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Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Nicholas G. DiPucchio
Discipline: History

Description:
Nicholas DiPucchio tells the surprising, dramatically contingent story of the United States’ expansion, focusing in particular on the ultimately unrealized territorial ambitions cherished by many Americans in the early republic.Between the 1770s and 1820s, American expansionists made efforts to annex Bermuda, Upper Canada, Cuba, and vast swathes of the Pacific Northwest. As DiPucchio shows, however, local populations in these contested spaces—from small groups of Caribbean merchants to Indigenous populations to rival imperial powers—contested their efforts, helping define the boundaries of the United States.

Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest
Publisher: University of Wyoming Press
Author: Janine Schipper
Author Affiliation: Northern Arizona University
Discipline: Environmental Studies

Description:
This book challenges conventional water management in the Southwest, arguing that solely focusing on conservation won’t ensure sustainability. It critiques “conservation ethos,” proposes an Indigenous water ethic, and urges transformative approaches amid worsening droughts.

Empowering Latina Narratives: Navigating the Education/Educación Conflict in the Third Space
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Margaret Cantú-Sánchez
Author Affiliation: St. Mary’s University
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
In this groundbreaking book, author Margaret Cantú-Sánchez takes on the U.S. educational system. Cantú-Sánchez introduces the concept of the education/educación conflict, where Latinas navigate the clash between home and school epistemologies under Anglocentric, assimilationist pedagogies. Empowering Latina Narratives not only identifies the challenges Latina/Chicana students face but also offers a roadmap for overcoming them, making this book an essential resource for scholars, educators, and students committed to culturally inclusive education.

Get Yo’ Life: Black Queer Placemaking
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: R.J. Miller
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
R. J. Millhouse brings together discussions in Black studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and geography about the impact of gentrification on Black queer public cultures. Get Yo’ Life: Black Queer Placemaking focuses on the structural powers that condition Black queer people’s lives, their placemaking and placekeeping strategies, and their resulting spatial sensations including spatial atmosphere and materialized nostalgia. Millhouse explores Black queer placemaking practices across Brooklyn, New York and introduces Black queer spatiality as a method to examine what Black queer people do and a theory to explain a Black queer sense of place. Particularly, he discusses the ways in which organizations including People of Color in Crisis (POCC) held resource fairs in public parks to provide health resources, job openings, and vogue competitions. Yet the City responded with citations initiated by well-to-do, mostly white, newcomers to the neighborhood.

Indigenous Poetics
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Authors: Inés Hernández-Ávila
Author Affiliation: University of California–Davis; Vassar College
Discipline: American Indian Studies

Description:
A collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets in the United States who explore how the genre helps us to radically understand, contemplate, and realize something deeper about ourselves, our communities, and our worlds. The collection explores the creative process, identity, language, and the making of poetry.

Irrigating the Desert: Water Management, Agricultural Practices, and Social Complexity in Southern Turkmenistan during the Bronze Age
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Author: Roberto Arciero
Discipline: Environmental Studies

Description:
This book aims to address and critically reassess key aspects that characterised the Oxus Civilization between the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. It seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of agricultural and water management practices, which are considered crucial elements of a riverine civilisation like the Oxus. Additionally, the monograph intends to fill existing research gaps by presenting new findings and interpretations, thereby offering a more detailed picture of the Oxus Civilization’s development and agricultural practices.

Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Camille Kaminski Lewis
Discipline: History

Description:
Over a decade ago, I found several rhetorical “puzzles” sloppily hiding in my own church basement, and I’ve been putting them together piece-by-piece ever since. I have named this “puzzle”—or the rhetoric at the intersection of conservative politics, revivalism, and white male supremacy—“Klandamentalism.” The founder of the infamous Bob Jones University, Bob Jones, Sr., is my representative anecdote for Klandamentalism. With nearly a terabyte of archival ephemera, I document Bob Jones, Sr.’s original rhetoric as well as the context in which he preached. The story that unfolds explains how the Ku Klux Klan made so much sense to this son of an Alabama dirt farmer. My central argument is this: Klandamentalism starts with a forceful, egocentric singular personality and a small but secret cadre of young, white males who alone act upon their neighbors, employees, families, and nation to “bring them to God” to earn their own entry into Heaven. The words Bob Jones used in the 1920s to meld fundamentalism with the Klan parallel the white nationalistic rhetoric today. Whether the Klandamentalists are in the 1920s or 2020s, we can find better words to make a kinder, more equitable world.

Landscape Learning in the Pleistocene Great Basin
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Author: David B. Hunt
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Using archaeological datasets related to the Western Stemmed Tradition from the Old RIver Bed delta in Utah, this investigation develops and invokes Landscape Learning calculations to delineate the adaptive choices made by the first human occupants of the Great Basin. These calculations involve spatial analysis of lithic material sourcing to detect patterns related to the accumulation of knowledge of the landscape. The results provide unique insight into the processes by which these pioneering occupants came to understand and exploit the resources available to them in this new territory.

Law and the Protection of Democracy: Essays in Honor of Alfred C. Aman Jr.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Editor: Yvonne Cripps
Discipline: Law

Description:
Highly topical collection of innovative essays on the protection of democracy by eminent contributors from the judiciary, the practicing legal profession, the academy, and the realm of journalism.

México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Enrique C. Ochoa
Author Affiliation: California State University
Discipline: History

Description:
As debates around food sovereignty, globalization, and sustainable development intensify globally, México Between Feast and Famine provides timely analysis that counters conventional narratives about Mexican cuisine. Historian Enrique C. Ochoa examines the rise of Mexico’s corporate food system, contextualized by the long history of colonialism. Ochoa also looks to the future, offering a vision of more equitable and sustainable food systems that prioritize social justice and community well-being.

Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya’s Port City
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Devin Smart
Author Affiliation: West Virginia University
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
This book explores how twentieth-century urban capitalism created a new food system in East Africa’s most important port city: Mombasa, Kenya. Inside households, the dynamics of urban life changed the gendered structures of cooking, while new businesses emerged to sell food to working-class communities that now had to rely on cash to acquire their daily sustenance.

Proximities: Literature, Mobility and the Politics of Displacement
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: John Culbert
Author Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
As the era of high globalization has given way to a time of resurgent nationalisms, the discourse of travel has undergone significant change. The previous era’s keywords of freedom, mobility and connection increasingly vie with a language of borders, security and national identity. In this study of the politics of modern travel and migration, John Culbert shows how today’s contradictions of global mobility are an abiding feature of modernity and an outgrowth of coloniality as an ongoing practice of land theft, displacement and dispossession. Focussing on English, American, and Anglophone literary writing on travel, and spanning early twentieth-century tourism to present-day refugee narratives, Proximities examines contexts and situations in which travellers of discrepant rights and privileges meet, arguing that such scenes of ‘proximity’ yield unforeseen prospects for ethical rapports and political solidarity.

Publishing Latinidad: Latinx Literary and Intellectual Production, 1880–1960
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Jose O. Fernandez
Author Affiliation: University of Iowa
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Publishing Latinidad argues that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latinx authors and intellectuals engaged with alternative print cultures and literary genres to theorize about their racial and ethnic identities in relation to other nonwhite groups in the United States.

Queer Mobilities in Indonesia: Religion, Activism and Everyday Life
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Wikke Jansen
Author Affiliation: Humboldt University; Heidelberg University
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
In recent decades, queer individuals and groups in Indonesia have reached unprecedented levels of visibility. Since the colonial era, conceptualizations of gender and sexual diversity have shifted drastically, mediated through regional dynamics, the globalization of particular forms of queer discourse through transnational activism, and the proliferation of social media in everyday life. These developments have gone hand in hand with increased opposition towards queer Indonesians on a societal, legal, and religious level. Queer Mobilities builds on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in urban centres in Bali and Java among different queer communities, activists, and religious scholars to explore the lifeworlds of queer Indonesians in globalizing urban contexts.

Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Georgia Ennis
Author Affiliation: Western Carolina University
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
Rainforest Radio follows Napo Kichwa media producers, performers, and consumers across a disrupted Amazon rainforest to understand the effects of different methods and media in language reclamation projects.

Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Lesley Larkin
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
The Human Genome Project (HGP), officially completed in 2003, ushered in a postgenomic age characterized by the rapid development and commodification of genome sequencing technologies and a progressively complex understanding of how genes work. Although the HGP promised to do away with the spurious notion of biological race by demonstrating that human beings share the vast majority of their genetic data, racist and racialized discourse continues to pervade both scientific and mainstream discourse. In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin asks how contemporary U.S. and Canadian writers (1991-2016) engage in genomic discourse, with particular attention paid to the rearticulation of racial ideology.

Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: John F. Morris
Discipline: Military Studies

Description:
An expansive study of the brutal rites of initiation at elite institutions that shaped young men into military leaders, this book offers the first transnational history of student life at elite military preparatory institutions in Europe and America, showing how romantic and sexual relations between boys facilitated the cultivation of hypermasculinity at these institutions. Comparing British public schools, the monarchical cadet schools in Imperial Germany, Austria, and Russia, and the US Military Academy over the course of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century and the world wars, John Morris offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the budding military elites, both unpacking the arcane rituals that eventually became codified into honored traditions and analyzing their influence over the long term.

The Importance of Being Different: Disability in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Chris Foss
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
In The Importance of Being Different, Chris Foss explores the way that Wilde’s stories problematically replicate many of the Victorian era’s typical responses to disability but also the ways they diverge, offering a more progressive orientation—both through more sympathetic identifications with disability-aligned characters and through a self-conscious foregrounding of the mechanisms of pity and the consumption of pain. The first ever monograph to examine Wilde’s work through a disability studies lens, this groundbreaking book encompasses all of his fairy tales as well as his writings during and after imprisonment.

The Pandemic and the Working Class: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Editors: Nick Juravich; Steve Striffler
Author Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Discipline: Labor & Employment Relations

Description:
Explores both how the pandemic impacted the jobs, health, and lives of working people in the United States, and how they fought back through and outside of labor unions.

The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: John Burton Kegel
Author Affiliation: Netherlands Defence Academy
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994, in which eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed, was the final phase of a four-year civil war known as the Struggle for Liberation. This book is the first scholarly study to detail the comprehensive historical and political contexts that led to the conflict and eventual genocide.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 39
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Editor: Mark Matheson Contributors: Wendy Brown; Cécile Fabre; Elizabeth Kolbert; Charles W. Mills; Richard Tuck; Richard Wrangham; Jonathan L. Zittrain
Discipline: Philosophy

Description:
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Lectures are delivered annually at Oxford University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the University of Utah, Cambridge University, University of California Berkeley, Princeton University, Yale University, and Harvard University.

Visions of Transformation: Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Aaron Augsburger
Author Affiliation: University of South Florida
Discipline: Development Studies

Description:
Visions of Transformation provides an analytical framework through which to interpret and understand the process of social change in Bolivia during the era of Evo Morales.

WPAing in a Pandemic and Beyond: Revision, Innovation, and Advocacy
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Editors: Todd Ruecker; Sheila Carter-Tod
Author Affiliation: Colorado State University; University of Denver
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
This book explores the future and practice of writing program administration, focusing on post-pandemic challenges, writing topics, and social justice. It offers insights on program redesigns and strategic advocacy, appealing to WPAs, interdisciplinary academics, and instructors.