Books published by University of Georgia Press

Georgia politics is an interesting - and sometimes volatile - mix of tradition and change. This book uses a comparative framework to examine four major topics: the foundations of contemporary Georgia politics, political participation, major political institutions, and selected public policies.

Spartanburg is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations. Enriching our understanding of what globalization means to millions of small-town, blue-collar Americans, this title looks at Spartanburg as a model of how determined communities can shape and influence globalization to their benefit.

Covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive introduction to the history of US relations with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. This book provides an informed account of the role and place of the United States in the hemisphere.

Includes diaries that address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and more.

Set during the infamous Atlanta race riot of 1906, in which dozens of African Americans were killed or injured, this novel explores the tensions that exploded into three days of deadly mob violence through the intertwined stories of a white journalist, a black college professor, and the woman they both love.

Focuses on international law as the means of regulating and influencing international behavior. This work shows it to be a system unique in its nature - nonterritorial but secular, cosmopolitan, and traditional. It ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law to assess its prospects as a viable legal system.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America - and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture. Religious historian Martin E. Marty looks at the factors behind both the long period of Protestant ascendancy in America and the comparatively recent diffusion and diminution of its authority.

A study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South that takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. This work sheds light on the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

Expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. It identifies a theory of "ecological burden and beauty" in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order.

During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. This work contains twenty-three stories that give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed.

A Spanish-language edition of ""The Latin Deli"", Judith Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. This work opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as the ""El Building"".

Arranged in sections discussing southern agricultural history, Edmund Ruffin's observations on nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil rejuvenation. This volume offers his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. It presents a portrait of a progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist.

A biography of George Washington, written by his close friend and military aide, this work offers a glimpse of Washington's life, from his birth in 1732 until his assumption of the presidency in 1789. It assembles manuscripts from three separate archives to reconstruct and publish the biography along with Washington's ""Remarks.

Tracking Desire looks at the natural history and biology of Elanoides forficatus, the swallow-tailed kite. Once at home throughout much of the eastern United States, the swallow-tailed kite is now seldom seen.

In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. This book centers on a character who mixes Yiddish with his southern and has for his neighbors small merchants from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.