University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...
by Jim Toner
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
I didn't invite him. The idea was all my father's, my seventy-four-year-old father who had never been outside America and who suddenly thought that Sri Lanka, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, would be a jolly place to visit.
When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided on a whim...
Reconstructing Democracy
Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but...
Eyesores
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
These eleven interrelated stories follow strands of hope and nostalgia that bind together, or fence off, the people of Windfall. Eric Shade's fictional western Pennsylvania community is a place we all know: a town bypassed by the interstate, its rail line clogged with coal cars that haven't moved...
Prison Pens
Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863–1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Prison Pens presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancée during the Civil War. Wash Nelson and Mollie Scollay’s letters, as well as Nelson’s own manuscript memoir, provide rare insight into a world of intimacy, despair,...
All My Relations
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires...
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera
An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with “small fishing villages,” through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
Harvey...
Unwhite
Appalachia, Race, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as “pure white stock” and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll’s Unwhite analyzes the fraught...
Compression Scars
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters—from a young girl experiencing her friend's strange demise to a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world—usually manifest in some kind...
Conventional Wisdom
The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them. Scholars and frustrated advocates of constitutional change have often criticized this process for being too difficult....
Campus Sexpot
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
She tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his. He remembered the fire those lips contained, the promise her kiss held. . . . In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled Campus Sexpot. Before...
Drowning Lessons
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds...
by Vlad Kravtsov, William Keller, Scott Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirable and to what extent. In this study, Vlad Kravtsov...
The Consequences of Desire
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding.
In "Counting Mercedes-Benzes," Marshall is a directionless young man who believes he can...