University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
The Problem South
Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial...
White Girl
A Story of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other...
Striking Beauties
Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women’s history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties,...
Slavery and Freedom in Texas
Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gillmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries—between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young—as rigid social orders are upset in ways...
On Slavery's Border
Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri’s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood...
Redrawing the Historical Past
History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore...
Writing the South through the Self
Explorations in Southern Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it. Constantly attuned to the pedagogical value...
Everybody Else
Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In the popular imagination, the twenty years after World War II are associated with simpler, happier, more family-focused living. We think of stereotypical baby boom families like the Cleavers—white, suburban, and well on their way to middle-class affluence. For these couples and their children,...
Black Woman Reformer
Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral...
Not So Fast
Thinking Twice about Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
There’s a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish andasks, “How’s the water?” The younger fish are puzzled. “What’s water?” they ask.
Many of us today might ask a similar question: What’s technology? Technology defines the world we live in, yet we’re...
by Andrew Menard, John Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning “about” Thoreau from an intermediary but, as the title suggests, in learning “from” Thoreau along with the author—whose lifelong...
Long Green
The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, this book explores tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, and World...
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat...
by Bonnie Carr O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Through extended readings of the works of P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and Fanny Fern, Bonnie Carr O’Neill shows how celebrity culture authorizes audiences to evaluate public figures on personal terms and in so doing reallocates moral, intellectual, and affective...