Books published by University of Georgia Press

This volume explores the advances and retreats of tabacco's influence in South Carolina from the colonial period to its heydey at the turn of the 20th century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, World War II and right through to the late-20th century controversies.

Offers an interdisciplinary look at the spectacle and significance of the circus across a century of change in a southern state. This book relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town.

This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history. He uses not only biblical and religious sources but also draws on literature, mythology, and art. He ponders the troubling meaning of 'religious freedom' for slaves and later for blacks in the segregated South.

Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives.

Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy, Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded.

Until about 1820, even learned Americans showed little interest in non-European religions-a subject that had fascinated their counterparts in Europe since the end of the seventeenth century. Fostered especially by learned Protestant ministers, this new discipline focused on canonical texts-the "bibles"-of other great world religions.

Britain's colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the maintenance of economic ties with the Indian confederacies of the region. Those ties also relied on British traders adapting to Indian ideas of land and power. Paulett examines this interaction, revealing the ways that conceptions of space competed, overlapped, and changed.

Margaret Fuller, was a feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary. This biography discusses her Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father, who took over her upbringing, and her escape from her loveless home into books.

Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes.

Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world.

Examines political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movements in Middle Florida. Lee Willis takes a close look at the Florida plantation belt to reveal that the campaign against alcohol had a dramatic impact on public life in this portion of the South as early as the 1840s.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analysed.

In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most.

"A deft and vivid account of the emotional stages in a woman's life . . . All in all, a strong, sometimes devastating but ultimately hopeful collection by an exciting and gifted writer." -The Nation

Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.

The 11 stories in this volume cover a range of eccentric characters, including a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world, Kellie Wells's characters struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find someone to love.

Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about slavery. Auslander's research helps open up important arenas for reconciliation, restorative justice, and social healing.

The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. This uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of colour who participated.

"Lorenzo has a sharp and generous vision. . . . Nervous Dancer is a book full of pleasures for the ear and mind and heart." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analysed.