MANNERS and SOUTHERN HISTORY

Essays questioning the role of etiquette in the South
Edited by Ted Ownby

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

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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

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

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

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, 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

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.

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.

SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan

Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium
in Southern History Series
University Press of Mississippi

"This is an excellent collection of historical essays and commentaries. An outstanding group of historians develop and sustain an engaging and provocative series of historical arguments about slavery in the U.S. South."

Waldo Martin, University of California, Berkeley

BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH
From Colonialism to Rock and Roll
Edited by Joseph P. Ward

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

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

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

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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AMERICAN DREAMS IN MISSISSIPPI
Consumers, Poverty, & Culture1830-1998
Ted Ownby

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

THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI:
A Sesquicentennial History
David G. Sansing

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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