Books published by University of Georgia Press

Much about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is ageless, yet its author was completely immersed in the age in which he wrote. This work looks at the various influences of contemporary American culture and history on the formation of Mark Twain?s masterwork.

This work is a study of evangelicalism, sentimentalism and nationalism in early African American holy women's autobiography. At its core are analyses of the life writings of six women - Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Nancy Prince, Mattie J. Jackson and Julia Foote.

This world is filled with uncontainable data, a rush of experiences tumbling one after the other, experiences whose logic is only that they have happened, or haven't - or worst of all, cannot be determined.

In this book Bill C. Malone recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers.

Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in hearsay and folklore as profusely and as controversially as has James Monroe Smith. E. Merton Coulter seeks to separate fact from fiction in his account of Smith's varied activities and the final dissolution of his wealth.

Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894 in South Carolina, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse college for 27 years and as the first black president of the Atlanta School Board. This, his life story interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.

Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. This text chronicles the rise of a post-Civil War southern culture of defiance that still remains.

Spanning a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, this work explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environments. It covers more than 400 years of geological, ecological, anthropological and historical development in the region.

Focusing on what President McKinley called ""the ties of singular intimacy"" linking the destinies of the United States and Cuba, Louis A. Perez examines the points at which they have made contact - politically, culturally, economically - and explores the dilemmas that have arisen.

Dalton, Georgia, dominates carpet production in the United States, manufacturing 70 percent of the domestic product. This study ranges over 50 years to detail the unique environment of co-operation and competition in Dalton that fostered the rise of homegrown industry.

This book explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia. He considers how their distinctiveness and ""old world"" experience prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early moment in its history.

From 1773 to 1777, naturalist William Bartram journeyed through the American South from the Carolinas to Florida to the Mississippi River. This guide reconstructs as closely as possible the original routes that Bartram took, supplemented with maps, photographs and sidebars.

An analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws on an array of sources, from Keats, Dickinson and Whitman to three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems.

Investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington's military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to America. Don Higginbotham then explores the legacy of Washington's success.

A history of the University of Georgia that celebrates the bicentennial of the school's founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the American South.

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England.

Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery. Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the twentieth century.

In this groundbreaking volume, Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas bring together a comprehensive and widely representative selection of poetry reflecting both the diversity and commodity of male experience in the United States today.

Celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson describes folkways and beliefs that have endured for more than two hundred years.

A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social customs, and material culture.

Shows how the American public's perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century to the 1980s.

Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, The Dark Side of Hopkinsville is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness to a black child's life in a southern town at the turn of the century. Hauke has annotated the stories with recollections of the author's family and friends, who are often major characters.

From the turn of the century until her death in 1947, Lugenia Burns Hope worked to promote black equality in Atlanta, and on a national level in her discussions with such leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois. Highlighting the life of the zealous reformer, Jacqueline Anne Rouse offers a portrait of a tireless woman who worked to build the future of her race.

Recounts the struggle to reshape the post-Civil War society of the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, the Confederacy's last outlet to the sea. Focusing on events in the port city of Wilmington and its rural environs, William McKee Evans ranges in time from the region's occupation by Union forces in 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

Provides the first history of the relationship between the US and Haiti to be published since the 1940s. Utilizing a wealth of Haitian sources as well as the voluminous state papers, the book also benefits from methodological and conceptual advances in diplomatic history over the past half-century.

Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped conventional portrayals, this book reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval world - from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints.