Search results for ""lup - university of georgia press""
LUP - University of Georgia Press Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women Gender Georgia and the Growth of the New Right
Offers a statewide study of women's part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Robin Morris examines how the growth of the Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s was due in large part to the political activism of white women.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Melvilles Art of Democracy
This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values.
£38.16
LUP - University of Georgia Press Argentina and the United States An Alliance Contained
In the English-language survey of Argentine-US relations, the author challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. From the perspectives of both countries, he discusses topics such as Pan-Americanism, petroleum, communism and fascism, and foreign debt.
£29.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Styles of Creation Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds
These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of ""minor"" devices.
£42.03
LUP - University of Georgia Press Georgia Quilts Piecing Together a History
Showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state since the nineteenth century. This book also reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture. It contains chapters that follow various threads of the craft, including Civil War - era quilts, the cotton economy, quilting groups, and more.
£30.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Reading Essays An Invitation
Contains readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this literary form reveals about the ""art of living."" This book offers advice on the specific demands essays make and the opportunities they offer, especially for college courses.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Mead An Epithalamion
The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results.
£19.43
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Southern Underground Railroad Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Child Figure in English Literature
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LUP - University of Georgia Press From Jesus to JSetting Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People
Details the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle choices in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual and religious dynamics play out.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Why Any Woman Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late TwentiethCentury South
Scholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of late twentieth-century southern feminisms: popular culture by and about southern women.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Untold War at Sea Americas Revolutionary Privateers
The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.
£106.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Mansion of Happiness
Created in 1843 by the daughter of a clergyman, ""The Mansion of Happiness"" was one of the first children's board games published in America. Examining the history of toys and the broader implications of invention and self-identity, this book presents personal and cultural myths about mortality and memory.
£17.73
LUP - University of Georgia Press Navigating Souths Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
The fourteen original essays in Navigating Souths articulate questions about the significances of the South as a theoretical and literal “home” base for social science and humanities researchers. They also examine challenges faced by researchers who identify as southern studies scholars.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Famine in Cambodia Geopolitics Biopolitics Necropolitics
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.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press South Flight
In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. The collection is a eulogy, a blues, an unabashed love letter, and ragtime to the history of resistance, migration, and community in Black Oklahoma.
£17.73
LUP - University of Georgia Press Race and Reproduction in Cuba
While existing scholarship has approached Cuba’s demographic history through the lens of migration, both forced and voluntary, Race and Reproduction in Cuba challenges this male-normative perspective by centering women in the first book-length history of reproduction in Cuba.
£97.15
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Late Encounter with the Civil War
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Canaan Dim and Far Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh 19151945
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Long Devotion Poets Writing Motherhood
Presents a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to ""tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.
£22.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Cultivating Socialism Venezuela ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief A Memoir
A fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love - that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it.
£18.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press My Last Eight Thousand Days
Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, he turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself.
£19.43
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Field Guide for Immersion Writing Memoir Journalism and Travel
Recalibrates 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.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Growing Up America Youth and Politics since 1945
Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people - and their representations - at the centre of key political trends.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press H. G. Wellss Perennial Time Machine
Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and wide-ranging perspectives on Wells's masterpiece by an international group of major Wells and science fiction scholars.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Salamanders of the Southeast
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Pioneering American Wine Writings of Nicholas Herbemont Master Viticulturist
Collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States. Included are his two major treatises on viticulture, thirty-one other published pieces on vine growing and wine making, and essays that outline his agrarian philosophy.
£31.27
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Invention of Ecocide Agent Orange Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment
As 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.
£22.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Rethinking the South African Crisis Nationalism Populism Hegemony
Revisits 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.
£23.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed A Michigan Womans Civil War Journal
Provides a groundbreaking contribution to the comprehension of gender issues by making an extensive collection of intimate letters between Ellen Preston Woodworth and her husband, Samuel, accessible to the scholarly field and all readers interested in the Civil War, home front challenges, military family struggles, and gender roles.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Confederate Statues and Memorialization
Offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.
£17.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Grapevine of the Black South The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement
Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).
£29.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Invisible Sisters A Memoir
Deeply 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.
£18.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Campus Sexpot A Memoir
Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel.
£19.43
LUP - University of Georgia Press Hells Broke Loose in Georgia Survival in a Civil War Regiment
Follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more.
£22.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Central Citys Joy and Pain Solidarity Survival and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project
Explores complex social issues through personal narrative. Jerome Morris does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As Morris’s experiential narrative voice unfolds, the reader is brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Violence Within The Violence Without Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics
Wallace Stevens, one of the leading poets of the 20th century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. Here, Brogan traces Steven's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected.
£42.03
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Bricks before Brown The Chinese American Native American and Mexican Americans Struggle for Educational Equality
Writes about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown v. Board of Education. Marisela Martinez-Cola reveals that the road to Brown is lined with ""bricks"" representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country.
£22.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrecti The Legal Culture and Trials 17941795
£32.26
LUP - University of Georgia Press Maroons in Guyane Past Present Future
Available for the first time in English, Maroons in Guyane reviews the history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, explains how these groups differ from one another, and analyses their current situations in the bustling, multicultural world of this far-flung outpost of the French Republic.
£97.15
LUP - University of Georgia Press InsideOutside
Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price’s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.
£23.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Phillis Wheatley Peters
The first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties, only to fall into relative obscurity when she died in 1784 at barely the age of thirty.
£21.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press Deep Cut Science Power and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Islamophobia in France
In this groundbreaking book, Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed argue that Islamophobia in France is not the result of individual prejudice or supposed Muslim cultural or racial deficiencies but rather arose out of structures of power and control already in place in France.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Man Called White The Autobiography of Walter White
The autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the colour line and gather vital information.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Salamanders of the Eastern United States
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Urban Climate Justice
Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures.
£28.95
