University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Practicing Democracy
Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Countering the familiar narrative of a party-driven, Jacksonian democratic awakening, the contributors to this volume challenge the correlation of party with democratic participation and emphasize the proliferation of competing public voices in the buildup to the Civil War.
The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt
Sources of Anti-Government Conservatism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The final book of a trilogy, The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt exposes the roots of the present-day conservative, antigovernment Republican Party in the Republican reaction to the domestic and foreign policies of FDR’s New Deal.
Face Value
The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been...
East-West Exchange and Late Modernism
Williams, Moore, Pound
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions...
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition
The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the first full-length treatment of Eric Williams as an intellectual, Maurice St. Pierre shows how the former prime minister's experiences in Trinidad and England radicalized him, leading him both to challenge colonial exploitation of Trinbagonians and to work to educate and mobilize them in the struggle for independence.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
These interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries not only highlight the early origins and transnationality of the genre but also expand it beyond the iconic and ubiquitous examples.
Bodies and Bones
Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using...
The War Bells Have Rung
The LBJ Tapes and the Americanization of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
With links to the recorded conversations on which it is based, this short digital book by the dean of Vietnam War historians, George Herring, imparts an unprecedented sense of immediacy to Johnson’s reluctant decision to commit U.S. troops to the Vietnam war, knowing full well it would undermine the Great Society reforms that were his greatest achievement.
Nationalizing France's Army
Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
By telling the story of France's noncitizen soldiers from the Old Regime through the post-Napoleonic era, this book uses the military as a lens for investigating the emergence of "the nation-state" and modern practices of citizenship during the age of revolution.
War upon Our Border
Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
In War upon Our Border Stephen Rockenbach charts the estrangement of two closely linked Ohio River Valley communities on opposite sides of the Civil War border between slavery and freedom.
Mad for God
Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. Sánchez's vocal and intolerable religious deviance quickly landed him in the very court he believed he was...
Market Aesthetics
The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Sáez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of authors such as Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Robert Antoni while showcasing...
Margaret Garner
The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery....
Reclaiming Nostalgia
Longing for Nature in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon by tracing its dominant forms in American literature...