University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books

The Punitive Turn

New Approaches to Race and Incarceration

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at...

The Dangerous First Year

National Security at the Start of a New Presidency

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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016

"You’ve got to give it all you can that first year.... You’ve got just one year when they treat you right, and before they start worrying about themselves.... So, you’ve got one year."--Lyndon B. Johnson, January 1965 In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first...

The Law School at the University of Virginia

Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson

by Philip Mills Herrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike. Yet today Jefferson’s original structures make up only a small fraction of a campus comprising...

Sons of the Father

George Washington and His Protégés

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Whether acting as a military officer or civilian officeholder, George Washington did not possess a reputation for glad handing, easy confidences, or even much warmth. His greatest attributes as a commander might well have been his firm command over his own emotions and the way in which he held himself...

A Political Nation

New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several generations, much of the scholarship on the political history of the period from 1840 to 1877 has carried a theme of failure; after all,...

Rot, Riot, and Rebellion

Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America

by Rex Bowman, Carlos Santos
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the university’s...

Contesting Slavery

The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011

Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians’ understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics. Contesting Slavery builds on the best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in revolutionary America and the early republic. The...

Immigration

Struggling over Borders

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center...

A Voyage to Virginia in 1609

Two Narratives: Strachey's "True Reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas

by William Strachey, Silvester Jourdain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume’s two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events’ even greater...

Blue Laws and Black Codes

Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia

by Peter Wallenstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation. In...

Broken Government

Bridging the Partisan Divide

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center...

Old Dominion, New Commonwealth

A History of Virginia, 1607–2007

by Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008

"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea.... All hoped for financial success and perhaps a little adventure; as it turned out, their tiny settlement eventually would evolve from...

The Grandees of Government

The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia

by Brent Tarter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in the seventeenth century through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and into the twenty-first century, Virginia’s history has been marked by obstacles to democratic...

Chasing Shadows

The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate

by Ken Hughes, Marc J. Selverstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president...
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