THE PRICE OF DEFIANCE
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
Charles W. Eagles
William F. Winter Professor of History
The University of North Carolina Press
After fighting a protracted legal battle, James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The riot that followed his arrival on campus seriously wounded scores of U.S. marshals and killed two civilians, more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era.
"If one is seeking a single book that details most vividly the fanatical intensity of the struggle to maintain racial segregation in the South, this is that volume. It is a remarkable and well-researched chronicle of the historical, political, and social forces that lay behind the violent confrontation at Ole Miss one night in 1962."
-- William F. Winter, former Governor of Mississippi
"The Price of Defiance is indisputably the definitive history of James H. Meredith's historic desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962. Eagles's detailed and compelling account of one of the landmark events in the African American freedom struggle is scholarly history of prize-winning quality."
--David J. Garrow, University of Cambridge
THE SCOURGE OF DEMONS
Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft
in a Seventeenth-Century
Italian Convent
Jeffrey R. Watt
Professor of History
The University of Rochester Press
"For almost to years in the 1630s, the convent of Santa Chiara was turned upside down by the strange illnesses of several nuns, universally attributed to demonic possession brought about by witchcraft. In The Scourge of Demons, Jeffrey Watt reconstructs this fascinating episode in cogent detail. Fully in command of scholarship on female monasticism, witchcraft, possession, the Inquisition, and feminist interpretations, Watt offers a lucid cultural history that will inform and enthrall a wide range of readers."
Anne Jacobson Schutte, professor emerita of History, University of Virginia.
FIRST LADY OF LETTERS
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
Sheila L. Skemp
Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania Press
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to the recent discovery of Murray's papers--including some 2,500 personal letters--historian Sheila L. Skemp has documented the compelling story of this talented and most unusual eighteenth-century woman. Murray was determined to transcend the boundaries that limited women of her era and worked tirelessly to have women granted the same right to the "pursuit of happiness" immortalized in the Declaration of Independence.
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THE SHADOW OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Optical and Political Transparency in France
1789-1848
Theresa Levitt
Associate Professor of History
Oxford University Press
This book is the first to place revolutionary advances in light and optics in the cultural context of France in the first half of the nineteenth century. The narrative follows the work and careers of France's two chief rivals on the subject of light: Arago and Biot. Their disagreement began on the subject of technical optics, but expanded to include politics, religion, agricultural policy, education, dinner companions, housing arrangements, photography, vital forces, astrology, the Egyptian calendar, and colonial slavery. At the heart of their disagreement was always a question of visibility, and the extent of transparency or obscurity they assigned to the world. Optical transparency formed a crucial condition for Arago's vision of a liberal republic governed by reason. Biot's call for strong forms of authority rested on his claims that the world did not offer itself up for universal agreement so easily.
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GENDER, LABOUR, WAR AND EMPIRE
Essays on Modern Britain
Philippa Levine and
Susan Grayzel
Associate Professor of History
Palgrave Macmillan.
This is a lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.
"This elegant volume not only celebrates one of the most influential social historians of our time, but offers a compelling and up to date historiographical treatment of the most important trends in British history over the last generation."
Nicoletta F. Gullace, Univ. New Hampshire
THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE
Charles Reagan Wilson, General Editor
Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair in History & Professor of Southern Studies
Volume 13: Gender
Volume Edited by
Nancy Bercaw, Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies
Ted Ownby, Professor of History & Southern Studies
University of North Carolina Press
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender. The wide range of entries explors how people have experienced, understood, and used concepts of womanhood and manhood in all sorts of obvious and subtle ways.
"Gender pervades the southern past and present. From patriarchy to southern belle, mammy to NASCAR dad, Thomas Dixon Jr. to Betty Mae Jumper, and Loving v. Virginia to Designing Women, gender has greatly influenced our constructions of 'South' and 'southern." The new and exciting essays in this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture remind us that gender continues to be a powerful force in both southern culture and historiography."
Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University
BLACK MANHOOD AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1900-1930
New Perspectives on the History of the South
Angela Hornsby-Gutting
Assistant Professor of History
University Press of Florida
Informed by feminist analysis, Hornsby-Gutting uses gender as the lens through which to view cooperation, tension, and negotiation between the sexes and among African American men during an era of heightened race oppression. Her work promotes improved understading of the construct of gender during these years, and expands the vocabulary of black manhood beyond the "great man ideology" which has obfuscated alternate, localized meanings of politics, manhood, and leadership.
"A thorough, sympathetic, fair, and balanced treatment of an important topic. Through careful research, Hornsby-Gutting brings a searching analysis to the cultural responses of black male leaders to disenfranchisement and Jim Crow segregation."
Paul David Escott, Wake Forest University
VIOLENCE, POLITICS AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Edited by Joseph P. Ward
Associate Professor of History
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
This timely collection of essays by a range of literary and cultural historians deftly exploreslar story any one act of violence might tell depended on its various agents, participants, and aud the multivalent and sometimes conflictive uses of violence in early modern England—a period for which violence was a natural but by no means a transparent form of social expression. Early modern violence spoke volumes but the particuience living the historical moment. One ringing refrain of this volume, however, is that violence more often than not told the story of "the tenuous nature of patriarchal authority in early modern England."
Patricia Fumerton, Professor and Director, English Broadside Ballad Archive, Department of English, University of California–Santa Barbara
MANNERS
and SOUTHERN HISTORY
Essays
questioning the role of etiquette in the South
Edited by Ted
Ownby
Professor of History
Chancellor
Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
University
Press of Mississippi
The concept of southern manners may evoke images of
debutantes being introduced to provincial society or
it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior
white supremacists expected of African Americans under
Jim Crow. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways
in which southerners from the Civil War through the
civil rights movement understood manners.
Essays
by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey,
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer
Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II
AFFECT
& POWER
Essays
on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion
in Appreciation of Winthrop
D. Jordan
Edited
by David J. Libby, Paul Spickard, and Susan Ditto.
Written
by former students.
University Press of Mississippi
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published
his groundbreaking work White Over Black:
American Attitudes Toward
the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new
avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and religion
in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year
career at the University of California and the University
of Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues
and to train others to think in new ways about interactions
of race, gender, faith, and power.
Written by former students of Jordan,
these essays are a tribute to the career of one of America's
great thinkers and perhaps the most influential American
historian of his generation.
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HONORING
THE
CIVIL WAR DEAD
Commemoration
and the Problem of Reconciliation
John R. Neff
Associate Professor of History
University Press of Kansas
By the end of the Civil War, fatalities
from that conflict had far exceeded previous American
experience, devastating families and communities alike.
As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives
lost proved to be a persitent obstacle to the hard work
of reuniting the nation, as every memorial observation
compelled painful recollections of the war. Despite
reunification, the continuing imperative of commemoration
refelcts a more complex resolution to the war than is
even now apparent. His book provides a compelling account
of this conflict that marks a major contribution to
our understanding of the war and its many meanings.
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RACE
AND SPORT
The
Struggle for Equality on and off the Field
Edited
by Charles K. Ross
Associate Professor of History
Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium Series
University Press of Mississippi
Even before the desegregation of the
military and public education and before blacks had
full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun
to fall in American sports. This collection of essays
shows that for many African Americans it was the world
of athletics that first opened an avenue to equality
and democratic involvement.
Race and Sport showcases African Americans as key figures
making football, baseball, basketball, and boxing internationally
popular, though inequalities still exist today.
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WORKERS
AT WAR
Labor in China's Arsenals,
1937-1953
Joshua H. Howard
Associate Professor of History
Stanford University
Press
This book focuses on
the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of
the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical
staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry
of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry
based in the wartime capital, Chongqing. The author
demonstrates the multiple sources of workers' identities
and thus challenges previous studies that have exclusively
stressed workers' particularistic or regional identities.
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MISSISSIPPI
WOMEN
Their Histories, Their Lives
Edited by Elizabeth Anne Payne, Professor of History
Martha H. Swain
and Marjorie Julian Spruill
Associate Editor, Susan Ditto
University of Georgia Press
"This volume represents a long overdue highlighting
of some of the significant and diverse contributions
that seventeen remarkable women made to the history
of Mississippi. One cannot read these pages without
developing a greatly enhanced sense of appreciation
of the role these gifted and dedicated individuals played
in shaping for the better the lives of the people of
our state."
William F. Winter,
Former Governor of Mississippi
FROM SIN
TO INSANITY
Suicide in Early Modern Europe
Edited by Jeffrey R. Watt
Professor of History
Cornell University Press
In the broadest treatment yet of suicide
in Europe during the period 1500-1800, eleven authors
combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual
history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans
experienced and understood voluntary death. From
Sin to Insanity shows that early modern Europe
witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide:
increasing in frequency, self-inflicted death became
decriminalized, secularized, and medicalized, viewed
as a regrettable but not shameful result of reversals
in fortune or physical or mental infirmity.
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ON
THE COMMUNION OF DAMASUS AND MELETIUS
Fourth-Century
Synodal Formulae in the Codex Veronensis LX
With Critical Edition and Translation by
Lester L. Field, Jr.
Professor of History
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004
Emerging from the Roman synods of the 370s, epistolary
exemplars provided formulae that healed the schism between
the two Nicene claimants to the see of Antioch. Since
this union with the Western Church did not last past
381, the synodal formulae for reunion pose delicate
problems of great import to Church history.
BRITAIN
AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH
From Colonialism to Rock and Roll
Edited by Joseph P. Ward
Associate Professor of History
University Press of Mississippi
In Britain and the
American South: From Colonialsim to Rock and Roll,
historians analyze central aspects of the cultural exchanges
between Britain and the American South. The volume illuminates
Britain's evolving relationship with the South over
a period of four centuries, an era that witnessed Britain's
rise to imperial dominance and then the gradual erosion
of its influence on the wider world. With an engaging
afterword that explores the difficulties in comprehending
both Britain and the American South in the present day
as well as in the past, this book shows that the relationship
between the two has always been and continues to be
complex, subtle, and meaningful.
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GENDERED
FREEDOMS
Race,
Rights, and the Politics
of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875
Nancy D. Bercaw
Associate Professor of History
University Press of Florida
Gendered Freedoms
analyzes black and white southerners' subjective understandings
of the household, challenging us to reexamine the relationship
between identity and political consciousness.
The first to uncover these largely unheard-of voices
of the region, the author investigates the conservative
and radical traditions embodied in southern dissent.
The book is an intimate window into the lives of individuals
in the Delta from 1861 to 1875, as they explored the
nature of political rights from the perspective of whiteness
and blackness, manhood and womanhood, freedom and dependency.
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WOMEN
and the FIRST WORLD WAR
Seminar
Studies in History
Susan R. Grayzel
Associate Professor of History
Pearson Education Limited
The First World War was the
first modern, total war -- one requiring the mobilisation
of both civilians and combatants. Particulary
in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war
demanded the active participation of both men and women.
Women and the First World War provides an introduction
to the experiences and contributions of women during
this important turning point in history. The book
is an ideal text for students studying the First World
War or the role of women in the twentieth century
Clive Emsley & Gordon Martel
General Editors
THE
ROLE OF IDEAS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS SOUTH
Edited by Ted Ownby
Professor of History
Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History
Symposium Series
University Press of Mississippi
The civil rights movement set the agenda for thought
and action in the 1950s and 1960s. The Role of
Ideas in the Civil Rights South begins by examining
ideas prominent in the movement. It then studies
the ideas of white moderates in the South, white conservatives,
and African Americans who did not join the movement.
Particular emphases include the relationship between
theology and political life, the national and international
contexts of southern thought, and the variety of southern
intellectual interests.
"Essays that plumb the minds of intellects and
activists caught up in the struggle for justice in the
South.
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CHOOSING
DEATH
Suicide and Calvinism in
Early Modern Geneva
Jeffrey R. Watt
Professor of History
Truman
State University Press
Because of Geneva's uniquely rich and well organized sources,
this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on
suicide rates for premodern Europe. Watt places
his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological
scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth
century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion
in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply,
early modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth
of modern suicide both in attitudes toward it--thoroughly
secularized, medicalized, and stripped of diabolical undertones--and
the frequency of it.
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POEMS
IN STEEL
National Socialism and the
Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
Kees
Gispen
Professor of History
Berghahn Books, New
York & Oxford, England
The role of National Socialism in the development of German
society remains a central question of historical inquiry.
This study presents original answers by examining the
politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem
at the intersection of the history of technology, legal,
political, and business history. The analysis of
conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning
of inventing from the 102-s to the 1950s reveals a deep
chasm, reaching back to the late ninteenth century, between
the forces of capital and big business on one hand and
the exponents of intellectual capital - inventors, engineers,
industrial scientists, - on the other.
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GENDER
and the SOUTHERN BODY POLITIC
Edited by Nancy Bercaw
Porter L. Fortune,
Jr., History Symposium Series
University Press of Mississippi
In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship
has contributed to revising our understanding of politics
and history. Expanding our definition of southern
politics, a new generation of historians is challenging
us to reconsider the most hallowed subjects in southern
history--the origins of slavery, Bacon's Rebellion, the
Nullification crisis, the origins of the Civil War, Reconstruction,
the Lost Cause, Populism, and Jim Crow. Taking gender
as a lens of analysis, these subjects are envisioned in
a new light.
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THE
COLONIAL METAMORPHOSES
IN RHODE ISLAND
A Study of Institutions
in Change - Sydney V. James
Edited by Sheila L. Skemp, Professor of History
& Bruce C. Daniels
University Press of New England
The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island brings to light
new ways of looking at an often neglected period stretchingfrom
the founding to the revolutionary era. James's final
book, left unpublished at the time of his death in 1993,
is now brought to publication by two leading students
of the Rhode Island Colony.
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OUTSIDE
THE LINES
African Americans and the
Integration of the National Football League
Charles
K. Ross
Associate Professor of History
New York University Press
Watching a football game on a Sunday evening, most sports
fans do not realize the profound impact the National Football
League had on the civil rights movement. Similarly,
in a sport where seven out of ten players are black, few
are fully aware of the history and contributions of their
atheletic forebears. Integrating sports teams to
include white and black athletes alike, the National Football
League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and
lows, the trials and triumphs, of racial integration.
In this chronicle of black NFL athletes, Charles K. Ross
has given us the story of the Jackie Robinsons of American
football.
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WOMEN'S
IDENTITIES
AT WAR
Susan R. Grayzel
Associate Professor of History
University of North Carolina Press
"With great sensitivity, Grayzel uncovers how women's
emotions as well as their bodies were mobilized and deployed
in an era of total war....This is cultural history on
a high level."
Susan Pedersen
Harvard University
"Grayzel has made us think again about fundamental
questions of the links between front and home front, about
women's work, and about the trajectories of mourning in
a society devastated by the first total war in history."
Jay Winter
Cambridge University
AMERICAN
DREAMS IN MISSISSIPPI
Consumers, Poverty, &
Culture 1830-1998
Ted Ownby
Professor of History
University of North Carolina
Press
"Ownby has written a wonderfully rich and suggestive
book. It is a testament of his skills as a researcher,
historian, and writer that he has been able to reconstruct
the history of consumer culture over two centuries in
ways that are so wonderfully imaginative, thorough,
and fascinating.
Daniel Horowitz
Smith College
PIETY,
POWER, and POLITICS
Religion and Nation Formation
in Guatemala, 1821-1871
Douglass
Sullivan-González
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Press
"Piety, Power, and Politics places church and religion
into the ongoing story of nation-building in nineteenth-century
Guatemala, beneath the shadow of Rafael Carrera.
It ranges across ethnicity, class, personal leadership,
faith, symbol, discourse, and popular action to reveal
the Catholic Church as a major political player and religion
as a vital force in political identity then. This
is a scholarly study with heart, one that finds people
and distinctive voices as well as trends, forces, ideas,
and institutions in a substantial body of little-known
church records."
William B. Taylor
Univ. of California at Berkeley
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI:
A Sesquicentennial History
David G. Sansing
Professor Emeritus of History
University Press of Mississippi
"This sesquicentennial history of the University
of Mississippi is a comprehensive study of the state's
oldest institution of higher learning and one of the
Deep South's early state universities. Established
as an alternative to sending the sons of the gentry
to the north for their collegiate education, the University
was located at Oxford in 1841, chartered in 1844, and
opened in 1848.
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LIBERTY,
DOMINION, AND THE TWO SWORDS
On the Origins of Western
Political Theology
(180-398)
Lester
L. Field, Jr.
Professor of History
University of Notre Dame PressLiberty, Dominion, and the
Two Swords examines the ancient origins of two concepts
that dominated medieval political discourse: "liberty
of the church," and the doctrine of the "two
swords." With comprehensive scholarship and
painstaking care Lester L. Field fills a void in the study
of several crucial concepts in western medieval political
thought.
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PROTESTANT
IDENTITIES
Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning
in Post-Reformation England
Edited
by Muriel C. McClendon,
Joseph P. Ward, and Michael MacDonald
Stanford University Press
This book explores the complex ways in which England's
gradual transformation from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant
nation presented men and women with new ways in which
to fashion their own identities and to define their relationships
with society.
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