University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Anthropocene Fictions
The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age....
The Working Man's Green Space
Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers...
The Illiberal Imagination
Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how—and to what end—U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social,...
Confounding Father
Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American history provoked such a polarization of public opinion. One supporter...
The Most Segregated City in America"
City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006
"But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, "we would not be here today." Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the...
Era of Experimentation
American Political Practices in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In Era of Experimentation, Daniel Peart challenges the pervasive assumption that the present-day political system, organized around two competing parties, represents the logical fulfillment of participatory democracy. Recent accounts of "the rise of American democracy" between the Revolution and the...
The Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776–83), and his work with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary...
Experiencing Empire
Power, People, and Revolution in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power— and its absence—in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective conditioned how they understood...
A Warring Nation
Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.
Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that...
by Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence,...
The Haverford Discussions
A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American...
by John R. Stilgoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past,...
Writing through Jane Crow
Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and...