Books published by University of Georgia Press

Published in 1865, this fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback-a Confederate deserter from Georgia who wanders the southern countryside he had sworn to protect-pays homage to the forms and dialects of the picaresque frontier folktale.

Published in 1960, this study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Jefferson Davis administration describes the legislation, debates, personalities, and politics of this turbulent time. An appendix gives brief biographical data on the Confederate congressmen, including their voting records on the Davis administration proposals.

Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta's famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. Williford describes the social, civic, and business life that flourished along the busy corridor.

What happens when a traditional region goes global? This work looks at the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of 'grounded globalism', in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.

Presents the texts of forty-eight lectures delivered during the middle years of Ralph Waldo Emerson's career. This title offers his thoughts on New England and 'Old World' history and culture, poetic theory, education, the history and uses of intellect - as well as his ideas on race relations and women's rights, subjects that sparked many debates.

Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, the author argues that Calhuasi's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change.

Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Drawing on an array of primary documents, this title offers a comprehensive account of Emerson's antislavery position.

Illuminates the moral, social, political, and religious values in canon law as it developed through the seventeenth century and reveals the attitudes and formal techniques of the authors, practitioners, and interpreters of canon law. The author also discusses the Corpus iuris canonici, texts which form the foundation of canon law.

Examines the many nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, exploring the ways in which they engage with - rather than escape from or obscure - social and political issues.

Presents the texts of forty-eight lectures delivered during the middle years of Ralph Waldo Emerson's career. This book offers his thoughts on New England and 'Old World' history and culture, poetic theory, education, the history and uses of intellect - as well as his ideas on race relations and women's rights, subjects that sparked many debates.

An anthology of Davis' civil war-era work. It explores such issues as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on the working classes.

Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history.

Explains how religious dogma and perceptions of Union barbarity and ineptitude affirmed in the Confederate soldiers a view of an indomitable South.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. This book states that the Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression.

Documents the rise and fall of 1960s liberalism. This book covers topics including anticommunism, civil rights, Great Society programs, and the counterculture.

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 H. Jackson III explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and working-class families.

Explores the historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi. This book acknowledges the state's diverse cultural and physical landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class affected women's lives in various private and public spheres.

Examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards. This book offers a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World.

Goes back to America's violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. The author argues that children had long been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old associations took on more meaning.

While referring to Samual Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays - Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth - to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities.

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.