University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
The Most Defiant Devil
William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into this contradictory era came William Temple...
Satan and Salem
The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts. Over 150 people were imprisoned, and nineteen men and women, including a minister, were executed by hanging....
The Road to Charleston
Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to its brilliant architect, Major General Nathanael Greene. In this long-awaited sequel,...
Distant Revolutions
1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism is a study of American politics, culture, and foreign relations in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminated through the reactions of Americans to the European revolutions of 1848. Flush from the recent American military victory...
A Notorious Woman
Anne Royall in Jacksonian America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
During her long career as a public figure in Jacksonian America, Anne Royall was called everything from an "enemy of religion" to a "Jackson man" to a "common scold." In her search for the source of such strong reactions, Elizabeth Clapp has uncovered the story of a widely read woman of letters who...
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa
From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both....
Nature's Man
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson’s general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson’s "philosophical anthropology"—philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans...
The Angel out of the House
Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "truest and noblest woman’s work" and praiseworthy for having raised the nation’s moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "public persons"? In Victorian England, women’s participation...
Artistic Ambassadors
Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick...
Recollections
The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup prompted the great...
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers
History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers...
by Daniel Balderston
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
A distinguished poet and essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters, Jorge Luis Borges deliberately and regularly altered his work by extensive revision. In this volume, renowned Borges scholar Daniel Balderston undertakes to piece together Borges's creative process through...
Giant's Causeway
Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to...
Stranger America
A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist...