Books published by University of Georgia Press

Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. This is an early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of Johnson's birth.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.

Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.

This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. This book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, and - from the US perspective - often unintended consequences between the two countries.

Explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction onwards. This book contains twelve case studies that document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography.

During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a 29-year-old slave, was arrested, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed 46 buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. This work tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angelique.

Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and racial fears.

Focuses on the century following the Meiji Constitution, Japan's initial reception of continental European law. As this work traces the features of contemporary Japanese law and its principal actors, distinctive patterns emerge. Of these none is more ubiquitous than what the author refers to as the law's ""communitarian orientation.

Presents a descriptive critical theory for reading African Atlantic aesthetic production. This book examines how writers from the United States and the anglophone Caribbean challenge conventional Western narratives through innovative use, disruption, and reconfiguration of form.

After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income.

Presents the story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia. This work also draws on census and probate records, and includes additional family photographs, and offers genealogical information on the African Americans from the Burge plantation.

Presents an account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. This book situates Thoreau within a long tradition of ethical thinking in the West, from the ancients to the Romantics. It shows Thoreau grappling with important ethical questions that agitated his own society and discusses his value for those seeking to understand the ethical issues.

This is Karen Salyer McElmurray's raw, poignant account of her journey from her teen years, when she put her newborn child up for adoption, to adulthood and a desperate search for the son she never knew. In a patchwork narrative, McElmurray deftly treads where few dare - into a gritty, honest exploration of the loss a birth mother experiences.

Serves as a guide to Thomas Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"". This title takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.

Cuts through the moral ambiguities of life in the midcentury rural South to show us the heart and soul of a good but flawed man. Sharecropper's son, mill worker, and ex-convict - Ellis Burt surely knows adversity. For a brief and cherished time there was a woman, and then a child, too, who had been a kind of salvation to him. Then they were gone.

Rethinking the boundaries of racial, national, and sexual identity, this book measures contemporary representations of mixed-race identity in the US against the history of mixed-race identity in the Americas. The author argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

Weaving together personal and public history, this book chronicles the tumultuous events surrounding the desegregation of the University of Georgia. It debunks the myth that this flagship institution desegregated with very little violent opposition, demonstrating how local political leaders sympathized with, and even aided, the student protesters.

Discusses artists whose creativity is sparked by their defiant circumvention of licensing and copyright issues. The author is concerned about the fate of transformative appropriation. It gives us ways to look at the tension between IP law, musical meaning and appropriation, and artistic freedom.

Although Brazil and the United States have long regarded each other sympathetically, relations between the two countries have been adversely affected by distance, language barriers, and cultural indifference. In this comprehensive overview, Smith examines the history of Brazil-U.S. relations from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Tells about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and enslavement in Latin America. These essays model the styles that characterizes the cultural history of slavery's social, political, and economic systems.

This volume tells the story of the blues in Memphis through previously unpublished interviews with nine performers who helped create and sustain the music from the days before its commercial success through the early 1970s.

Revolutionary-era woman writer Mercy Otis Warren, whose works include a three-volume history of the American Revolution as well as plays and poems, was a major literary figure of her era and one of the most important American women writers of the eighteenth century. This book presents a collection of more than one hundred letters written by her.

This is a book-length study of free, white craftsmen and tradesmen in the pre-Civil War South. Michele Gillespie details these workers' worlds and tells how they struggled against declining social and economic opportunities while skilled slaves increasingly took up the mechanical, building, clothing, and decorative arts trades.

Kyle Dargan's debut collection of poetry, ""The Listening"" searches through the cluttered surface of contemporary life to tune into the elemental sounds within the marrow of living/life.

Profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most Southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority.

The Citadel is widely considered one of the most traditional institutions in America and a bastion of southern conservatism. This book argues that The Citadel has actually experienced many changes since World War II - changes that often tell us as much about the United States as about the American South.

By 1785 150,000 Scots had settled in America. Who were they? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? David Dobson's work draws on original research on both sides of the Atlantic to identify the Scottish contribution to the early settlement of North America.

Here on display in this collection is the cooking artistry, gift for teaching, and relaxed, confidence-inspiring tone known by Nathalie Dupree's audience. Nathalie Dupree shows us how to get that southern aura of comfort and welcome into our meals.

Aware of the difficulty of loving the world while feeding upon it, the poems of Dwelling Song hope vision is levity as they press language to make sight and song. This writing is a form of mimicry and yet an act of flight. Whether from the voice of a hunter, shepherd or farmer, it recognizes that moving forward necessitates turning one's back.