University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Devotion
A novel based on the life of Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Devotion re-creates the life of Varina Anne (Winnie) Davis, the youngest child of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Winnie was not quite a year old when the family fled the Rebel stronghold of Richmond as the Civil War was ending. Twenty-one years later, Winnie was catapulted...
The Lost Boys of Sudan
An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan...
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
Princes of Cotton
Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between seventeen and twenty-five. All had a connection...
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures,...
Elbert Parr Tuttle
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States...
The Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.
At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad...
by Ivor Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Conversations with Miloševic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict. At its heart the book is a portrait of an autocrat who rode the tiger of nationalism to serve his own ends and to promote those who furthered...
The Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that...
The Invisibles
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Though Hugh Sheehy’s often tragic, sometimes gruesome stories feature bloodied knives and mysterious disappearances, at the heart of these thoughtful thrillers are finely crafted character studies of people who wrestle with the darker aspects of human nature—grief, violence, loneliness, and the...
Flush Times and Fever Dreams
A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread...
Tennessee Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence. The essays examine women’s lives in...
From Now On
New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. Major’s works—and this collection...
Conscientious Thinking
Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Conscientious Thinking, David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today’s political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent. Americans are living, he argues, in a profoundly transitional era, one in which the commonsense beliefs of the first truly modern...