New This Week: April 15th
New week, New books! In this post we’re highlighting this week’s new releases on subjects such as African American Studies, Civil War, Religion, Native American/Indigenous Studies, and Mushrooms. If you see a title that interests you, save 30% with code 01UNCP30 during our American History Sale.
A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas, Revised and Expanded Edition by Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, Michael W. Hopping
Praise for the First Edition:
“The unusually large number of described species makes this book a must-have for experienced mushroom hunters as well as beginners. Here, at last, is the field guide for North and South Carolina mushrooms, from the mountains to the coast, presented in one portable volume.”—Southeastern Naturalist
“Mushroom lovers and collectors in North and South Carolina will eagerly adopt this new field guide as a trusted companion.”—North Carolina Libraries
“This reliable guide will surely be of use outside the Carolinas.”—Choice
The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850 by Andrew C. Isenberg
David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
“When the textbook writers who installed the study of manifest destiny as a required unit in American history courses read this book, the next thing we hear will be a chorus of ‘Oops!’ As Isenberg reminds us, the people of the past are sure to defy us when we think we have them figured out.” –Patricia Limerick, faculty director of the Applied History Initiative, University of Colorado
“Foregrounding neglected episodes and marginalized actors, Isenberg brilliantly dismantles the persistent myth of U.S. manifest destiny. This is borderlands history that speaks to our own age of volatility and U.S. weakness.” –Jay Sexton, author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil by Michael Amoruso
“Amoruso perfectly blends ethnographic insights and theoretical reflections of the highest standard. The work contributes to a range of disciplines, from anthropology of religion and religious studies to Brazilian studies, oral history, and urban studies.”—Bettina E. Schmidt, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
“Devotion to souls is largely an individual practice motivated by personal suffering, but the object of that devotion—the suffering souls of the dead—speaks to larger histories of state violence that continue to haunt the living. Amoruso’s exciting book brings careful attention to the complex ways that social memory, trauma, and identity are bound up in this commonplace practice, revealing much about religion and about the politics of race and public memory in São Paulo.”—Kelly E. Hayes, Indiana University Indianapolis
Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great Migration by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
“An extraordinary collection by a stellar roster of scholars. It not only marks a very significant milestone in the study of African American and US urban history; it also establishes a compelling baseline for the next generation of innovative scholarship.”—Joe William Trotter Jr., author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
“Contribute[s)] meaningfully to the discourse on African American urban histories and beyond.”—Carl Suddler, author of Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era by Andrew Donnelly
Gender and American Culture Series
“From memoirs to dime novels to Henry James’s canonical writings, Donnelly excavates compelling evidence of same-sex desire during a period that most historians have rendered silent. Confederate Sympathies is a major contribution to both Civil War history and sexuality studies.”—Jim Downs, Gettysburg College
“With wit and striking originality, Confederate Sympathies reveals the tangled connections between same-sex friendship, homoeroticism, white supremacy, and partisan politics during and after the Civil War. Donnelly’s genuinely impressive research reinterprets familiar texts and introduces us to new ones, tracing an alternative history of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth century. The book greatly enriches our understanding of same-sex desire and the racial politics of the Civil War era.”—Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY