Books published by University of Georgia Press

Challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. This book sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.

Examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. This book looks at patriotism and collective memory.

Includes one of the best works done on the concept of wilderness, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or rethink the concept of wilderness.

Explores some caves on earth: from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. This book details the natural history and spiritual territory of these caves.

A collection of poems which navigate the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. It places the poet midway between the lives of his parents and the lives of his children and celebrates the simultaneity of experience that allows him to be, all at once, father, son, and boy.

A collection of poems which meditate on the natural world.

A collection of essays, which explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England.

A collection of poems which explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. It focuses on the psychological tenor of experience: the underpinnings of identity and the role of nature in both constructing and erasing a self.

Argues that barbecue is an invented tradition, much like Thanksgiving - one long associated with frontier mythologies of ruggedness and relaxation. This book shows how the perception of barbecue evolved from Spanish colonists' first fateful encounter with natives roasting iguanas and fish over fires on the beaches of Cuba.

Reviews the key aspects of the creation-evolution debate in the United States. This book discusses the response to Darwinism, the US controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, and the religious views of American scientists. It looks at the 2006 Dover, Pennsylvania, court decision on teaching Intelligent Design and other such cases.

Spanning fourteen years, these interrelated stories are connected by the pasts of childhood friends Orion McClenahan and Helen Jowalski. A freak accident changes their lives forever; the stories are about the people Orion and Helen grow up to be, the people they love, and the people they lose along the way.

Looks at how educations - in the North, at some of the country's best schools - influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social reforms of the Progressive Era South. This book explores why students sought a classical, liberal arts education.

Includes poems that create a call and response across six generations of family of the fictional Silas Wright, a black man born in 1907. This title takes on the voices and experiences of diverse characters in or connected to the Wright family.

Offers a new frame of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in US foreign relations during an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness.

A collection of essays, which argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights.

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic ""The Everglades: River of Grass"" had become synonymous with Everglades protection. This is a biography on Marjory.

Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing.

The stories in Silent Retreats trace the tentative journeys of men as they redefine who they are in a changed world while still coping with memory and desire in the old ways. Above all, these stories chronicle a search for absolution for the elusive freedom lurking among the very syllables of the word."

Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. This biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera's ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.

Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain's best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the ""odd couple"" image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds various dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship.

A collection of fifteen essays that place issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality at the center of the narrative of southern history. It covers topics such as: wars, reform efforts, social movements, and political milestones.