University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
by Paul Maltby
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Within the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian fundamentalism and the postmodern culture of disenchantment. Arguing that each camp represents the poles of America's virulent culture wars, he shows how the...
The Color of Power
Racial Coalitions and Political Power in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California. Oakland has been at the forefront of California’s multicultural changes for decades. Since the 1960s, the city has been a shining example of a fruitful liberal black-and-white political partnership...
Diversity Matters
Judicial Policy Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.S. courts of appeals had been composed almost entirely of white males. But by 2008, over a quarter of sitting judges were women and 15 percent were African American or Hispanic. Underlying the argument made...
The Haitian Declaration of Independence
Creation, Context, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
While the Age of Revolution has long been associated with the French and American Revolutions, increasing attention is being paid to the Haitian Revolution as the third great event in the making of the modern world. A product of the only successful slave revolution in history, Haiti’s Declaration...
Questioning Nature
British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry's complete exhaustion....
The Finger of God
Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers. Called the Israelites, they refused to leave their holy village of Ntabelanga, where they had been gathering since early 1919...
Visions of the Maid
Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda. The presence of the fifteenth-century French heroine in the cinema is particularly intriguing in relation to the role...
Ambivalent Miracles
Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities. The movement, which seeks to build cross-racial relationships...
What Time and Sadness Spared
Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Roma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust exerted a dark pressure on all of their lives but was never openly discussed. It was only when her granddaughter insisted on hearing the whole truth, with a directness...
Pirating Fictions
Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation. The golden age of piracy...
Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls
A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation. In our own digital age, in which IP has again become the object of intense debate, his voice...
Capital and Convict
Race, Region, and Punishment in Post–Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South’s post Civil War embrace of chain...
Genealogies of Environmentalism
The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first published in 1967, details the ways in which perceptions of the natural environment have profoundly influenced human enterprise over...
Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to...