University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there...
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson’s foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, De Soto’s path had been one of history’s...
Everybody Sing!
Community Singing in the American Picture Palace
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
During the 1920s, a visit to the movie theater almost always included a sing-along. Patrons joined together to render old favorites and recent hits, usually accompanied by the strains of a mighty Wurlitzer organ. The organist was responsible for choosing the repertoire and presentation style that...
Reading for the Body
The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South...
A Field Guide for Immersion Writing
Memoir, Journalism, and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style—immersion writing—Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and...
Love, in Theory
Ten Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the information age.
In ten captivating and tender stories, E. J. Levy takes readers through the surprisingly erotic terrain of...
by Patrizia Lombardo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Revolution must of necessity borrow, from what it wants to destroy, the very image of what it wants to possess.—Roland Barthes
In the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure—perhaps more influential in America than in his native France....
CAUTION Men in Trees
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. As suggested by the collection's epigraph from Superman—"Did you say kryptonite?"—the characters in these stories have reached a point where they realize...
Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist
Political Cartoonist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an apathetic, disinterested, and uninformed...
by Francesca Giovannini, William Keller, Tanya Ogilvie-White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however,...
America's Darwin
Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin’s theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America’s Darwin fills...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World
Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays on the impact of colonial slavery on France, the United...
The Priority of Injustice
Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.
Debates...