University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books
Selling Andrew Jackson
Ralph E. W. Earl and the Politics of Portraiture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson’s personal artist from 1817 until Earl’s death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson’s...
by Paul Kens, Herbert A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888, Paul Kens provides a history of the Court during a time that began in the shadow of the Civil War and ended with America on the verge of establishing itself as an industrial world power. Morrison R. Waite (1816-1888) led the Court through a...
A City of Marble
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decades, the full implications of that spatial setting for the lives of religious people have received far less attention. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan brings together research from geographers,...
The Genuine Teachers of This Art
Rhetorical Education in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric. From this innovative perspective, Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations...
by Kelly Pemberton, Frederick M. Denny
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood....
A Sea of Misadventures
Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters,...
by Barbara Green, James L. Crenshaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Jeremiah and God's Plans of Well-being, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on the concerns and circumstances that shaped his struggles. Having confronted the vast complexity of scholarly...
The Consequences of Loyalism
Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Since the 1970s scholars have regarded Robert M. Calhoon as an invigorating and definitive force when it comes to the study of American Loyalism. His decades-long work redefined the Loyalists’ role in the American Revolution from being portrayed as static characters opposing change to being seen...
The Keys of Power
The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times. In The Keys of Power, Crick argues that one of the most...
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama
The Price and Promise of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill...
The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong
Transforming China and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao’s rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and...
Rhetoric and Power
The Drama of Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning with the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its...
Democracy and Rhetoric
John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty. Crick relies on rhetorical theory as well interdisciplinary...