University Of Georgia Press imprint: 447 books

by B. J. Freeman, Noel Burkhead, Joe Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreation, a priceless natural resource that provides water and power for a great number of Georgia’s citizens, and an essential component to the region’s ecosystem. As public interest...
by Arnold Fleischmann, Robert M. Howard, Richard N. Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination. This brief and affordable study aid begins with...

The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...

Saving the Soul of Georgia

Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Maurice C. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013

Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine...

Georgia Women

Their Lives and Times

by Carlos Dews, Glenn T. Eskew, Steve Goodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role...
by Robert E. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when...
by Robert M. Howard, Arnold Fleischmann, Richard N. Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect developments in Georgia politics and government since 2007—a decade that has seen three presidential election cycles, two midterm elections, and a census. Updates reflect not only changes in how Georgia is governed but also the economic and...

A Boy from Georgia

Coming of Age in the Segregated South

by Hamilton Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind amostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. Jordan’s daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from...

On the Rim of the Caribbean

Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World

by Paul M. Pressly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In...

The Three Governors Controversy

Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics

by Charles S. Bullock III, Scott E. Buchanan, Ronald Keith Gaddie
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official. This is the first full-length...

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation

The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

by Drew A. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South. Wormsloe...

Marsh Mud and Mummichogs

An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia

by Evelyn B. Sherr
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

“This book,” writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, “is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and shelter in the vast expanses...

Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

by William Boyd, S. Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018

One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In...
by Gordon Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crowd of twenty thousand would prove to be nearly five times that size. The ultimately successful show,...
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