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Kansas Baseball, 1858–1941 by Mark E. Eberle is the winner of the Kansas Notable Book Award.424 pagesCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2439-3, $45.00Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2440-9, $27.95Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2441-6, $27.95

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“Lincoln’s Informer is a genuine contribution to both Civil War studies and the history of nineteenth-century journalism. In the story of Charles A. Dana, Lincoln’s Informer reclaims exciting and underreported aspects of American political, literary, and military history.”

Harold Holzer, winner of the Gilder-lehrman lincoln Prize

“Brimming with fascinating details and drawing on an array of new sources, Lincoln’s Informer provides the definitive portrait of newspaper editor Charles A. Dana’s controversial career as an informant, investigator, and advisor for the War Department.”

Joan WaugH, coauthor of The AmericAn WAr: A hisTory of The civil WAr erA

Lincoln’s InformerCharles A. Dana and the Inside Story of

the Union WarCarl J. Guarneri

In a recent poll of leading historians, Charles A. Dana was named among the “Twenty-Five Most Influential

Civil War Figures You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.” If you have heard of Dana, it is probably from his classic Recollections of the Civil War (1898), which was ghost-written by muckraker Ida Tarbell and riddled with errors cited by unsuspecting historians ever since. Lincoln’s Informer at long last sets the record straight, giving Charles A. Dana his due in a story that rivals the best historical fiction.

Dana didn’t just record history, Carl J. Guarneri notes: he made it. Starting out as managing editor of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, he led the newspaper’s charge against proslavery forces in Congress and Kansas Territory. When his criticism of the Union’s prosecution of the war became too much for Greeley, Dana was drafted by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to be a special agent—and it was in this capacity that he truly made his mark. Drawing on Dana’s reports, letters, and telegrams—“the most remarkable, interesting, and instructive collection of official documents relating to the Rebel-lion,” according to the custodian of the Union war records—Guarneri recon-structs the Civil War as Dana experienced and observed it: as a journalist, a confi-dential informant to Stanton and Lincoln, and, most controversially, an administra-tion insider with surprising influence. While reporting most of the war’s major events, Dana also had a hand in military investigations, the cotton trade, Lincoln’s reelection, passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, and, most notably, the

making of Ulysses S. Grant and the break-ing of other generals.

Dana’s reporting and Guarneri’s lively narrative provide fresh impressions of Lincoln, Stanton, Grant, and other Union war leaders. Lincoln’s Informer shows us the unlikely role of a little-known confidant and informant in the Lincoln administration’s military and political successes. A remarkable inside look at history unfolding, this book draws the first complete picture of a fascinating character writing his chapter in the story of the Civil War.

Carl J. Guarneri is professor of history at Saint Mary’s College of California. He is the author of many books, including The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nine-teenth-Century America.

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“A challenge to many scholars in recent decades who focus more on ‘presidential greatness’ than the core constitutional principles the framers envisioned for the office. It is an essential read for anyone who wants a better understanding of the origins of the office and how it can explain the president’s role in the current political environment.”

lori Cox Han, coauthor of PresidenTs And The AmericAn Presidency

“The Lost Soul of the American Presidency provides a welcome and timely antidote to both the Left’s romance with the progressive presidency model and the Right’s newfound love affair with the ‘unitary executive.’ ”

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The Lost Soul of the American PresidencyThe Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for RenewalStephen F. Knott

The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be.

Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump’s latest tweet and as old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office envisioned by the framers of the Constitution into the demagogic, partisan entity of our day.

The presidency of popular consent, or the majoritarian presidency that we have today, far predates its current incarnation. The executive office as James Madison, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton conceived it would be a source of national pride and unity, a check on the

tyranny of the majority, and a neutral guarantor of the nation’s laws. The Lost Soul of the American Presidency shows how Thomas Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” remade the presidency, paving the way for Andrew Jackson to elevate “majority rule” into an unofficial consti-tutional principle—and contributing to the disenfranchisement, and worse, of African Americans and Native Americans. In Woodrow Wilson, Knott finds a worthy successor to Jefferson and Jackson. More than any of his predecessors, Wilson altered the nation’s expectations of what a president could be expected to achieve, putting in place the political machinery to support a “presidential government.”

As difficult as it might be to recover the lost soul of the American presidency, Knott reminds us of presidents who resisted pandering to public opinion and appealed to our better angels—George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and William Howard Taft, among others—whose presidencies suggest an alternative and offer hope for the future of the nation’s highest office.

Stephen F. Knott is professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. His many books include Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth and Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, both from Kansas, and Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Opera-tions and the American Presidency.

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“In this insightful study, Greg Weiner explains why the Supreme Court on constitutional matters should not be treated as an entirely independent branch. Instead, it is part of the political process and fully subject to independent analysis, public debate, and the system of checks and balances. In the act of governing, the judiciary is a coequal partner, not a superior branch.”

louis FisHer, author of reconsiderinG JudiciAl finAliTy: Why The suPreme courT is noT The lAsT Word on The consTiTuTion

“The Political Constitution calls upon judges to leave space for democratic delib-eration on constitutional questions and urges elected officials and ordinary citizens to take responsibility for this difficult but essential work.”

JaMes H. read, author of mAJoriTy rule versus consensus: The PoliTicAl ThouGhT of John c. cAlhoun

Who should decide what is consti-tutional? The Supreme Court, of course, both liberal and conserva-

tive voices say—but in a bracing critique of the “judicial engagement” that is ascendant on the legal right, Greg Weiner makes a cogent case to the contrary. His book, The Political Constitution, is an eloquent political argument for the restraint of judicial authority and the return of the proper portion of constitu-tional authority to the people and their elected representatives. What Weiner calls for, in short, is a reconstitution of the political commons upon which a republic stands.

At the root of the word “republic” is what Romans called the res publica, or the public thing. And it is precisely this—the sense of a political community engaging in decisions about common things as a coherent whole—that Weiner fears is lost when all constitutional authority is ceded to the judiciary. His book calls instead for a form of republican constitutionalism that rests on an under-standing that arguments about constitu-tional meaning are, ultimately, political arguments. What this requires is an enlargement of the res publica, the space allocated to political conversation and a shared pursuit of common things. Tracing the political and judicial history through which this critical political space has been impoverished, The Political Constitution seeks to recover the sense of political community on which the health of the republic, and the true working meaning of the Constitution, depends.

The Political ConstitutionThe Case against Judicial Supremacy

Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner is provost and vice president for Academic Affairs and associate professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a senior aide to US senator J. Robert Kerrey, 1993–1999. His books include Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics and American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both from Kansas, and Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence.

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Some presidents throw out baseball’s first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball’s March

Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays for the Super Bowl. He hosted players in the 1969 Major League All-Star game for a party deemed the strangest since the mob scene during Andrew Jackson’s inauguration. He attended a Washington Redskins practice to boost morale, altered the NFL’s policy for televising home games, and introduced the practice of calling teams after Super Bowl or World Series wins. The list goes on, but the point is clear: Richard Nixon was the nation’s first sports superfan to occupy the Oval Office. And this, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes suggests, may explain why Nixon, so despised for all his faults and failings, was nonetheless also widely loved by the American public.

In Fan in Chief Sarantakes sets out to show how Richard Nixon’s passion for sports, more than policy positions or partisan politics, engaged the American people—and how Nixon used this passion to his political advantage. Fan in Chief takes place in the realm of political theater, a theater in which the president’s role was perfectly genuine. A true fan, Nixon exposed core elements of his personality, character, and values in the world of sports; through sport he could connect and communicate with the character and values of his fellow Ameri-cans. Fan in Chief is thus a story of both personality and politics; more than that, it is an in-depth exploration of what

Fan in ChiefRichard Nixon and American Sports, 1969–1974Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Richard Nixon’s love of sport can tell us about the man and his times.

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes is associate professor of strategy at the US Naval War College. His books include Making Patton: A Classic War Film’s Epic Journey to the Silver Screen and Allies against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan, also published by Kansas, and Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War.

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“In his fair-minded and very well-researched study, the author not only skillfully explores the relationship between the president and sports but demonstrates the powerful connection between sports and politics, a connection virtually invented by the Nixon administration.”

Melvin sMall, author of The Presidency of richArd nixon

“Richard Nixon loved politics, and he loved sports. In this excellent book, Nicholas Sarantakes shows how the president fused these passions to win favorable publicity but also to promote his conception of traditional American values.”

allen MatusoW, author of nixon’s economy: Booms, BusTs, dollArs, And voTes

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“Lori Cox Han’s Advising Nixon is essential reading for anybody interested in our thirty-seventh president’s public philosophy. Pat Buchanan’s memos are eye-opening primary source documents of great value. Highly recommended!”

douglas Brinkley, Katherine tsanoff brown chair in humanities and Professor of history at rice university, author of cronkiTe, and coeditor of The nixon TAPes

“Pat Buchanan’s acerbic pen and wit helped define Richard Nixon’s conservatism, Ronald Reagan’s appeal, and, ultimately, Donald Trump’s nativism. Lori Cox Han’s skillfully orchestrated collection of Buchanan’s earliest White House work is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand America’s political past, present, and future.”

JeFFrey a. engel, director of the center for Presidential history, southern methodist university

In 1966, Richard Nixon hired Patrick J. Buchanan, a young editorial writer at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, to

help lay the groundwork for his presiden-tial campaign. Fiercely conservative and a whiz at messaging and media strategy, Buchanan continued with Nixon through his tenure in office, becoming one of the president’s most important and trusted advisors, particularly on public matters. The copious memos he produced over this period, counseling the president on press relations, policy positions, and political strategy, provide a remarkable behind-the-scenes look into the workings of the Nixon White House—and a uniquely informed perspective on the development and deployment of ideas and practices that would forever change presidential conduct and US politics.

Of the thousand Buchanan memos housed at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, presidential scholar Lori Cox Han has judiciously selected 135 that best exemplify the significant nature and reach of his influence in the Nixon administra-tion. Here, in his now-familiar take-no-prisoners style, Buchanan can be seen advancing his deeply conservative agenda, counterpunching against advisors he considered too moderate, and effectively guiding the president and his administra-tion through a changing, often hostile political environment. On every point of policy and political issue—foreign and domestic—through two successful campaigns, Nixon’s first term, and the fraught months surrounding the Watergate debacle, Buchanan presses his advantage, all the while honing the message that would push conservatism ever rightward

Advising NixonThe White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan

Lori Cox Han

in the following years. Expertly edited and annotated by Han, Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan offers rare insight into the decision-making and maneuvering of some of the most powerful figures in government—with lasting consequences for American public life.

Lori Cox Han is a professor of political science at Chapman University. She is the coauthor, with Diane J. Heith, of Presidents and the American Presidency and the editor of Hatred of America’s Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump, among many other works.

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After ReaganBush, Dukakis, and the 1988 ElectionJohn J. Pitney, Jr.

Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exem-

plar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of an earlier day. The judgment, though sound, would have shocked observers of the 1988 election that put Bush in the White House. From a scholar who played a small role in that long-ago election, After Reagan provides an eye-opening look at a presidential campaign that few suspected marked the end of an era—or the rise of forces roiling our political landscape today.

Willie Horton. “Read my lips: no new taxes.” Michael Dukakis in a helmet, in a tank. Though these are remembered as pivotal moments in a presidential cam-paign recalled as whisker-close, in his book John J. Pitney, Jr., reminds us how large Bush’s victory actually was, and how much it depended on social conditions

and political dynamics that would change dramatically in the coming years. A turning point toward the post–Cold War, hyperpartisan, culturally divided politics of our time, the election of 1988 took place in a very different world. After Reagan captures a moment when cam-paigns were funded from the federal Treasury; when Republicans had a lock on the presidency and Democrats controlled Congress; when the electorate was considerably whiter and less educated than today’s; and when the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union—and the subsequent rise of globalization—were virtually unimaginable.

Many books tell us that elections have consequences. Pitney’s explains how campaigns are consequential—the 1988 campaign more than most. From the perspective of the last thirty years, After Reagan shows us the 1988 election in a truly new light—one that, in turn, reveals the links between the campaign of 1988 and the politics of the twenty-first century.

John J. Pitney, Jr., is Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. His many books include The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum, The Art of Political Warfare, and Congress’ Permanent Minority? Republicans in the U.S. House.

“After Reagan transports the reader back in time to the hard-fought presidential race between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. Pitney’s retelling highlights the candidates, issues, and media environment of that time and juxtaposes them with our current political world. This engaging, well-written book is a thoughtful exploration of how much, for better and for worse, our politics has changed since then.”

JeFFrey CrouCH, author of The PresidenTiAl PArdon PoWer

“Pitney’s argument—that in the Bush-Dukakis race of 1988 we find the seeds of present-day presidential politics in both parties—is both timely and well supported. Judiciously argued and gracefully written, After Reagan makes a worthy contribution to the literature.”

JoHn roBert greene, author of The Presidency of GeorGe h. W. Bush, second ediTion, revised

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Getting Right with ReaganThe Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980–2016

Marcus M. Witcher

How this legacy, as Reagan himself envisioned it, became the more grandiose version fashioned by Republicans after the 1980s tells us much about the late twentieth-century transformation of the GOP—and, as Witcher’s work so deftly shows, the conservative movement as we know it now.

Marcus M. Witcher is a scholar-in- residence in both the Department of History and the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the coeditor of Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History, Volumes 1–3.

Republicans today often ask, “What would Reagan do?” The short answer: probably not what they

think. Hero of modern-day conservatives, Ronald Reagan was not even conservative enough for some of his most ardent supporters in his own time—and today his practical, often bipartisan approach to politics and policy would likely be deemed apostasy. To try to get a clearer picture of what the real Reagan legacy is, in this book Marcus M. Witcher details conserva-tives’ frequently tense relationship with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and explores how they created the latter-day Reagan myth.

Witcher reminds us that during Reagan’s time in office, conservative critics complained that he had failed to bring about the promised Reagan Revolution—and in 1988 many Republican hopefuls ran well to the right of his policies. Notable among the dissonant acts of his administration: Reagan raised taxes when necessary, passed comprehen-sive immigration reform, signed a bill that saved Social Security, and worked with adversaries at home and abroad to govern effectively. Even his signature accomplish-ment—invoked by “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”—was highly unpopular with the Conservative Caucus, as evi-denced in their newspaper ads comparing the president to Neville Chamberlain: “Appeasement is as Unwise in 1988 as in 1938.”

Reagan’s presidential library and museum positioned him above partisan politics, emphasizing his administration’s role in bringing about economic recovery and negotiating an end to the Cold War.


“Getting Right with Reagan makes a major contribution to the study of American political history, offering rich insights into the history and political uses of the Reagan myth.”

JoHn J. Pitney, Jr., roy P. crocKer Professor of Politics, claremont mcKenna colleGe

“Marcus M. Witcher’s Getting Right with Reagan is a brilliant analysis of the US conservative revolution of the 1980s and beyond. It’s essential reading for anybody interested in the Cold War and the American political system. Highly recommended!”

douglas Brinkley, Katherine tsanoff brown chair in humanities and Professor of history at rice university and author of AmericAn moonshoT: John f. kennedy And The GreAT sPAce rAce


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Expanding the Black Film Canon Race and Genre across Six DecadesLisa Doris Alexander

“In Expanding the Black Film Canon Lisa Doris Alexander utilizes historical contextu-alization and applicable theory to produce a valuable analysis of individual films and genres with African American representation of the past sixty years.”

gerald r. Butters, Jr., author of BlAck mAnhood on The silenT screen

“Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre across Six Decades by Lisa Doris Alexander offers a significant contribution to black film studies. This is the first sweeping book to cover a fifty-plus-year history of black cinema, and it provides scholars the opportunity to scrutinize and debate black films that have been oft overlooked.”

yvonne d. siMs, author of Women of BlAxPloiTATion: hoW The BlAck AcTion film heroine chAnGed AmericAn PoPulAr culTure

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and

BlacKkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there’s no such thing as “black film” per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them.

When critics and scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement— such as Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Super Fly, and Cleopatra Jones—they emphasize their importance as films made for black audiences. Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the highly popular, Oscar-nominated Blazing Saddles—costarring and cowritten

by Richard Pryor—is generally left out of the discussion because it doesn’t fit the profile of what a black film of the period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 1960s to the present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of black people and race relations in the United States at the time of its release.

By teasing out the importance of certain films excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that canon to include films typically relegated to the category of popular entertainment— and to show how these offer more nuanced representations of black characters even as they confront, negate, or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic characters for decades.

Lisa Doris Alexander is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime.

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Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently gathered before the Virginia

Museum of Fine Arts carried signs proclaiming “Heritage Not Hate.” Theirs, they said, was an “open and visible protest against those who attacked us, ours flags, our ancestors, or our Heri-tage.” How, Nicole Maurantonio won-dered, did “not hate” square with a “heritage” grounded in slavery? How do so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to the history of racism and oppression in America? The answer, Maurantonio discovers, is bound up in the myth of Confederate exceptionalism—a myth whose components, proponents, and meaning this timely and provocative book explores.

The narrative of Confederate excep-tionalism, in this analysis, updates two uniquely American mythologies—the Lost Cause and American exceptionalism—blending their elements with discourses of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the Confederacy and racist systems. Incorporating several methods and drawing from a range of sources—including ethnographic observa-tions, interviews, and archival documents—Maurantonio examines the various people, objects, and rituals that contrib-ute to this cultural balancing act. Her investigation takes in “official” modes of remembering the Confederacy, such as the monuments and building names that

Confederate ExceptionalismCivil War Myth and Memory in the

Twenty-First CenturyNicole Maurantonio

drive the discussion today, but it also pays attention to the more mundane and often subtle ways in which the Confederacy is recalled. Linking the different modes of commemoration, her work bridges the distance that believers in Confederate exceptionalism maintain; while situated in history from the Civil War through the civil rights era, the book brings much-needed clarity to the constitution, persistence, and significance of this divisive myth in the context of our time.

Nicole Maurantonio is associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies and American studies at the University of Richmond. She is the coeditor, with David W. Park, of Communicating Memory & History.

“If we’re to understand why, in the wake of murderous events in Charleston and Charlottes-ville, significant numbers of Americans embrace the contentious symbols of an aborted proslavery nation, we must subject their worldview to high-caliber critical scrutiny. In compelling case studies Maurantonio uncovers the mind-set of neo-Confederates. A book for our troubled times.”

roBert Cook, author of civil WAr memories: conTesTinG The PAsT in The uniTed sTATes since 1865

“Maurantonio’s distinctive focus on the present day and her engaging voice and style make Confederate Exceptionalism an important and exciting addition to the rich body of scholarship on Civil War memory.”

MattHeW MaCe BarBee, author of rAce And mAsculiniTy in souThern memory: hisTory of richmond, virGiniA’s monumenT Avenue, 1948–1996

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“In Pecan America, John Gifford takes an outwardly simple subject, the pecan, and reveals its historical richness, ecological significance, and cultural complexity. Pecan America is a delightful and informative journey into a beloved but at times misunderstood American food, and readers will be glad they accompanied Gifford on the adventure.”

stePHanie anderson, author of one size fiTs none: A fArm Girl’s seArch for The Promise of reGenerATive AGriculTure

“If the thought of ancient midland groves that cheat the reaper of modernity electrifies you, then you’ll appreciate Gifford’s road trip into the heart of pecan country.”

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Inspired by the mystique of a uniquely American tree, the pecan, Oklahoma writer John Gifford set out to explore

the US pecan industry, which provides 80 percent of the world’s supply of this special tree nut. What he discovered during his two-year immersion was a nut—one that’s suprisingly symbolic of America itself—that’s poised to become the next superfood and an industry that today finds itself in the most important juncture in its history.

Though the US pecan belt extends from the Carolinas to California, the pecan tree, which was revered by some of our nation’s founders, has its origins in the South Central United States, where wild pecans still grow along the region’s rivers and streams and in its floodplain forests. The pecan is the only native tree

Pecan AmericaExploring a Cultural IconJohn Gifford

nut that has been developed into a significant agricultural crop. Though native pecans continue to figure into the 280-million-pound annual US crop, wild pecan trees face an uncertain future as worldwide demand centers on the larger and more lucrative “improved” varieties.

Pecan America provides readers with a look at how the rising demand for pecans around the world is transforming the way this nut is grown, promoted, and con-sumed here in the United States. Along the way, Gifford explores its presence in American folk art and culture, documents the pecan industry’s quest for share of stomach in a market brimming with other tree nuts, examines the pecan’s surprising array of health benefits, and profiles some of the fascinating people who bring this food to our tables. In the end, Gifford reveals the pecan to be much more than a food, as it is also a cultural curiosity and even a metaphor for America itself, one whose diverse nature may be its greatest quality.

John Gifford is a freelance writer and photographer who lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

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In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but

for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the north-east coast of Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana Island chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning nationalism in the Pacific world.

In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated and devastating attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies. Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December

Beyond Pearl HarborA Pacific History

Edited by Beth Bailey and David Farber

1941, as we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and anticolonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to be seen.

Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, and author most recently of America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force.

David Farber is Roy A. Roberts Distin-guished Professor, University of Kansas, and author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism.

“Chinese, Indonesian, Filipino, Australian, and transnational understandings point to a clash of empires rather than a binary national conflict. The authors bring to the foreground long-effaced narratives and suggest a much-needed postcolonial perspective.”

MiCHael Myers, author of The PAcific WAr And conTinGenT vicTory: Why JAPAnese defeAT WAs noT ineviTABle

“Standard interpretations focus almost exclusively on the destruction at Pearl Harbor. Collectively these essays challenge that narrative and offer a refreshing new perspective that will change forever the way future historians think about that infamous day. This is a bold, imaginative, and absolutely essential book.”

steven M. gillon, author of PeArl hArBor: fdr leAds The nATion inTo WAr

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ASIA PACIFIC HISTORY | WORLD WAR II

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“Kazakhstan in World War II is a thoroughly researched study that contributes significantly to our under-standing of Kazakhstan and the USSR during World War II. By an examination of archival materials in Kazakhstan and Moscow, of memoirs, and of the periodical press, Carmack reveals the prejudice and suffering endured by Kazakhs and by other non-Russian nationalities.”

larry e. HolMes, author of sTAlin’s World WAr ii evAcuA-Tions: TriumPh And TrouBles in kirov

“This book illuminates the Soviet war effort in Central Asia, a critical but rarely examined aspect of the war. Carmack’s study should be essential reading for anyone interested in the Soviet home front both at the regional and national levels.”

kennetH slePyan, author of sTAlin’s GuerrillAs: sovieT PArTisAns in World WAr ii

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In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger. Imperiled by the Nazi invasion and facing catastrophic

losses, Stalin called on the Soviet people to “subordinate everything to the needs of the front.” Kazakhstan answered that call. Stalin had long sought to restructure Kazakh life to modernize the local population—but total mobilization during the war required new tactics and produced unique results. Kazakhstan in World War II analyzes these processes and their impact on the Kazakhs and the Soviet Union as a whole. The first English-language study of a non-Russian Soviet republic during World War II, the book explores how the war altered official policies toward the region’s ethnic groups—and accelerated Central Asia’s integration into Soviet institutions.

World War II is widely recognized as a watershed for Russia and the Soviet Union—not only did the conflict legiti-mize prewar institutions and ideologies, it also provided a medium for integrating some groups and excluding others. Kazakhstan in World War II explains how these processes played out in the ethni-cally diverse and socially “backward” Kazakh republic. Roberto J. Carmack marshals a wealth of archival materials, official media sources, and personal memoirs to produce an in-depth exami-nation of wartime ethnic policies in the Red Army, Soviet propaganda for non-Russian groups, economic strategies in the Central Asian periphery, and adminis-trative practices toward deported groups. Bringing Kazakhstan’s previously neglected role in World War II to the fore, Carmack’s work fills an important gap in the region’s

Kazakhstan in World War II Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet EmpireRoberto J. Carmack

history and sheds new light on our understanding of Soviet identities.

“With Roberto J. Carmack’s vivid study of Kazakhstan in wartime, we have a deep analysis of how this vast and multiethnic country was politically integrated into a relatively cohesive community. Persuasively argued, this book breaks new ground in our understanding of the complexities and contradictions of Soviet imperial history.”—Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan

Roberto J. Carmack is an independent historian living in the Washington, DC, area and a member of the US Army Reserves.

SOVIET & RUSSIAN HISTORY | ASIAN STUDIES | WORLD WAR II


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NOVEMBER960 pages, 53 photographs, 83 maps, 36 tables, 6 x 9Modern War StudiesCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2843-8, $45.00(s)

On January 1, 1943, with German Sixth Army about to be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka

(Soviet High Command) launched Operation Don, a strategic offensive conducted by the Red Army’s Southern, Southwestern, and Trans-Caucasus Fronts aimed at demolishing German defenses in the southern Soviet Union and decisively turning the war’s tide. Critical to this ambitious operation was the mission assigned to the Trans-Caucasus Front— to isolate and destroy German Army Group A in the northern Caucasus region in cooperation with the Southern Front. Operation Don’s Left Wing is the first detailed study of this crucial but virtually overlooked Soviet military operation.

Because of the priority given to the assault on German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, the Red Army’s Southwestern, Southern, and Trans-Caucasus Fronts were com-pelled to execute their missions with

Operation Don’s Left WingThe Trans-Caucasus Front’s Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942–February 1943

David M. Glantz

scant resources—inadequate logistical support, personnel replacements, and reinforcing equipment. Based on newly released Red Army archival operational documents, David M. Glantz constructs a clear, comprehensive account of how, despite such constraints, the Trans- Caucasus Front nonetheless pursued and severely damaged German First Panzer Army—although it failed to encircle and destroy the panzer army as hoped. These documents include candid daily orders and reports, periodic situation maps, a full array of ever-changing operational plans, and strength and casualty reports prepared by Soviet formations and units through-out the offensive. With unprecedented access to these documents, Glantz delves into previously forbidden topics such as unit strengths and losses and the foibles and attitudes of commanders at every level.

Following Glantz’s Operation Don’s Main Attack, this documentary study expands our understanding of a pivotal operation in the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany and a decisive moment in the history of World War II on the Eastern Front.

David M. Glantz, an officer in the US Army from 1963 to 1993, has authored numerous books published by the University Press of Kansas, including When Titans Clashed (with Jonathan House); his celebrated Stalingrad Trilogy (with Jonathan House); The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign of October 1943–April 1944 (with Mary Elizabeth Glantz); and, most recently, Operation Don’s Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front’s Advance on Rostov, January–February 1943.

Praise for Operation Don’s Main Attack:

“Glantz brings to life a crucial period on the Eastern Front often overshadowed by the more famous Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. . . . Operation Don’s Main Attack is of tremendous value to historians of World War II.”

Armor mAgAzine

Praise for the work of David Glantz:

“A superb historian and a brilliant detective.”

new York review of Books

“Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the Soviet- German War.”

JournAl of militArY HistorY

“Indisputably the West’s foremost expert on the subject.”

tHe AtlAntic

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“Reese’s comprehensive social history takes readers beyond the battlefield to examine living conditions, military education, and officer-soldier relations in the late Imperial Russian Army. He argues that the officer corps’ incompetence, abusive behavior, and reactionary attitudes eventually drove the soldiery to revolt. Thorough, critical, and well written, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 challenges numerous myths and presents a provocative new explanation for Russia’s collapse in 1917.”

Paul roBinson, author of GrAnd duke nikolAi nikolAevich: suPreme commAnder of The russiAn Army

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DECEMBER520 pages, 9 photographs, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4 Modern War StudiesCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2860-5, $45.00(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2861-2, $45.00

In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one

of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than antiwar movement—a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks.

Reese’s account begins in the aftermath of the Crimean War, when the emancipa-tion of the serfs and consequent introduc-tion of universal military service altered the composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers’ refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power.

As he details the evolution of the Imperial Russian Army over that period, Reese explains its concrete workings—from the conscription and discipline of

The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917Roger R. Reese

soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects distortions in both Soviet and western views of the events of 1917 and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a critical turning point in Russian history.

Roger R. Reese is professor of history at Texas A&M University. His many books include Why Stalin’s Soldiers Fought: The Red Army’s Military Effectiveness in World War II, Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925–1941, and Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918–1991, all from Kansas.

RUSSIAN HISTORY | MILITARY HISTORY | WORLD WAR I


DECEMBER240 pages, 26 photographs, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2871-1, $34.95(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2872-8, $34.95

“This is a unique and insightful study that cleverly illuminates the historical role of Royal Air Force special service officers. Newton uncovers the little-known nonlethal aspects of air control and its growing sophistication in under-standing the nature of the environment. This is an excellent, well-timed, and authoritative book with clear contemporary utility.”

MaJor general doCtor andreW M. roe, chief executive, defence academy, and commandant, Joint services command and staff colleGe, united KinGdom

“Newton ably shows that the key to success was a thorough understanding of the needs and emotions of the local populace—a crucial factor that many of those calling for an airpower solution to today’s conflicts against irregular forces often neglect.”

Mark ClodFelter, national war colleGe Professor of strateGy and author of The limiTs of Air PoWer: The AmericAn BomBinG of norTh vieTnAm

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The RAF and Tribal ControlAirpower and Irregular Warfare between the

World WarsRichard D. Newton

In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests

airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfare—and the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up. Swift and precise targeting from above was considered more humane, after all, sparing civilians as well as British soldiers during punitive expeditions in unruly colonial regions. But what conven-tional wisdom misses, and this book makes clear, is how the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) innovative approach actually worked—relying on British airmen on the ground at least as much as on airborne technology to control restive tribes and villages. The RAF and Tribal Control tells the story of these forgotten airmen, the RAF special service officers who, embedded among local populations and indigenous tribes, collected vital intelligence, devel-oped targets, directed air strikes when necessary, and, perhaps most important,

provided personal assessments of airpower’s qualitative effects against primarily guerrilla forces.

Airpower is a highly technological endeavor. But in wars where the human dimension takes primacy, Richard Newton reminds us that measuring the effectiveness of air actions requires a qualitative approach that is nearly impossible via overhead sensors. And this is where the RAF special service officers came in—airmen who understood the local cultures and peoples, they served as conduits for information and communi-cation between the colonial administra-tion and the tribes and villages. It was their ground-level contributions that made the integration of airpower into the civilian administration of colonies and mandates possible. This first in-depth account of the RAF special service officers’ role brings to light previously unpublished insights. The RAF and Tribal Control fills a significant gap in the history of air warfare. In doing so, the book dispels the notion that airpower alone is effective in small wars and irregular conflicts—and reveals the importance of the “boots-on-the-ground” human component in waging unconventional air warfare, both in the days of the RAF’s vaunted air control and in our own time.

Richard D. Newton is a researcher and faculty member at the Joint Special Opera-tions University, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He is a retired US Air Force special operations and combat rescue helicopter pilot. He is the author of Special Operations Aviation in NATO: A Vector to the Future.

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OCTOBER256 pages, 5 illustrations, 6 x 9Environment and SocietyCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2831-5, $60.00(s)Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2832-2, $29.95(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2833-9, $29.95

“For anyone interested in how America’s civilian space agency became a critical force in advancing earth science, including climate change research, The View from Space is essential reading.”

W. Henry laMBrigHt, maxwell school of citizenshiP and Public affairs, syracuse university

“A detailed analysis of the policymaking process that culminated in NASA’s multibillion-dollar EOS.”

JaMes sPiller, author of fronTiers for The AmericAn cenTury: ouTer sPAce, AnTArcTicA, And cold WAr nATionAlism

“The View from Space is thus a must-read for scientists, policymakers, politicians, and anyone from the general public who is concerned with our current climate crisis.”

neil M. MaHer, author of APollo in The AGe of AquArius

The View from SpaceNASA’s Evolving Struggle to Understand Our Home PlanetRichard B. Leshner and Thor Hogan

In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to

study the planet’s environment from space. With the Earth Observing System (EOS) as its technological cornerstone, MTPE’s main goal was to better understand fundamental processes such as climate change. The View from Space tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented convergence of science, technology, and policy in one of the most significant “Big Science” programs in human history.

Richard B. Leshner and Thor Hogan offer an engrossing behind-the-scenes look at how and why NASA managed to make an aggressive earth science research program part of the national agenda—an accomplishment made possible by the pragmatic and assertive efforts of the earth science community. This is the first

book to focus on describing and analyzing the historical evolution of the MTPE/EOS initiative from its formative years in the 1980s to its political and technical struggles in the 1990s to its scientific successes in the 2000s. Though detailed in its coverage of science and technology, The View from Space is primarily concerned with questions of policy—specifically, how MTPE/EOS came to be, how it developed, and how its proponents navigated the fraught politics of the time. Compelling in its own right, this in-depth history of the initiative is also a valuable object lesson in how political, technical, and scientific infighting can shape a project of such national and global consequence—particularly in the age of climate change.

Richard B. Leshner is vice president of government and regulatory affairs at Planet Labs, Inc., in Washington, DC. He worked for nearly a decade at NASA headquarters and served as a senior policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2009–2011.

Thor Hogan is an associate professor of politics and environmental sustainability at Earlham College in Indiana. He was formerly director of the Space Policy Project at the RAND Corporation’s Science and Technology Policy Institute. He is the author of Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us and Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative.

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NOVEMBER320 pages, 6 x 9Environment and SocietyCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2844-5, $39.95(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2845-2, $39.95

“This book fills a long-missing piece in US environmental-legal history, and it does so with erudition, originality, and sensitivity to the nuances of evolving legal doctrine.”

noga Morag-levine, Professor of law and the GeorGe roumell faculty scholar, colleGe of law, michiGan state university

“Kimberly Smith has written the rare work that will become as vital to students of American political development as to students of environmental policy and law.”

Mark graBer, university system of maryland reGents Professor, university of maryland francis KinG carey school of law

Over the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation

policy—negotiating the first international conservation treaties, pioneering the idea of the national park, and leading the world in creating a modern environmental regulatory regime. And yet, this is a country famously committed to the ideals of limited government, decentralization, and strong protection of property rights. How these contradictory values have been reconciled, not always successfully, is what Kimberly K. Smith sets out to explain in The Conservation Constitution—a book that brings to light the roots of contemporary constitutional conflict over environmental policy.

In the mid-nineteenth century, most Progressive Era conservation policies would have been considered unconstitu-tional. Smith traces how, between 1870 and 1930, the conservation movement reshaped constitutional doctrine to its purpose—how, specifically, courts and lawyers worked to expand government authority to manage wildlife, forest and water resources, and pollution. Her work, which highlights a number of important Supreme Court decisions often overlooked in accounts of this period, brings the history of environmental management more fully into the story of the US Constitution. At the same time, by illuminating the doctrinal innovation in the Progressives’ efforts her book reveals the significance of constitutional history to an understanding

The Conservation Constitution

The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930

Kimberly K. Smith

of the government’s role in environmental management.

Kimberly K. Smith is professor of environmental studies and political science at Carleton College. She is the author of many books including Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State and, also from Kansas, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace, and The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics, winner of the 2000 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians.

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“Covering more than two centuries of practice across a dozen different topics, this book should help put an end to the strangely enduring myth of judicial supremacy in constitutional interpretation.”

gary laWson, coauthor of “A GreAT PoWer of ATTorney”: undersTAndinG The fiduciAry consTiTuTion

“A valuable reminder that American constitutionalism is and has been a collective effort fueled not only by the Supreme Court but also by the political branches and, more often than typically understood, by the people themselves.”

louis J. virelli iii, author of disquAlifyinG The hiGh courT: suPreme courT recusAl And The consTiTuTion

Reconsidering Judicial FinalityWhy the Supreme Court Is Not the Last Word on the ConstitutionLouis Fisher

Federal judges, legal scholars, pundits, and reporters frequently describe the Supreme Court as the final word on

the meaning of the Constitution. The historical record presents an entirely different picture. A close and revealing reading of that record from 1789 to the present day, Reconsidering Judicial Finality reminds us of the “unalterable fact,” as Chief Justice Rehnquist once remarked, “that our judicial system, like the human beings who administer it, is fallible.” And a Court inevitably prone to miscalculation and error, as this book clearly demon-strates, cannot have the incontrovertible last word on constitutional questions.

In this deeply researched, sharply reasoned work of legal myth-busting, constitutional scholar Louis Fisher explains how constitutional disputes are settled by all three branches of govern-ment, and by the general public, with the Supreme Court often playing a secondary role. The Court’s decisions have, of course, been challenged and reversed in numerous cases—involving slavery, civil rights, child labor legislation, Japanese internment during World War II, abor-tion, and religious liberty. What Fisher shows us on a case-by-case basis is how the elected branches, scholars, and Ameri-can public regularly press policies contrary to Court rulings—and regularly prevail, although the process might sometimes take decades. From the common misreading of Marbury v. Madison, to the mistaken understanding

of the Supreme Court as the trusted guardian of individual rights, to the questionable assumptions of the Court’s decision in Citizens United, Fisher’s work charts the distance and the difference between the Court as the ultimate arbiter in constitutional matters and the judg-ment of history.

The verdict of Reconsidering Judicial Finality is clear: to treat the Supreme Court’s nine justices as democracy’s last hope or as dangerous activists undermin-ing democracy is to vest them with undue significance. The Constitution belongs to all three branches of government—and, finally, to the American people.

Louis Fisher is scholar in residence at The Constitution Project in Washington, DC, and visiting scholar at the William and Mary Law School.

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NOVEMBER336 pages, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2848-3, $42.50(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2849-0, $42.50

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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. DouglasNixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack

on Judicial IndependenceJoshua E. Kastenberg

Foreword by former US Senator Fred Harris

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives’ claims of liberalism’s dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign

policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitu-tionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E. Kastenberg in this book, the first in-depth account of a campaign to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas nearly fifty years ago.

On April 15, 1970, at President Richard Nixon’s behest, Republican House minority leader Gerald Ford brazenly called for the impeachment of Douglas, the nation’s

leading liberal judge—and the House Judiciary Committee responded with a six-month investigation, while the Senate awaited a potential trial that never occurred. Ford’s actions against Douglas mirrored the anger that millions of Americans, then as now, harbored toward changing social, economic, and moral norms, and a federal government seemingly unconcerned with the lives of everyday working white Americans. Those actions also reflected, as this book reveals, what came to be known as the Republicans’ Southern strategy, a cynical attempt to exploit the hostility of white Southern voters toward the civil rights movement. Kastenberg describes the political actors, ambitions, alliances, and maneuvers behind the move to impeach Douglas—including the Nixon adminis-tration’s vain hope of deflecting attention from a surprisingly unpopular invasion of Cambodia—and follows the ill-advised effort to its ignominious conclusion, with consequences that resonate to this day.

Marking a turning point in American politics, The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas is a sobering, caution-ary tale, a critical chapter in the history of constitutional malfeasance, and a reminder of the importance of judicial independence in a politically polarized age.

Joshua E. Kastenberg is the Lee and Leon Karelitz Professor in Evidence and Procedure at the University of New Mexico School of Law.

“This richly detailed history explores fascinating ques-tions of judicial ethics, impeachment, and racial politics. Its deep-dive account of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon’s alliance to impeach William O. Douglas could not be more timely.”

noaH FeldMan, author of scorPions: The BATTles And TriumPhs of fdr’s GreAT suPreme courT JusTices

US HISTORY | US POLITICS | CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES


“The most important rethink-ing of US imperialism and expansionism since Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease’s Cultures of United States Imperialism in 1993.”

gregory eiselein, Professor and university distinGuished teachinG scholar, dePartment of enGlish, Kansas state university

“Readers hoping to learn more about the culture of US expansion need look no further than this compelling interdisciplinary collection.”

aMy s. greenBerg, author of A Wicked WAr: Polk, clAy, lincoln, And The 1846 u.s. invAsion of mexico

“Challenges scholars to think about the cultural driving forces—including art, literature, gender, and religion—behind the rapid transformation of the nation’s nineteenth-century frontier.”

WilliaM s. kiser, author of coAsT-To-coAsT emPire: mAnifesT desTiny And The neW mexico BorderlAnds

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SEPTEMBER328 pages, 34 illustrations, 8 maps, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2817-9, $75.00(s)Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2818-6, $34.95(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2819-3, $34.95

The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have

its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisi-tion—a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-Ameri-can women to anti- and non-national expansionists.

The contributors—established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies—make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional

Inventing DestinyCultural Explorations of US ExpansionEdited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

historical texts. In doing so, they seek to illuminate the complexities rather than simplify, to transgress borders rather than redraw them, and to amplify the under-told stories rather than repeat the old ones. Their work identifies and explores the obscure—or obscured—fictions of expansion, seeking a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of culture creation and recognizing those who resisted US territorial aggrandizement.

In sum, Inventing Destiny demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the multiple rationales, critiques, interventions, and contingencies of nineteenth-century US expansion.

“A fascinating cultural take on the par-ticular roles of women and marginalized peoples—especially Native Americans, African Americans, and Mormons.” —Robert E. May, author of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

“The book makes a significant contri-bution to our understanding of the American West and the American nation.” —Jon T. Coleman, author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America

Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. is associate professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is the author of, most recently, The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, also from Kansas.

US HISTORY


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Teaching EmpireNative Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial

Education, 1879–1918Elisabeth M. Eittreim

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed educa-tion as one sure way of civilizing

“others” under its sway—among them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos. Teaching Empire considers how teachers took up this task, first at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, opened in 1879, and then in a school system set up amid an ongoing rebellion launched by Filipinos. Drawing upon the records of fifty-five teachers at Carlisle and thirty-three sent to the Philippines—including five who worked in both locations—the book reveals the challenges of translating imperial policy into practice, even for those most dedicated to the imperial mission.

These educators, who worked on behalf of the US government, sought to meet the expectations of bureaucrats and supervisors while contending with leadership crises on the ground. In their stories, Elisabeth Eittreim finds the problems common to all classrooms—how to manage students and convey knowledge—complicated by their unique circumstances, particularly the military conflict in the Philippines. Eittreim’s research shows the dilemma presented by these schools’ imperial goal: “pouring in” knowledge that purposefully dismissed and undermined the values, desires, and protests of those being taught. To varying degrees these stories demonstrate both the complexity and fragility of implementing US imperial education and the importance of teachers’ own perspectives. Entangled in US ambitions, racist norms, and gendered assumptions, teachers nonetheless

exhibited significant agency, wielding their authority with students and the institutions they worked for and negotiat-ing their roles as powerful purveyors of cultural knowledge, often reinforcing but rarely challenging the then-dominant understanding of “civilization.”

Examining these teachers’ attitudes and performances, close-up and in-depth over the years of Carlisle’s operation, Eittreim’s comparative study offers rare insight into the personal, institutional, and cultural implications of education deployed in the service of US expansion—with consequences that reach well beyond the imperial classrooms of the time.

Elisabeth M. Eittreim is a lecturer in the History Department at Rutgers University and an adjunct in the Women’s Studies Department at Georgian Court University.

“In this important study, Eittreim tells us much about who these teachers were, their role in advancing the colonial project, and their day-to-day encounters with the ‘other.’”

david WallaCe adaMs, author of educATion for exTincTion: AmericAn indiAns And The BoArdinG school exPerience, 1875–1928 and Three roAds To mAGdAlenA: cominG of AGe in A souThWesT BorderlAnd, 1890–1990

“By placing the foot soldiers of assimilation and civiliza-tion at the center of the story, Elisabeth Eittreim offers salient historical lessons for how ordinary Americans have actively shaped the contours and practices of the US imperial education project.”

CliF stratton, author of educATion for emPire: AmericAn schools, rAce, And The PAThs of Good ciTizenshiP

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“Stephen Huggins presents a compelling case that the United States has relied extensively on terror tactics throughout its history. Huggins offers a comprehen-sive account of the dark underside of American power both at home and abroad. This is an unsettling read, but America’s Use of Terror should be required reading for all fair-minded, consci-entious citizens.”

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“America’s Use of Terror powerfully confronts the trope that terrorism is only the tool of individual perpetrators or nonstate actors. Stephen Huggins mines our nation’s history to show how state terror, terror masked as prejudice, and terror in its military applica-tions have shaped the nature and even the borders of our land.”

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From the first, America has considered itself a “shining city on a hill”—uniquely lighting the right way for

the world. But it is hard to reconcile this picture, the very image of American exceptionalism, with what America’s Use of Terror shows us: that the United States has frequently resorted to acts of terror to solve its most challenging problems. Any “war on terror,” Stephen Huggins suggests, will fail unless we take a long, hard look at ourselves—and it is this discerning, informed perspective that his book provides.

Terrorism, as Huggins defines it, is an act of violence against noncombatants intended to change their political will or support. The US government adds a qualifier to this definition: only if the instigator is a “subnational group.” On the contrary, Huggins tells us, terrorism is indeed used by the state—a politically

America’s Use of TerrorFrom Colonial Times to the A-bombStephen Huggins

organized body of people occupying a definite territory—in this case, the government of the United States, as well as by such predecessors as the Continen-tal Congress and early European colonists in America. In this light, America’s Use of Terror re-examines key historical mo-ments and processes, many of them events praised in American history but actually acts of terror directed at noncom-batants. The targeting of women and children in Native American villages, for instance, was a use of terror, as were the means used to sustain slavery and then to further subjugate freed slaves under Jim Crow laws and practices. The placing of Filipino peasants in concentration camps during the Philippine-American War; the firebombing of families in Dresden and Tokyo; the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—all were last resort measures to conclude wars, and these too are among the instances of American terrorism that Huggins explores.

Terrorism, in short, is not only terrorism when they do it to us, as many Americans like to think. And only when we recognize this, and thus the dissonance between the ideal and the real America, will we be able to truly understand and confront modern terrorism.

Stephen Huggins holds five university degrees, including a PhD in history. He is a retired aerospace executive who has taught history at the University of Georgia and Georgia Military College.

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“Sarah Burns has written a sweeping account of the contentious debate over war powers through the eyes of Montesquieu, Locke, and an array of American statesmen. The author’s mastery of the philosophical debates over war powers coupled with her sound grasp of history makes for a remarkable read. Her insightful discussion of Abraham Lincoln’s inter-pretation of presidential war powers and prerogative power is worth the price of admission alone.”

stePHen F. knott, Professor in the dePartment of national security affairs, us naval war colleGeThe Constitution of the United States

divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to

guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels both branches to hold each other accountable and work in tandem. And yet, since the Cold War, congressional ambition has waned on this front. Even when Congress does provide initial authorization for larger operations, they do not provide strict parameters or clear end dates. As a result, one president after another has initiated and carried out poorly developed and poorly executed military policy. The Politics of War Powers offers a measured, deeply informed look at how the American constitutional system broke down, how it impacts decision-making today, and how we might

The Politics of War Powers The Theory and History of Presidential

UnilateralismSarah Burns

find our way out of this unhealthy power division.

Sarah Burns starts with a nuanced account of the theoretical and historical development of war powers in the United States. Where discussions of presidential power often lean on the concept of the Lockean Prerogative, Burns locates a more constructive source in Montesquieu. Unlike Locke, Montesquieu combines universal normative prescriptions with an emphasis on tailoring the structure to the unique needs of a society. In doing so, the separation of powers can be customized while maintaining the moderation needed to create a healthy institutional balance. He demonstrates the importance of forcing the branches into dialogue, putting them, as he says, “in a position to resist” each other. Burns’s conclusion—after tracing changes through Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, the Cold War, and the War on Terror—is that presidents now command a dangerous degree of unilateral power.

Burns’s work ranges across Montesquieu’s theory, the debate over the creation of the Constitution, historical precedent, and the current crisis. Through her analysis both a fuller picture of the alterations to the constitutional system and ideas on how to address the resulting imbalance of power emerge.

Sarah Burns is assistant professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology.



“Bailey combines political science with history to produce a truly magnificent book that will be of signifi-cant interest to historians, political scientists, and legal scholars.”

BenJaMin a. kleinerMan, author of The discreTionAry PresidenT: The Promise And Peril of execuTive PoWer

“The Idea of Presidential Representation is a major scholarly achievement. Jeremy Bailey’s analysis illuminates the tensions that inhere in the republican idea of the executive: the president is understood to be both a defender of the law and a representative of popular will.”

george tHoMas, burnet c. wohlford Professor of american Political institutions, claremont mcKenna colleGe

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Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constitu-

encies? The Federalist Papers, the Elec-toral College, history and circumstance from the Founders’ time to our own: all factor in theories of presidential represen-tation, again and again lending them-selves to different interpretations. This back-and-forth, Jeremy D. Bailey con-tends, is a critical feature, not a flaw, in American politics. Arriving at a moment of great debate over the nature and exercise of executive power, Bailey’s history offers an invaluable, remarkably relevant analysis of the intellectual underpinnings, political usefulness, and practical merits of contending ideas of presidential representation over time.

The Idea of Presidential Representation An Intellectual and Political HistoryJeremy D. Bailey

Among scholars, a common reading of political history holds that the Founders, aware of the dangers of demagogy, created a singularly powerful presidency that would serve as a check on the people’s representatives in Congress; then, this theory goes, the Progressives, impatient with such a counter-majoritarian ap-proach, reformed the presidency to better reflect the people’s will—and, they reasoned, advance the public good. The Idea of Presidential Representation chal-lenges this consensus, offering a more nuanced view of the shifting relationship between the president and the American people. Implicit in this pattern, Bailey tells us, is another equivocal relation-ship—that between law and public opinion as the basis for executive power in republican constitutionalism. Tracing these contending ideas from the Framers’ time to our own, his book provides both a history and a much-needed context for our understanding of presidential repre-sentation in light of the modern presi-dency. In The Idea of Presidential Represen-tation Bailey gives us a new and useful sense of an enduring and necessary feature of our politics.

Jeremy D. Bailey is professor of political science and honors at the University of Houston. His books include Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power, James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection, and The Contested Removal Power, 1789–2010, also from Kansas.

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George Washington was an affluent slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy

were vital to the young country’s survival. And yet he remains largely free of the “elitist” label affixed to his contempo-raries, as during the nineteenth century Washington evolved in public memory into a man of the common people, the father of democracy. This memory, we learn in The Property of the Nation, was a deliberately constructed image, shaped and reshaped over time, generally in service of one cause or another. Matthew R. Costello traces this process through the story of Washington’s tomb, whose history and popularity reflect the building of a memory of America’s first president—of, by, and for the American people.

Washington’s resting place at his beloved Mount Vernon estate was at times as contested as his iconic image; and in Costello’s telling, the many attempts to move the first president’s bodily remains offer greater insight into the issue of memory and hero worship in early America. While describing the efforts of politicians, business owners, artists, and storytellers to define, influence, and profit from the memory of Washington at Mount Vernon, this book’s main focus is the memory-making process that took place among American citizens. As public access to the tomb increased over time, more and more ordinary Americans were drawn to Mount Vernon, and their partici-pation in this nationalistic ritual helped further democratize Washington in the popular imagination. Shifting our attention

The Property of the Nation George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon,

and the Memory of the First PresidentMatthew R. Costello

from official days of commemoration and publicly orchestrated events to spontane-ous visits by citizens, Costello’s book clearly demonstrates in compelling detail how the memory of George Washington slowly but surely became “the property of the nation.”

Matthew R. Costello is senior historian at the White House Historical Association and was a project contributor for the George Washington Bibliography Project, George Washington Papers. His work has appeared in such publications as White House History, Journal of History and Cultures, and Essays in History.

“The Property of the Nation roots today’s larger-than-life image of George Washington in the complicated, inter-twined processes of icon- and nation-making.”

lydia MattiCe Brandt, author of firsT in The homes of his counTrymen: GeorGe WAshinGTon’s mounT vernon in The AmericAn imAGinATion

“Matthew Costello tells the long-untold story of that tomb and how Washington, a lifelong member of the Virginia aristocracy, came to be embraced as a symbol of American democracy and a man of the American people.”

Mary v. tHoMPson, research historian, fred w. smith national library for the study of GeorGe washinGton

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Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky HillsRex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs, and Joshua L. Svaty

L ong before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is

now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state’s Smoky Hills. Though noted by early settlers, these carvings are little known—and, largely found on private property today, they are now rarely seen. In a series of photographs, Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills offers viewers a chance to read the story of the region’s first people that these carvings tell—and to appreciate an important feature of Kansas history and its landscape that is increasingly threat-ened by erosion and vandalism.

To establish the context critical to understanding these petroglyphs, the book includes a number of photographs for each of the fourteen sites in central Kansas, highlighting individual carvings but also the groups and settings in which they occur. An introduction and captions, while respecting the privacy of landowners and the fragility of the carvings, document what is known of the petroglyphs, how and when they were made, and what they can tell us of the early people of Kansas.

Rex C. Buchanan, a native of central Kansas, is the director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and editor of Kansas Geology and coauthor of Roadside Kansas, both from the University Press of Kansas.

Burke W. Griggs, associate professor of law at Washburn University School of Law, is a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and an affiliated scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, both at Stanford University. He has published photography in guidebooks for the western United States, including David T. Page’s Yosemite and the Southern Sierra Nevada.

Joshua L. Svaty is the fifth generation of his family to farm in Ellsworth County and has worked on natural resource issues with nonprofits and state and federal government. He was the fourteenth Kansas secretary of agriculture.

“Buchanan’s narrative style makes science approachable to a broad audience. The presentation is respectful to Native Americans, not presuming to speak for them or co-opt their heritage, and the positive role of private landowners is acknowledged. The strong stewardship message is exemplary.”

virginia WulFkuHle, Public archeoloGist emerita at the Kansas historical society and editor of The kAnsAs AnThroPoloGisT

“Buchanan, Griggs, and Svaty provide a valuable contribu-tion to the field, document-ing through detailed photography and descrip-tions previously unrecorded Native American petroglyph sites and updating condi-tions observed at several other previously recorded sites.”

Brian l. o’neill, Phd, senior research associate/archaeoloGist, university of oreGon museum of natural and cultural history

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JayhawkerOn History, Home, and Basketball

Andrew Malan Milward

Andrew Malan Milward was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the author of two short story collections, The Agriculture Hall of Fame and I Was a Revolutionary. His fiction has appeared in many venues, including Zoetrope, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Guernica, and Best New American Voices, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Wars ravage Iraq and Afghanistan. An earthquake devastates Haiti. The economy is in crisis and

America is in the death grip of partisan politics. But what really, really gets you down? Your college basketball team loses a key game. It kind of makes a person wonder—first, of course, about his priorities, but then, inevitably, about the nature of such an obsession, one clearly shared with millions of sports fans spanning the United States. In a book that begins with one fan’s passion for a game, Andrew Malan Milward takes a deep dive into sports culture, team loyalty, and a shared sense of belonging—and what these have to do with character, home, and history.

At the University of Kansas—where the inventor of the sport coached its first team—basketball is a religion, and Milward is a devoted follower with a faith that has grown despite time and distance. Jayhawker, his first venture into nonfic-tion, bears the marks of the accomplished storyteller. Sharply observed, deftly written, and often as dramatic as its subject, the book pairs personal memoir with cultural history to conduct us from the world of the athlete to the literary life, from competition to camaraderie, from the history of the game to the game as a reflection of American history at its darkest hour and in its shining moments. A journey through one man’s obsession with basketball, Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball tells a quintessential American story.

MEMOIR | SPORTS HISTORY

“Andrew Malan Milward brings a creative writer’s touch to two subjects—basketball and Kansas history—close to the heart of all Jayhawks. Now I know why every KU win feels like a birthright, and every loss like the sacking of Lawrence.”

roBert reBein, author of heAdliGhTs on The PrAirie: essAys on home

Praise for I Was a Revolutionary:

Milward’s work is “brilliant and inventive” (New York Times Book Review), “human, raw, and immediate” (Book Riot), “sharp, shrewd, and consistently thought provoking” (Publishers Weekly [starred review]), “accomplished” (Boston Globe), “riveting” (The Millions), and “a landmark feat in fiction” (Asheville Citizen-Times).


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StalingradDavid M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House

The long-awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy.

Praise for The Stalingrad Trilogy:

“David Glantz has done something that very few historians achieve. He has redefined an entire major subject: The Russo-German War of 1941–1945. His exploration of newly available Russian archive records has made him an unrivaled master of Soviet sources. His command of German material is no less comprehensive. Add to this perceptive insight and balanced judgment, and the result is a series of seminal and massive volumes that come as close as possible to ‘telling it like it was.’ Glantz has done some of his best work

with Jonathan House. The Stalingrad Trilogy is the definitive account of World War II’s turning point.”—World War II

“Undoubtedly the best researched narrative of Soviet-German battle during the period. . . . Thorough, informative, scrupulously accurate, and told with remarkable precision and reliability.”—Journal of Military History

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk.

OCTOBER | MILITARY HISTORY | WORLD WAR II640 pages, 37 photographs, 104 maps, 6 x 9Modern War StudiesPaper ISBN 978-0-7006-2879-7, $28.95(t)

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To the Gates of StalingradSoviet-German Combat Operations, April–August 1942 The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 1678 pages, 80 photographs, 87 maps, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1630-5, $39.95(s)

Armageddon in StalingradSeptember–November 1942The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2920 pages, 123 photographs, 49 tables, 97 maps, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0, $39.95(s)

The Stalingrad TrilogyDavid M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House

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Endgame at StalingradBook One: November 1942 The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3680 pages, 30 photographs, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1954-2, $39.95(s)

Endgame at StalingradBook Two: December 1942–February 1943 The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3768 pages, 30 photographs, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1955-9, $39.95(s)

Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad848 pages, 54 maps, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1956-6, $75.00(s)

“No literature review of the Nazi-Soviet war could be complete without the outstanding work done by David Glantz and Jonathan House. What they have done is illustrate how much more there is to the Battle of Stalingrad and why their more comprehensive account changes our understanding of the campaign. The late John Erickson wrote that the research of Glantz and House reflected an ‘encyclopedic knowledge’ of the Nazi-Soviet war and constituted a benchmark for excellence in the field.”—War in History

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“A work of both meticulous research and heartfelt experience, No Place Like Home tells the story of the fight for justice for LGBT people, and does so with passion, insight, and wisdom. Using the Sunflower State as the bellwether for the country’s long struggle for human rights, C.J. Janovy’s book shows us that the moral arc of the universe is long—and it bends toward Kansas.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders and Long Black Veil: A Novel

“A compelling, complex narrative of the inter- locking lives and efforts of a small group of activists working for the seemingly impossible goal of a queer-friendly Kansas.”—Kansas History

“The story Janovy tells has lessons in it for anyone trying to work toward social change.” —Stanford Social Innovation Review

“This exquisitely written book captures the experiences and emotions of everyday activists [and] reveals how losses regarding pro-LGBT policies and protections ‘in the long game, often built to victories.’ A riveting, insightful love letter to Kansas’s unsung LGBT heroes.”—Choice

No Place Like HomeLessons in Activism from LGBT KansasC.J. Janovy

“At heart, all politics are local. No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas is invaluable for insisting we understand that the battle for LGBT rights is vibrantly enacted and fought at the state and local levels, as well as nationally. C.J. Janovy has written a compelling, meticulously researched, and sweeping tapestry of heroic moments—small and large—as women and men stand up to their municipalities, friends, colleagues, and neighbors to do the right thing. No Place Like Home is a masterful account of how issues such as marriage equality, AIDS, discrimina-tion, transphobia, and antigay violence shape the lives, politics, and actions of these brave everyday activists. This is a vital addition to the ever-growing body of literature on LGBT history.”—Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

C. J. Janovy is an arts reporter and editor for KCUR (Public Radio Kansas City, MO).

AVAILABLE | LGBT STUDIES308 pages, 14 photographs, 6 x 9Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2834-6, $19.95(t)

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Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and NebraskaIralee Barnard256 pages, 415 color photographs, 57 maps, 5½ x 8½Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1945-0, $24.95(s)

Kansas Trail GuideThe Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower StateJonathan Conard and Kristin Conard304 pages, 88 color photographs, 97 maps, 6 x 9Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2066-1, $24.95(s)

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in KansasRevised and Expanded EditionMichael John Haddock and Craig C. Freeman440 pages, 946 color photographs, 167 maps, 6 x 9Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2768-4, $26.95(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2769-1, $26.95

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Madison’s Metronome The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics Greg Weiner

“Greg Weiner’s meticulous and felicitously written scholarship illuminates a great constant in Madison’s long career—an interest in institutional architecture to increase the likelihood that majority rule, which is inevitable, will be reasonable.”—George F. Will

“[An] intriguing book. . . . Weiner provides an important corrective to a picture of Madison as antimajoritarian.”—Journal of American History

“Weiner directly confronts the Madison problem by presenting a new version of the Madison we already know and thereby challenging what we think we know of Madisonian constitutionalism.”—Political Science Quarterly

Greg Weiner is provost and vice president for Academic Affairs and associate professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a senior aide to US senator J. Robert Kerrey, 1993–1999. He is the author of American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, also from Kansas.

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African American Environmental ThoughtFoundationsKimberly K. Smith268 pages, 6 x 9Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1516-2, $40.00(s)Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2808-7, $40.00

Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of MythStephen F. Knott348 pages, 6 x 9Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1419-6, $19.95(s)

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NEW EDITION

Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental

United States and CanadaThird Edition, Revised and Updated

Robert Powell, Joseph T. Collins, and Errol D. Hooper, Jr.

JULY192 pages, 295 figures, 9 maps, 8.5 x 11Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2890-2, $19.95(s)

NATURE | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

This profusely illustrated comprehen-sive key for identifying amphibians and reptiles from the continental

United States and Canada incorporates a wealth of scientific findings.

Since the first edition was published in 1998 and the second in 2012, the number of currently recognized species of native amphibians and reptiles in the area covered by this key has increased from 545 to 634 to 685, and the number of established non-native species has increased from 39 to 58 to 67. The increase in native taxa reflects the dynamic nature of modern systematics and the use of new (especially molecular) techniques to elucidate relationships and redefine species boundaries. The increase in non-native species reflects the porosity of the North American borders when it comes to controlling animal imports.

The key is easy to use and illustrated with outstanding line drawings that show details of color patterns and structures used for identification. To accommo-date the additional taxa, the number of line drawings in this third edition has increased from 257 to 279 to 295. In addi-tion, nine maps illustrate the distributions of species that have been recognized since the publication of maps in the most re-cent editions of the Peterson Field Guides to the reptiles and amphibians of eastern, central, and western North America. A large number of annotations detail cur-rent taxonomic ambiguities or disagree-ments, and the literature cited has been expanded. Collectively these features

enhance opportunities to teach and learn the classification and identification of amphibians and reptiles in the continental United States and Canada.

Robert Powell is professor emeritus of biology at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. Joseph T. Collins was director of the Center for North American Herpetology in Lawrence, Kansas. Both were coauthors (with Roger Conant) of the Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Errol D. Hooper, Jr., is an accomplished scientific illustrator.

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