University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens...
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament....
Fatal Politics
The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final...
Women Fight, Women Write
Texts on the Algerian War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.
In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of...
by Leïla Sebbar, Mildred Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and...
At Home and Astray
The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Although the British have long considered themselves a nation of dog lovers, the dog as we know it came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in social attitudes and practices. In the Victorian age, the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense...
Reading Contagion
The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter circulating through air, bodily fluids, paper, and...
by Véronique Tadjo, Amy Baram Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from My Father, the latest novel from this internationally acclaimed author, a woman returns to the Côte d'Ivoire after her father’s...
The Golden-Bristled Boar
Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, thriving on six continents.
Greene purchased an eighteenth-century presbytery in a region of...