University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Alone among the Living
A Memoir of the Floyd Hoard Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
"When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father."
From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. On August...
Great and Noble Jar
Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K. Baldwin offers the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and traces the ways in which a rich regional tradition emerged from a unique cultural source.
As Baldwin notes, South Carolina's old legislative district of Edgefield (an area now comprising...
Hog Meat and Hoecake
Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard’s book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region’s history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways...
Retrofitting Sprawl
Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
Chattooga
Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river’s torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the...
A Cry of Angels
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope's last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream of a better life. Earl Whitaker, who is white, and Tio Grant, who is black, are both teenagers, both orphans, and best friends. In the same house...
Patrolling the Border
Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known...
The Takeover
Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
We Want Land to Live
Making Political Space for Food Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means “the peasant’s way”), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses research combining...
by Daina Ramey Berry, Jonathan M. Bryant, Bobby J. Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life...
Of Gods and Games
Religious Faith and Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
That Americans take to sports with a spiritual fervor is no secret. Athletics has even been called a civil religion for how it permeates our daily lives as we chase our own dreams of glory or watch others compete. Few would deny our national devotion to sports; however, many would gloss over it as...