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This work describes the profound changes to Yucatans society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexicos economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned Yucatecologistshistorians, geographers, cultural students, and an economistto chart the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization. 

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Gilbert M. Joseph, Eric N. Baklanoff, Edward H. Moseley

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The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

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To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.

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Stephen L. McFarland, Wesley Phillips Newton

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Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley

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An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast. The book responds to a need for a comprehensive archaeological overview of the Lower Mississippi Valley that forms a portion of an interstate corridor spanning nine states that will run from southern Michigan to the Texas-Mexico border. The culturally sensitive Mississippi Delta is one of the richest archaeological areas in North America, and it is crucial that research designs be comprehensive, coordinated, and meet current preservation and future research needs. The authors are well-respected researchers from both within and outside the region with expertise in the full range of topics that comprise American archaeology. They examine matters of method and theory, the application of materials science, geophysics, and other high-tech tools in archaeology that provide for optimum data-recovery.   

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John R Underwood, Hector Neff, Gayle J. Fritz, Robert C. Dunnell, Jay K. Johnson, Philip J. Carr, Amy L Young, Ian W. Brown, H. Edwin Jackson, S. Homes Hogue, James H Turner, Michael L Galaty, Carl P Lipo, Kevin L Bruce, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty

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In 1733, General James Edward Oglethorpe officially established the colony of Georgia, and within three years had fortified the coast southward toward St. Augustine.  Although this region, originally known as the provinces of Guale and Mocama, had previously been under Spanish control for more than a century, territorial fighting had emptied the region of Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and their Indian allies.  Spanish officials maintained that the long history of Spanish authority over the territory guaranteed Spain the right to defy and repel the English intruders.  By 1739, with diplomatic negotiations failing and the potential for war imminent, King Philip V requested that Don Manuel de Montiano, Governor of Spanish Florida, provide him with every document from both governmental and ecclesiastical sources that would demonstrate prior Spanish presence and control over the region.  Original documents and translations were delivered within the year and safely filed for future use--then forgotten.  With the outbreak of open war six months earlier, the diplomatic utility of the documents had passed.  For over 250 years, the documents languished safely in the Archive of the Indies in Seville until recognized, recovered, translated, and published by John Worth.  Within this volume, Worth brings to light the history of the documents, provides complete translations and full explanations of their contents and a narrative exposition of the Spanish presence along the Atlantic coast never before fully understood.  David Hurst Thomas provides an introduction that places Worth's translations and his historical overview into the context of ongoing archaeological excavations on the Georgia coast.  With the publication of this volume, one of the least known chapters of Georgia history is finally examined in detail.

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For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights some distinct facet of the genrethe genre that Woody Allen has said eats at the children's table . . . even in the world of scholarship.  The essays gathered in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.  Stanley Longman's essay on "The Commedia dell'Arte as the Quintessence of Comedy" introduces us to the inhabitants of "Commediatown," character types who are descendents of the Greeks and ancestors, it seems, of almost everyone who came after. Boris Senker, an eyewitness to Croatia's evolution from communism to democracy, reports on the all-too-real "Commedia" stereotypes that have found their way onto the stage in his homeland.  Other essays address the improvisational nature of "Commedia"; the roots of laughter and the expectations inherent in presenting "old schtick" to a new generation; comedic technique, verbal and physical, in Moliere; the use of the macabre to create humor in the "Theatre du Grand Guignol"; the story of Henry Fielding, the theatre practitioner most responsible for the British government's crackdown on subversive material, via the Licensing Act of 1737; Beckett's theatrical connections to the comedy theory of Henri Bergson; and do-it-yourself (DIY) comedyhappenings, situations, gatheringsas practiced in British stand-up comedy.  Volume 16 provides just a glimpse into the possibilities for comedy on the stage. If the past examples allow for extrapolation into the future, the position of comedy as a means of communicating problems and solutions for society's woes is remarkably sound.

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Edward Bert Wallace, Stanley Vincent Longman, Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Steven Dedalus Burch, Patrick Bynane, Diana Calderazzo, Broderick D. V. Chow, Luc Gilleman, Stanley V. Lungman, Christopher S. Morrison, Broderick D. V. Chow, Felicia J. Ruff, Boris Senker, Bihiana S. Horission, Jay Malarcher

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The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform.     Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage other in Buffalo Bills engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called Moral Reform Melodrama in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behns subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nations more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in todays polarized moral and political atmosphere.

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Eileen Curley, John W. Frick, David Carlyon, James Fisher, Rachel Rusch, Leah Lowe, Roger Freeman, Steve Scott, M. Scott Phillips

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A fascinating examination of the strategies and uses of air power in the First World War, Sky on Fire covers not only developments in military hardware and tactics but also how public policy and political considerations shaped the ways air power was deployed. Providing an excellent balance of data and statistics as well as human insights, Fredettes book is essential reading for readers interested in the air power, both historically and in contemporary conflicts.

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A Copublication of the Mid-American Theatre Conference and The University of Alabama Press.  Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.  Rhona Justice-Malloy is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi.

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Theatre History Studies, Mary Trotter, David Krasner, Felicia Hardison Londré, Brian T. Carney, Dorothy Chansky, Mary Barile, Michael M. O'Hara, Karl Kippola, M. Kate Sinnett, Karin Magaldi, Kristin Leahey, Stacy Wolf, Stephen Harrick, Shauna Vey, Christina S. McMahon, Brian Leahy Doyle, Peter P. Reed, Vanessa G. Baker, Rhona Justice-Malloy

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Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self,1877-1950

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In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life to people around the world. Thus, he asks, what happened between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the cold war that can help explain the failure of realism to dampen the crusading spirit in the South. American Historical Review

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The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan.

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Naomi F. Miller, Paul Minnis, Deborah M. Pearsall, Bruce D. Smith, Robin W. Dennell, Gary W. Crawford, Jack R. Harlan, Emily McClung de Tapia, Patty Jo Watson, C. Wesley Cowan

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Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

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Jackson R. Theatre History Studies, Scott R. Irelan, Jackson R. Bryer, John C. Hall, William W. Demastes, Noreen Barnes-Mclain, Judith E Barlow, Anne Fletcher, Heather S. Nathans, Aaron D Anderson, Rosemarie K. Bank, David A. Crespy, Stephen Harrick, Anne Fliotsos, Lou Bellamy, Elin Diamond, Antonis Glytzouris, Margaret Knapp, Landis K. Magnuson, Francesca Marini, Tavia Nyong'o, Margaret Thornton, Phil Groeschel, Mark Cosdon, Weldon B Durham, Barbara Ozieblo, Tyler Smith, Don B Wilmeth, Kenneth Schlesinger, Rebecca Kastleman, Rhona Justice-Malloy

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English translation of the second volume of Laurent Jouberts 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires  Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically. Gregory de Rochers skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Jouberts thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.

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Laurent Joubert, Gregory David de Rocher

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Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy

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Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier. One doll was black, the other white, and each wore a different colored dress. All of the adults picked the Barbie in the purple dress, while nearly all of the fifth graders picked the white Barbie. When the students experiment was banned an uproar resulted that spread to the national media. School board meetings and other public exchanges highlighted the potent intersection of local and national social concerns: education, censorship, science, racism, and tensions in foundation values such as liberty, democracy, and free speech.   For the authors of these essays, the exchanges that arose from Barbiegate illustrate vividly the role of rhetoric at the grassroots level, fundamental to civic judgment in a democratic state and at the core of ordinary democracy.   

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Darrin Hicks, Mark A. Taylor, Robert Hariman, Bruce E. Gronbeck, Alexa Hepburn, Kathleen Haspel, Herbert W. Simons, Bruce E. Gronbeck, James P. Mcdaniel, Karen Tracy

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Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

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Reveals what daily Maya life was like   For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and non-elite residences, ditched agricultural fields, and residential clusters just outside the core. Since 1992, a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research team has intensively investigated Blue Creek in an integrated study of the dynamic structure and functional inter-relationships among the parts of a single Maya city. Documented in coverage by National Geographic, Archaeology magazine, and a documentary film aired on the Discovery Channel, Blue Creek is recognized as a unique site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural construction to reveal the mosaic that was the ancient city. Moving beyond the debate of what constitutes a city, Guderjans long-term research reveals what daily Maya life was like.  

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This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 7001200. The volume brings together a broad range of professionals engaged in the fieldwork that has vitalized the theoretical debates on the development of Mississippi Valley cultures. The initial chapter provides a general discussion of various explanations for the rise of these distinctive ranked societies in the eastern United States (A.D. 750-1050) and sets the stage for the interdisciplinary analysis from multiple viewpoints that follows. The first section discusses a cluster of individual sites in the Midwest and Southeast and reveals the paralleland occasionally divergentpaths followed by the inhabitants as they transitioned from Late Woodland into Mississippian lifeways. The chapters in the second half discuss by region the emergence of ranked agricultural societies and examine how these networks played a role in the large-scale and roughly contemporaneous socio-political development.  Contributors: C. Clifford Boyd Jr. James A. Brown R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. John House John E. Kelly Richard A. Kerber Dan F. Morse Phyllis Morse Martha Ann Rolingson Gerald F. Schroedl Bruce D. Smith Paul D. Welch Howard D. Winters

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Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s

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These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction  The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Did these leaders play a pivotal role, or did many of them, especially in the South, succumb to societal pressure and strive to be accepted rather than risk being persecuted? If some of these leaders did choose a quieter path, were their reasons valid? And were their methods successful? The contributors in this volume explore the motivations and subsequent behavior of rabbis in a variety of southern environments both before and during the civil rights struggle. Their research demonstrates that most southern rabbis indeed faced pressures not experienced in the North and felt the need to balance these countervailing forces to achieve their moral imperative.  Individually, each essay offers a glimpse into both the private and public difficulties these rabbis faced in their struggle to achieve good. Collectively, the essays provide an unparalleled picture of Jewish leadership during the civil rights era.

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Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

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A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of the aesthetic dimension and the contemporary relevance of cultural works of the past. McGann moves through several broad categories in his examination of contemporary poetry, including the ways in which poetry must be abstract, change, and give pleasure. The author draws on sources ranging from the poetry of Bruce Andrews and Robert Duncan to Looney Tunes cartoons. The experimental move in contemporary poetry, McGann contends, is an emergency signal for readers and critics as much as it is for writers and poets, a signal that calls us to rethink the aesthetics of criticism. The interpretation of literary works has been dominated by enlightenment modelsthe expository essay and monographfor almost two hundred years. With the emergence of new media, especially digital culture, the limitations of those models have grown increasingly apparent. The Point Is To Change It explores alternative critical methods and provides a powerful call to reinvent our modes of investigation in order to escape the limitations of our inherited academic models. The goal of this process is to widen existing cracks or create new ones because, as McGann points out via the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, "That's how the light gets in."

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The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family. Records trace the Monacans of Virginia back to the late 1500s, with an estimated population of over 15,000 in the 1700s.   Like members of some other native tribes, the Monacans have a long history of struggles for equality in jobs, health care, and education and have suffered cultural, political, and social abuse at the hands of authority figures appointed to serve them. The critical difference for the Monacans was the actions of segregationist Dr. Walter A. Plecker, Director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1912 until he retired at age 85 in 1946. A strong proponent and enforcer of Virginias Racial Integrity Law of 1924 (struck down in 1967), which prohibited marriage between races, Pleckers interpretation of that law convinced him that there were only two raceswhite and coloredand anyone not bearing physically white genetic characteristics was colored and that included Indians. He would not let Indians get married in Virginia unless they applied as white or colored, he forced the local teachers to falsify the students race on the official school rolls, and he threatened court clerks and census takers with prosecution if they used the term Indian on any official form. He personally changed government records when his directives were not followed and even coerced postpartum Indian mothers to list their newborns as white or colored or they could not take their infants home from the hospital. Eventually the federal government intervened, directing the Virginia state officials to begin the tedious process of correcting official records. Yet the legacy of Pleckers attempted cultural genocide remains. Through interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, Whitlock provides first person accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened.  

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Rosemary Clark Whitlock, J. Anthony Paredes, Thomas John Blumer

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The frontier fighter who rose to the presidency and reshaped a nation. Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of Jackson have had to rely on later, incomplete or bowdlerized editions. It is therefore all the more valuable to have Owsleys critical restoration of the original edition, complete with its useful maps. The work is a straightforward history of Jacksons military career, begun by John Reid, Jacksons military aide throughout the War of 1812 and the ensuing Creek War. Reid wrote the first four chapters, and after his death John Eaton completed the work from Reids outline, notes, and papers. Owsley, quondam professor of history at Auburn University, has carefully restored the original edition, noted variants between this and successor editions, and included helpful apparatus, including a memoir of John Reid by Helen Reid Roberts, and indexes to the whole. This is the first paperback edition of this valuable record and includes the original four large-scale foldout maps on an accompanying CD.

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John Reid, John Henry Eaton, Frank L. Owsley Jr., Frank L. Owsley, Jr, Frank L. Owsley Jr., Jr, Frank L. Owsley, Jr

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The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

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Rethinking governance: Where democracy meets administration. This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostroms analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations. First published in 1973, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration remains one of the most influential critiques of the administrative state. Vincent Ostrom examines the intellectual roots of American public administration, questioning whether centralized bureaucratic systems align with the constitutional principles of self-governance. Through a rigorous analysis of institutional design, federalism, and public choice theory, Ostrom advocates for polycentric governancean approach that empowers citizens and decentralizes authority. This seminal work continues to inspire debates on accountability, legitimacy, and the future of democratic administration.