Books published by University of Georgia Press

Provides the first book-length study of the contributions of religious leaders to the War on Poverty, and it demonstrates their centrality to that effort, both in supporting OEO director Sargent Shriver through their public testimony and lobbying efforts, and in co-funding and sponsoring community action programs.

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.

The first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of the Subaltern Studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical and political geography.

Tracing the rise in criminalization of immigrant communities, the book outlines a groundbreaking transnational ethnographic approach.

A detective story, this socio-cultural biography pieces together methodological inquiry with a jigsaw puzzle composed of secret documents, probate records, court testimony, speeches, and correspondence to tell the story of a man named Smith, of his vision for the US, and of the value of remembering secondary historical characters.

Both novice and experienced water sports enthusiasts will find all the information required to enjoy the Oconee river in this volume, including detailed maps, put in and take out suggestions, fishing and camping locations, mile-by-mile points of interest, and an illustrated guide to the animals and plants commonly seen in and around the river.

Essential reading for all who are concerned with protecting gradually diminishing cultural landscapes. In his final analysis of Cape Cod National Seashore, Ethan Carr poses provocative questions about how to balance the conservation of natural and cultural resources in regions threatened by increasing visitation and development.

Provides the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940-2002), an undersung leader in both the civil rights movement and African American theology. Freedom faith was the central concept of Hall's theology: the belief that God created humans to be free and assists and equips those who work for freedom.

Follows the delicious and contentious history of barbecue in America from the ox roast that celebrated the groundbreaking for the US Capitol building to the first barbecue launched into space almost two hundred years later. This is a spicy story that involves noted Americans from George Washington to Barack Obama.

The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina, writes W. Lewis Burke, is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state. All for Civil Rights is the first book-length study devoted to those lawyers' struggles and achievements in the state that had the largest black population in the country, by percentage, until 1930.

Examines the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases - across time, place, and circumstance - to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon's representations of power after the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s shed the paranoia and meta-physical bent of his first three novels and are central to his vision of resisting global neoliberal capitalism.

James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African American literature.

Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people - and their representations - at the centre of key political trends.

In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of US law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was one of the most influential southern writers. In Look Abroad, Angel, Jedidiah Evans uncovers the ""global Wolfe,"" reconfiguring Wolfe's supposedly intractable homesickness for the American South as a form of longing that is instead indeterminate and expansive.

"When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work."" With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed's Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil rights movement and the Cold War.

The first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. As this biography recounts Sears's life and career, it is filled with instances of how Sears made her own luck by demonstrating a sharpness of mind, a capacity for gruelling hard work, and a relentless drive to succeed, as well as a strict devotion to judicial independence and the rule of law.

In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.

Using the perspectives of both childhood studies and critical approaches to international relations, Jana Tabak explores the constructions of child-soldiers as ""children at risk"" and, at the same time, risky children.

Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household.

Argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative.

Recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama. Joseph Bagley argues that the litigious battles of 1954-1973 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt, not the South.

Offers a book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. These essays show that attitudes on nonproliferation depend on a ""complex, contingent decision calculus"", as states gauge how their actions within the regime will affect trade, regional standing, and other interests.