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March/April 1998


Odds & Ends

Bland Simpson, author of Into the Sound Country and other works of creative nonfiction, is the coauthor of Kudzu: The Southern Musical, now playing at Washington D.C.'s Ford's Theater . . . . A revised edition of Tar Heel Politics, by Paul L uebke, will be published by the Press this fall. The new edition will reflect the recent ascendancy of the Republican party in state politics. . . . author Carol Reardon has been overwhelmed with fan mail since her appearance on C-Span's Booknotes to disc uss Pickett's Charge in History and Memory . . . . William Ferris, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, has been named chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. . . . Jay Barnes has revised his bestselling North Carolina's Hurricane History to reflect recent hurricanes, including Fran and Bertha. The revised edition will appear in June 1998, followed in the fall by Barnes's book on Florida hurricanes.
Also be sure to look at all our recent award winning books.



excerpts from reviews

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire, by Janice A. Radway

"Not only lays bare the forces that produced middlebrow reading but also explains a good deal of what is going on in the world of books today."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"[Radway's] book is ambitious and engrossing, and it leaves us with much to ponder."--Washington Post Book World

The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America, by Patricia U. Bonomi

"A model of historical investigation. . . . Bonomi's book is more than an exoneration of Cornbury. It is a case study of what she aptly calls the politics of reputation."--Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books
Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival, by Donald Niewyk
"Fresh Wounds reveals the victims' devastating experiences of pain, loss, and humiliation with compelling authenticity."--Booklist
Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, by Donald C. Pfanz
"A shrewd, highly readable, and exhaustively researched account that restores Ewell's reputation as a skilled commander and one who stubbornly gave his all for the Lost Cause."--Kirkus Reviews
Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers, by Amos Perlmutter
"Amos Perlmutter's splendid Making the World Safe for Democracy . . . could not be more timely. . . . He writes with concision and authority."--Jacob Heilbrunn, Wall Street Journal

new in paperback


Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, by Christine Leigh Heyrman
Widely reviewed last year when it was published in hardcover, this book shows how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political a ttitudes. In the New York Times Book Review, Charles B. Dew wrote, "An extraordinarily rich exploration of the first hundred years of evangelical faith in the South. . . . [A] wonderfully told and beautifully written story." Recently announced as t he winner of the 1998 Bancroft Prize. $16.95 paperback, available in April 1998.

The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar, by Peter Ward Fay
Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, this book tells the story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe--the process loosely termed "the opening of China." In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship bet ween the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history. $16.95 paperback, available in March 1998.


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