Books published by University of Georgia Press

The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. This book discusses how the civil rights movement is remembered in American politics and culture - and why it matters. Among other things, it looks at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions.

Covers Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter's achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. This book includes the energy crisis, the Iran hostage situation, the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal and other treaties, and the diplomatic emphasis on human rights.

Presents a study of region, race, and gender that reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. This work is filled with insights into the region's role in producing hierarchies of race and gender in and beyond their African American contexts.

In this new edition of his widely adopted Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture.

Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This work presents an account of his wartime service which includes the minutiae of the common soldier's life.

Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the US Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun/em>, De Soto's path had been a mystery. With this book, anthropologist Hudson offers a solution to the question, ""Where did de Soto go?

Charts the stages of Martin Luther King's philosophical and political growth, examining his opposition to the Vietnam War, his response to Black Power, and his growing concern for economic justice. Fairclough rounds out his portrait with an assessment of King's legacy to America and his continuing relevance to the struggle for freedom and equality.

From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this translation, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a melange of reactions this is a collection of 50 ""fables of modern life"".

Examines developments in American higher education from the colonial era through the mid-20th century in their social, economic and political context. Topics discussed include the financing of institutions, the curriculum, education of women and blacks, college athletics and student life.

This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution.

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear they will descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.

This collection provides an anthology of classic and contemporary writings in the emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology reflects our interactions with the natural world.

This work looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr, to disclose the workings of the organization that supported him. It shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, and others played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago.