1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Author Jules Pretty joins us to talk about his recent book The East Country as well as his Manifesto for the Green Mind. Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction and This Luminous Coast, both from Comstock Publishing Associates. He is also author of The Earth Only Endures and coeditor of Green Exercise. Visit Jules Pretty's website at julespretty.com and follow him on Twitter at @JulesPretty1. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100215790 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100580610 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100812330

Co-authors Boz Welborne, Aubrey Westfall, and Sarah Tobin join us to talk about their new book The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States. (Fellow co-author Ozge Celik Russell was unable to join the conversation.) Boz Welborne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Smith College. Aubrey L. Westfall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wheaton College. Sarah A. Tobin is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. Özge Çelik Russell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Gazi University. Use the code 09POD to save 30% on their new book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140108323510

CUP Senior Editor & Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Philadelphia for the 2018 SHAFR Annual Meeting: https://shafr.org/sites/default/files/shafr_18_final.pdf If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Michael, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 United States History catalog. (Receive 30% off anything in the catalog by using the promo code 09POD at cornellpress.cornell.edu.) The electronic version of our catalog can be viewed here: issuu.com/cornelluniversitypre…?e=29596641/61702749

ILR Press Editorial Director Fran Benson joins us to tell us about her upcoming trip to the LERA 70th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this June 14-17th: https://www.leraweb.org/70th-lera-anl-mtg If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Fran, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 ILR Press catalog. (Receive 30% off anything in the catalog by using the promo code 09POD at cornellpress.cornell.edu.) The electronic version of the ILR Press catalog can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/cor_ilr-catalog-052418_issuu?e=29596641/61703082

Author David Schuyler joins us to talk about his new book Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism, and his book talk on June 14th at the Hudson River Valley Institute: http://www.marist.edu/publicaffairs/2018-06-04-hrvi-lecture-david-schuyler.html David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Schuyler is author of numerous books, including the award-winning Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his books when you order them directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140104006420 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100050550

CUP Senior Editor & Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Williamsburg, Virginia for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Omohundro Institute Conference. http://oieahc-cf.wm.edu/conferences/ If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Michael, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 United States catalog. (Receive 30% off anything in the catalog by using the promo code 09POD at cornellpress.cornell.edu.) The electronic version of our catalog can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/2018_us_history_catalog_issuu?e=29596641/61702749

Cornell is launching a new series, Histories and Cultures of Tourism, and Series Editor Eric Zuelow joins us to discuss what it is all about. We discuss the history of the field of tourism studies, seminal books in the field and what he and CUP Senior Editor Emily Andrew are looking for in regards to prospective projects. Along the way we also discuss Volkswagen Beetles, Roman graffiti, and Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. To submit a proposal for the series please contact Eric Zuelow and Emily Andrew via email. Their contact information can be found at the following websites: http://www.une.edu/people/eric-g-e-zuelow http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/contacts/ Eric G.E. Zuelow is an associate professor of European history. He specializes in modern Britain and Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the histories of tourism and national identity. Zuelow is author of A History of Modern Tourism (Palgrave, 2015) and of the award-winning Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the I

CUP Marketing Director Martyn Beeny joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Book Expo 2018: http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/ If you are at Book Expo this year, please do stop by Booth 3064 and say hello to Martyn, pick up advance copies of our Fall/Winter books (including one by John Cleese), and receive some choice CUP swag.

Author Jerry Jenkins joins us to talk about his two new guides from Comstock Publishing – Woody Plants of the Northern Forest - featured as both a beautiful 10 x 11 Photographic Guide, and also in more portable form as two Quick Guides – weather-resistant double-sided photographic charts that fold out to 26 x 36 inches. Jerry Jenkins directs the Northern Forest Atlas Project and is a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is the author of Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability and The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park and coauthor of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his new books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140102677790 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100847450

Host Martyn Beeny chats with Romi Gutierrez, associate director and director of sales and marketing at University Press of Florida about metadata, metrics, content marketing, influencers, local marketing, successful marketing, and the end of the book review!

CUP Editor in Chief Mahinder Kingra joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Kalamazoo for the International Congress on Medieval Studies. If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Mahinder, look at our new books, and pick up copies of our 2018 Medieval Studies catalog and sampler. The electronic versions of our catalog and sampler can be viewed via the following links: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/cor_medieval_studies_2018_mb_issuu?e=29596641/60896191 https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/medieval_studies_2018_sampler_issuu?e=29596641/60776790

Author Julia Cassaniti joins us to talk about her book, Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Julia Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. Her previous Cornell book, Living Buddhism, won the Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140107114010&fa=author&person_id=5710#content

Author Jonathan Karmel joins us to talk about his book, Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. For more than 30 years Jon has represented workers and labor unions and their benefit funds throughout the midwest in the federal courts and before the NLRB, Department of Labor, and EEOC among others agencies. Jon is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is the Union Co-Chair of the Occupational Safety and Health Committee of the American Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on labor and employment topics. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100125680

Author Tim Wendel joins us to talk about his book, Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia. A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of ’68, Castro’s Curveball, and High Heat, which was an Editor’s Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100978290

Author Daniel Bessner joins us to talk about his book, Democrary in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140104396220

Poet, visual artist, oral historian and licensed electrician Susan Eisenberg joins us to talk about her new collection of poetry, Stanley's Girl. Susan Eisenberg is Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106652980&fa=author&person_id=846#content

On Episode 2, host Martyn Beeny chats with Carrie Olivia Adams, a freelance publicist, about book marketing, the future of publicity, the NY Times and NPR, blurbs, and more.

In this episode we chat with Sarah Grossman, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications Managing Editor, about her experiences at the recent Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Washington, DC.

Coline Jenkins joins us to discuss her family's, and her own, pioneering work in promoting women's rights. The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline is a legislator, author and television producer. Through the years, she has used her talents to inspire both awareness and pride in women's history.

Author Julie Chernov Hwang joins us to talk about her book, Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists. Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484390