University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
Swift to Wrath
Lynching in Global Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americans in the American South. The nine essays collected here look at lynching in the context of world history, encouraging a complete rethinking of the history of collective violence. Employing a diverse...
The Executioner's Journal
Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands,...
Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists
Maryland and the Politics of Religion in the English Atlantic, 1630-1690
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists analyzes the vibrant and often violent political culture of seventeenth-century America, exploring the relationship between early American and early modern British politics through a detailed study of colonial Maryland. Seventeenth-century Maryland was repeatedly...
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the...
by Peter S. Onuf
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political...
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Toward a Semiotics of the Event
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles...
Different Shades of Green
African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism....
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions,...
Body and Soul
A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
A product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity.
In...
The Algerian New Novel
The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental forms of the period, expressing a new age literarily...
Slavery in the City
Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period. This...
Cotton's Queer Relations
Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Finally breaking through heterosexual clichés of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "Jezebels," Cotton's Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams,...
The Log Cabin
An American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and generously illustrated new book, Alison Hoagland...
Anthropocene Fictions
The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age....