University of Georgia Press - Fall 2009 Catalog

Fall 2009 catalog of new, forthcoming, and recently published titles from the University of Georgia Press

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University of Georgia Press - Spring 2010 Catalog

Spring 2010 catalog of new, forthcoming, and recently published titles from the University of Georgia Press

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Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the...

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and government agents—sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions w...

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Sprawling Places

People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? In Sprawling Places, David ...

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South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times—Vol...

This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Essays ...

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Nationalism in the New World

Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled wit...

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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Pr...

In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist devel...

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Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Sl...

This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of Barbados, Jamaica...

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Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deep...

Now available in English for the first time, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess’s meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. As Naess approaches h...

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Walden by Haiku

In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and documents the underlying similaritie...

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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Sout...

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left...

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Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in...

A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too....

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Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christi...

Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism. This nationalism emerged from the experiences of s...

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Essays on Nature and Landscape

Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), though often overshadowed by her celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become recognized as both a pioneer of American nature writing and an early...

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Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter

During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American women. Mary Titus draws upon unpublished ...

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Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commer...

In Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry, Bruce W. Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation belt. Counter to th...

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Politics in Georgia, Second Edition

In keeping with the state’s major demographic upheavals of recent decades, Georgia politics is an interesting—and sometimes volatile—mix of tradition and change. In contrast to the state’s rural pa...

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Can't I Love What I Criticize?: The Masculine a...

Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison’s eight novels, this book explores Morrison’s admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African Amer...

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Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West F...

Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded—or swayed—the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern fronti...

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American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son...

As a writer, Philip D. Beidler has often drawn on his combat experience in Vietnam and his deep engagement with American popular culture. His essays tap these sources in powerful, truth-telling way...

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