Books published by University of Georgia Press

Chronicles daily life on the battlefront, and also records interactions between blacks and whites, men and women, and northerners and southerners during and after the war. The author tells of being born into slavery and of learning, in secret, to read and write.

In 1955 the Forbes magazine list of America's largest corporations included 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 it had grown to 123. The essays collected here consider this dynamism, and the region's place in that ever-accelerating, transnational flow of people, capital, and technology known as ""globalization.

Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the motivations behind the ""whites-only"" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labour and fewer regulations found the South's doors wide open.

From McCullers' birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this book covers every significant event in and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; and her travels.

Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In this text, she studies a southern family to show how the biological, legal and fictive kinship ties between him and some 7000 of his descendants helped shape the interior South.

In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls ""what we almost know"". By recommending ways for writers to seek beyond the self for material, he aims to demystify the process of writing.

This work offers an illuminating assembly of facts about biodiversity and a straightforward analysis of the legislative stalemate surrounding the Endangered Species Act. Burgess surveys the history of the conflict over the legislation and the heated issues regarding its enforcement.

A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he criss-crossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveller, Peterson tells of trains and riverboats, opportunities and ecotourists, rain forests and shanty towns.

This text covers the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) and reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early 20th century. Contrary to her role as home efficiency expert, she epoused the 19th century ideal of preserving the virtuous home - and a woman's place in it.

These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how the community both regards itself and reveals itself to others.

North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to ""known members of the Communist Party"" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment. This work bares the truth behind the false image of the speaker ban's ostensible concern.

From the American Revolution to NAFTA to the Helms-Burton Act and beyond, this work offers an assessment of relations between the USA and Canada. It seeks to distil a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic and political developments of mutual importance during the past two centuries.