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The New Southern Studies

After decades of being both celebrated and dismissed as the exception within American exceptionalism, the South is emerging as central to debates in fields ranging from American Studies and African American Studies to cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Engaged with these debates from the outset, the new Southern Studies, as Houston A. Baker Jr. named the field, thus only secondarily reinvigorates the old. Rather, as its scholars look at the South afresh, their chief aim is a floor-to-ceiling rethinking of some of the central ideas of the last twenty years of critical theory: objecthood, identity, space, nation, region, abjection, the body, empire. The books in this interdisciplinary, methodologically rigorous, and iconoclastic series will, as a result, engage scholars and students in a wide variety of fields.

Jon Smith is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His chief scholarly interests involve the study of the U.S. South from global, cultural-studies, and postcolonial perspectives to interrogate both American exceptionalism in American Studies and careless divisions between global north and global south in postcolonial theory. Smith is the coeditor of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies and several special journal issues on the South. His work has appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, and other scholarly publications. He is currently working on a study titled (tentatively} "Alabama and the Future of American Cultural Studies."

Riché Richardson, an associate professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, has ongoing interests in the role of the South in formations of identity in the African American context, transnational and diasporan perspectives in southern studies, and African American literature. The author of Black Masculinity and the U.S. South, she is currently working on a number of other book projects, including one on southern rap. Richardson has published essays in journals such as American Literature, the Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language Studies.

Books in this series

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
Edited by Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee

Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Coleman Hutchison

Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Riché Richardson

Disturbing Calculations
The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002
Melanie Benson Taylor

Grounded Globalism
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
James L. Peacock

Latining America
Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies
Claudia Milian

The Nation’s Region
Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
Leigh Anne Duck

Reading for the Body
The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985
Jay Watson

Reconstructing the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
Melanie Benson Taylor

Southern Civil Religions
Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Arthur Remillard

Series editors

Jon Smith
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Series Advisory Board

Houston A. Baker Jr.
Vanderbilt University

Leigh Anne Duck
University of Memphis

Jennifer Greeson
University of Virginia

Trudier Harris
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill

Tara McPherson
University of Southern California

John T. Matthews
Boston University

The United States and the Americas

This series is dedicated to a broader understanding of the political, economic, and especially cultural forces and issues that have shaped the Western hemispheric experience, its governments and its peoples. Individual volumes assess relations between the United States and its neighbors to the south and north: Mexico, Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Canada. The final volume in the series will be Brazil and the United States.

Lester D. Langley is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Georgia. His many books on Latin America and the Caribbean include America and the Americas: The United States in the Western Hemisphere, The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934, and The Americas in the Modern Age.

Books in this series

America and the Americas
The United States in the Western Hemisphere
Lester D. Langley

Argentina and the United States
An Alliance Contained
David M. K. Sheinin

Bolivia and the United States
A Limited Partnership
Kenneth D. Lehman

Brazil and the United States
Convergence and Divergence
Joseph Smith

Canada and the United States
Ambivalent Allies
John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall

Central America and the United States
The Search for Stability
Thomas M. Leonard

Chile and the United States
Empires in Conflict
William F. Sater

Colombia and the United States
Hegemony and Interdependence
Stephen J. Randall

Cuba and the United States
Ties of Singular Intimacy
Louis A. Pérez Jr.

The Dominican Republic and the United States
From Imperialism to Transnationalism
G. Pope Atkins and Larman C. Wilson

Ecuador and the United States
Useful Strangers
Ronn Pineo

Haiti and the United States
The Psychological Moment
Brenda Gayle Plummer

Mexico and the United States
Ambivalent Vistas
W. Dirk Raat and Michael M. Brescia

Panama and the United States
The Forced Alliance
Michael L. Conniff

Panama and the United States
The End of the Alliance
Michael L. Conniff

Paraguay and the United States
Distant Allies
Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney

Peru and the United States
The Condor and the Eagle
Lawrence A. Clayton

Venezuela and the United States
From Monroe’s Hemisphere to Petroleum’s Empire
Judith Ewell

The Center for American Places, which is now based at Columbia College Chicago, was founded in 1990 by George F. Thompson, a former editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Since that time, the Center has brought to publication more than 320 works across dozens of disciplines, including geography, history, landscape and urban studies, photography, and creative nonfiction. The Center has won or shared more than 100 editorial prizes, including best-book honors in thirty-one academic fields.

The Center’s publishing program is designed to enhance the public’s understanding of, appreciation for, and affection for the places of the Americas the rest of the world—whether urban, suburban, rural, or wild. The program is guided by the view that books provide the intellectual and emotional foundation for comprehending—and caring for—the places where we live, work, and commune.The Center Books on the American South series provides a regional focus for this guiding view.

City of Memory
New Orleans, Before and After Katrina
John Woodin
With an essay by Craig E. Colten

The Last Harvest
Truck Farmers in the Deep South
Perry Dilbeck
Conclusion by Tom Rankin

Look and Leave
Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward
Jane Fulton Alt

Books in the series not only situate environmental history within the American South, broadly defined, but they also connect the region to local, national, and transnational scales of analysis. The series welcomes the work of anthropologists and geographers as well as historians and environmental writers. We also plan to republish southern environmental classics, and to produce essay collections that shape the emerging field of southern environmental history.

Paul Sutter is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado whose academic interests include environmental history and modern U.S. history. Sutter is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the American wilderness movement, environmental historiography, and southern environmental history. His current research examines the intersections of environment, race, and public health during the construction of the Panama Canal.

Blue Ridge Commons
Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
Kathryn Newfont

An Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Jack E. Davis

The Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Christine Keiner

Pharsalia
An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Lynn A. Nelson Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Lisa M. Brady

Themes for English B
A Professor's Education In and Out of Class
J. D. Scrimgeour

The University of Georgia Press in collaboration with the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security and Department of International Affairs created this series to publish outstanding scholarship on some of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. This series grows out of the dramatic internationalization of the University of Georgia: the creation of a new School of Public and International Affairs, the establishment of a new Department of International Affairs, and the continued growth of the Center for International Trade and Security and related programs.

We are particularly interested in work that presents important new perspectives on the crises in American foreign policy and global governance; democratization, civil society, and the rule of law; rising powers and regional hotspots such as the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America; new security threats, including terrorism and responses to it; defense policy; postconflict reconstruction; multilateralism and international institutions; and the U.S. role in the world. Books in this series draw from the fields of comparative politics, foreign policy, international relations, and security policy. The series crosses disciplines and attempts to bridge gaps, including those between the academy and government and between nations and “civilizations.”

Gary K. Bertsch is University Professor Emeritus of International Affairs and Director Emeritus of the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States and Engaging India.

Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations at the University of Georgia. His many books include Latin American Politics and Development and Development on the Periphery.

Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro

Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Edited by Guy Olivier Faure

Series Advisory Board

Dr. Pauline H. Baker
President, The Fund for Peace

Dr. Eliot Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor
of Strategic Studies,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
The Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Eric Einhorn
Professor of Comparative Politics,
Center for Public Policy and Administration,
University of Massachusetts

Dr. John J. Hamre
President and CEO,
The Center for Strategic and
International Studies

Dr. Josef Joffe
Publisher, Die Zeit
Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution
Distinguished Fellow, Institute for International Studies,
Stanford University

Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Dr. William J. Long
Chair and Professor,
Sam Nunn School
of International Affairs,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace

Dr. Scott D. Sagan
Professor of Political Science,
and Codirector, Center for
International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford University

Dr. Lawrence Scheinman
Distinguished Professor,
Monterey Institute of International Studies

Dr. David Shambaugh
Professor of Political Science
and International Affairs,
The Elliott School
of International Affairs,
George Washington University

Dr. Jessica Stern
John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University

This series explores the ways in which law has affected the development of the southern United States and, in turn, the ways the history of the South has affected the development of American law. Each volume in the series focuses on a specific aspect of the law, such as slave law or civil-rights legislation, or on a broader topic of historical significance to the development of the legal system in the region, such as issues of constitutional history and of law and society, comparative analyses with other legal systems, and biographical studies of influential southern jurists and lawyers.

Paul Finkelman is the President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and senior fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. He has published more than twenty books, one hundred articles, and numerous op-eds on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, American race relations, American legal history, the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religion, and baseball and the law. He is currently writing a history of John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry.

Timothy S. Huebner, L. Palmer Brown Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College, specializes in the history of the American South and United States constitutional and legal history. He is the author of The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness 1790—1890 and The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, Legacy. He is coeditor, with Kermit Hall, of Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays, second edition. He is currently writing an undergraduate textbook on the Civil War and Reconstruction period.

Craftsmanship and Character
A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917–1997
Harold M. Hyman

Double Character
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
Ariela J. Gross

Free to Work
Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880
James D. Schmidt

Gateway to Justice
The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City
Jennifer Trost

Jury Discrimination
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi
Christopher Waldrep

The Legal Ideology of Removal
The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations
Tim Alan Garrison

Local Matters
Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South
Edited by Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Nieman

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation is devoted to books that engage the importance of space for questions of social and political change. This focus necessarily covers a broad range of subject matter, including international political economy, urban studies, gender, race, sexuality, and poverty and inequality. While the series is interdisciplinary, its primary emphasis is on critical human geography.

Books published in the series are designed to inform both intellectuals of broad stripes and those engaged in political processes of different kinds, from policy makers to grassroots activists. The series editors are interested in producing books that live on in academic offices and classrooms around the world, but also take on life in political chambers, organizing halls, and the streets where both space and politics are produced.

Nik Heynen is an associate professor of geography at the University of Georgia. He has coedited three books: Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences; Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation; and In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Heynen's current book project is a study of the politicization of anti-hunger programs, with a particular focus on the Black Panthers.

Deborah Cowen is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, author of Military Workfare, and coeditor of the volume War, Citizenship, and Territory.

Melissa W. Wright is an associate professor of geography and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism and a coeditor of Geographies of Power: Placing Scale.

Accumulating Insecurity
Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life
Edited by Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Gayatri A. Menon

Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge

Company Towns in the Americas
Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
Edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara

Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Jason Hackworth

Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Rebecca Lave

Roppongi Crossing
The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

Silent Violence
Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria
Michael J. Watts
With a new introduction

They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Don Mitchell

Since 1970 focuses on U.S. history since the 1970s, with a particular emphasis on books that either connect that decade to a longer trajectory or focus entirely on the last quarter of the twentieth century. The series will welcome a wide range of topics, but the ideal project will both address the recent past and be methodologically innovative. Since 1970 will feature titles in social and cultural history; the history of science, environment, and technology; the history of race, immigration, and ethnicity; and political histories that construe the category of “politics”broadly.

Claire Potter, a professor of history at The New School, specializes in United States political history, queer studies, and the history of gender, sex and feminism. She blogs at Tenured Radical, and also contributes to the group history blog Cliopatria. Potter is the author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture. She is currently at work on a book about the origins of the feminist "sex wars" and the anti-pornography campaign waged by the Reagan Administration, Sexual Revolutions: Feminism, the Reagan Revolution and the Politics of Pornography, 1968–1990.

Renee Romano, an associate professor of history at Oberlin College, is a specialist in twentieth-century American history, with research interests in African American history, civil rights, and historical memory. Romano is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America, and coeditor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. She is at work on a new book, tentatively entitled Justice Delayed: Civil Rights Trials and America's Racial Reckoning, which explores contemporary prosecutions of civil rights era crimes.

Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano

Editorial Advisory Board

Mary Dudziak
University of Southern California

Devin Fergus
Hunter College, City University of New York

David Greenberg
Rutgers University

Shane Hamilton
University of Georgia

Jennifer Mittelstadt
Pennsylvania State University

Stephen Pitti
Yale University

Robert Self
Brown University

Siva Vaidhyanathan
University of Virginia

Judy Wu
Ohio State University

Critical writings by contemporary poets that illuminate the life of poetry not only on the page but in the imaginations, hearts, and spirits of today's working poets. Poet-critics, including Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, and Auden, have produced some of the most eminent and engaged writing on the genre. A distinguishing characteristic of such writing is that poets are generally conducting, as Eliot says, "a private poetry workshop with the poets they most admire." Thus a poet's critical writing reflects his or her own poetics and imaginative concerns, and at the same time sheds light on what that poet has written or hopes to write.

The series aims to include both intellectually ambitious and practically brilliant work by poets on their art and craft, work that helps readers to apprehend the mystery of the art of poetry as much as it helps writers to understand the mechanics of the craft. Books in the series might explore the elements of prosody, investigage the technical components of a particular poetic genius, communicate a personal ars poetica, or attempt to express the alchemy that makes poetry poetry, or as Donald Hall put it, "the unsayable said." Series authors will put forth aesthetic beliefs and articulate literary visions in ways that contribute significantly to the distinguished tradition of poets writing on poetry.

A Common Thread
Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry
Beth English

The Culture of Property
Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880–1950
LeeAnn Lands

Guten Tag, Y’all
Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950—2000
Marko Maunula

Marching in Step
Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in Post-World War II America
Alexander Macaulay

The Nashville Way
Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City
Benjamin Houston

The Problem South
Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930
Natalie J. Ring

Who Gets a Childhood?
Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas
William S. Bush

The Southern Texts Society is dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-length collections of manuscripts or rare printed materials that are important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life.

David S. Shields is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, and the editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is the author of Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690–1750, and the editor of Pioneering American Wine. Shields' scholarly interests include Southern studies, cultural history and material culture studies, Early American literary history, the history of the book, and the intellectual history of the Early Modern Atlantic World.

A DuBose Heyward Reader
DuBose Heyward
Edited and with an Introduction by James M. Hutchisson

In Black and White
An Interpretation of the South
Lily Hardy Hammond
Edited by Elna C. Green

John Bachman
Selected Writings on Science, Race, and Religion
Edited by Gene Waddell

Pioneering American Wine
Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist
Edited by David S. Shields

Princes of Cotton
Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848–1860
Edited by Stephen Berry

Shared Histories
Transatlantic Letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929–1966
Edited by Angela Potter

To Find My Own Peace
Grace King in Her Journals, 1886–1910
Edited by Melissa Walker Heidari

Emphasizing comparative and transnational approaches, Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 focuses on the development of, and challenges to, racialized inequality in Atlantic culture, with a particular focus on the Americas. Books in the series explore the evolving meanings of race, slavery, and nation; African identity formation across the Atlantic world; and struggles over emancipation and its aftermath.

Richard S. Newman is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, and a coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of African American Protest Writing, 1790–1860.

Patrick Rael, an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College, is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and a coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of African American Protest Writing, 1790–1860.

Manisha Sinha is an associate professor of African American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. She is a coeditor of African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century.

Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Eva Sheppard Wolf

Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
Gale L. Kenny

The Hanging of Angélique
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal
Afua Cooper

Missing Links
The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
Jeremy Rich

We Are the Revolutionists
German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Mischa Honeck

Selected papers from the keynote symposia of the Society's annual meeting. Organized around a common theme, the papers in each volume address current concerns in the field by applying anthropological research to the region's languages, cultures, archaeologies, and human compositions.

Michael V. Angrosino is a professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research interests include mental disabilities, public policy, organized religion in secular society, ethnic identity in pluralistic society, symbolic interactionism, psychological anthropology, ethnography, oral history, and life history. Angrosino's books include The Culture of the Sacred, Doing Cultural Anthropology, and Talking about Cultural Diversity in Your Church.

Caribbean and Southern
Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South
Edited by Helen A. Regis

Communities and Capital
Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization
Edited by Thomas W. Collins and John D. Wingard

The Spirit of the Laws series illuminates the nature of legal systems throughout the world. Titles in the series are concerned less with the rules of the law and more with the relationships of the laws in each system with religion and moral perspectives; the degree of complexity and abstraction; classifications; attitudes to possible sources of law; authority; and values enshrined in law. Topics covered in the series include Roman law, Chinese law, biblical law, Talmudic law, canon law, common law, Hindu law, customary law, Japanese law, and international law.

Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion.

A prolific scholar and master of more than a dozen languages, Watson has nearly 150 books and articles to his credit, and his books have been translated into countless dialects. Selected scholarship includes Ancient Law and Modern Understanding: At the Edges, Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity, Legal History and a Common Law for Europe, Authority of Law; and Law, and The Shame of American Legal Education.

Watson regularly serves as a distinguished lecturer at leading universities in the United States and such countries as Italy, Holland, Germany, France, Poland, South Africa, Israel and Yugoslavia. He has attended several sessions regarding the development of a common law for the European Union, including one in Maastricht in 2000. At the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Watson served as a member of the two-person United States team helping to revise the draft civil code for the new Republic of Armenia.

Watson is an honorary member of the Speculative Society and serves as North American secretary of the Stair Society. He is an editorial board member for the Juridical Review, Journal of Legal History, the Journal of Comparative Law, the Belgrade Law Journal, IURA, the European Lawyer Journal, and the American Journal of Legal History.

Works of the eighteenth-century British man of letters in a definitive, authoritatively edited uniform edition. Each series volume includes an authoritative text, historical and critical introduction, explanatory notes, and textual commentary and apparatus. The final volume in the series, publication date to be determined, is The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

Alexander Pettit, a professor of English at the University of North Texas, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His books include Illusory Consensus and Textual Studies and the Common Reader (Georgia). In addition to his work on the Smollett series, Pettit is general and textual editor of the Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, textual editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson, and general editor of British Ideas and Issues, 1660–1820.

Pettit's essays have appeared in Philological Quarterly, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Papers in Language and Literature, 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Studies in the Literary Imagination, The Age of Johnson, Huntington Library Quarterly, and other journals.

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett
Edited by James G. Basker, Paul-Gabriel Boucé, and Nicole A. Seary
Alexander Pettit, general editor; text edited by O M Brack Jr.

The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon
Translated by Tobias Smollett
Introduction and notes by Leslie A. Chilton
Text edited by O M Brack Jr.

The Devil upon Crutches
Alain René Le Sage
Translated by Tobias Smollett
Edited by O M Brack, Jr., and Leslie A. Chilton

Poems, Plays, and “The Briton”
Tobias Smollett
Introduction and notes by Byron Gassman
Texts edited by O M Brack Jr.
Assisted by Leslie A. Chilton

More than fifty short-story collections have appeared in the Flannery O'Connor Award series, which was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership. The first prize-winning book was published in 1983; the award has since become an important proving ground for writers and a showcase for the talent and promise that have brought about a resurgence in the short story as a genre. Winners are selected through an annual competition that attracts as many as three hundred manuscripts.

New in 2012: We will only be accepting electronic submissions to the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction this year. See details below.

Dates for submission: Manuscripts may be submitted between 9:00 a.m. on April 2 and 9:00 a.m. on June 1. Winners will be announced by the end of August.

Tech support for using the submissions manager is available at 1-406-480-6274. The $25 entry fee can be paid online via credit card or PayPal.

Selection process: Each of five contest judges reads approximately one-fifth of the manuscripts submitted to the competition, with a sixth judge available if needed based on the total number of submissions. Judges select seven to ten finalists each; the pool of finalist manuscripts is read by series editor Nancy Zafris, who makes the final selection of two winning manuscripts. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract.

Eligibility: The competition is open to writers in English, whether published or unpublished. Writers must be residents of North America.

Blind review: The intent of this contest is that manuscripts will be considered on the merits of the fiction and that judges will not be aware of the names or publication records of the authors.

Confirmation of receipt and notification: You should receive an e-mail confirmation immediately after submission. An announcement of winners and finalists will be sent to all entrants via e-mail by the end of August.

If you have any questions or concerns other than technical issues with the submissions manager, please contact us via e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The press will not accept phone calls regarding the Flannery O’Connor Award.

Statement of Integrity: The University of Georgia is thoroughly committed to academic integrity in all of its endeavors, and the University of Georgia Press adheres to all University of Georgia policies and procedures. To help ensure the integrity of the competition, manuscripts are judged through a blind review process. Judges in the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction competition are instructed to avoid conflicts of interest of all kinds.

The wide ranging, humanities-oriented Averitt Lecture series has been the source of a number of engaging books on such topics as the legacy of writer Henry James, the changing ethnic makeup of the American South, and the surprising historical parallels between regional tensions within Italy and within the United States.

Critical Memory
Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America
Houston A. Baker Jr.

Invisible Southerners
Ethnicity in the Civil War
Anne J. Bailey
Foreword by Alan Downs

Look to the Lady
Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage
Russ McDonald

Writing Matters
Rhetoric in Public and Private Lives
Andrea A. Lunsford Foreword by Caren Town

Volumes in this series explore the value, and aid in the permanent preservation, of Southern culture, history, and literature. Almost fifty volumes have been published in the Lamar Memorial Lectures series since the first, Southern Writers in the Modern World by Donald Davis, appeared in 1958.

A Consuming Fire
The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
Eugene D. Genovese

The Literary Percys
Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination
Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Power of the Porch
The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
Trudier Harris

South to the Future
An American Region in the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Fred Hobson

Altamaha
A River and Its Keeper
Photographs by James Holland
Text by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer and Janisse Ray

Drifting into Darien
A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Janisse Ray

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy
The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists
Dyana Z. Furmansky
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Afterword by Roland C. Clement

The World of the Salt Marsh
Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
Charles Seabrook

The Art of Managing Longleaf
A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach
Leon Neel, with Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way
Afterword by Jerry F. Franklin

Captain Jones’s Wormslow
A Historical, Archaeological, and Architectural Study of an Eighteenth-Century Plantation Site near Savannah, Georgia
William M. Kelso

Forty Years of Diversity
Essays on Colonial Georgia
Edited by Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding

From Mud to Jug
The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia
John A. Burrison

The Georgia Catalog
Historic American Buildings Survey
A Guide to the Architecture of the State by John Linley

James Habersham
Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia
Frank Lambert

Lowcountry Hurricanes
Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore
Walter J. Fraser Jr.

Established in 1978, The National Poetry Series is a literary awards program which sponsors the publication of five books of poetry each year. The manuscripts, solicited through an annual open competition, are selected by poets of national stature and published by a distinguished group of trade, university, and small presses.

The University of Georgia Press, New York University Press, and Northern Illinois University Press announce a collaborative book series supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Early American Places focuses on the history of North America from contact to the Mexican War, locating historical developments in the specific places where they occurred and were contested. Though these developments often involved far-flung parts of the world, they were experienced in particular communities—the local places where people lived, worked, and made sense of their changing worlds.

By restricting its focus to smaller geographic scales, but stressing that towns, colonies, and regions were part of much larger networks, Early American Places will combine up-to-date scholarly sophistication with an emphasis on local particularities and trajectories. Books in the series will be exclusively revised dissertations.

The collaborating presses’ responsibilities are divided geographically. Georgia will focus on the southeastern colonies, the plantation economies of the Caribbean, and the Spanish borderlands. NYU will cover the northeastern and middle Atlantic colonies, and French and British Canada. Northern Illinois will cover the Great Lakes, the Upper Mississippi Valley, and the Great Plains.

“This excellent initiative promises a series of strong books elaborating on one of the major themes in recent early American scholarship: the importance of place. The rationale for the collaboration in publication is sound, as is the plan for the management of the series as a whole. An imaginative and exciting approach to the well-known dilemmas of academic publishing.”
—Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University

“The Early American Places series is an exciting development in scholarly publishing, one that will highlight the most important part of the study of history: the local and particular dimensions of global issues and trends. This is where the rubber meets the road, where ordinary people’s lives help to make, and are made by, the bustling wider world in which they live. Early American Places is an original series, and it will publish important scholarship.”
—Stephanie M. H. Camp, Rice University

On Slavery’s Border
Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865
Diane Mutti Burke

Sounds American
National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860
Ann Ostendorf

The Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez

Georgia Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 1
Edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood

Louisiana Women
Their Lives and Times
Edited by Janet Allured and Judith F. Gentry

Mississippi Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Edited by Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, and Marjorie Julian Spruill
Associate Editor, Susan Ditto
Foreword by Anne Firor Scott

Mississippi Women
Their Histories, Their Lives—Volume 2
Edited by Elizabeth Anne Payne, Martha H. Swain, and Marjorie Julian Spruill
Bibliography by Brenda M. Eagles

South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 1
Edited by Marjorie J. Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson

South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 2
Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson

South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 3
Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson

Tennessee Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 1
Edited by Sarah Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly Greene Bond
Associate Editor, Laura Helper-Ferris

Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges
Edited by Stephen Berry