Books published by University of Georgia Press

First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum Georgia. Lists magazines published during the time, including dates, places of publication, and names of editors and publishers. Plus more than nine hundred footnotes.

Published in 1962, this is a biography of John Forsyth (1780-1841) who was Governor of Georgia and Secretary of State under both Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Alvin Laroy Duckett chronicles Forsyth's achievements portraying him as one of Georgia's most versatile and accomplished politicians.

E. Merton Coulter's biography of William Montague Browne portrays the life of an Irish journalist living in the north who moved south to adopt the Confederate cause. During the Civil War he served as Director of Conscription in Georgia, aide-de-camp to President Davis, and brigadier general. Browne also took part in the defense of Savannah.

These nine essays originally appeared in the Georgia Historical Quarterly and range in subject from a group of Arcadians expelled from Nova Scotia that settled in colonial Georgia to the origins of the University of Georgia.

Published in 1972, this biography examines Daniel Lee (1802-1890), an agriculturist considered to be a forefather to today's scientific farming. Lee dedicated himself the advancement of farming through the diversification of crops and the use of scientific methods and was appointed the first professor of agriculture at the University of Georgia.

Published in 1964, this biography of Joseph Vallence Bevan tells the story of Georgia's first official historian. Bevan edited the Augusta Chronicle & Georgia Gazette, studied law, served on the Georgia legislature, and became coeditor and owner of the Savannah Georgian.

Starting in 1949, John W. Bonner Jr. compiled an annual annotated bibliography of books by Georgia writers for the Georgia Review. Published in 1966, this volume contains sixteen years of publications by native-born Georgian authors and authors who had lived in the state for at least five years.

Published in 1961, Georgia Journeys traces the development of Georgia with a particular emphasis on the lives of the ordinary men and women who helped establish the colony. Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman use primary accounts to reveal the many problems and challenges encountered during its development.

Published in 1995, this volume examines the Bray Associates, a philanthropic society founded by the missionary Thomas Bray. The Bray Associates was the parent organization of the Georgia Trustees, the founding and original governing body of the Georgia Colony.

Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves.

States that photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. This title argues for the centrality of photography to writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera.

Published in 1967, the letters in this volume reveal the experiences of four Georgia soldiers who served under Stonewall Jackson. From their correspondence emerges a vivid description of a soldier's daily life in the Civil War. Austin's historical narrative provides the reader with a context for the events discussed.

From Walt Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, to Pablo Neruda's invocation of an 'American love', to Derek Walcott's poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry invokes the foundational powers of language before a natural world already transformed by human violence. This work looks at these poets.

This collection of short stories has characters in the middle of their lives when things fall apart. Jobs, hopes, and marriages disintegrate while they seek strategies and explanations.

Features five essays that explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. This work focuses on the diverse and changing ways that law-makers and law enforcers responded to slaves' behavior and to whites' perceptions of and assumptions about that behavior.

John Oliver Killens' politically charged novels ""And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion"", or ""One Good Bull Is Half the Herd"", were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The author extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens' times and literary achievement - from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond.

Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding.

Gibson describes the colorful history of the islands and the various stages in their formation and modification. General information about tides, artesian wells, winds, climate, and other natural phenomena are included.

Host to over 100 species of reptiles and amphibians, the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA, is an intensely studied area of herpetological ecology. This guide is a summary of basic information on the site's varied herpetofauna, from taxonomy and distribution to behaviour and habitats.

In the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure-perhaps more influential in America than in his native France. The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes proposes a new method of viewing Barthes's critical enterprise.

Published in 1964, this study of the Republican Party in Georgia during the nineteenth century shows the party as a failed and frustrated institution. There were no official party records covering the period, and Olive Hall Shadgett abstracted much of this history from newspaper accounts.

Longstreet (1790-1870) was a lawyer, judge, state senator, newspaper editor, minister, political propagandist, and college president. Inge's biography was one of the first attempts to assess the cultural background of southern literature, and it was the first real effort to investigate the nature of southwestern humor.