislator and as one of the first Black mayors in the United States. From his seat in South Carolina, Rivers became known as “The Black Prince” as he oversaw one of the most successful experiments in inter-racial democracy. In this first full-length biography, Rivers takes his rightful place with Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman as one of the most remarkable Black freedom-fighters of his age.
Stephen Berry is professor of history at the University of Georgia. He's written several books, including Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (Georgia); House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War; and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848–1860 (Georgia). He lives in Athens, Georgia.
Print, Protest, and Feminism in Women's Community Cookbooks
ELLEN BARTH
Contradictory Cookbooks offers a book-historical exploration of how women merged their voluntary, professional, and political interests through cookbook publishing. Although cookbooks are often associated with the domestic and traditional, Ellen Barth reveals that the production of community cookbooks was increasingly taken up by working women, women involved in student and civil rights movements, and women fighting for the cause of second-wave feminism. Barth reveals why, at a time that perhaps seems most surprising and unlikely, women from a broad range of backgrounds and interest-groups produced these culinary texts. Barth argues that through production and sale of fundraising cookbooks, women found a means to bridge sometimes contradictory aspects of their lives.
Ellen Barth is a research and teaching associate at the Chair of Book Studies, University of Münster, where she earned her doctorate in English Philology. Her work centers on book studies, women’s book history, second-wave feminist print culture, and the role of women’s clubs in American publishing and literary history. She has published research on feminist craftivism and menstrual activism, and she currently serves as the Recording Secretary for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). Originally from the United States, she now resides in Germany.
STAN ULANSKI
Upon encountering the great floating masses of sargassum during his first voyage to the “West Indies,” Christopher Columbus feared the weed was so thick and tangled as to forever ensnare his ships. While early cultures viewed the vast expanse of the Sargasso Sea with trepidation, it would become the sea highway linking Europe and the Americas, facilitating exploration, colonization, and commerce. Generations of scientists have explored the Sargasso and unlocked one of the most startling revelations was that this sea is one of the great biological deserts of the earth—an oceanic badland of clear, blue water. And yet within this desert are oases of life. Cloaked in myth, from weed entangled ships to sea serpents to the Bermuda triangle, the Sargasso remains our most inscrutable sea. Blending history and anecdote, science and myth, geography and nostalgia, Ulanski tells the story of the Atlantic's sea, setting it against the backdrop of humankind's intellectual evolution.
Stan Ulanski is professor emeritus of meteorology, oceanography, and marine resources in the Geology and Environmental Science Department at James Madison University. He is the author of The Billfish Story (Georgia), The California Current , and The Gulf Stream. Ulanski lives and writes in coastal Virginia.
Exploring Myths & Mysteries
STAN ULANSKI
December 2026
296
Popular science
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D. LEAH STEINBERG
Clyde Stubblefield changed the face of music. With his start in the segregated city and musical streets of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he became the underappreciated source of the funk rhythm that powered James Brown. Later his rhythms became the sound of hip-hop and he became the most sampled drummer of all time. All with minimal recognition and little compensation. The touring environment of James Brown’s band was filled with military regiments, endless touring, and minimal pay for what was widely agreed was the best band Brown ever assembled when Stubblefield and Jabo Starks were the drummers. He settled down, playing funk, jazz, R&B, blues, rock and roll, Tex-Mex, and country music for just about anyone who asked. He found a welcoming and appreciative community of musicians and admirers and lived in the cold northern city for the final forty-six years of his life. It was in Madison where Leah Steinberg first met Clyde, befriended him, and asked to write his story.
D. Leah Steinberg is the author of Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project. She has published two poetry chapbooks and her writing has also appeared in Salon. Steinberg lives and writes in northern California.
October 2026
280 pages
Biography: arts and entertainment
Rights: World
January 2027
248 pages
Haiti/History of the Americas Rights: World
March 2026
192 pages Palestine Rights: World
Haiti
MICHAEL DEIBERT
With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other is a sweeping history of Haiti’s first century, examining its complex internal political dynamics and the vital role the nation played in liberation movements throughout the Americas. A must-read for anyone interested in Latin American and Caribbean history as well as the history of antebellum and post-bellum United States, With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other restores Haiti to its rightful place as a nation at the forefront of the struggle for human freedom during the era, and presents, in dramatic and compelling form, the glories and costs that came from being at the forefront of that battle.
Michael Deibert has been working as a journalist, author, and analyst there for three decades. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Foreign Policy , Le Monde diplomatique, and Folha de São Paulo, among other media, and he has been a featured commentator on international affairs for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, France 24, and National Public Radio. He received a fellowship from the International Peace Research Association.
JUMAN SIMAAN
Olive Growing in Palestine highlights the daily forms of resistance olive farmers practice to counter the structures of the military occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism affecting their daily activities related to olive growing. It offers a translation of olive farmers’ meaningful daily activities and their values to disrupt Eurocentric disciplines concerned with people’s daily lives, their health and well-being, their communities, self-determination, and flourishing. The book focuses on a collection of values, knowledges and means of actions from the daily lives of Palestinian fellahin (small-scale farmers): Sutra (doing for being), ‘Awna (doing for belonging), and Sumud (doing for belonging and becoming).
Juman Simaan (he/him) is an associate professor of occupational therapy at Edinburgh Napier University. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Occupational Science and works with his local communities in Palestine and Scotland (where he currently lives) on issues of social justice, food sovereignty, and land rights.
The American Myth of the “Lazy Native” and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines GEORGE BAYLON RADICS
Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the “Lazy Native” and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines approaches the rise of Islamic “terrorism” and xenophobia not as the political model on failed states, but by using the novel approach of examining emotions as a driving force behind social action, particularly in the context of the Philippines—a nation currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By documenting the role of emotions in the Philippines from the American colonial period to the present, this book blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino “terrorist,” highlighting the lasting effects of America’s footprint in Southeast Asia. At the same time, the book delves deep into the causes of emotionally driven actions in order to humanize history, bring out the personal, and draw connections between past and present.
George Babylon Radics is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Human Rights, Current Sociology, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies.
Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER
Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling History in Middle Georgia from the Ground Up is a narrative about the ancestral history of the author. Combining memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history we follow a 40-year journey of discovery. Jones Royster weaves and re-weaves data and details corralled from multiple sources, and anchors the narrative with two women, Sarah Ashe (c. 1740-1820), a maternal ancestor, and Mary Craddock Wilson (1825-1907), a paternal ancestor. She recounts how she discovered each of them; profiles their lives in time and space; and traces their family connections—through the generations of family, both before and after them. Readers will take away a clearer, more truthful, and perhaps more inspiring view of who citizens of the nation really are and have always been—even when some of them—by law, policy, and practice—have been ignored and left out of our American story.
Jacqueline Jones Royster is professor emerita at The Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology.
April 2026
272 pages
South East Asia Rights: World
May 2026
312 pages
Family history, tracing ancestors/Memoirs Rights: World
Slavery and abolition of slavery
November 2026
216 pages
Relating to African American , Black American people/Slavery and abolition of slavery/ Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours Rights: World
WILLIAM A. MORGAN
Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a smallscale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by both contemporary and current scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery—a paradigm that obscures the full measure of diversity in this region and era. Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, author William A. Morgan suggests an alternative or competing narrative in understanding both Cuban and Atlantic slavery in this period.
William A. Morgan is a professor of history at Lone Star College. His research has been awarded a Lydia Cabrera Fellowship from the Conference on Latin American History, a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, two Mellon/ACLS Faculty Fellowships, and a Folger Research Fellowship. He is the author of A Brief History of Cuba and his work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Review, and Agricultural History
The Ancestral Journey from the Slave Ship Wanderer to Freedom
VELMA MAIA THOMAS
In April 1866, Charles Carr entered the Freedman’s Savings and Trust in Savannah, Georgia, to open an account, and, with the help of the agent, he completed the commonly asked questions on the application. According to Carr, he was born in the Congo, and he and his family had arrived in the United States aboard the slave ship Wanderer, a vessel that illegally transported more than four hundred Africans to America in 1858, in full defiance of federal laws. The African Called Carr tells Charles Carr’s story—a sojourn filled with setbacks and determination. Through documents held in the National Archives, we discover Carr and his community, hear his account of the Middle Passage, admire the courage of the men and women in his free community. In many ways, Carr’s story is the story of being Black in America.
Velma Maia Thomas is a public historian and a sought-after public speaker who has authored several books. She has served as a subject expert for documentaries streamed on Netflix and PBS and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. She is the creator of the nationally acclaimed Black Holocaust Exhibit. She lives and writes in Atlanta.
Passport to Citizenship narrates how Arthur N. Dunning, born deep in rural South Alabama and the grandson of people born into slavery, evolved from a provincial, angry Black teenager who was very much a product of his time into a more thoughtful person capable of leading colleges and universities in the American South. And then, the burden of accumulated trauma inflicted by the racial caste system he came of age under in Alabama melted away left him free to grapple with and come to terms with it. When outside of the United States, Dunning felt free to wander unfamiliar neighborhoods, eat different foods, speak with foreign people, and analyze his experiences without having to look over his shoulder—literally and figuratively. By seeing himself and his country through other people’s eyes, experiencing the rich and ancient traditions of nations around the world, Dunning ended up, like James Baldwin, a new man in a new world, a person curious about the human condition.
Arthur N. Dunning is a veteran administrator, scholar, and lecturer with a distinguished track record in higher education in Alabama and Georgia. He is the author of Unreconciled: Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South
June 2026
160 pages
Autobiography: historical, political and military Rights: World
The University of Nebraska Press extends the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service by promoting, publishing, and disseminating works of intellectual and cultural significance and enduring value.
The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is the largest university press between Chicago and California. It publishes scholarly and general-interest books (with more than 5,000 titles in print and an additional 150 new titles released each year) and journals (with more than 30 different journals published each year) in topics ranging from anthropology and literary criticism to history and sports. In addition to the Nebraska imprint, the Press also publishes books under Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books imprints and publishes the books of The Jewish Publication Society. The Journals division produces the publications of Nebraska Extension, a division of the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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March 2026
170 pages Memoir
In this personal narrative Timothy J. Hillegonds recounts an eight-year odyssey that began with an unexpected offer from Sean Dempsey, a towering former NFL player turned entrepreneur, whose volatile mentorship reshaped the trajectory of his life.
Timothy J. Hillegonds is the founder and chief strategist at Thrive Content Solutions, a copywriting, design, and marketing agency in Chicago. Hillegonds was awarded an Honorable Mention for nonfiction in the New Millennium Awards 36 presented by New Millennium Writings. He was also nominated for a 2015 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.
RANDOLPH LEWIS
In Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump's New America, Randolph Lewis scours the soul of the country during the Trump and pandemic eras with a sharp eye and keen wit to offer both a forensic and autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of democratic hope and future redemption among the detritus strewn about by villainous Neo-Gilded Age billionaires, Big Tech, and right-wing America. Lewis takes the reader on high adventures and sojourns to an apocalyptic slab of the Mojave Desert, the paradoxical land around Colorado Springs, the seductively deranged city known as Las Vegas, the expat communities of Central Mexico, the racial hot spots of the Deep South, among other subjects of the 2020s.
March 2026
280 pages
Cultural Criticism & Theory/American West/ American Studies/Current and Political Affairs
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JOANNA
Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland is an investigation of the social identity of Polish Jewish children in the early post-war period, particularly of those children who survived the war by living with Polish families.
Joanna Beata Michlic is the director and founder of the Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University.
May 2026
330 pages
History/Jewish History & Culture/Holcaust/ Europe/World War II
Rights: World, excluding Germany and Russia
April 2026
400 pages
Jewish History and Culture/Holocaust/World War II/Europe
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April 2026
164 pages
Cultural/Criticism/Gender Idenity
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The Janowska Camp and Holocaust in Lviv
WAITMAN WADE BEORN
Finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize
Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of Janowska, in Lviv, Ukraine, one of the deadliest concentration camps in the Holocaust, by bringing together never-before-seen evidence and painstakingly detailed research from archives in seven countries and in as many languages.
Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor of history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK.
LISA DOWNING
Against Affect interrogates shibboleths about feeling and reason, and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the twenty-first century.
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK.
JILL CHRISTMAN
Courageous, clear-eyed, tender, and unexpectedly funny, Jill Christman’s story folds the mournful recklessness of the young widow she was against the backdrop of her later marriage and new motherhood, including the choice to end a half-term pregnancy when a routine ultrasound reveals her baby has only half a heart.
Jill Christman is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things.
March 2026
296 pages
Memoir/Family and Relationships/Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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From Gateways to Global Custodians
JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR, PAUL JAMES, ELIZABETH LEANE, AND LIAM MAGEE
Antarctic Cities explores the many ways in which Antarctica is being engaged, reimagined, and represented across five Antarctic gateway cities, arguing that it is crucial for these cities to be urban centers that might embody the cosmopolitan values associated with Antarctic values: international co-operation, scientific innovation, and environmental conservation.
Juan Francisco Salazar is a professor of media and communication studies at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is the coauthor of Screen Media Arts: Concepts and Practices Paul James is a professor of globalization and cultural diversity at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. He is an author or editor of more than thirty books, including Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times. Elizabeth Leane is a professor of Antarctic studies at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of three books, including South Pole: Nature and Culture Liam Magee is a professor of learning design and leadership at Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is the author of Interwoven Cities.
December 2026
250 pages
Nature/Ecosystems and Habitats/Polar Regions
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January 2027
314 pages
Political Science/Genocide & War Crimes
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May 2026
260 pages
Technology & Engineering/Environmental / Water Supply
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Denial of Genocides in the Digital Age
EDITED BY BEDROSS DER MATOSSIAN
In Shattered Truths, Bedross Der Matossian brings together leading scholars from across disciplines to examine how digital spaces contribute to the denial, distortion, and falsification of the major genocides of the twentieth century.
Bedross Der Matossian is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or editor of nine books dealing with political history, mass violence, and its denial, including Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century (Nebraska 2023).
Global Institutions and the Transformation of Water Science, Policy, and Practice
ROBERTO L. LENTON
Confronting Water Insecurity is an engaging account of the most significant global events and institutions that have shaped thinking and action on water security from 1945 to 2024, linking local, regional, and global concerns as well as past, present, and future.
Roberto L. Lenton is professor emeritus of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before coming to the University of Nebraska in 2012 as founding executive director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, he held leadership roles in major global institutions including the Ford Foundation, the International Water Management Institute, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. Lenton is coeditor of Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice: Better Water Management for Development
A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing DAVID BENAC
David Benac explores the Rainforest Action Network’s first two decades and analyzes its methods of grassroots organizing, direct action, and North–South alliances.
David Benac is an associate professor of history and public history coordinator at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Conflict in the Ozarks: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Courtois Hills
June 2026
286 pages
Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection Rights: World
A Judge's Fight for Afghan Women's Rights
MARZIA BABAKARKHAIL AND PAMELA SAY
This harrowing narrative reveals Judge Marzia Bakabarkhail's efforts to resettle the hundreds of women in Afghanistan's judicial system whose lives are in danger following the rise of terrorism and the Taliban's takover.
Marzia Babakarkhail, an award winning activist and national figure for women's rights, is a caseworker for a member of Parliament and appears on BBC and other news outlets as a worldwide spokesperson for Afghan women.
March 2026
208 pages
Afghanistan/Current and Political Affairs/ Human Rights/Middle East/Near East Rights: World
June 2026
256 pages
Jewish History and Culture/Religion/Family and Relationships
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Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis
God and the First Families offers a novel exploration of God’s role as a parent in Genesis. It also illuminates Genesis’s wisdom on surviving trauma, healing from parental favoritism, repairing broken relationships, earning forgiveness, remedying injury, and possibly even achieving redemption.
Stephen Spector is the author of Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews and Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism, among other volumes. Spector has been a visiting scholar at Hebrew University and a senior research fellow at the National Humanities Center and the Wesleyan Center for Humanities.
The University of North Carolina Press, a nonprofit publisher of both scholarly and general-interest books and journals, operates simultaneously in a business environment and in the world of scholarship and ideas. The Press advances the University’s triple mission of teaching, research, and public service by publishing first-rate books and journals for students, scholars, and general readers. The Press has earned a distinguished reputation by publishing excellent work from the nation’s leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals and by presenting that work effectively to wide-ranging audiences.
Established in 1922, unc Press was the first university press in the South and one of the first in the United States. Our regional publishing program—aimed at general readers and offering engaging, authoritative work on all aspects of the region’s history and culture, its natural and built environment, its music, food, literature, geography, plant and animal life—has been widely adopted in other parts of the country. Over the years, Press books have won hundreds of prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and those of many national scholarly societies. Today, the imprint of unc Press is recognized worldwide as a mark of publishing excellence—both for what we publish and for how we publish.
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The Reinvention of Traditional Foods LILY KELTING
The rise of "heritage" foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such as Sean Brock and René Redzepi. But Lily Kelting observes the popularity of heritage foods as something more: a global movement in response to climate catastrophe and the rise of right-wing, populist movements that center a return to the past as part of their ideology.
Weaving ethnography, discourse analysis, critical theory, and sensory, embodied critique, Kelting tracks and critiques the boom of traditional food revival movements in the American South, Denmark, and India. Ultimately, Kelting argues that the heritage that culinary professionals wish to revive is equal parts nostalgia and invention: They engage, subvert, and ignore food histories in their creation of new food movements. As Kelting documents our contemporary moment, she shows how the conversations surrounding these new food movements leave out those already keeping their traditions alive. Against Heritage, then, serves as a reparative revaluation of the work of the cooks largely excluded from the prevailing media conversation about heritage revival.
Lily Kelting is assistant professor of literary and cultural studies at FLAME University in Pune, India.
May 2026
240 pages
Food studies
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August 2026
184 pages
Food studies
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The Ethics and Future of Growing the World's Most Intelligent Invertebrate RICHARD SCHWEID
In 2021, a fish and seafood company named Nueva Pescanova, on the northwestern coast of Spain, announced that it was ready to begin commercially farming octopus. It would be the world’s first company offering a farm-raised product to the huge international market for wild octopus. The announcement elicited a firestorm of protest in Europe and the United States. The debate was covered by major media, including The New York Times, National Public Radio, and Time Magazine. They all raised the question of whether the world needed one more species to be farmed and put on our tables, particularly one as intelligent as octopus.
Commercial boats have overfished the once octopus-rich coasts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Mauritania, and are now fishing the waters off Senegal. Farming operations are on the brink of success in three widely separated places: Vigo, on the northwestern coast of Spain; Sisal, on the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula; and the Nissui seafood company in Japan on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Richard Schweid examines the ethics of octopus farming, as well as describing the animal, the places where it is farmed or caught wild, and the ways in which farming will affect these communities. Among the things to consider when pondering the ethics of farming octopus are the increasing human demand for wild-caught octopus, and the animal itself, so different from us but yet so similar, with a surprising level of intelligence and a remarkable physiology.
Richard Schweid lives between coastal Rhode Island and Barcelona, Spain, where he was a founder and senior editor of the city magazine Barcelona Metropolitan. His previous books include Consider the Eel and The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.
How I Found Love, Humor, and Beauty in My Quest for Ethical Food ZACKARY VERNON
When Zackary Vernon moved to the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, he had a goal: to make more ethical food choices. Soon he was working on an organic farm; volunteering at a pay-what-you-can restaurant; and interviewing a range of people, from fishermen and farmers to biologists and even reality television star Eustace Conway. He found that when he stepped outside the industrial food system, he often ended up in the company of folks on the fringe—people who rejected not only industrial farming methods but also many modern beliefs and conventions that have proven harmful to our food system.
Disillusioned by extremist positions on the left and right, such as anarchist fantasies and myopic conservative worldviews, Vernon, like many of us, struggled to be an ethical eater without fully sacrificing pleasure and joy. While there are no easy answers, he invites readers to consider their own responsibilities to both the places they live and the far-off places their lifestyles affect. With dry wit and personal stories, Vernon offers ways for us to fail better as we consider how to eat more ethically in the future.
Vernon is author of Our Bodies Electric and associate professor of English at Appalachian State University.
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power
W. JASON MILLER
In 1965, Nina Simone, with her husband Andy Stroud, poet Langston Hughes, and Art D’Lugoff, the proprietor of the Village Gate, landed in Montgomery, Alabama to play a show celebrating the success of the Selma March. The crowd was there to hear Simone, but also comedian Dick Gregory and march leader Martin Luther King, Jr. But of this esteemed group, it was Hughes, celebrated poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, who held the closest confidence with Simone. That show was five years into one of the most important, but little-understood friendships of the Black Power era.
Jason Miller examines how Simone and Hughes met and how Black history would be forever changed by their collaborations. Simone’s performance helped catapult her into a lead role in the Civil Rights movement sparking the birth of Black Power. Stokely Carmichael’s famous cry of “Black Power” in June of 1966 was a quote from the collaborative lyrics of Hughes and Simone. After seeing Otis Span and Muddy Waters perform “Goodbye Newport Blues” with lyrics written on the spot by Hughes, Simone decided to adopt the poet as a political and artistic mentor at the very start of her career. In return, Simone offered Hughes a way to carry his influence and to help shape a national movement.
W. Jason Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University. This book is a continuation of his digital project on Hughes and Simone, and he is the author several books, including Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric (Florida, 2016).
A Biography of Sound and Place RASHAD SHABAZZ
When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Want to Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's signature fusion of funk, R&B, rock, punk, and new wave, did not emerge from a vacuum. The place and space of Minneapolis shaped the musical ecosystem that made Prince famous, and, in turn, a complex array of social forces shaped the city’s soundscape.
An expert on place, race, and culture, Rashad Shabazz reveals the history of the Minneapolis Sound, Prince, and his beloved city. More than a biography of Prince, this is a biography of the city and soundscape from which Prince emerged. Shabazz traces the history of the Minneapolis Sound alongside the city’s history, from colonial contact through periods of Indigenous removal, white settlement, mass migration, industrialization, music education, suburbanization, and systemic racism. This history, combined with the exceptional talent cultivated in Minneapolis’s small Black communities, gave rise to a groundbreaking genre, the otherworldly legend that was Prince, and music that captivated the world.
Rashad Shabazz is associate professor of Geography and African & African American studies at Arizona State University.
November 2026
256 pages
Music and Culture
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February 2026
272 pages
Music and Culture
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October 2025
240 pages Literature
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What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
MARIA PINTO
Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers.
Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom's awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.
Maria Pinto is a Boston-area writer, mycophile, and educator who was born in Jamaica and grew up in South Florida.
REBECCA MCCLANAHAN
My father's heart, and my mother's, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.
To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan's elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North Carolina, where she and her husband assumed the roles of "first responders" with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' final years, Rebecca discovers that the landscape of dementia isn't entirely bleak if we can hold on long enough to rediscover in our loved ones the essential selves we feared were lost. Emotionally gripping and unstintingly honest, this memoir invites us to reflect on the timeless nature of love and loss and, with it, the unexpected lessons of caregiving: how to move forward into our own uncertain futures, accept grief as a longtime companion, and approach death with some measure of grace.
Rebecca McClanahan is the author of twelve books, including memoirs, essays, poetry, and writing guides. She teaches in the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program and conducts workshops and readings throughout the country.
Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine
RANA BARAKAT
For Palestinian scholar Rana Barakat, the experience of place is guided by the stories and memories of her grandmother, who was among the 750,000 people forcibly displaced in 1948 by the newly formed Israeli government. Since then, the violence of settler colonialism has prevented the return of Palestinian refugees, including those from Lifta, her family's ancestral village. In the present, the settler state of Israel seems to control the fate of the remaining structures in Lifta, enforcing so-called development plans that limit access and leave the valley appearing frozen in time. By gathering stories from family and community members alongside archival sources and lived experience in the West Bank under Israeli occupation, however, Barakat reveals the way storytelling provides a form of ongoing return to a once-thriving village and to Palestine itself.
One of the first books to position Palestinian studies within Indigenous studies, Barakat offers a rich perspective on Palestinian history and lives today. Embedded in a deeply personal journey, Ongoing Return takes the reader through the past via the present and dares to imagine futures for Palestine and its people.
Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University and director of the Birzeit University Museum.
THOMAS G. ANDREWS
On October 1, 1872, veterinarian Andrew Smith published an article in the Toronto Globe detailing an illness that had begun to affect horses near the city. In the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of other horses, donkeys, and mules fell ill across Canada and the United States. As the virus spread, it became clear that all corners of North America had become completely dependent on the horse for economic and social well-being. Urban centers stood at a standstill; loggers halted business; shipping along canals ceased; and farmers struggled to harvest their crops.
Tracking the flu across the continent and into the Caribbean and South America, Thomas Andrews argues that the Great Horse Flu challenges regional, national, and thematic divides that often plague scholarship of the nineteenth century. He demonstrates the virus’s larger scope, linking it to the Great Boston Fire and the financial meltdown known as the Panic of 1873. In the process, Andrews reveals how this and subsequent pandemics—including the Great Flu of 1918–1920, the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and COVID-19—create patterns of remembering and forgetting that continue to put economies, societies, and our very lives at risk.
Thomas G. Andrews is professor of environmental history and director of the Center of the American West at University of Colorado. This will be his third book, following the Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Harvard, 2008) and Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies (Harvard, 2015).
January 2026
304 pages
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September 2026
350 pages
History
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August 2025
360 pages
History
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The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
JESSICA M. LEPLER
In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations declared independence and new canals intensified US expansion and British industrialization, many imagined the construction of an interoceanic canal as predestined. With dreams substituting for data, an international cast of politicians, lawyers, philosophers, and capitalists sent competing agents on a race to transform Lake Nicaragua, the San Juan River, and the terra incognita of Central American forests into the world's first global waterway.
Jessica M. Lepler tells the captivating story of this global journey in Canal Dreamers. Although the idea of literally changing the world by connecting the oceans proved too revolutionary for the Age of Revolution, the quest itself changed history. Canal dreams prompted political transformations, financial crisis, recognition of new countries, concern about climate change, and more. Full of adventure, corruption, far-reaching consequences, and present-day parallels, Lepler's absorbing narrative cuts through two centuries, revealing that dreams do not need to come true to make history.
Jessica Lepler is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
RENATA KELLER
Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America. This first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region experienced it, revealing that, had the missiles been activated, millions of people across Latin America would have been at grave risk.
Traversing the region from the Southern Cone to Central America, Renata Keller describes the deadly riots that shook Bolivia when news of the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, the naval quarantine that members of Argentina's armed forces formed around Cuba, the pro-Castro demonstrations organized by Nicaraguan students, and much more. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.
Renata Keller is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
RUSSELL RICKFORD
Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gaining independence in 1966 and becoming a republic in 1970. Apart from the 1978 mass murder-suicide of cult leader Jim Jones’s followers in Jonestown, Guyana has been mostly peripheral to mainstream geopolitics. Yet for a generation of Black revolutionaries from around the world, Guyana was a vibrant site of pan-African activism. The country was particularly attractive to veterans of the US civil rights movement who sought alternative places to construct flourishing postcolonial, pan-African nation-states. In this first, comprehensive history of Guyana’s core role in anticolonial, Black internationalist movements in the 1960s and 1970s, historian Russell Rickford traces the history of African Americans who traveled to the country to work with, learn from, and teach Guyanese politicians, activists, and other international figures in the long fight for Black freedom.
Russell Rickford is associate professor of history at Cornell University.
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire, Second Edition
JULIE BEREBITSKY
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATHERINE TURK AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY KATHERINE PARKIN
This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in the workplace. Between 1870 and 1970, white-collar office work became the leading form of employment for American women. As more women took office jobs, men and women workers attempted to make sense of this new environment where the workplace became a site of gendered power negotiations: Emotional and sexual desires entangled with "rational" operating procedures.
Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including government reports, scandal papers, memoirs, and advice literature, Julie Berebitsky describes how women perceived and responded to male desire and discrimination. She also offers keen insight into how popular media—cartoons, advertisements, and a wide array of fictional accounts—represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances in the workplace.
This edition includes a foreword that brings Berebitsky's work into the present, where the Trump presidencies, MeToo movement, and global pandemic provide striking illustrations of the book's enduring relevance. An afterword reflects on Berebitsky's lasting impact as a feminist, teacher, and scholar in the fields of labor history and women's studies.
Julie Berebitsky (1962–2023) was professor of history and founding director of the women’s and gender studies program at Sewanee.
May 2026
360 pages
History
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October 2025
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History
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How Gray Wolves, Monarch Butterflies, and Giant Sequoias Transformed Large Landscape Conservation WILL WRIGHT
What happens to species when climate disruption causes habitat within one country to move or vanish? In Borders of Biodiversity, Will Wright examines transnational conservation efforts to address the tension between a warming world in which living things are on the move and an increasingly walled world in which their movements are constrained. Focusing on three border-crossing species—gray wolves, monarch butterflies, and giant sequoias— from the 1850s to the present day, Wright reveals how nonstate actors like citizen scientists think beyond political borders and diplomatic traditions and find collaborations with fellow-minded conservationists by following nature beyond the nation-state.
The people at the heart of these intertwined stories in Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Indigenous nations of North America recognize that biota have their own forms of territoriality that should be respected and defended. Wright argues that the realities of climate change are fundamentally at odds with site-specific conservation, which follows the possessive logic of nation-building by bounding space to protect habitats when many ecologies do not naturally fit within traditional protected areas. Conservation efforts must forge solidarity across borders or face the extinction of shared species.
Will Wright is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Augustana University.
May 2026
336 pages
Environmental studies
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Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the latest in a long line of forces affecting human-animal relations. Grey parrots traveled the world as pets; rats used global shipping infrastructure to spread to far-off islands and became the object of cross-border extermination campaigns; and California sea otters were relocated to accommodate global oil transportation needs. The language of globalization, however, is rarely used to understand the history of these creatures. Globalizing Wildlife shows how wild animals were not simply affected by globalization but shaped its concrete trajectories at local, national, and international scales.
This collection brings the more-than-human turn to globalization studies, foregrounding not only how globalization matters for wildlife but also how wildlife matters for and constitutes globalization. The volume presents a range of geographically- and species-diverse case studies to show that globalizing wildlife is far from a homogenous process.
Raf De Bont is professor of history at Maastricht University. Vanessa Bateman is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trent University. Tom Quick is a Berlin-based independent scholar and historian of animals, science, and technology.
NATHAN L. M. TABOR
For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushāʿirah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, Nathan L. M. Tabor introduces readers to the popular emergence of the mushāʿirah in eighteenth-century Delhi. Scores of poets composed two-line lyric poems, called ġhazals, that they muttered, sang, shouted, and spat out in contentious salon spaces across India's largest metropolis. Delhi's mushāʿirahs circulated lyrics, satires, and songs for both common and elite poets, who traded and assessed words like an urban commodity that defined hierarchy, taste, and notions of delight.
Via poets' verse exchanges and the histories they wrote about Dehli's literary scene, City of Lyrics reconstructs the social networks the mushāʿirahs produced. By understanding the roots of this uniquely Islamic literary practice, readers will also gain insight into global popular culture today, which increasingly takes shape according to tastes and values from the Muslim world yet is enjoyed by wide audiences comprised of both Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Nathan L. M. Tabor is assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University.
Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path YOUSSEF J. CARTER
In the mid-1990s, Shaykh Arona Rashid Faye al-Faqir arrived in South Carolina from Senegal. Settling in Moncks Corner, he brought with him the Mustafawiyya Tariqa, a Sufi movement that emphasizes remembrance and inward cultivation, which he inherited from its founder, Shaykh Muhammad Mustafa Gueye. Today, Masjid Muhajjirun wal Ansar in Moncks Corner remains the center of this North American transnational community despite the Mustafawiyya Tariqa's spread to larger cities like Philadelphia and Atlanta. Monck's Corner serves as a haven for Muslims to build community and, as Youssef J. Carter argues, to construct diasporic consciousness as they connect with Muslims across the Atlantic.
In The Vast Oceans, Carter shows that this expansion of a West African Sufi movement in the Black Atlantic offers those traveling the Mustafawiyya path empowerment through spiritual care as they confront historical and contemporary anti-Blackness. Ultimately, his richly textured depiction of lived religion expands our understanding of global Islam.
Youssef J. Carter is assistant professor of religious studies and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
October 2025
352 pages
Religion
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June 2026
304 pages
During its more than ninety years of continuous operation, The University of Oklahoma Press has gained international recognition as an outstanding publisher of scholarly literature. It was the first university press established in the Southwest, and the fourth in the western half of the United States.
Building on the foundation laid by our previous directors, OU Press continues its dedication to the publication of outstanding scholarly works. The major goal of the Press is to strengthen its position as a preeminent publisher of books about the American West and Native Americans, while expanding its program in other scholarly disciplines, including classical studies, military history, political science, and natural science. oupress.com
Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing
In recent decades, individualistic and secular ways of participating in the world have grown pervasive in Western society. This evolution has compelled shifts in Indian Country as well. In After the Theft of the Sacred, Native American literature scholar Reginald Dyck investigates these shifts, and the resulting complexities of contemporary Indigenous religious and spiritual experiences. Drawing on a wide range of works by well-known Indigenous authors, he shows how Native communities and characters use their lived religions to make sense of an increasingly fragmented and urban world.
Dyck explores a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to reckon with the transition from an Indigenous communal social imaginary to a modern individualistic one in which belief has become a choice rather than a given. He applies careful close readings to the novels of Ray Young Bear, Greg Sarris, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Tommy Orange; and the poetry of Simon J. Ortiz, Robert Davis Hoffmann, Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan; among other works. Dyck argues that these authors show the ways that Native communities and characters have suffered, as an effect of colonialism, a spiritual theft—what N. Scott Momaday has incisively called “the theft of the sacred.” This theft is evident across religious expressions, he argues, whether one is a traditionalist, a member of the Native American Church, a Christian, or any other kind of believer or nonbeliever. Yet within what many label as a spiritual crisis, Dyck demonstrates that communities and characters create continuities through adaptations, improvisations, individualizations, and leaps of faith.
Reginald Dyck is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Capital University. He edited (with Cheli Reutter) Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles about Native American literature.
of Family Enterprise in Gold Rush California
CRAIG S. HARWOOD
In 1828 Bridget Miranda Evoy escaped famine-stricken Ireland with her children for a better life in America. But the relief she desperately sought was elusive. Within two years, she was a widow and was left raising her five children after the untimely death of her husband. Finding herself in dire straits in “The Gateway to the West,” Bridget's Gambit tells the story of how this remarkable young widow managed to make her way to California and became an entrepreneur during the Gold Rush. In this engrossing family saga, Craig S. Harwood recounts the adventures and accomplishments of this singularly determined woman and her daughters, from a harrowing overland crossing in the winter of 1849 to innovative efforts to build an empire in defiance of the social and gender constraints of the Victorian Era.
Harwood's spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions of women in the forming of California statehood—and restores a lost chapter to the history of the American West.
Craig S. Harwood is co-author of the award-winning Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West, as well as several journal articles on the invention of flight.
DONALD L. FIXICO
Long before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other criminals saw the land as a place to exploit resources and evade capture. But in the heyday of the outlaw era after the Civil War, Indigenous police officers—mounted Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole Lighthorse units—brought them to justice. Donald L. Fixico weaves a lively history of these Five Tribes’ law enforcement organizations as he explores their origin, operation, and survival from the late eighteenth century to the present. He draws on the stories of individual lighthorsemen to paint a compelling portrait of territorial violence and justice. In tandem with his exploration of tribal justice, Fixico investigates “white justice” in the region after the Civil War. Fixico demonstrates how federal and Native officers clashed and ultimately worked together to catch criminals.
In its exploration of law and order from an Indigenous perspective, The Lighthorse Police tells a broader story about sovereignty and violence, Indigenous justice and white justice, and the camaraderie and pride shared by law enforcers across time.
Donald L. Fixico (Muscogee, Seminole, Shawnee, and Sac and Fox enrolled) is Regents and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is author of many books, including The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State
February 2026
212 pages
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212 pages
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Surviving the Guerrilla War in Arkansas
THEODORE CATTON
Mollie Brumley, a thirteen-year-old orphan, was living on a farm in the mountainous Ozarks of northwest Arkansas when the Civil War broke out. In a borderland region on the northern periphery of slavery and the western edge of white settlement, her corner of Arkansas saw terrible destruction—but not primarily from fighting between opposing armies. Mollie Brumley's Civil War was one of guerrilla warfare and outlawry, shifting loyalties, betrayals real and imagined, and death by starvation.
In the course of this riveting narrative, Mollie—while still in her teens—falls in love with one Confederate soldier who is lost in battle, marries another who joins the Rebel guerrillas, and leaves the farm to become an army laundress during escalating guerrilla depredations against her home and family. Intertwined with Mollie's tale is that of Parthenia Hensley, an enslaved young woman living in the same rural community.
An unprecedented picture of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West, Mollie Brumley's Civil War is also a remarkable coming-of-age story shaped by the fight against slavery—a fight that Mollie didn't choose but that finally influenced the person she became and the outcome of her life.
Theodore Catton is a public historian, independent scholar, historical consultant, and faculty affiliate in the Department of History at the University of Montana.
February 2026
312 pages
History
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Tejanos and American Wars, 1836-1972
ALEX MENDOZA
Mendoza's nuanced history reveals that Tejano military service since the Texas Revolution often had less to do with nationalism or patriotism than with individual decisions. A soldier might be motivated by local allegiances, ethnic pride, a desire to defend his home, escape poverty, or seek adventure in a foreign war. By World War II, these notions had become stronger, and the Tejano community responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor with the patriotic fervor of their Anglo-American neighbors. Reasons We Fight traces a growing sense of nationalism through the mid-twentieth century, as Tejanos sought to refute their second-class status as "inferior" individuals—and to demonstrate their warrior tradition, thus confirming their rights to citizenship through battle.
The first comprehensive record of Tejanos in war, Mendoza's account documents the forces and circumstances that shaped military attitudes among Mexican Texans, along with the challenges they faced navigating a complex of shifting ideas about identity, community, and nationalism—and America itself.
Alex Mendoza is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. He is author of Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West and coeditor of Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State’s Military History
In December of 1971 the Black Panther Party expanded to Australia. This might seem an odd place for a quintessentially African American political force, but Aboriginal Australians had long looked to the example of African Americans in their fight against white supremacy. Against a background of Australia's history of colonization and racialization, We Are Black, Too traces Aboriginal Australians' adoption of strains of Black activism from Marcus Garvey through the Civil Rights Movement and ultimately the Black Panther Party. In 1971 an International Section of the Black Panther Party was established in Algeria, but as Ammons shows, it was not until the demise of this section and a "split" within the party in the United States that a chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed in Australia.
Tapping archival research from the United States and Australia, and in light of the emphasis on international activism by Huey P. Newton and the Oakland Panthers, We Are Black, Too explores the links between the American and Australian chapters of the BPP. As it expands the larger analysis of “transnational blackness” and the global Black Diaspora, it offers powerful insights, and holds valuable lessons, for the activism and internationalism of African Americans today in movements of global solidarity to end systemic racism.
Jacynda Ammons is Academic Program Director of Liberal Arts and Assistant Professor of History at National Park College.
Experience tells us, and studies confirm, that women faculty of color are among the most overworked, unfairly criticized, and least rewarded individuals serving higher education today. They are also the most thwarted when it comes to the basic goals of an academic career: tenure, security, and personal satisfaction. This, despite ranking as some of the most talented teachers we have: Women faculty of color disproportionately overdeliver on higher education's loftiest promise—preparing students to contribute to the world. In this book, these highly effective, overworked, underappreciated women will find expert guidance, encouragement, and practical steps to meet the outsized challenges women of color face in academia, and finally get what they've long since earned.
In Empowered, Chavella T. Pittman distills decades of practice to show women faculty of color how to be unapologetically authentic in their teaching, speak up in reviews about their classroom excellence, and to offer themselves compassion. And, how to recover a sense of joy in what they do. Drawing on extensive research, Pittman provides active measures for withstanding intersectional race and gender tensions, exercises to inoculate against toxic dynamics, and tools to resist being silenced and support being heard.
Chavella T. Pittman is a Professor of Sociology at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. Her website is www.effectivefaculty.org.
April 2026
230 pages
History/Black studies
Rights:World
September 2025
222 pages
Higher Education/Women's studies
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240 pages
History/Russia/Military studies
Rights: World, excluding Korea
March 2023
386 pages
Philosophy
Rights: World
ROGER R. REESE
With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial era of conquest and expansion. But as Roger Reese points out in this comprehensive new history, Russia’s way of war has changed little from one century to the next, one regime to another, from the army of the tsar to the army of today. Russia’s Army reveals how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges—projecting power and defending the empire—and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, competing ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent. These twin challenges, in turn, drove defense policy and the planning and conduct of war.
A comprehensive account of the history of the Russian army from 1801 to 2022, Reese’s is the first book to link Russian military history across three distinct eras and to situate this history within the context of military strategy and doctrine, as reflected in specific campaigns, issues of manning and maintaining an army, and relations between army and society, at home and in the “near abroad.”
Roger R. Reese is Professor of History at Texas A&M University and has authored numerous articles and books on the Russian military, including The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 18561917 which won the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize.
GEORGE H.
Written in the fourth century BCE, Philebus is likely one of Plato’s last Socratic dialogues. It is also famously difficult to read and understand. A multilayered inquiry into the nature of life, Philebus has drawn renewed interest from scholars in recent years. Yet, until now, the only English-language commentary available has been a work published in 1897. This much-needed new commentary, designed especially for philosophers and advanced students of ancient Greek, draws on up-to-date scholarship to expand our understanding of Plato’s complex work.
In his in-depth introduction, George Rudebusch places the Philebus in historical, philosophical, and linguistic context. As he explains, the dialogue deals with the question of whether a good life consists of pleasure or knowing. Yet its exploration of this question is riddled with ambiguity. With the goal of facilitating comprehension, particularly for students of philosophy, Rudebusch divides his commentary into twenty discrete subarguments. Within this framework, he elucidates the significance—and possible interpretations—of each passage and dissects their philological details.
A detailed and thorough commentary, this volume is both easy to navigate and conducive to new interpretations of one of Plato’s most intriguing dialogues.
George H. Rudebusch is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Socrates and Socrates, Pleasure, and Value
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught. The correct and imaginative use of these kills can shorten any beginner's apprenticeship by years.
This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.
Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People, are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
January 1981
344 pages
Writing
Rights: World, excluding Simplified Chinese
FOREWORD BY LAWRENCE R. RODGERS
Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.
This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt’s father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat. Yet buried in the drudgery of their everyday life are aspirations, failed dreams, and fleeting moments of hope. The land is their dream.
The Dunne family and the farmers around them fight desperately for the land they love, but the droughts of the thirties force them to abandon their fields. When they join the exodus to the irrigated valleys of California, they discover not the promised land, but an abusive labor system arrayed against destitute immigrants. The system labels all farmers like them as worthless “Okies” and earmarks them for beatings and worse when hardworking men and women, such as Milt and Julia, object to wages so low they can’t possibly feed their children. The informal communal relations these dryland farmers knew on the High Plains gradually coalesce into a shared determination to resist. Realizing that a unified community is their best hope for survival, the Dunnes join with their fellow workers and begin the struggle to improve migrant working conditions through democratic organization and collective protest.
Sanora Babb, born in 1907 in Oklahoma Territory, is the author of five books, as well as numerous essays, short stories, and poems.
The press publishes work on American politics (including the presidency, American political thought, and public policy), military history and intelligence studies, American history (especially political, cultural, intellectual, and western), environmental policy and history, American studies, film studies, law and legal history, Native American studies, and books about Kansas and the Midwest. Our books have reached a wide audience both inside and outside the academy and have been recognized for their contributions to important scholarly and public debates.
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NICHOLAS CARNES AND LILLY J. GOREN, EDITORS
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) moved on from the Thanos storyline, it became more political than ever—both on screen and off.
Editors Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren are back with a new volume of essays exploring the political worlds within and outside of the MCU, authored by leading experts on politics, philosophy, and popular culture. This second volume tackles the sprawling narratives in the MCU's Phase 4, the movies, TV shows, and related content released in 2021 and 2022. During Phase 4, Marvel Studios released films at an unprecedented pace: seven in just two years, including titles like Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Phase 4 also marked the start of the MCU’s move into streaming television, with shows like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight.
Like The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Volume 1: The Infinity Saga, this is another indispensable guide to understanding how the MCU—a fundamental aspect of American pop culture—has a profound and complex relationship with American political life.
Nicholas Carnes is professor of public policy at Duke University. Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University.
August 2025
384 pages
Graphic Novel/Politics and Government/ Cultural and Media Studies
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An Insider's Account of Why Nixon Lost
DAVID M. DORSEN
Written by assistant chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, Reopening Watergate is an eye-opening reassessment of the Watergate scandal and an essential text for understanding this infamous political moment.
David M. Dorsen focuses on important aspects of the story of Watergate that have not received substantial—or, in some cases, any—publicity. The evidence amassed by Dorsen demonstrates that some of the most prominent people involved in pursuing Watergate had inappropriate ex parte contacts with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Dorsen lays out compelling evidence for the inept legal representation given to President Richard M. Nixon.
Reopening Watergate draws on overlooked and ignored sources, including interviews by the Nixon Presidential Library, and the notes of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein housed at the University of Texas at Austin. Dorsen shows that with competent and conscientious lawyers and advisors in the last year of his presidency, Nixon might have been able to survive his full term as president, instead of resigning, mired in shame and scandal.
David M. Dorsen was Assistant Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee under Sen. Sam Ervin and Chief Counsel Samuel Dash. In addition to an esteemed career in private practice, he is the author of the award-winning Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era and The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions
November 2025
328 pages
History/Military and Defence Strategy Rights: World
MICHAEL P.M. FINCH, AIMÉE FOX,
The character of the conflict that erupted in 1914 defied the expectations of many political leaders and military analysts. In Framing the First World War, a team of leading scholars explore the gulf between imagined warfare and the realities of battle. By doing so, they investigate how the military forces that contested the First World War framed the conflict they were involved in and how those perspectives shaped and influenced the ways in which they sought to understand, conduct, and respond to the war.
Improving our appreciation of how commanders saw the world around them and their views on the war, the contributors to Framing the First World War work towards a fuller historical appraisal of how military figures understood the war, moving beyond a purely military analysis to incorporate broader cultural and social topics, including education, medicine, politics, and law.
Michael P. M. Finch is the author of Making Makers: The Past, the Present, and the Study of War Aimée Fox is the author of Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 David G. Morgan-Owen is the author of The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914
JULIA AZARI, BERT A. ROCKMAN, AND ANDREW RUDALEVIGE, EDITORS
In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the forty-fifth president of the United States, thereby bringing an end to the political power of one family and, in retrospect, beginning the era of his own family’s dominance. At times, Trump’s presidency posed new, sometimes unprecedented, challenges to the constitutional order, while in other respects he continued the trajectory toward greater executive power that had been decades in the making.
The nation’s leading scholars of the American presidency assess Donald J. Trump’s first term—what many assumed would be his only term, following his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. Divided into five parts, the authors examine Trump’s first four years in terms of electoral politics, public politics, national institutions, and policy outcomes, with a final section placing Trump in the context of the larger story of American politics.
This volume will be the definitive scholarly resource on Trump’s first term for years to come.
Julia Azari is the author of Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History Bert A. Rockman is co-author of In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive Andrew Rudalevige is the author By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power
The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency
STEPHEN F. KNOTT
The land of the free and the home of the brave has also been the den of false rumors and conspiratorial claims about one’s political enemies—not merely by rank-and-file Americans but also by our most powerful and consequential elected leaders.
Conspirator in Chief is a tour through the Hall of Shame in American politics. Thomas Jefferson used surrogates to spread false claims about Alexander Hamilton in order to destroy his political influence. Andrew Jackson publicly defamed abolitionists and spread his own “Big Lie” about the 1824 election being stolen from him. Andrew Johnson spread false accusations about the Radical Republicans and made spurious claims about the dangers of a coming Black supremacy. Woodrow Wilson continued Johnson’s racist and conspiratorial interpretation of American history.
Knott does more than show how low American presidents have gone. He also illuminates an alternative track record in which presidents took the high road. Conspirator in Chief is a sobering reminder of the power of a president’s words and the damage they can do, but it is also a reminder that words can heal and repair as well.
Stephen F. Knott is the author of many books, including The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal.
April 2026
328 pages
Politics and Government
Rights: World
May 2026
240 pages
Politics and Government/Society and Culture Rights: World
April 2026
352 pages
Politics and Government
Rights: World
April 2026
224 pages History/Nuclear
Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated MARK J. ROZELL AND MITCHEL A. SOLLENBERGER
Executive Privilege is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.
The expanded fifth edition picks up where the fourth edition left off in 2019, with President Donald Trump’s bold assertion of a “protective executive privilege” that recognizes no balancing powers against the executive branch. In addition to an expanded analysis of the battle over the Mueller Report, the controversy surrounding the citizenship question on the 2020 census, and the White House security clearances dispute, new sections examine the conflict over the report on steel and aluminum tariffs and the investigation into missing presidential records stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, some of which were marked as classified.
Mark J. Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger have also added a new chapter on President Joe Biden which recounts how he handled former President Trump’s executive privilege claims during the January 6th investigation, while also managing the controversy surrounding his own classified documents dispute.
With its thorough and authoritative analysis of the many controversies regarding presidential privilege and accountability, Executive Privilege remains an essential resource.
Mark J. Rozell is the coauthor of The Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional Government Mitchel A. Sollenberger is the author of The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power
The Nevada Test Site as Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture JOHN WILLS
In March 1953 and May 1955, government officials released nuclear bombs on two model towns at Nevada Test Site, the continental nuclear test facility during the Cold War. These so-called “Doom Towns“ were designed to illustrate in the most vivid way possible what might happen to a “typical American home” caught in a Soviet atomic blast. The Doom Towns literally brought the Cold War home.
The two Doom Towns of Operation Doorstep (1953) and Operation Cue (1955) were a media spectacle and a cultural flashpoint, attracting corporate sponsors, drawing in atomic tourists, and generating new consumer products.
Doom Town became an unusual but effective banner for corporate and consumer life in the 1950s. But these homegrown Hiroshimas also contributed to a broader culture of catastrophe and fear in the late 1950s. Concerns over Communist invasion, Soviet spies, and ICBM missiles coalesced in the Nevada desert, framing a national culture of anxiety.
Doom Town, USA is an eye-opening tour guide of one of the most bizarre and uniquely American places in history.
John Wills is Professor of American Media and Culture at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books, including Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest At Diablo Canyon and Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture
British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II
BRIAN P. FARRELL
In December 1941 the issue in the East during World War II was whether or not the Japanese could drive the Western Allies out of Southeast Asia before the Allies could reinforce strongly enough to prevent it. Consequently, the British Army organized, trained, and specifically equipped special-forces combat units to operate independently, for long periods of time if necessary, physically separated from the main forces in the field. British Army special-forces units were usually directed to carry out two broad but often closely related missions: provide direct assistance to main force operations; and harass enemy movements, lines of supply, and communications.
In Misfire, Brian Farrell analyzes how and why the British Army developed special forces in the early years of World War II; what uses it made of them; and the role that special and irregular forces played in defending Malaya and Singapore against Japanese invasion, from prewar preparations to capitulation in February 1942. Farrell’s examination of the use of special and irregular forces helps us understand both the Malayan campaign and wider efforts to defend Southeast Asia as well as what that campaign tells us about the evolution of such forces in the British and Empire armies.
Brian P. Farrell is author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore. He is professor of history at the National University of Singapore. He is the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Asia Pacific for the Society for Military History.
A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces
In Spetsnaz, Tor Bukkvoll presents the first in-depth history of the Soviet and, later, Russian special operations forces from their establishment until today. He focuses on three broad topics: Soviet and later Russian thinking on the use of special operations forces; the actual process of constructing these forces and how this was facilitated or hampered by other agencies of the Soviet and Russian states; and the use of these forces in combat.
Bukkvoll uses a variety of sources, but the most important are the recollections of former spetsnaz soldiers and officers themselves, which allow an understanding of the history of these forces as the men of spetsnaz see and have seen it. Bukkvoll also draws upon observations and judgments from other parts of the Soviet and Russian militaries, from a number of KGB sources, and from independent Russian experts and journalists.
Spetsnaz is essential reading for anyone interested in special operations forces or Russian military history.
Tor Bukkvoll is senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in Kjeller, Norway. He is the author of Ukraine and European Security. A specialist in Russian and Ukrainian security and defense policies, Bukkvoll has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford and the Naval Postgraduate School.
368 pages
Military History/Second World War Rights: World
December 2024
306 pages
Special and Elite Forces/Military History/ European History Rights: World
and Government/Espionage and Secret Services/History of the Americas Rights: World
December 2024
224 pages
History/Biography and Non-fiction Prose Rights: World
The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962
BRAD L. FISHER
In The Hidden Cost of Freedom, author Brad Fisher presents a comprehensive narrative of the origin and early development of the CIA’s clandestine financial system, beginning with the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services’ Special Funds Branch during World War II. Fisher documents the controversial legislative history of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 from the standpoint of the CIA, the General Accounting Office, and congressional insiders, and describes the act’s role in the transformation of the CIA’s financial administration into a global enterprise for financing its foreign intelligence activities. Finally, he brings to light the story of his grandfather, Edwin Lyle Fisher, who had a major role in the postwar establishment of the CIA’s funding system as the GAO’s legal liaison to the CIA.
While the existence of the CIA’s clandestine funding is no secret, Fisher’s book is the first to trace its development and to show how the CIA’s covert financial system was allowed to develop in a democracy devoted to checks and balances.
A German Soldier’s Journey through World War I HANS SCHILLER
EDITED BY FREDERIC KROME AND GREGORY LOVING
TRANSLATED BY KARIN WAGNER
FOREWORD BY BRIAN K. FELTMAN
Hans Schiller was a seventeen-year-old student in Bromberg, Prussia, when World War I broke out in August 1914. From 1915 to 1917, Schiller saw action in what is now Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. After the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 and Russia’s withdrawal from the war, Schiller was transferred to the Western Front. He arrived in time for Germany’s last great offensive in the west. After the German retreat and Armistice, Schiller reentered military service in the Freikorps, German mercenary groups fighting in former German territory in Eastern Europe, where the conflict dragged on even after the Treaty of Versailles.
A Tale of Two Fronts provides a vivid first-person account of German army life during World War I.
Karin Wagner is CEO, founder, and executive director of the Neigh Savers Foundation, a horse rescue organization in California. Frederic Krome is professor of history, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, author of The Jewish Hospital and Cincinnati Jews in Medicine, and editor of Fighting the Future War: An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914–1945 Gregory Loving is professor of philosophy, University of Cincinnati Clermont College. Brian K. Feltman is the author of The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond
The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times ROSS BENES
As journalist Ross Benes shows, the end of the ’90s was a banner year for low culture. This was the heyday of Jerry Springer, Jenna Jameson, and Vince McMahon, among many others.
During its New Year’s Eve countdown, MTV entered 1999 with Limp Bizkit covering Prince’s famous anthem to the new year. The highlights of the lowlights continued when WCW and WWE drew 35 million American viewers each week with sex appeal and stories about insurrections. Insane Clown Posse emerged from the underground with a Woodstock set and platinum records about magic and murder. Beanie Babies and Pokémon so thoroughly seized the wallets and imagination of collectors that they created speculative investment bubbles that anticipated the faddish obsession over nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The trashy talk show Jerry Springer became daytime TV’s most-watched program. Donald Trump even explored a potential presidential nomination with the Reform Party in 1999 and wanted his running mate to be Oprah Winfrey, whose own talk show would make Dr. Oz a household name.
Benes shows us how so many of the strangest features of culture in 1999 predicted and influenced American life today. 1999 is not just a nostalgic look at the past. It is also a window into our contentious present.
Ross Benes is a journalist, market research analyst, and author. His previous books include Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold and Turned On: A Mind-Blowing Investigation into How Sex Has Shaped Our World
Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995 JONATHAN CARROLL
On October 3, 1993 two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and in the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu eighteen Americans and hundreds of Somalis were killed. But very few appreciate that this was just one day in a two-and-a-half-year operation—the most ambitious attempt in history to rebuild a nation. The United States sought to show the world that the UN could rebuild a country, but the intervention in Somalia was plagued with political infighting, policy mismatch, confusion, and fatal assumptions.
In Beyond Black Hawk Down, Jonathan Carroll provides the first scholarly military history of the entire intervention, from its early and largely successful humanitarian phase in 1992 to the ultimate withdrawal of UN forces in 1995. Carroll dispels the myths and misunderstandings surrounding one of the most infamous episodes of the 1990s to present a new interpretation of events, most notably by including the Somali perspective, to argue what went so wrong in Somalia, and more importantly, why.
Jonathan Carroll is a former officer in the Irish Defence Forces who earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an associate professor of military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
April 2025
296 pages
Society and Culture/Television: Reality Shows Rights: World
June 2025
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How the Development of Amphibious Operations in Europe Helped Win World War II
JOHN M. CURATOLA
American forces storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous moments in US military history. But behind this iconic assault is the long-overlooked history of learning and innovation. Significantly, the amphibious forces taken ashore that day were overwhelmingly army soldiers, with sailors and airmen in support. Before the army could launch such an endeavor, however, it had to learn how to conduct amphibious operations against a contested shore.
Creating this capability required a concerted, deliberate effort. Involving an extensive joint endeavor of air, naval, and ground forces, amphibious assault strategy developed over the course of four years. In Armies Afloat, John Curatola leads readers through the US Army’s amphibious development and capabilities by examining six components: command relationships, ship-to-shore movement, naval surface fire support, air support, beachhead establishment, and logistics and communication. The men, material, processes, and coordination involved in developing such a large-scale amphibious capability was something truly new in warfare.
John M. Curatola is Samuel Zemurray-Stone Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum and served as a Marine Corps officer for twenty-two years. He is the author of Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945–1950
February 2025
366 pages
Military History/General and World History/ Military and Defence Strategy Rights: World
A History of Military Mining in Siege Warfare EARL
From as early as ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese warfare to the battles of World War I, military mining was an essential component of siege warfare. Armies have tunneled underneath castle walls, dug trenches across no-man’s-land, and engineered confusing defensive countermines. These tactics for assaulting enemy fortifications and positions by creating underground access have adapted to changes in warfare, technology, geography, and culture. While its use diminished after 1918, when speed and movement took precedence over capturing strongpoints, military mining remains a viable strategy still deployed to this day. In this first book-length study of the subject, renowned military historian Earl Hess now fully addresses the topic of military mining from its earliest origins to the twenty-first century.
War Underground, offers a sweeping study of the use of offensive and defensive military mining in more than 300 sieges from around the world and across almost three millennia. The result is an impressively broad and comprehensive treatment of the grand history of military mining.
Earl J. Hess is the author of thirty-six books, including Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield
Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World
TIM BASCOM
A lifelong soccer player and award-winning author shows us how the sport transcends races, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences and brings us all closer together.
Tim Bascom spent half his childhood in Kansas and the other half in East Africa. Living and traveling around the world, the game of soccer proved a constant truth. Through storytelling that effortlessly flows between poignant and funny, sobering and charming, Bascom explores why soccer matters so much in our common, everyday lives, and how this ordinary yet extraordinary game can bring us all a little closer together.
His passionate vision for this most global game leads Bascom to describe how soccer brought him sanity in the middle of a brutal revolution in Ethiopia and how bridging divisions of race and culture was key to success for teams he joined in Chicago and Kansas. From watching Arsenal's energetic rise in the Premier League to the bravery of a besieged Afghanistan Women's National Team, and from pickup games in the Midwest and the Middle East, Bascom finds universal truths and deeply human meaning in the beautiful game of soccer.
Tim Bascom, who learned to play soccer as a youth in Ethiopia, is the author of two prize-winning memoirs, Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire; two essay collections, The Comfort Trap and Climbing Lessons; a collection of short stories, Continental Drift; and the novel Squatters’ Rites
February 2026
168 pages
Soccer
Rights: World
April 2026
256 pages
Memoir/Military Rights: World
My Time as an Iraq War Strategist
TOM MOWLE
FOREWORD
BY JOHN NAGL
An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. With raw honesty and exhilarating detail, Tom Mowle shares how policy and strategy were built at a time when it still felt like the US could win the Iraq War.
When Tom Mowle volunteered to go to Iraq in 2004 to help shape American strategy, he left behind a comfortable life as a noncombat junior officer and a professor at the US Air Force Academy. In Chaos in the Green Zone, he relives the chaos and absurdity of war in a way that recalls Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.
Mowle vividly depicts the frenetic cycle of activity at a wartime forward headquarters, where the enemy often dictated the schedule of events, fifteen hours a day, seven days a week. Important tasks were set aside for urgent distractions; hard deadlines constrained critical thinking and well-balanced decisions. Frequent indirect fire attacks, the deaths of colleagues, heat-induced illnesses, and personality conflicts thickened the fog of war.
Amid this chaos in an unfamiliar land, Tom wrestled with deeply human issues, including his troubled marriage, his daughter's health, and his own career prospects. Through it all, he sought to find meaning through service despite creeping skepticism about the mission at hand.
Chaos in the Green Zone provides keen insights about Iraqi political dynamics and shows how collective ignorance, toxic optimism, and partisan considerations affected coalition decision making. The result was twenty years of dysfunctional Iraqi politics, increased Iranian influence in the Middle East, and many unnecessary Iraqi and American deaths.
This honest memoir, drawn from his original wartime diaries and other materials, is as thrilling as it is insightful. It is a must-read for anyone wanting to see what it was like to serve as a high-level strategist in Iraq and for anyone wondering how we wound up where we are today.
Tom Mowle is the author of Allies at Odds? The United States and the European Union, the editor of Hope is Not a Plan: The War in Iraq from Inside the Green Zone, and the coauthor of The Unipolar World: An Unbalanced Future. He is the owner of Rampart Professional Solutions, a manuscript coaching and editing service in Colorado. John Nagl is a retired US Army officer who served in tank units in both Iraq wars. He is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and helped write The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
With Sources and Oral Histories
STEPHANIE BENNETT, SAMANTHA GILL, & TAI S. EDWARDS, EDITORS
The inspiring story of Lyda Conley, the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court and a trailblazing lawyer and activist who defended the burials of her Wyandot family and ancestors in Kansas City's Huron Indian Cemetery. Driven by primary sources and oral histories, this biography and source reader is the definitive work on this remarkable woman.
For fifty years, Eliza ("Lyda") Conley and her two older sisters, Helena and Ida, protected the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. A member of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Lyda Conley is the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court, where she established legal precedents used to protect Indigenous sovereignty today.
In conjunction with her legal fight, Conley and her sisters spent years physically defending their ancestors' burials by building a shack in the cemetery they called "Fort Conley." When a US Marshal tore down their fort in 1911, the sisters simply built another one. While they occupied the grounds, they also tended to cemetery upkeep, maintaining it in pristine condition between 1907 and 1922. Finally, under the leadership of Kansas Senator—and future vice president under Herbert Hoover—Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation, Congress passed legislation to prevent sale or development of the cemetery’s land in 1913.
Unfortunately, the cemetery needed defending decades later when the Wyandotte Nation (of Oklahoma) attempted to open a casino on the cemetery grounds in the 1990s. The Conley sisters' Wyandot Nation of Kansas relatives used similar strategies to protect the cemetery once again.
Using primary sources, including images, oral histories, and art, as well as scholarly analysis, Stephanie Bennett, Samantha Gill, and Tai S. Edwards tell the story of Lyda Conley, her sisters, and their perseverance. This book stands as a testament to the Conley sisters, who demonstrated the resilience and courage of Indigenous women who resisted colonialism and protected Indigenous sovereignty, blazing a trail for future generations.
Stephanie Bennett is a citizen of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and the niece of Chief Emeritus Janith English. She has been working with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas to preserve and raise awareness of the cemetery since the 1980s. Samantha Gill is the Adult Services Manager at Hays Public Library in Hays, Kansas, and earned a master’s degree in history from Fort Hays State University in 2016, where she began her research on Lyda Conley's life and work. Tai S. Edwards is a Professor of History and Director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She is the author of Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power, also from the University Press of Kansas.
April 2026
250 pages
Native American studies/Law/History
Rights: World
The University of the West Indies Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher of books and journals in sixteen academic disciplines. It is particularly well known for its work in Caribbean history, Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean literature, gender studies, education and political science. Founded in 1992, the press has over 500 books and journals in print. Its journals and books are peer-reviewed and approved by an editorial committee composed of local and international scholars.
uwipress.com
December 2025
602 pages Gender Studies Rights: World
Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities
DALEA BEAN AND VERENE A. SHEPHERD, EDITORS
Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities is a landmark collection that addresses one of the region’s most pressing crises. Edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd, the volume traces the historical roots of gender-based violence, showing how enslavement, colonial domination and systemic inequalities became embedded in cultural norms and everyday life. Contributors draw on court records, literature, music, oral histories and archival sources to uncover how violence—physical, psychological and symbolic—was normalized and perpetuated across generations.
Dalea Bean is head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. A specialist in women and gender in Caribbean history, she is the author of Jamaican Women and the World Wars (2017) and Jamaican Women of Distinction (2020), contributing significantly to feminist Caribbean scholarship. Verene A. Shepherd is professor emerita of history and gender studies at The University of the West Indies. Her research spans Jamaican economic history, slavery, reparations and gender discourses. She is the author of several influential works, including Livestock, Sugar & Slavery and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour
Densil A. Williams explores the life and career of Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, affectionately known as Richie, in this captivating biography. Richie, who began from modest beginnings in Five Islands Village, Antigua, rose to international cricket stardom. The book traces his evolution from a skilled footballer and hotel bartender to a dominant cricket player, and later a successful businessman and philanthropist. It showcases how Richie’s early hardships, including his father’s death, shaped his indomitable spirit and the leadership skills that would later define his illustrious career.
Densil A. Williams is professor of international business at UWI. He has published five books, written over seventy articles in academic journals and refereed academic conferences. He is the recipient of numerous research awards as well as a Commonwealth Scholar, a Lome IV Scholar, a Jamaica Government Exhibition Scholar and a Jamaica Four Mills Scholar.
September 2024
92 pages
Biography/Memoir Rights: World
The Autobiography of George Wright
ELIZABETH CADIZ TOPP, ANTHONY LUENGO, AND LISE WINER, EDITORS
George Wright’s autobiography is the unforgettable story of a man who rose from poverty and hardship to build a life of dignity and purpose. Born into great need in the fishing village of Sans Souci, Wright endured abuse, hunger and instability. Yet he discovered early his gift as a keen observer, recording with humour and honesty the everyday details of Trinidadian life: funerals and festivals, bush medicine and obeah, the rhythms of school and village community.
Elizabeth Cadiz Topp is an independent curator, arts educator and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She is the author of Deep Indigo (2021) and acclaimed for films on Caribbean history. Anthony Luengo is a former lecturer in English at UWI, St Augustine and Cave Hill who later served as editorial director at Oxford University Press in Toronto and publications coordinator at Massey College, University of Toronto. His work includes literary essays and textbooks for Canada and the Caribbean. Lise Winer is professor emerita of Second Language Education at McGill University. She taught applied linguistics and second language learning for three decades. Her publications include Badjohns, Bhaaji & Banknote Blue and the acclaimed Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago.
December 2025
422 pages
Biography/Memoir Rights: World
November 2021
292 pages
Caribbean History/History Rights: World
August 1999
348 pages
Caribbean History/History Rights: World
A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty
HILARY MCD. BECKLES
“The modern Caribbean economy was invented, structured and managed by European states for one purpose: to achieve maximum wealth extraction to fuel and sustain their national financial, commercial and industrial transformation.” So begins How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty as Hilary McD. Beckles continues the groundbreaking work he began in Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide.
Hilary McD. Beckles is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide; A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928; and Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean
Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
HILARY MCD. BECKLES
This is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. Written by a leading economic historian of the region, a seasoned activist in the wider movement for social justice and advocacy of historical truth, Britain’s Black Debt looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. Weaving detailed historical data on Caribbean slavery and the transatlantic slave trade together with legal principles and the politics of postcolonialism, Beckles sets out a solid academic analysis of the evidence. He concludes that Britain has a case of reparations to answer which the Caribbean should litigate.
Hilary McD. Beckles is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928 and Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean
PATRICIA NORTHOVER, RICHARD L. BERNAL, HAMID A. GHANY, AND NATALIE DIETRICH JONES, EDITORS
Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change explores the conflicts, tensions and contradictions abounding in order to reimagine Caribbean futures and reorder economic, social, political and environmental practices and policies to address the wellbeing of all. Based on the contributions of an interdisciplinary collection of scholars and policy analysts, this publication assesses the dominant tensions in contemporary international geopolitics and examines the multidimensional fault lines in Caribbean vulnerability.
Patricia Northover, PhD, is a development economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona. Richard L. Bernal, PhD, is the former Ambassador to the USA and Organization of American States and Professor of Practice at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, as well as former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Affairs at The University of the West Indies. Hamid A. Ghany is Professor of Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies and former SALISES Director, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Natalie Dietrich Jones is Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona.
August 2025
438 pages
Economics/Political Science
Rights: World
Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination
EUGENIA O'NEAL
In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O’Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller’s narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain’s far-flung empire.
O’Neal is an independent writer and researcher.
British Military Doctors and the Diagnosis and Treatment of Yellow Fever in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
PEDRO L.V. WELCH
This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British military doctors in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing primarily on Barbados, the book presents a collection of transcripts from medical reports, accompanied by extensive annotations and a comprehensive historiographical essay that contextualizes the research within its historical framework.
Pedro L.V. Welch was a retired professor of social and medical history at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He had previously served as deputy principal and dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
June 2020
268 pages
Gender Studies/Social Science Rights: World