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Spring 2019 Seasonal Catalog Listing

Welcome to the UNC Press Spring 2019 Seasonal Catalog.

Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between February 2019 and July 2019. Feel free to scroll down and browse our new list, and click on any title to learn more. All these books can be pre-ordered, and will ship when published.

Booksellers and Librarians: Our new seasonal catalogs are available through Edelweiss.

Bruce Moffett Cooks

A New England Chef in a New South Kitchen

Bruce Moffett, Stefanie Haviv, Keia Mastrianni

Timothy Duffy's Southern Photographs

Timothy Duffy, Russell Lord, William Ferris

A Delicious Country

Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition

Scott Huler

Civil War Places

Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians

Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Will Gallagher

Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

Larry J. Daniel

A Saint of Our Own

How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Mothers and Strangers

Essays on Motherhood from the New South

Samia Serageldin, Lee Smith

The Men and the Moment

The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America

Aram Goudsouzian

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics

Rob Christensen

North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight

Larry E. Tise

Every True Pleasure

LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina

Wilton Barnhardt

The Last Battleground

The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

Philip Gerard

The New Guide to North Carolina Beaches

All You Need to Know to Explore and Enjoy Currituck, Calabash, and Everywhere Between

Glenn Morris

North Carolina Lighthouses

The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach

Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, Bruce Roberts, Ray Jones

Backpacking Virginia

The Definitive Guide to 40 Can't-Miss Trips from Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean

Johnny Molloy

The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition

Race and Redemption in the New South

Osha Gray Davidson

Rethinking Aging

Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

Jean Anderson's Preserving Guide

How to Pickle and Preserve, Can and Freeze, Dry and Store Vegetables and Fruits

Jean Anderson

Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State

Foy Allen Edelman

Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America

Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn

Caribbean New Orleans

Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society

Cécile Vidal

Illusions of Emancipation

The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy

Integration Now

Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education

William P. Hustwit

Feminism for the Americas

The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

Katherine M. Marino

Where We Find Ourselves

The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922

Margaret Sartor, Alex Harris, Deborah Willis, Michael Lesy

Rice in the Time of Sugar

The Political Economy of Food in Cuba

Louis A. Pérez Jr.

France and the American Civil War

A Diplomatic History

Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards, Don H. Doyle

Private Confederacies

The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers

James J. Broomall

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

Traci Parker

The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South

Evan Faulkenbury

Caging Borders and Carceral States

Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance

Robert T. Chase

Black Food Geographies

Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.

Ashanté M. Reese, Dara Cooper

Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas

Aline Helg, Lara Vergnaud

Monumental Mobility

The Memory Work of Massasoit

Lisa Blee, Jean M. O'Brien

Indians on the Move

Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

Douglas K. Miller

A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina

Seth Kotch

North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders

Jeff Broadwater, Troy L. Kickler

Finding God through Yoga

Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age

David J. Neumann

Prescribing the Dharma

Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion

Ira Helderman

In a Pure Muslim Land

Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools

Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?

Candy Gunther Brown

Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World

Babak Rahimi, Peyman Eshaghi

The Wild and the Toxic

American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health

Jennifer Thomson

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World

Pete Minard

The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880

Wendy Gonaver

New World Cities

Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas

John Tutino, Martin V. Melosi

The Invention of the Favela

Licia do Prado Valladares, Robert N. Anderson

Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics

Sarah Ehlers

Sovereign Entrepreneurs

Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty

Courtney Lewis

The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad

Alexander Rocklin

An Anthropology of Marxism

Cedric J. Robinson, H. L. T. Quan, Avery F. Gordon

Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Timothy B. Tyson

Troubled Memory, Second Edition

Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana

Lawrence N. Powell

Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition

Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light

Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England

Douglas L. Winiarski

John Witherspoon's American Revolution

Gideon Mailer

The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

Jennifer Van Horn

The Common Cause

Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

Robert G. Parkinson

Intimations of Modernity

Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Louis A. Pérez Jr.

The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

Elaine Frantz Parsons

Not Straight, Not White

Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

Kevin Mumford

The Yankee Plague

Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

Lorien Foote

A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

Lisa A. Lindsay

The Resilience of Southern Identity

Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People

Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts

The Second Line of Defense

American Women and World War I

Lynn Dumenil

Sex and the Civil War

Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality

Judith Giesberg

Midnight in America

Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War

Jonathan W. White

With Malice toward Some

Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era

William A. Blair

A History

Rod Phillips

Born to Be Wild

The Rise of the American Motorcyclist

Randy D. McBee

The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

Lisa Yarger

Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

Sarah Haley

Josephus Daniels

His Life and Times

Lee A. Craig

Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament

John Patrick Coby

Narrating Desire

Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Sol Miguel-Prendes

Orientaciones transpacíficas

la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia

Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez