Books published by University of Georgia Press

Covering topics such as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, this work emphasizes: the diversity that existed within regions, states and denominations; the importance of local factors in shaping responses; and the pulls toward moderation that existed within the institutional church.

Seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina's Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, leaving possessions and slaves. This is the story from that time until Reconstruction.

This is a chronicle of Bulldogs' football from 1891 to 1916. Players covered include George Woodruff, Herschel Walker, and Hafford Hay.

This text focuses on the Jekyll Island social club's members and the ""cottages"" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. It tells the story of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.

This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights movement. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the race problem through the many people that he met.

This text provides an historical analysis of the main themes and directions of US-Venezuelan relations from the early 1800s to the 1990s. Approaching the subject from both Venezuelan and US perspectives, the author examines the political, economic and cross-cultural dynamics of the two nations.

Sarah Harriet Burney published five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, all of which met with reasonable success. These letters position her with her fellow women writers and shed light on her relations with her publisher and her ambivalence toward her own work and her readership.

This is a collection of stories about people boldly facing the sorrows and strains of everyday life. The author was the recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for this collection.

This volume examines the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The essays look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture and of religious and educational foundations.

Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening.

This edition of Smollett's classic features a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive textual editing, and detailed notes that cite passages from Smollett's non-fictional works and the works of his contemporaries to analyse the mass of allusions and references in the novel.

These 15 original essays consider armed conflict as a central aspect of science-fiction and fantasy writing. Looking beyond the superficial conventions of ray guns and aliens, they show how writers in the genre now are not so much imagining war more fully as they are ""re-imagining"" it.

A volume containing 862 poems of one of the most significant figures of American Transcendentalism, a protege of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It also makes available some previously unpublished material by Very. Historical notes and full textual apparatus complete the edition.

Examines the work of 20th-century white American poets from Carl Sandburg to Adrienne Rich, from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg, revealing within their poetry and casual writings a body of literature that transmits racism, even as it sometimes speaks against it.