University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
Humboldt and Jefferson
A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through...
Bewildered Travel
The Sacred Quest for Confusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not...
Religious Freedom
Jefferson’s Legacy, America's Creed
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment. Jefferson’s expansive vision—including his insistence that political freedom and free thought would be at...
by Friedrich Spee
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused...
Mathilde Blind
Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), a freethinking radical feminist.
Born to politically radical parents, Blind had, by the time she was...
by Elliot A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D. Roosevelt had been killed by one of Giuseppe Zangara’s bullets in Miami on February 17, 1933? Would there have been a New Deal under an administration led...
The Last Afrikaner Leaders
A Supreme Test of Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Finalist for the Alan Paton Award
In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the...
Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher...
To Pass On a Good Earth
The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets,...
Intelligent Infrastructure
Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the...
Polygraphies
Francophone Women Writing Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maïssa Bey, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem....
A Separate Civil War
Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian communities of North Georgia, things were very different. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia’s northern...
Sites of Southern Memory
The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial Day speeches and burial rituals. Cemeteries spoke the language of southern memory, and identity was displayed in ritualistic...
Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such...