University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Patriotism and Piety
Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Offering important insights for understanding both politics and religion in the early republic, this study demonstrates how significantly religion factored in the history of the Federalist Party and how the encounter with Federalism strongly shaped American Christianity.
Crucible
The President's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Drawing on the Miller Center’s First Year Project, Crucible showcases over forty prominent scholars and practitioners providing insights to guide and measure the performance of incoming presidential administrations in their crucial first year.
Coming to Terms with Democracy
Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture, 1800–1828
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists. When these young New England intellectuals and their contemporaries attempted to carve out a place for themselves in the rapidly changing and increasingly unfriendly culture of the early nineteenth century,...
by V. Y. Mudimbe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers...
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
An accessible guide and primary resource for general readers, students, and critics alike, this collection of essays on Edwidge Danticat is the first book devoted to her work, and it encompasses the whole corpus, not only Danticat's novels and short fiction but also her travel writing and her writing for children.
Migrant Modernism
Postwar London and the West Indian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasizing the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel...
Emily Davies
Collected Letters, 1861-1875
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Sarah Emily Davies (1830–1921) lived and crusaded during a time of profound change for education and women’s rights in England. At the time of her birth, women’s suffrage was scarcely open to discussion, and not one of England’s universities (there were four) admitted women. By the time of...
The Evil Necessity
British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.
In The Evil...
Avoiding War with China
Two Nations, One World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The United States could respond to China’s increasing regional and global assertiveness in ways that would spiral into antagonism and conflict. In this short book, renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni lays out an alternative approach that takes seriously concerns about growing Chinese power, but suggests ways of dealing with it that maximize cooperation and minimize unnecessary conflict.
by Angèle Rawiri, Cheryl Toman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose....
Intimate Reconstructions
Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 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....
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy
The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Beginning with the recognition that violence and struggle for power and sovereignty, not only a clash of ideas, were an integral part of the American Revolution, the editors weave emerging strands of interpretation of the Revolutionary era into a new synthesis that takes us far beyond the "rhetoric versus reality" approach that has remained in place for more than a generation.
Jefferson on Display
Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
By attending closely to Jefferson’s controversial clothing choices and physical appearance, as well as to his use of portraiture, architecture, and the polite refinements of dining, grooming, and conversation, Wilson shows in fascinating detail how Jefferson's self-presentation served his political agenda.
Tom Paine's America
The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Traces the brief but highly significant efflorescence of cosmopolitan, democratic radicalism, associated with Thomas Paine, in the U.S. in the wake of the French Revolution. This democratic moment--regarding race, economic justice, citizenship, and a more truly democratic politics--ended when Federalists...