Books published by University of Georgia Press

In the first undertaking of its kind in Percy criticism, John F. Desmond traces - through Walker Percy's six published novels - the writer's central and enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus - realism as updated by the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, the American philosopher.

Providence Canyon State Park preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon - and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning - to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the US south.

Marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr not only spent years doing research in coastal Georgia, she began her family there. Although Sherr's career would take her around the world, this special place stuck with her. Here she shares her deep knowledge of the remarkable environment that she, her scientist husband, and their two children explored time and again.

Within a few short years after emancipation, freedpeople of the Natchez District created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a grassroots democracy that transformed the South after the Civil War.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. A critical disjuncture exists between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other.

The role of faith in the lives of the twelve presidents who have served since World War II. Holmes examines the beliefs professed by each president and the influence of their faiths on policies concerning abortion, the death penalty, Israel, and other controversial issues.

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimise their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures.

These ten essays reflect the broadening critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. They offer insights into previously ignored issues, and include consideration of her early stories, her canonical status, and the phenomenon of doubling.