Search results for ""LUP - University of Georgia Press""
LUP - University of Georgia Press Poison Powder The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison long after 1975.
£26.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Day I Aint Never Seen Before Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks Mississippi
The Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have rarely been celebrated. Part memoir, part oral history, and part historical study, this book tells the story of the struggle for equality and dignity through the words of these largely unknown men and women.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Folk Visions and Voices
Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales and reminiscences.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Presence A Novel
Throughout Presence, encounter and contact are the major elements of consequence, action, implication, and resounding significance. Encounter and contact between timeframes, cultures, ecologies, persons, intuitions, ways of living, and worlding. At these junctures are the moments of possibility - of violence and/or of budding community.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
This authoritative textual edition presents Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory "Life of Cervantes.
£63.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Boy Poems
A collection of poems which navigate the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. It places the poet midway between the lives of his parents and the lives of his children and celebrates the simultaneity of experience that allows him to be, all at once, father, son, and boy.
£17.73
LUP - University of Georgia Press Poor Atlanta Poverty Race and the Limits of Sunbelt Development
Explores the poor people’s campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta’s importance as a business and transportation hub.
£25.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Neighborhood Hawks A Year Following Wild Birds
Follows in the tradition of writings from Henry David Thoreau, Terry O'Connor and J.A. Baker, with John Lane using the red-shouldered hawks that live in his neighborhood to explore the concept of “commensalism”, the idea that two species can live near each other without harming or benefitting the other.
£17.73
LUP - University of Georgia Press Pain Pride and Politics Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Minerals of Georgia
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Through the Arch An Illustrated Guide to the University of Georgia Campus
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Eudora Weltys Fiction and Photography The Body of the Other Woman
Drawing on the context in which the symbolic protection of the white female body is symbolically linked with guarding the US southern body politic, Harriet Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty’s fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in “making a spectacle” of her corporeal self.
£43.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic 17601835
Focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. This book also provides a separate context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
£39.13
LUP - University of Georgia Press Rethinking Americas Past Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond
No introductory work of American history has had more influence over the past forty years than Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. This book is the first work to use archival and classroom evidence to assess the impact that Zinn’s classic work has had on historical teaching and learning and on American culture.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Century of Early Ecocriticism
This anthology looks beyond the recent interest in the relationship between literature and the environment to the earliest ecocritical works written between 1864 and 1964. Mazel argues that these early ecocritics played a crucial role in the development of environmentalism.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Greatest Beach A History of the Cape Cod National Seashore
Essential reading for all who are concerned with protecting gradually diminishing cultural landscapes. In his final analysis of Cape Cod National Seashore, Ethan Carr poses provocative questions about how to balance the conservation of natural and cultural resources in regions threatened by increasing visitation and development.
£37.13
LUP - University of Georgia Press Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly Country Musics Struggle for Respectability 19391954
In Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music's transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a national phenomenon.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Curious Garden of Herbs Cultivated and Wild Culinary Medicinal Cordial and Amusing of the EighteenthCentury Southern Frontier
A richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates the ""why"" rather than the ""how"" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a how-to of gardening methods, Kay Moss and Suzanne Simmons trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places.
£31.39
LUP - University of Georgia Press Susan Fenimore Cooper New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works
This volume contains diverse essays on the works of Susan Fenimore Cooper. They discuss Cooper's uses and manipulations of various literary conventions and illuminate her positions on conservation, religion, and woman's place in society.
£27.52
LUP - University of Georgia Press Maps to Anywhere
Writing on subjects ranging from his family to the origin of the barbershop, Cooper digs into the surface of the Southern California landscape observing the collision of the American dream with the realities of everyday life, in an attempt to make sense of contemporary America.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Escapes from Cayenne A Story of Socialism and Slavery in an Age of Revolution and Reaction
Sheds light on the ideological connections between the European ‘spirit of 1848’ and US radical abolitionism and reveals the scope of cosmopolitan solidarities available to fugitives of different national and racial origins in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Sentimental State How WomenLed Reform Built the American Welfare State
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Queering the South on Screen
Examines the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the American South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
£29.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Appalachia on the Table Representing Mountain Food and People
Rather than investigate the actual foods consumed in Appalachia, this book instead focuses on the representations of foods consumed, implied moral judgments about those foods, and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Slavery Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica 17881838
Examines 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.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Famine in Cambodia
Examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. The book documents how state-induced famine constituted a form of sovereign violence and operated against the backdrop of sweeping historical transformations of Cambodian society.
£26.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Liberal White Supremacy How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression
Argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of colour-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imprisoned Interlocking Oppression in Law Enforcement Housing and Public Education
Demonstrates how foundational policies in American history continue to work to the detriment of Black Americans - tying the racist foundations of America to discrimination in our criminal justice system and neighbourhoods.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Drum Major Instinct Martin Luther King Jr.s Theory of Political Service
Though there are studies devoted to aspects of Martin Luther King Jr.’s intellectual thought, no one has yet undertaken a comprehensive study of King’s overarching theory of political service. Justin Rose draws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermons, political speeches, and writings to construct and conceptualise King’s politics as a unified theory.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Anne Spencer between Worlds
Provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Winter Here Poems
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Bridging Revolutions The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton ONeall
Examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O’Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South’s transition from a slave to a free society.
£52.67
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Jekyll Island Club Southern Haven for Americas Millionaires
£37.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Breaking the War Habit The Debate over Militarism in American Education
Provides an original consideration of the militarization of schools in the United States and explores the prolonged battle to prevent the military from infiltrating and influencing public education.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Repurposed Rebels Postwar Rebel Networks in Liberia
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Constitutional History of Virginia
This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Brent Tarter’s Constitutional History of Virginia covers over three hundred years of Virginia’s legislative policy, from colony to statehood, revealing its political and legal backstory.
£35.26
LUP - University of Georgia Press Beyond Piggly Wiggly Inventing the American SelfService Store
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This book reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of the firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented self-service stores in a grassroots social process.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press We the Young Fighters Pop Culture Terror and War in Sierra Leone
Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, We the Young Fighters probes terror-based warfare and how Tupac, Rambo, and - especially - Bob Marley wove their way into the fabric of alienation, resistance, and hope in Sierra Leone.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Global City Futures Desire and Development in Singapore
Offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city”. Global City Futures contributes to critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state.
£22.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Stargazing in the Atomic Age Essays
During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Anne Goldman interweaves personal and intellectual history in essays that cast new light on these figures and their virtuosic thinking.
£20.27
LUP - University of Georgia Press Partial Faiths Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison
Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's ""Vineland"" and Toni Morrison's ""Paradise"". What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. This work is a study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms.
£23.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Raiders and Natives CrossCultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers
Building on archival research, Bialuschewski untangles the wide variety of forms that cross-cultural relations took. By placing these encounters at the centre of the book, the author changes our understanding of the early modern Atlantic World and the role that native populations played in the international conflicts of the seventeenth century.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
This volume presents Smollett's 1755 translation of Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes discussion of the composition, publication, and reception of the work, and considers it's originality or debt to other versions.
£98.05
LUP - University of Georgia Press Southern Beauty Race Ritual and Memory in the Modern South
Built on a foundation of ethnographic - including more than sixty interviews - and historical research, Southern Beauty explores three popular feminine rituals: sorority rush, the beauty pageant, and an Old South tourist production. All feature a cast of southern beauties with distinct traces of an imagined past.
£30.35
LUP - University of Georgia Press Final Resting Places
Brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation - and how those meanings still influence Americans today.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Where Death and Glory Meet Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
This biography of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry of African American soldiers, presents a portrait of the son of a wealthy Boston abolitionist who never fully reconciled his racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's first black regiment.
£21.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press An Unflinching Look Elegy for Wetlands
Offers an examination of a unique North American ecosystem in decline, investigated through eighty-five duotone photographs, scientific analysis, and critical interpretation. The project’s focus is the area of the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast and the history and fate of its wetlands.
£28.95
