University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Martin Munro offers both a history of apocalyptic culture in the Caribbean and an up-to-date account of the social, political, environmental, religious, and economic factors that have brought apocalypse back to prominence in the region.
The Specter of Races
Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the early twentieth century thanks to the work of European and Latin American anthropologists.
The Wild Within
Histories of a Landmark British Zoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This short and appealingly illustrated book narrates the history of the Bristol Zoo (UK), one of the oldest zoos in the world and a pioneer in the animal conservation movement.
The Battle for the Court
Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary...
Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies
Women and the Mexican-American War
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies, John Belohlavek explores the critically important roles of women on both sides of the 1846-48 war between the United States and Mexico.
The Equality of Believers
Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
This major work by the preeminent historian of southern Africa religious history demonstrates the critical importance of egalitarian Christianity for the creation of apartheid as well as for resistance to it.
Reading Popular Newtonianism
Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
As the first comprehensive study of Newton, print, and readership, Reading Popular Newtonianism will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of the book, the history of science, Newton, eighteenth-century literature, eighteenth-century history, or the interface of literature and science in this period.
Merely Judgment
Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Merely Judgment uses affirmative action in government contracting, legislative vetoes, flag burning, hate speech, and school prayer as windows for understanding how Supreme Court decisions send signals regarding the Court’s policy preferences to institutions and actors (such as lower courts, legislatures,...
by Maïssa Bey, Alison Rice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
New translation of multiple-award-winning Algerian writer Maissa Bey's autofiction about the plight of North African immigrant women in Paris.
Law, Politics, and Perception
How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Based on an innovative combination of psychological experimentation and studies of individual cases, the author advances a new theory about the ways in which policy preferences influence judicial decision-making. She demonstrates that "motivated reasoning" does indeed occur, but its scope is limited by rules of legal analysis.
Treasure in Heaven
The Holy Poor in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial...
Independence without Freedom
Iran's Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Ruhi Ramazani is widely considered the dean of Iranian foreign policy study, having spent the past sixty years studying and writing about the country's international relations. In Independence without Freedom, Ramazani draws together twenty of his most insightful and important articles and book chapters,...
The Newark Earthworks
Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This widely interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the contested significance of a large complex of geometrical earthmounds built by an ancient North American culture as a gathering place, it is thought, for allegedly social, religious, and astronomical observances.
Voters' Verdicts
Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In Voters’ Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters’ decisions in the election of state supreme court judges. Bonneau and Cann demonstrate that the move to nonpartisan elections, while it depresses...