University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history...
Virginia Climate Fever
How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.
In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash...
A Saga of the New South
Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves into the largely untold story of the decades-long postwar controversies over...
Race
The American Cauldron
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...
The Tangierman's Lament
and Other Tales of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty...
Intimate Reconstructions
Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia’s Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define, treat, reform, or protect children were never far from the surface of public debate and private concern in post–Civil War Virginia....
The Road to Black Ned's Forge
A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward Tarr, he became the first free black landowner west of the Blue Ridge. Tarr established a blacksmith shop on the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to...
Establishing Religious Freedom
Jefferson's Statute in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, Thomas Buckley tells the story of the statute,...
Charlottesville 2017
The Legacy of Race and Inequity
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the University of Virginia’s expansive community, many of whose members are involved in teaching issues of racism,...
Summer of Hate
Charlottesville, USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In August 2017, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, during two days of demonstrations by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and counterprotesters, including members of antifa and Black Lives Matter. Ostensibly motivated by the city’s plans to remove Confederate statues from two public parks,...
Monacan Millennium
A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 A.D. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607...
Communication
Getting the Message Across
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...
Daydreams and Nightmares
A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
From a rich trove of documents master historian Brent Tarter vividly recreates a western Virginia family's unique but representative experience of the secession crisis and the first days of the Civil War. George Berlin at first opposes secession, but comes to endorse it and is consequently run out...