University of Arkansas Press Fall 2008 Catalog Offers Diverse Line-up
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press has music for the ears of writing fans in October, a book about a free woman of color in antebellum Georgia in November, and a prisoner of war journal from Nazi Germany in December.
In addition to these three works, this fall the press has published two books of poetry and a history of the Mosaic Templars of America. These will be followed by books on the role of Texas in the Civil War, a book on race relations in Arkansas and a portrait of an Arkansas archeologist who strove to preserve the state’s prehistoric past.
“It’s a collection that has a little bit of something for everyone,” said Tom Lavoie, marketing director for the University of Arkansas Press.
In 1842 she entered into a secret trust with a white man whose help she needed to become a landowner. The outcome of this trust arrangement was finally determined by a three-party trial that went to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1878.
Sumler-Edmond’s book provides new perspectives on the African American experience while resurrecting the life of this woman, who until now was lost to historical memory.
From the antebellum South, the press jumps forward to a prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany. Those who remember the film Stalag 17 and the television show Hogan’s Heroes won’t want to miss the journals of Claudio “Steve” Carano, who spent 18 months imprisoned in the camp after his B-17 bomber was shot down over the Dutch coast in December of 1943.
Sometimes the journal reads like a thriller as Carano records air battles and escape attempts. At other times, the POWs concentrate on psychological survival. This book allows readers to follow the recording of their firsthand impressions of the best and worst of human nature.
Poems give way to politics in A Pryor Commitment: The Autobiography of David Pryor, written by Pryor and Don Harrell, published by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and distributed by the press. Pryor served the state of Arkansas as a state representative, congressman, governor and U.S. senator, nearly half a century of public service. Pryor traces his career from richly detailed childhood memories to growing up to serve as an advocate for the most neglected segments of society.
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Contacts
Tom Lavoie, marketing director
University of Arkansas Press
479-575-3246, tlavoie@uark.edu
Melissa Lutz Blouin, director of science and research communications
University Relations
479-575-5555, blouin@uark.edu
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