Books published by University of Georgia Press

Offers a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters - including seven discovered since the book's original appearance - reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke.

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the experience.

First published in 1958 and selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, Willie Mae is a first-person account of a black woman's life and her experiences as a domestic worker in a succession of southern households in the first half of the twnetieth century.

Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources - census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony - to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods.

The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local colour tales were written to sound as if they were being told to a group of small children on a winter night beside a blazing fireplace of a middle Georgia farmhouse.

Illustrated with forty-one songs from the original songbook, The Sacred Harp is a comprehensive account of a unique form of folk music. Buell Cobb's study encompasses the history of the songbook itself, an analysis of the music, and an intimate portrait of the singers who have kept alive a truly American tradition.

A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through words and gestures, what we are thinking and what we want from our loved ones.

By focusing not on women's history but on the history of men's attitudes toward their female companions, The Subordinated Sex reveals, more than any other single work, the conditions that sparked the feminist movement and the reasons it must inspire a change in the lives of men as well as women.

Examines the life of the man who led the Cherokee people during the most trying and tragic period of their long history. John Ross was the principal Cherokee negotiator with the encroaching whites during the Georgia gold rush, guided the tribe through the Civil War, and struggled to preserve unity among his people during their removal westward.

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 of her letters to her husband, children, parents and others, reflecting her everyday life.

This work explains how technological and progressive programmes of educational reform operate on deep cultural assumptions that came out of the Enlightenment and led to the Industrial Revolution.

The story of a year of fly fishing in backcountry mountain streams in the Blue Ridge, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Christopher Camuto's love of trout fishing is wedded to a keen awareness of both history and nature.

A sympathetic, street-level pilgrimage through a revolutionary society in transition, recounting the author's six trips to Cuba between 1991 and 1999, and his attachment to the country. This paperback edition is updated with an epilogue that details Ripley's seventh trip to Cuba in July 2000.

This companion takes the reader through Thomas Pynchon's novel ""V."" chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchon's many allusions. It draws extensively from existing critical work on ""V."" to suggest the range of interpretations.

An exploration of poetry, proposing that poems are acts of persuasion and that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to engaging the reader. A variety of poetic examples are discussed, and the author calls on such masters of the craft as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

A reprinted edition of Charles Colcock Jones Jr's 1888 publication of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast. The stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as ""Buh Rabbit"", ""Buh Ban-Yad Rooster"" and other animals.

Argues that gender concepts and constructions deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after its defeat. The book focuses on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy.

An introduction to the concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to create small-scale, ecologically sound, individually responsive communities with renewable economies and cultures. Emphasized throughout are communal ownership of and responsibility for land.

This detailed study of the 1513 Piri Reis world map offers commentary and explication of a major milestone in cartography. It aims to disprove dubious conclusions drawn and clarify longstanding mysteries in order to open up new ways of looking at the history of exploration.

A collection of poems by the renowned southern poet Sidney Lanier. This anthology reveals Lanier's interest in the welfare and preservation of nature and society and his opposition to southern industrialization.

This biography of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the white commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry of African American soldiers, presents a portrait of the son of a wealthy Boston abolitionist who never fully reconciled his racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's first black regiment.

The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, the author celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems.

In November 1963, the US government engineered the overthrow of the South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem, resulting in the escalation of the Vietnam War. This study asks why President Kennedy decided to depose his ally, despite warnings from his cabinet that such a coup would cause chaos.

This is a collection of stories where characters ricochet around the globe in search of diversion, money, enlightenment, and escape. The characters envision the solutions to their lives in a world where nothing is stable, nothing can be nailed down, and all face the same pitiless sky.

In this text, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His theories for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the period leads to a critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-Era culture.

In 1859, the Georgian Edward Isham, convicted in North Carolina of murdering a Piedmont farmer, dictated his life to his defence-attorney. This autobiography provides a perspective on the poor whites, and is accompanied by a selection of essays, which examine the meaning of the document.

Documenting slavery and its development in North America, this work provides excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. It portrays the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across two centuries.

This text blends East and West, nature and culture, the personal and the universal.

As the anthropological study of sex becomes more focused within the discipline, this volume offers a cross-section of current research that examines the biological and cultural interface of sexuality.

This text explains the American South's linguistic heritage with 3000 humorous specimens of the region's speech.