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LUP - University of Georgia Press Black on Earth African American Ecoliterary Traditions
Book SynopsisExpands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. It identifies a theory of “ecological burden and beauty” in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order.
£27.50
LUP - University of Georgia Press Vibration Cooking or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1970, not long after the term ""soul food"" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black ""consciousness raising"".Trade ReviewYou will learn from Vibration Cooking something about the anger, pride, generosity, and will of one black woman. Vertamae’s autobiography-travelogue-cookbook has a rare distinction: There’s something in it for everybody―of either sex or any color." —Washington Post"The fact that Vibration Cooking is now in its fourth reprinting bespeaks both its popularity and its necessity. The current scholarly interest in women’s studies, African American studies, African diasporic studies, and food studies provides no better time for reacquainting readers with Vertamae’s work. Her book is no less important now than when she first penned it over forty years ago. . . . Black food is more than kitchen scraps; black women are more than mammy figures, and black culture is more than a monolith. . . . I like this book!" —Psyche Williams-Forson from the foreword
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Origins of Futuristic Fiction
Book SynopsisAlkon examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of well-known masterpieces of the form by H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.
£34.89
LUP - University of Georgia Press Fire and Power The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative
Book SynopsisAtwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era’s most popular and influential narratives. Together, Atwill demonstrates, these key texts comprise a literary history of the space age, an exploration of the novel’s possibilities in uncertain times, and a disturbing critique of postwar society.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press At the Nexus of Philosophy and History
Book SynopsisDauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and history and encourage a balanced approach by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press We Are the Revolutionists GermanSpeaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Book SynopsisThe 1850s was a period of mass immigration of Europeans to America, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America’s abolitionists.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Invention of Ecocide Agent Orange Vietnam
Book SynopsisAs the public questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called ""ecocide.” David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Field Guide for Immersion Writing Memoir Journalism and Travel
Book SynopsisRecalibrates and redefines the way writers approach their relationship to their subjects. Suitable for beginners and advanced writers, the book provides an enlightening, provocative, and often amusing look at the ways in which nonfiction writers engage with the world around them.
£77.56
LUP - University of Georgia Press Transforming Scriptures African American Women Writers and the Bible
Book SynopsisOffers a look at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by black women writers. This title discusses how such texts respond as a collective’literary witness' to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Atlanta and Environs A Chronicle of Its People and Events 1820s1870s
Book SynopsisAtlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880—ranging from the city’s founding as “Terminus” through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth.Trade ReviewDefinitive . . . An exhaustive history of the city, which, in its faithful attention to minutiae, effectively captures the flavor of Atlanta.|A boon to the historian, the genealogist and to the average citizen who wants to fill himself in on the background of the leading Southeastern city.|A very competent and well-written history.|A very model of local historical writing . . . A history that will long stand as the definitive story of Atlanta.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Four Years in the Confederate Navy The Career of Captain John Low on the C.S.S. Fingal Florida Alabama Tuscaloosa and Ajax
Book SynopsisHoole traces Low's adventures in the service of the Confederacy. Low aided in the acquisition and delivery of the ironclad Fingal and the Florida and served with Admiral Semmes aboard the famed raider Alabama and was involved in the capture, commissioning, voyage, and detention of the Tuscaloosa.Trade ReviewThe clandestine world of the ‘Ghost Navy’ of the Confederacy is the special province of Four Years in the Confederate Navy. Hoole, a trained researcher, had the good fortune of finding in England the logbooks of Captain John Low, who served on five Confederate ships, including the famous Alabama, in the years from 1861 to 1865. The author shares with his readers the interesting research problem associated with his subject and, as a result, imparts a freshness to his work.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Civil War in Georgia A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
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£22.75
LUP - University of Georgia Press Why the South Will Survive Fifteen Southerners Look at Their Region a Half Century after Ill Take My Stand
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Explorations in Doughtys Arabia Deserta
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Women Gender and Terrorism
Book SynopsisIn the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Trade ReviewAn important book featuring the leading experts in the field, Women, Gender, and Terrorism goes beyond the rhetoric, stereotypes, and news headlines to provide the most comprehensive account of female militants available. With diverse case studies, unique first-person interviews, and thoughtful feminist analysis, the authors of this volume offer a wealth of information on the motivations, strategies, and impacts of female militants. This work disrupts several age-old stereotypes associated with ‘what women do’ during war and social movements including the idea of the inherently peaceful and nurturing woman, and the assumption of females as perpetual victims of male violence. Women, Gender, and Terrorism is undeniably groundbreaking, making an invaluable contribution to the literature on war, militarism, and terrorism." —Megan MacKenzie, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney and Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University"Laura Sjoberg, Caron Gentry and their deeply informed contributors dismantle the exoticized stereotype of the woman terrorist by revealing the complex dynamics between women, ideas about femininity, insurgencies and violence. This provocative collection will be of genuine value to anyone trying to be smart about gender, conflict, media and political mobilization." —Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History
Trade ReviewSoon it will be fifty years since the debut of Thomas Pynchon's award winning first novel V., in 1963. During those decades this famous writer has succeeded doggedly and amazingly in the task of secreting himself and his private life from the public eye and has published six more novels, a collection of short fiction, and various bits and blurbs of prose. With that anniversary Pynchon will turn seventy-six. The time is nigh, then, for critics to reckon with the body of his work, its place in the history of American literature, and of the novel. Cowart is certainly the one to do that work." —Steven Weisenburger author of A Gravity's Rainbow Companion"With his 1980 Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion, David Cowart produced one of the earliest sustained scholarly studies of Pynchon's fiction, and his work has remained among the best of its kind: not only intelligent, learned, and sophisticated, but also graceful, charming and accessible. Here he takes Pynchon's historical imagination and projects as his central focus, understanding them as integral to, not at odds with, Pynchon's manifest postmodernism. The Pynchon he constructs is politically engaged and something of a humanist, with a decidedly if ambiguously spiritual bent. To do justice to all these facets of a complex author is quite an achievement. This book is the real thing." —John M. Krafft Miami University"In this concise, jargon-free study, Cowart elucidates Pynchon’s postmodernist grappling with history in all seven of his novels and in his short stories, journalism, and ephemera. . . .This study will be extremely useful for beginning readers of America’s greatest living historical novelist and a pleasure for all experienced critics as well." —Choice"Pynchon’s work has always attracted superior intellects, and one of the field’s best, David Cowart, shares his insights in Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. . . . [T]he great contribution Cowart’s study makes is extending his thesis to Pynchon’s California novels in a way that lets readers see how they are central to the author’s career rather than marginal as some scholars have assumed." —American Literary Scholarship
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Star Creek Papers
Book SynopsisThe never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s by Horace Bond, author of Forty Acres and a Mule, a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough.Trade ReviewAn accessible and poignant work which will attract interest of anyone interested in the evolution of the black family and rural race relations.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Winter Sky New and Selected Poems 19682008
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Lachlan McGillivray Indian Trader The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier
Book SynopsisBy following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures. Cashin profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to the growing list of scholarly works on the development of the southern frontier economy, society, and politics.
£35.88
LUP - University of Georgia Press Looking for De Soto A Search Through the South for the Spaniards Trail
Book SynopsisLooking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.Trade ReviewHudson, calling herself a 'knowledgeable layman,' accompanied her anthropologist husband, Charles, on a six-week trip in 1984 to locate Hernando De Soto's route through the United States in 1540. This book is Hudson's daily journal of their travels: how they worked out De Soto's route using four contemporary yet conflicting chronicles and current archaeological research. Until more aboriginal sites are excavated, the exact De Soto trail remains hypothesis; theirs is a more credible route than John R. Swanton's Final Report of the U.S. De Soto Expedition Commission. The book was published as Hudson wrote it; updated segments of the route appear only in the epilog. This is a fine, nontechnical snapshot of an investigation-in-progress.|A warmly humane travel story about rural and small-town life from Florida to Texas. Descriptions of the region's ever changing terrain, vegetation, and climate fill the book, along with troubled musings about Americans' increasing disconnection from the land and lack of reverence for the past. Conveying the rewards and frustrations of lives spent in painstaking scholarly inquiry, Looking for De Soto also offers a firsthand glimpse into the daily work of anthropologists and archaeologists: the exchanges of ideas, the ventures through swamps and down deeply rutted farm roads, the endless poring over maps, charts, and notes. As if writing a detective story, Hudson suspensefully paces the narrative with the accrual of geographical, artifactual, and documentary evidence, punctuating it with false leads and other setbacks as mile after mile of the trail is redrawn.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Ancient Law and Modern Understanding At the Edges
Book SynopsisWatson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. From the days of Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's multilateral influence.Trade ReviewThe insights that Watson has into the workings of law and the legal mind are often brilliant, occasionally controversial, but never boring. It's a splendid book.|It is sometimes said that 'law is too important to be left to the lawyers.' That should not become an excuse for not mastering the law, although this book shows it has sometimes been used that way. Moreover, it shows how often legal rules have simply been borrowed, without giving any thought to their economic or social consequences. This fact makes it doubly necessary for scholars in other fields to know something about law and comparative legal history.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Slave Law in the Americas
Book SynopsisIn this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America–the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves–reflect not so much the culture and society of the various colonies but the legal traditions of England, Europe, and ancient Rome.Trade ReviewArguing that the slave laws of North and South America reflect more the legal traditions of England, Europe, and ancient Rome than the sociocultural traits of the various colonies, Watson has produced a fine study on the law of slavery. . . . Watson has ably demonstrated the relationship of law, legal rules, and institutions to the society in which they exist. Recommended for libraries with holdings in slavery, comparative slavery, and comparative law.|Despite the enormous growth of literature on the law of slavery, in this book Alan Watson, a law professor and author of numerous books on Roman law, attends to a neglected aspect of the law of slavery. He cogently summarizes, for an academic audience, the influence of Roman law on the law of slavery in the colonial New World. The author also argues that the formal legal rules maintained by legal elites were an autonomous variable controlling slave societies. Because most contemporary studies of the law of slavery treat formal law and legal traditions as a dependent, or an intervening, variable shaping the law in action, this work returns to the model of change dominating legal historical scholarship before scholars adopted concepts from the legal realist movement.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The State Law and Religion Pagan Rome
Book SynopsisA major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized by Constantine. Watson analyses how modes of legal reasoning in sacred law were carried over to private law, where they were often less appropriate, and were passed on to modern legal systems.Trade ReviewA courageous, readable, and illuminating study . . . It displays all the proven qualities of Professor Watson's style: clarity, crisp arguments, and that overarching vision that brings together things disparate and baffling, and illumines them all. . . . It will be a revelation to historians and students of literature, and it will enthrall the jurists and the students of religion.|Scholars interested in the questions of the interaction between Roman law and religion will find this book thought provoking and beneficial in elucidating various points and issues.|The significance of this slim, well-written, and informative book should be obvious to the student of religious history, theology, and ethics.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Weirding the War Stories from the Civil Wars Ragged Edges
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Civil War in Georgia A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Book SynopsisGeorgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analysed.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
Book SynopsisWith wit and insight, Thomas J. Roberts reassesses popular writing forms, such as westerns, romances, and fantasies, that are often denigrated and explores the motives and experiences of readers of these genres. Drawing widely from literary criticism, the sociology and psychology of literature, and popular culture, this is an incisive examination of our discretionary reading tastes.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Life on the Brink Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Black White and Green Farmers Markets Race and the Green Economy
Book SynopsisFarmers markets have become essential to the movement for food-system reform and are a shining example of a growing green economy where consumers can shop their way to social change. Black, White, and Green brings new energy to this topic by exploring dimensions of race and class as they relate to farmers markets and the green economy.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Fields and Streams
Book SynopsisExamining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organised, and viewed in the United States.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Beyond Walls and Cages Prisons Borders and
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Material of Poetry Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics
Book SynopsisPoetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages; Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.Trade ReviewGerald Bruns's The Material of Poetry provides an incisive account of the philosophical engagements of some of the most formally radical poetry of our time. With edifying cogency, he transforms the ancient war of philosophy on poetry into an aesthetic and ethical alliance on behalf of freedom. In bringing philosophy back to poetry, Bruns finds the truth of things in the verbo-voco-visual plenitude of language.|Avoiding obfuscating terminology, Bruns makes a compelling case for the proposition that 'anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem.'|Delightful . . . Wonderful . . . The Material of Poetry is one of the better books I have read on experimental poetry, one that makes reading the difficult poems of our era seem like vital and liberating work.|The ways in which Bruns draws attention to . . . areas that so richly deserve deeper ethical and philosophical investigation is interesting and exciting.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Silent Violence Food Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria
Book SynopsisWhy do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Michael J. Watts examines the relationships between famine, climate, and political economy.
£49.18
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Dinner Party Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism 19702007
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Sorry I Worried You Stories
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LUP - University of Georgia Press On the Rim of the Caribbean Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World
Book SynopsisIn On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character.Trade ReviewColonial Georgia was West Indian rather than North American. This startling conclusion becomes less surprising after reading Paul Pressly's extensively researched, impeccably written, and intellectually adventurous study of how Georgians turned a struggling colony into a dynamic economic success through copying West Indian plantation culture. By orienting Georgia southward rather than northward, Pressly convincingly shows that slavery, plantations, and the pursuit of economic gain by almost any means made Georgia a very different-because West Indian-part of the British Atlantic world.|This bold and highly original study adds immeasurably to our understanding of the imperial crisis in Georgia. Paul Pressly presents a subtle, complex analysis that lays bare the political ramifications of Georgia's mercantile connections with the Anglophone Caribbean. This is a most impressive first book and one that will influence the field for many years to come.|[An] extensively researched, impeccably written, and intellectually adventurous study of how Georgians turned a struggling colony into a dynamic economic success through copying West Indian plantation culture.|On the Rim of the Caribbean makes an important contribution to the study of British mainland plantation colonies. . . . Pressly’s rich foundation of evidence and thorough research enable a fuller and more detailed history of an often neglected colony. He has both situated colonial Georgia appropriately in the British Atlantic World and described it unusually well.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Geographical Diversions Tibetan Trade Global Transactions
Book SynopsisWorking at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Imagic Moments Indigenous North American Film
Book SynopsisAlthough Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger examines films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Cold War Dixie Militarization and Modernization in the American South
Book SynopsisFocusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarisation and modernisation of the Cold War-era American South.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Adventures of Telemachus the Son of Ulysses
Book SynopsisThe first critical edition of Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon's 1699 "Mirror of Princes," one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents From Truman
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an admirable and colorful yet balanced look at our recent Presidents and their religious beliefs. It will have wide appeal for all readers and particularly for those interested in presidential history." - Nancy Richey, Library Journal"Holmes, professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary (The Faiths of the Founding Fathers) examines the backgrounds of our presidents since WWII by delving into their families, the people who influenced their religious beliefs, and their patterns of attending Sunday worship. . . . [I]t is well-researched reading for the reader who wants to know about the presidency." - Publishers Weekly"[Holmes] is politically and confessionally nonpartisan, which allows him to write impressively balanced accounts of such matters as Nixon's betrayal of Billy Graham's trust and Obama's connection to Jeremiah Wright, who, on the evidence, was an excellent pastor who'd never been 'controversial' before the media started sound-biting his sermons. Only Kennedy emerges from Holmes' presentation as less sympathetic than current opinion considers him. Another interesting take on the presidency." - Ray Olson, Booklist"A distinctive element of American politics is its unofficial yet vital link with religion. . . . Holmes shows the personal side of this dynamic by examining the faith lives and patterns of the 12 American presidents who served after WW II, from Truman to Obama. . . . It offers a number of illuminating insights into the private lives of these very public leaders." - M.A. Granquist, Choice
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Blue the Gray and the Green Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Rethinking the South African Crisis Nationalism
Book SynopsisRevisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. This book provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today. It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Slavery Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica
Book SynopsisExamines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced labour throughout the British Caribbean. Colleen Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, and looks at how colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Love in Theory Ten Stories
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Vegan Studies Project Food Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Privateers of the Americas Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Book SynopsisExamines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were conducted on behalf of republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence. The book also offers a new perspective on the diplomatic and Atlantic history of the early American republic.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Invisible Sisters A Memoir
Book SynopsisDeeply moving and exquisitely written, Invisible Sisters is an extraordinary story of coming of age as the odd one out - as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as the healthy sister among sick, and eventually, as the only sister left standing.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Beyond Katrina A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Book SynopsisOffers a very personal profile of Natasha Trethewey’s natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In Beyond Katrina, Trethewey provides a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home.
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