Search results for ""LUP - University of Georgia Press""
LUP - University of Georgia Press Savannahs Midnight Hour Boosterism Growth and Commerce in a NineteenthCentury American City
Argues that Savannah’s development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative.
£29.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Pushing Back Women of ColorLed Grassroots Activism in New York City
Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of colour as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and environmental policies and practices.
£25.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Private No More The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray 102nd United States Colored Infantry
The John Lovejoy Murray collection of letters contains insights into the experiences of an African American soldier and his regiment during the Civil War. A private in Company E, 102nd USCT, Murray died of disease on April 12, 1865. Through his letters, readers can experience the war through the eyes of a literate northern Black soldier.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Parks Belong to the People The Geography of the National Park System
£42.23
LUP - University of Georgia Press Gender Race and Rank in a Revolutionary Age The Georgia Lowcountry 17501820
This volume explores the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Georgia Lowcountry.
£98.00
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Price of Permanence Nature and Business in the New South
Provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. William Bryan writes the region into the national conservation movement for the first time and shows that business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American conservationists.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Precarious Worlds Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, non-human materialities, and diverse economies. Expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press To Live More Abundantly Black Collegiate Women Howard University and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
How have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, this book examines how her philosophy of ‘living more abundantly’ envisioned educational access and institutionalized campus thriving for Black college women.
£97.15
LUP - University of Georgia Press Islanders in the Stream A History of the Bahami Volume One From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
This comprehensive volume details the history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighbouring territories in similar circumstances.
£32.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Robert Royston
Over nearly six decades of practice, Robert Royston shaped the postwar Bay Area with visionary designs for public spaces. Early in his career, Royston conceived of the ""landscape matrix"", a system of interconnected parks, plazas, and parkways that he hoped could bring order and amenity to rapidly developing suburbs. The idea would inform his work.
£23.71
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Man by Any Other Name William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood
Paints the most authentic portrait of William Clarke Quantrill yet rendered. The detailed study of this man not only explores a one-of-a-kind enigmatic figure but also allows us entry into many representative experiences of the Civil War generation.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Classics in Black and White Black Colleges Classics Education Resistance and Assimilation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Good Forest The Salzburgers Success and the Plan for Georgia
£25.29
LUP - University of Georgia Press Frogs and Toads of the Southeast
Enumerates the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads, including how they are different from other amphibians and the differences between a frog and a toad. This book also discusses the morphology of frogs and toads, the main groups to be found in the Southeast, and their habitats.
£23.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Howard Zinns Southern Diary Sitins Civil Rights and Black Womens Student Activism
One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Howard Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963.
£86.00
LUP - University of Georgia Press Practical Strangers The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved - a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Adams and Jefferson
Documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
£97.15
LUP - University of Georgia Press Borgess Poe The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Argues that Jorge Luis Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Edgar Allan Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.
£25.16
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Illustrated Slave Empathy Graphic Narrative and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement 18001852
Analyses some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship.
£40.10
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Continuous State of War Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil WarEra Gulf South
£29.27
LUP - University of Georgia Press Motoring The Highway Experience in America
Covers the myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience. This book features the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural and mechanical. It looks back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel.
£24.95
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.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Reconsidering Roots Race Politics and Memory
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Nuggets of Gold Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Nations Divided America Italy and the Southern Question
In this text, Don H.Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history. He examines both countries' struggle to create an independent, unified nation and the ongoing effort to instill national identity in their diverse populace.
£27.52
LUP - University of Georgia Press Green City Rising Contamination Cleanup and Collective Action
£93.28
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.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Revolutionary Poetics The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
Details the ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics - in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. Sarah RudeWalker presents rhetorical readings of the work of BAM poets in order to demonstrate the various strands of rhetorical influence that contributed to the Black Arts project.
£93.28
LUP - University of Georgia Press Curanderismo Mexican American Folk Healing
The practice of ""curanderismo"" or Mexican-American folk medicine is deeply rooted, both historically and culturally, in Mexican healing techniques. This book describes the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' 3-year apprenticeships with ""curanderos"" or healers.
£21.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press Rebels in Arms Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the AngloAtlantic
In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Charleston, Rebels in Arms tells the long story of how enslaved soldiers and Maroons learned how to use military service and armed conflict to fight for their own interests.
£97.15
LUP - University of Georgia Press It Takes a Worried Woman
Debra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble. The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. It Takes a Worried Woman explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all future hardship might still be.
£17.73
LUP - University of Georgia Press Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South
Documents how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black farmers’ lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the twentieth century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized the Jim Crow South.
£21.11
LUP - University of Georgia Press Georgia Pest Management Handbook 2021 Home and Garden Edition
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press High Stakes High Hopes Urban Theorizing in Partnership
Tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative, and at times, conflictive, evolution.
£19.43
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Lillian Smith Reader
Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South’s most important writers.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Searching for Home Waters A Brook Trout Pilgrimage
Part science, part environmental history, and part personal journey of the author, Michael K. Steinberg, and those he interviewed during his travels. The work takes a broad perspective that examines the status of brook trout in the eastern United States, employing a ‘landscape’ approach.
£35.26
LUP - University of Georgia Press Values at Sea Ethics for the Marine Environment
While the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Aiming to fill this gap, this book collects 15 papers on a broad array of ethical and policy issues.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Thoreauvian Modernities Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire, and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Good Wars Greatest Hits World War II and American Remembering
A look at how World War II reshaped American popular culture. The author captures the aura of the times, chronicling the production histories of over a dozen projects with wartime themes, examining how books and plays became films, how stars were considered and selected, and the public reaction.
£39.13
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Curse upon the Nation Race Freedom and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
£49.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press Eugene ONeills Last Plays Separating Art from Autobiography
This study draws on research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on him and distinguishes the man and his life from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. Included are his attempted suicide, his tuberculosis, and his relationship with his parents.
£43.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Lost President A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America
A detective story, this socio-cultural biography pieces together methodological inquiry with a jigsaw puzzle composed of secret documents, probate records, court testimony, speeches, and correspondence to tell the story of a man named Smith, of his vision for the US, and of the value of remembering secondary historical characters.
£46.80
LUP - University of Georgia Press Generations in Black and White Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
This portfolio of eighty-three photographs provides a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten took these photographs over the course of three decades. Included are images of such luminaries as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, and James Baldwin.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Through a Small Ghost Poems
This collection speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned with how both parents deal with this trauma without letting it tear them or their relationship apart.
£17.73
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
£93.28
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
