Inside UGA Press
S pring 2 0 0 9
T he newsletter of the uni v ersit y of georgia press
Flying South
CONTENTS
Behind the Book
1
News and Reviews
4
Development News 6
Field Notes
10
Featured Author
12
Featured Series
13
Featured Books
14
Parting Shot
16
Behind
the
Book
Throughout history, American Indians in the South have hunted and eaten
birds, adorned themselves with feathers, and incorporated bird imagery
on pottery, in stone, and elsewhere in their material culture. In Spirits of the
Air: Birds and American Indians in the South, Shepard Krech III, a renowned
authority on American Indian interactions with nature, vividly conjures the
place of birds in southern Indian worldviews. Gorgeously illustrated with
more than 175 photographs, most of them in color, Spirits of the Air is a
book that environmental historian Carolyn Merchant says “will be of great
interest to historians, indigenous peoples, and birders alike.” In fact, the
book was lauded in advance not just by historians and anthropologists
but by top field ornithologists, such as Kenn Kaufman and Donald and
Lillian Stokes. Spirits of the Air was produced with generous support from
the Wormsloe Foundation and is the latest installment in Georgia’s series
Environmental History and the American South, edited by Paul S. Sutter.
Courtesy, Laurie Dann
Spirits of the Air, a book tied to the South, started by school so that I’d stay up to speed—and, to judge from memlife as a Georgia project. This wasn’t really apparent to me when ory and family photographs, spent as much time as I could with
I began to think about it as a book, perhaps because my most my grandfather. I was never happier than when tagging along
recent work at that point, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, on the mule-drawn wagons that took white-coated hunters and
had been on American Indians, ecology, and conservation writ pointers with names like Preacher, Poacher, and Pluto around
large. Moreover, I was born in New York and spent most of my the plantation in pursuit of quail. I also shot. At first I was aslife in New England and in the mid-Atlantic region. However, signed to rabbits flushed by the periodic fires. Then I got to try
when I was a boy, my family moved to Maryland, and in the years my hand at ring-necked and other ducks that roared in from
before I was sent back north to school, my parents took my sis- the Gulf at dawn to flooded cornfields. Finally, when I was older
ter and me out of the local school and headed
and deemed by my elders as able to manage it
for Thomasville, Georgia, for the month of
safely, I also took to quail.
Birding in Panama, January 2009.
February to visit my father’s parents, who
Birds were everywhere in Georgia: the game
spent part of each winter there.
birds, of course, but also hawks, owls, woodThis was in the 1950s, but to this day I repeckers, nuthatches, chickadees, thrashers,
member Thomasville as if it were yesterday.
mockingbirds, towhees, sparrows, warblers,
I loved the landscape—the mix of forest and
wrens, and others. The hunters, who were
field, the winter palette dominated by orangefocused on quail, were not terribly interested
brown wiregrass beneath a green canopy of
in the small song birds, which they lumped
southern pines—and the birds! My grandpartogether as “dicky birds.” Despite this atmoents and their kin managed the land for quail
sphere, I somehow became drawn to the birds
and, true to the era’s practices, burned the
individually, even the little sparrows. Once I
pine grasslands periodically to maintain the
told my father, for whom life was competition,
optimal habitat for these birds.
that I had seen a fox sparrow at the feeder. He
In Thomasville I played hooky for a
refused to believe it, and I, sensing opportunity,
month—except for the daily lessons prepared
promptly bet him five dollars, cont’d 0n page 3
from the Director
from the Provost
It is my pleasure to introduce the fifth
issue of Inside UGA Press, an important University of Georgia publication that would not exist without the
generous support of the Broadfield
Foundation (Bill Jones III, Trustee). In
these difficult financial times, we must
increasingly turn to private donors,
foundations, and individuals who share
our educational mission and goals.
While the current downturn has certainly affected UGA, I am
pleased to report that the University and the Press are strong and
moving forward in a positive direction, with the support of many.
I would like to congratulate Press authors and staff on winning an
exceptional number of book and design awards in 2008, a good
external measure of the ongoing quality of the Press’s publishing
program. My thanks, as always, to the Press’s dedicated faculty
Editorial Board and Advisory Council members, as well as to the
many other contributors recognized in this newsletter. Thank you
for your good work and continued support!
In 2008, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation invited U.S. university
presses to submit collaborative grant
proposals that would accomplish the
following goals: “Create new opportunities for publication in under-served
and emerging areas of humanistic
scholarship, . . . increase the attention
and value accorded to the publication of
monographs by exceptionally promising younger scholars, . . . [and] expand and encourage cooperation among university presses.” I am pleased to announce that
the University of Georgia Press, New York University Press,
and Northern Illinois University Press have been successful in
securing a major grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a
first-book series titled Early American Places. The University of
Georgia Press will focus on the southeastern colonies, the plantation economies of the Caribbean, and the Gulf South; New
York University Press on the northeastern and Middle Atlantic
colonies and French and British Canada; and Northern Illinois
on the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi Valley.
The University of Georgia Press will continue to seek new
partnerships and collaborative opportunities, such as the Mellon
grant described above, as we strengthen our core publishing
areas and move into digital publishing. I would like to thank our
many existing publishing and funding partners for continuing
to value and support the Press’s primary mission: to publish
and disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed books for students,
scholars, and general readers.
Dr. Arnett C. Mace Jr.
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Nicole Mitchell
Director
ADVISORY COUNCIL
EDITORIAL BOARD
Craig Barrow III, Chair
Savannah, Georgia
J. Benjamin Kay
Augusta, Georgia
Frederick L. Allen III
Atlanta, Georgia
Charles B. Knapp
Atlanta, Georgia
Linda P. Bachman
Athens, Georgia
Thomas S. Landrum, Ex Officio
Athens, Georgia
Roy E. Barnes
Mableton, Georgia
M. Louise McBee
Athens, Georgia
Peter M. Candler
Greensboro, Georgia
H. Bruce McEver
New York, New York
Wicke O. Chambers
Atlanta, Georgia
Richard Meyer III
Savannah, Georgia
J. Wiley Ellis
Savannah, Georgia
Paul M. Pressly
Savannah, Georgia
Peggy H. Galis
Athens, Georgia
Sarah V. Ross
Roaring Gap, North Carolina
H. Edward Hales Jr.
Atlanta, Georgia
Henrietta M. Singletary
Albany, Georgia
Thomas D. Hills
Atlanta, Georgia
R. Lindsay Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia
Bill Jones III
Sea Island, Georgia
Steve W. Wrigley, Ex Officio
Athens, Georgia
Hugh M. Ruppersburg, Chair
Senior Associate Dean, Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences;
Professor of English
Kristin Boudreau
Professor of English and Graduate
Coordinator
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
Director, Environmental Ethics
Certificate Program
Byron J. Freeman
Director, Georgia Museum of
Natural History; Senior Public
Service Associate, Odum School
of Ecology
Andrew J. Herod
Professor of Geography
John C. Inscoe
University Professor and Professor
of History; Editor, New Georgia
Encyclopedia
Doris Y. Kadish
Research Professor, Romance
Languages
John A. Maltese
Professor of Political Science
Paul S. Sutter
Associate Professor of History and
Graduate Coordinator
Patricia J. Thomas
Professor, Knight Chair in Health
and Medical Journalism
Robert J. Warren
Professor, Warnell School of Forestry
and Natural Resources
David S. Williams
Professor of Religion and Director,
Honors Program
Behind
the
Book
“Flying South” cont’d from
page 1
I was never happier
than when tagging
along on the muledrawn wagons that
took white-coated
hunters and pointers with names like
Preacher, Poacher,
and Pluto around
the plantation in
pursuit of quail.
Courtesy of the author
an exorbitant sum in
those days, and won!
As a boy, I was definitely into birds. I was captivated by paintings and lithographs of birds hanging on
the walls of my parents’ and grandparents’
houses, miniature carvings of birds resting on shelves, decoys nesting in bushel
baskets in the basement during the offOn a mule. Elsoma Plantation, Thomasville,
season, and real birds outside or cooking
Georgia, 1951.
in the oven. It was considered normal to
line up game birds—such as ducks, geese, in the South, it ranges widely throughout
doves, quail, and turkeys—in the sights of the region as well as time—indeed, from
a gun and then put them in the pot or to the first glimpses of birds and people in
feed inedible birds outside winter windows archaeological sites and material culture
with suet and seed or, as my grandfather through today. The sheer numbers of birds
Krech did with catbirds (and chipmunks in the South were phenomenal. Many
and squirrels), canned cherries.
were useful to Native people in a narMy grandfather fed my interest with row utilitarian sense. People consumed
gifts: a watercolor of black-capped chicka- birds—turkeys, passenger pigeons, and bined avian and human characteristics
dees by a friend of his working on a book wintering waterfowl, as well as small as ornithoanthropic beings. Many birds
on the birds of Long Island; his copy of wintering song birds—with gusto. They apparently functioned as augurs, their apErnest Thompson Seton’s Wild Animals I made objects from bird feathers and bird pearance, behavior, or vocalizations presagHave Known, which he had received as a bones. Many southern Native people wore ing ill or good fortune. Some birds, eagles
gift in 1899 at age eight; and shortly after feather garments and some slept under especially, symbolized authority and polity.
it was published, Thomas Burleigh’s mas- feather blankets. Feathers, naturally hued Others, such as owls, in particular ones
sive Georgia Birds. I hung the watercolor or colored red or white, also communi- with ear tufts, were perceived as ambivaon the wall and devoured the books, and cated status and hostile intentions.
lent night birds, dangerous, and by some,
they fueled a lasting interest in birds.
Birds were important in southern Indian the equivalent of witches. The Cherokee
Much later came undergraduate stud- symbolic systems from their earliest ap- and others called on many birds for help in
ies at Yale and graduate studies at Oxford pearance in the archaeological record. achieving ends such as curing toothaches,
and Harvard, and ethnography among the They figured through time in numerous successfully wooing a love interest, or disGwich’in of northwestern Canada. I never circumstances that we might isolate and pensing with an enemy. Some birds would
stopped looking at and enjoying birds. As call political, religious, and social, but in not be recognized as such by an ornitholomy interests in the relationships between Indian cultures the three were often in- gist trained in Western science, but they
American Indians and their environment separable—and in fact some “birds” com- were real enough to the Native people who
grew into The Ecological Indian, I
counted them as part of the living
came to suspect that one day I might
world of things that fly. As Native
turn back to birds through an anthrosoutherners might have said to peopological lens colored by a thirty-yearple of European descent when they
long interest in American Indians.
first encountered them, “Welcome
Chance plays a role in every projto a New World!”
ect, and in 2003, the Center for the
Study of Southern Culture at the
University of Mississippi played a
Shepard Krech III is a professor
role in mine. “Come join a group of
of anthropology and director
environmental historians for a day,”
of the Haffenreffer Museum of
read the request. “I’d like to talk about
Anthropology at Brown University.
birds and Native people” was my
He is a past president of the
reply. The return to Georgia began.
Krech with Sarah Ross, Press Advisory Council member
American Society for Ethnohistory
That was six years ago. Today,
and president and director of the Wormsloe Institute
and has been a fellow and
Spirits of the Air is the result. An exfor Environmental History, at the American Society for
Environmental History conference in Tallahassee this
is a trustee of the National
cursion through the intersections of
past
February.
Humanities Center.
the indigenous people and the birds
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news
and
reviews
In the News
Paperback rights to
Andrew Porter’s THE
THEORY OF LIGHT
AND MATTER were
bought by the prestigious trade publisher
Alfred A. Knopf with
plans for a January
publication. This is a
nice boost for the Flannery O’Connor
Award for Short Fiction, which strives to
launch the careers of fiction writers. The
book has been widely reviewed; Texas
Monthly called it “a beautifully executed
short story collection. There’s a crisp
economy to these stories that nicely underpins their offbeat narratives.”
AN EVERGLADES
PROVIDENCE, Jack E.
Davis’s biography of
Marjory Stoneman
Douglas, received
advance praise in
Library Journal: “Davis
offers an impressive
look at America during Douglas’s lifetime and the growth
of America’s environmental movement.
This outstanding volume is essential for
environmental and history collections.”
We expect good review coverage in Orion,
Forum (the magazine of the Florida
Humanities Council), and Garden and
Gun Magazine, among others.
PopMatters says of
Jeanne Campbell
Reesman’s JACK
LONDON’S RACIAL
LIVES: “History seems
to have dealt London a
bad hand as he’s now
best remembered as
an adventure story writer meant for Boy
Scouts and teen naturalists. Reesman
knows better. Her detailed explications
of London’s life and writings reveal the
complicated and radical thought behind
his fiction.”
FROGS AND TOADS
OF THE SOUTHEAST
and other recent Press
nature guides were
commended in the
Herpetological Review:
“All are of uniformly
high quality, clearly written, with an
attractive layout. Each has solid introductory information, detailed species
descriptions, excellent range maps and
color photographs, line drawings showing defining features, and a strong conservation message.”
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
A forthcoming review
in Material Culture
praises MOTORING:
“Historians and preservationists owe a great
deal to the scholarship
of Jakle and Sculle,
for their work over
the years has inspired
appreciation for the automobile landscape and its preservation. Motoring is
no exception.” VQR noted that the book
“provides a fresh background to the unremarkable roads we so often travel.”
The Journal of the
Early Republic says of
PHARSALIA: “Nelson’s
effort is more than
the ‘environmental
biography’ its subtitle
suggests. It is a model
for the integration of
environmental considerations into historical analysis. In the
best tradition of inductive reasoning, he
draws out the implications of the experience of one particular family in one
particular place to develop a broader consideration of the tensions and conflicts of
southern agriculture.”
In The Community
Savannah Book Festival, February 6–8, 2009
The Press’s appearance at the second annual Savannah Book Festival, held in the city February 6–8,
had the elements of a well-crafted novel. Plot: A three-day celebration of fiction, poetry, and biography, kicked off by a Friday keynote address by Roy Blount Jr., followed by a Saturday-long series of
readings in historic venues such as the Telfair Academy and Trinity Church, and culminating in a
Sunday brunch on the tented Telfair Square. Characters: A very Savannah mash-up of bespectacled
book lovers and SCAD scenesters coming together to hear
A four-legged bookworm peruses
UGA Press authors Roy Blount Jr., David Bottoms, Judith Ortiz
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton:
Christophe Poulain DuBignon of
Jekyll Island by Martha L. Keber.
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CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIALS AND
THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY has
won the 2008 Globe Book Award for
Public Understanding of Geography,
given by the Association of American
Geographers. The book is coauthored
by geographers Owen J. Dwyer and
Derek H. Alderman.
news
and
reviews
Awards and honors
Rick Van Noy’s A NATURAL SENSE
OF WONDER has been awarded the
Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for
Outstanding Writing on the Southern
Environment from the Southern
Environmental Law Center. The prize
seeks to “enhance public awareness of
the value and vulnerability of the region’s
natural heritage by giving special recognition to writers who most effectively
tell the stories about the South’s environment.” ON HARPER’S
TRAIL by Elizabeth Shores was a finalist for this year’s award.
Other Press winners of the prize include WHERE THERE ARE
MOUNTAINS by Donald Edward Davis (2001), ZORO’S FIELD
by Thomas Rain Crowe (2006), and PEACHTREE CREEK by
David R. Kaufman (2008).
Artie Dixon, Chapel Hill, N.C.
James L. Peacock has won the
2008 James Mooney Award for
GROUNDED GLOBALISM: HOW
THE U.S. SOUTH EMBRACES THE
WORLD. The award is given annually by the Southern Anthropological
Society to recognize distinguished
anthropological scholarship on the
South and southerners.
Patrick Phillips (BOY) was
awarded a 2009 Literature
Fellowship in Poetry from the
National Endowment for
the Arts.
Peter Dant
Dawn Lundy Martin
(A GATHERING OF MATTER /
A MATTER OF GATHERING) is
one of five young poets to receive
the first ever Poetry Prize from
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
awarded in honor of May Sarton. Martin’s book
was also a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
Stephanie Hopkins
Kyle Dargan’s BOUQUET OF HUNGERS
has been awarded the 2008 Hurston/
Wright Legacy Award for poetry in recognition of an outstanding contribution to
literature by a black poet.
Four authors published by
the Press were recently inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame: Coleman Barks,
Raymond Andrews, David Bottoms, and Robert Burch.
Cofer, Constance Curry, Damon Lee Fowler, and David Kirby, as well as thirtyfive other nationally and regionally known writers. Setting: The UGA Press
booth was nestled between William Jay’s Regency Telfair Academy and Moshe
Safdie’s classically restrained Jepson Center for the Arts; the smell of Blowin’
Smoke BBQ and the sounds of storytellers in the Family Activities tent wafted
through the Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks in Telfair Square.
—Text and photos by Patrick Allen
Roy Blount Jr. (at right, in cap), author of Crackers
(Georgia, 1998) stops by the Press booth.
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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
development News
UGA Press
wishes to thank
the Broadfield Foundation
(Bill Jones III, Trustee)
for generously funding
the publication of the
Spring and Fall 2009 issues
Last fall a visionary and dedicated University of Georgia Press
staff member made a challenge gift of $500 to the UGA
Press Friends Fund. This individual’s hope was that the rest
of the staff would respond and that the sum of their gifts
would match the challenge gift.
I am pleased to report that every member of the staff—all
twenty-four full-time and five part-time employees—made a
gift and that the challenge was met! As a tribute to the staff,
Advisory Council Chairman Craig Barrow III kindly added
$200. Now we have a $1,200 gift, which will be used to support a book selected by the staff.
There are transformational moments, even in difficult times. I would like to express
my deepest gratitude to the challenge gift donor and to the Press staff, who are the
personification of the word collaboration. Special thanks to Craig Barrow and his family, whose generosity and leadership inspire us every day, to the members of our wonderful Advisory Council, and to the donors listed in this issue.
For more information about giving to UGA Press, please contact me at (706) 369–
6049 or lstewart@uga.edu.
of Inside UGA Press.
Lane Stewart
Director of Development
A Message from Advisory Council Member Paul Pressly
Twice a year, I am delighted to join members of the Advisory Council of the University of Georgia Press
to hear well-known authors talk about topics that stretch the mind and the heart. It might be Whit
Gibbons handling his reptilian friends as he talks about the human relationship with the natural world
or Vincent Carretta discussing the autobiography of an eighteenth-century slave, abolitionist, and evangelical or Judith Ortiz Cofer reading her poetry as she explores the possibilities inherent in language.
The creativity and inspiration on display whet our appetite for the task of securing the financial future
of the Press.
And yet, if you asked our members what is the single most impressive feature of the presentations,
I would wager they would say the quality of the staff. Great institutions are all about the people inside
them, and the Press is filled with individuals who are instinctively gracious and humane, courageous
and daring, curious and creative. In their own quiet way, they are engaged with the world around them
Paul Pressly is the recipient
and love nothing better than a challenging question that opens another door. Nicole Mitchell’s leaderof a 2009 Governor’s Award
ship has forged a team that achieves minor miracles every year with limited resources.
in the Humanities. The
The Advisory Council’s responsibilities include picking up the baton from one family that has made
Press wishes to extend its
it
possible
for the Press to push forward for over five decades. Craig and Diana Barrow of Savannah
congratulations to Paul and
have
continued
the long-standing commitment of the Wormsloe Foundation to this institution. It is
Jane and their family for this
time that we Georgians follow their leadership and step in. The grim set of circumstances in which we
significant honor.
find ourselves makes it imperative that we join arms to ensure the future of one of the most precious
resources in this state. Jane and I feel honored to pledge our financial support. Let me ask that you consider making a donation to enable the Press to continue offering a journey of discovery to Georgians, southerners, and those in the world beyond.
Paul Pressly
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Press Staff Supports Friends Fund
Front row (kneeling): Jon Davies, Bobby Allen; second row: Phyllis Wells, Stacey Hayes, Mindy Hill, Melissa Buchanan, Beth Snead, Marena
Smith, Kathi Morgan, Nancy Grayson, Margaret Swanson, Anne Richmond Boston; third row: Pam Bond, Betty Downer, Walton Harris,
Derek Krissoff, Lane Stewart, Judy Purdy, Nicole Mitchell, Courtney Denney, Erin New, Erika Stevens, Janice Bell, Regan Huff; fourth row:
John McLeod, David Des Jardines. Not pictured: Pat Allen, Jane Kobres, Charles Nicolosi.
Advisory Council members Henrietta Singletary and Ben Kay enjoy a
discussion at the meeting in Athens.
November 2008 Advisory Council Meeting
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David Williams signs a copy
of his book From Mounds to
Megachurches: Georgia’s Religious
Heritage for Advisory Council
member Peggy Galis.
Associate professor of history Paul Sutter talks about
his research on southwest
Georgia’s Providence Canyon.
Sutter is editor of the Press
series Environmental History
and the American South.
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High Tide at Wormsloe
Press author John Lane
holds a bullfrog.
Clare Ellis, wife of Advisory
Council member Wiley Ellis,
with a coachwhip.
Press author Whit
Gibbons with an
indigo snake.
Wormsloe Historic Site, on the Isle of Hope just outside
Savannah, Georgia, is the home of UGA Press Advisory Council
chair Craig Barrow III and his wife, Diana. It is the most significant and undisturbed independent site in the state of Georgia
for Native American, colonial, and Civil War settlements and
burial grounds. It is also home to the Wormsloe Institute for
Environmental History, which was founded to conserve this
unique place while also promoting the study of environmental
history on-site and in the context of the larger region of coastal
Georgia. Press Advisory Council member Sarah Ross is president and director of the Wormsloe Institute.
The Wormsloe Institute enjoys broad support from the
University of Georgia by virtue of a formal partnership agreement that makes UGA faculty and other research program
support available to help meet the institute’s mission and
goals. UGA’s senior vice president for external affairs, Tom S.
Landrum, a member of the Press Advisory Council, serves on
the board of the Wormsloe Institute.
On February 7 and 8, 2009, the Barrows graciously opened
their beautiful home and grounds and served as hosts to the
Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper event, an annual fundraising event that always attracts avid environmentalists and
outdoorsmen and -women. The University of Georgia Press was
delighted to be part of the event and to celebrate the success of
several of our authors—Dorinda Dallmeyer, Whit Gibbons, John
Lane, and Janisse Ray.
Craig Barrow (back row, in cap) leads a hike at Wormsloe. Seated
are Sarah Ross, Press Advisory Council member; Judy Purdy,
Press acquisitions editor; Betsy Teter; and John Lane. Standing are
Dorinda Dallmeyer, Barrow, Roger Pinckney, and Susan Card.
Authors honored at High Tide at Wormsloe event. Front:
Janisse Ray; second row, left to right: John Lane, Whit
Gibbons, Dorinda Dallmeyer, Roger Pinckney.
Dorinda Dallmeyer and
John Lane at UGA Press
book display at High Tide
at Wormsloe.
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In From Mounds to Megachurches, David S. Williams offers a
sweeping overview of the role religion has played in Georgia’s
history, from precolonial days to the modern era. Firmly placing religious history in a social, cultural, and political context,
Williams sheds new light on what it means to be a Georgian by exploring an issue
that remains central to life in the Sunbelt South.
Robert Newcomb
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Q&A with David S. Williams,
author of From Mounds to Megachurches
Nancy Grayson, Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief
Grayson: Can you say a few words about
why you wrote this book?
Williams: There has been sizeable migration
to Georgia in recent years. It struck me that
newcomers to the state could use an overview of its religious background. I should
point out that my subtitle is “Georgia’s
Religious Heritage” and not “Georgia’s
Religious History.” I primarily wanted to
help people understand broad patterns in
the culture of the state, not necessarily who
founded what church.
I also thought I had something to contribute to the scholarly discussion regarding
southern religion. It has been common to
talk about a regional evangelical synthesis as
the key feature of southern religious history.
I wanted to provide a picture of religion in
one state in order to bring out more diversity
while also indicating the influence of place.
Above all, an underappreciated complexity
pervades Georgia’s religious life, although
the state is typically viewed only as a Baptist
domain. Even Baptists are too often treated
in a uniform fashion, when there have been
substantial differences, for example, between black and white Baptists.
Grayson: Speaking of black and white
Baptists, you write that “to fully grasp the religious heritage of Georgia, we must return
again and again to racial matters.” Can you
explain what you mean?
Williams: Taking the example I just gave,
while we often talk about the growth of the
Baptist and Methodist churches in the South
during the nineteenth century, only seldom
are racial differences discussed. Yet around
1900 there were significantly more black
Baptists than white Baptists in Georgia,
more white Baptists than white Methodists,
and more white Methodists than black
Methodists. So among those four groups,
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the largest was black Baptists and the smallest was black Methodists. Obviously, there
were aspects of the Baptist faith that made
it more attractive or useful to blacks—a
topic I explore in the book. This is just one
example. There are many issues I address
in which race and religion are interrelated.
Some, such as the civil rights struggle, are
evident; whereas others, such as lynching,
are perhaps less obvious.
Grayson: You mentioned earlier an “underappreciated complexity” in Georgia’s religious life. Can you say more about that?
Williams: Yes. To see something of what
I mean, it is helpful to think of what the
leading religious entity was in Georgia in
hundred-year intervals, beginning with
1550. At that time native Indians practiced
what is generally called the Southeastern
Ceremonial Complex, which featured many
of the earthen mounds that dot the state.
By 1650 Catholic missionaries were at work
in Georgia. By 1750 the colony had been
formed and Anglicanism was the main religion, though there was a fair amount of diversity. Following the American Revolution,
the evangelical religious groups, especially
Methodists and Baptists, were highly effective in the backwoods; by 1850 they had the
numerical advantage. In the 1890s, however,
Methodists got caught up in internal squabbles, leaving Baptists free to dominate the
state. Hence by 1950 the Baptists had taken
over, so to speak. This is why today people
so readily think of Georgia as a Baptist state.
But obviously it has not always been so.
What is interesting about these benchmarks is that at each half-century point it
would have appeared that the predominant
religion would be permanent, but it turned
out not to be. Studies indicate that right
now the Baptist religious “market share” in
Georgia is declining because of dramatic increases in the number of Catholics and of
individuals representing new religions to
the state, such as Buddhism and Hinduism.
Also, there is significant growth of nondenominational congregations, as seen in
some megachurches. And, finally, the number of persons who are not affiliated with
any religion is increasing as well. So it appears that by 2050 there may not be a single
dominant denomination in the state.
David S. Williams is director of
the Honors Program and Meigs
Professor of Religion at the University
of Georgia, where he has taught since
1989. He also has responsibility for the
Foundation Fellows Program and the
Center for Undergraduate Research
Opportunities (CURO). Williams is the
author of three books and three biblical
commentaries, as well as numerous
journal articles and other publications
in the field of religious studies.
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Jack London’s Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London’s life and diverse works,
whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during
the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight
bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores London’s
choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary
artistry against a standard of racial tolerance.
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Nancy Grayson, Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief
Grayson: What has made Jack London’s
works so enduringly popular and influential?
Reesman: London is possibly the most
popular American writer in the world,
his works having been translated into
one hundred languages or more. In
many respects London should not have
succeeded: he was born into poverty and
was a child laborer, he did not complete
high school until he was twenty-one, he
was on the West Coast at a time when
publishing was really only on the East
Coast, and he lacked influential friends.
He suffered from depression throughout
his life. But perhaps because of these barriers, London was all the more inspired
to follow his writing dream and to work
very hard at achieving it, eventually settling into a lifelong habit of writing one
thousand words a day. His adventurous
life led to adventure writing, and rare is
the reader who has not encountered The
Call of the Wild or White Fang. Abroad,
especially in Europe, Russia, and China,
he is celebrated as a socialist thinker. His
diverse characters—hobos, Indians, gamblers, prizefighters, the mentally retarded,
cannibals, bullfighters, laborers, slaves—
appeal to a diverse audience, as do his
more universal characters, such as the
man in “To Build a Fire” or the dog Buck
in The Call of the Wild.
Grayson: Why is race so crucial to understanding London’s life and his works?
Reesman: Race is part of nearly everything important in London’s writings and
continues to shape his popular and critical reception, both positively and negatively. It is a constant subject, from a very
early pair of tales set in Japan (1897) to his
last story, “The Water Baby” (1916), set in
Hawaii. The Klondike tales are peopled
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with domineering white men and resistant Indians; the semiautobiographical
Martin Eden (1909) addresses class differences in terms of racial passing; The
Valley of the Moon (1913) tracks competing racial groups that settle California.
He sent dozens of newspaper dispatches
and photographs from Korea during the
Russo-Japanese War. His coverage of the
Jack Johnson world heavyweight prizefights both invoked and challenged popular stereotypes, while his late South Seas
and Hawaiian fictions critiqued Western
colonialism, attempting to reenvision
the Pacific for American audiences using
Polynesian mythologies instead of colonial
myths of Western dominance. London is
among America’s first “Pacific Rim” writers, as his vision of race largely takes place
on the vast stage of its seas, islands, coasts,
mountains, goldfields, plantations, farms,
and cities—wherever its diverse groups
struggled for survival.
Grayson: How and why were London’s attitudes toward race and his portrayals of
race so contradictory?
Reesman: There are many factors at play
here, beginning with London’s upbring-
ing. His own mother having more or less
rejected him, he found maternal care from
the former slave who was their neighbor
and had been London’s wet nurse; he actually lived with this family until he was
weaned at age three and then off and on
until he left home at fifteen. His sense of
identity was thus bifurcated at an early
age, a contradiction that plays out in his
works and public statements throughout
his career. He wanted to be an artist, which
meant that he had to portray emotionally
believable and fully realized characters;
but he also wanted to be seen as an intellectual. The first goal resulted in nearly two
hundred short stories that mostly feature
nonwhite heroes and contain virtually no
racism. These characters are drawn from
his extensive travels and presented humanistically to readers back home who had
never encountered such people: Solomon
Islands cannibals, the dying Marquesans,
Chinese fieldworkers in Hawaii, Alaskan
Eskimos. On the other hand, his identity as an educated person meant that he
subscribed—at least in his nonfiction and
some novels—to the prevailing racialism
and social Darwinism of the day, despite
the contradictions they posed to his socialist views. His racial attitudes remained
contradictory, as they varied throughout his
career from one extreme to the other.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman is a
professor of English at the University of
Texas at San Antonio. She is the author
of American Designs: The Late Novels of
James and Faulkner and Jack London: A
Study of the Short Fiction. Reesman is
coediting a major collection of London’s
photographs, which will be published by
the University of Georgia Press.
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Focus on Jack E. Davis
By Derek Krissoff,
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Jack E. Davis, associate professor of history
at the University of Florida, never complains when it’s hot. Like a lot of Floridians,
he was born someplace colder and grayer
(Detroit, to be exact). But he’s spent much
of his life in Florida and has taken to sunshine with particular gusto.
“When I was thirteen and my family
lived in Fort Walton Beach, in the Florida
panhandle, where the winter can get pretty
cold some days, I concocted a scheme to run
away to the Bahamas with a friend,” Jack
says. “We were going to walk down through
the state to Miami, where we planned to
jump a shrimp boat bound for the islands.
We thought we’d build crab traps for a living. The idea actually sounds like a coming-of-age adventure from one of Marjory
Stoneman Douglas’s short stories.”
Douglas comes up often in conversations with Jack. She’s very much on his
mind and has been ever since he read her
classic River of Grass while lying on his
back in a two-person tent on Cape Sable in
Everglades National Park. He’s now completed the first major biography of Douglas,
whose writing and activism helped save
the Everglades from development. An
Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman
Douglas and the American Environmental
Century was published by the University
of Georgia Press in February.
Jack flirted with writing about Douglas’s
great project, the Everglades, as far back
as graduate school at Brandeis University,
where he studied the American environment with the Pulitzer Prize–winning
historian David Hackett Fischer. But he
shelved the idea in favor of a study of race
in Natchez, Mississippi: Race against Time:
Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930,
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winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award
from the Southern Historical Association.
After Douglas’s death in 1998 at the age
of 108, Jack circled back to the idea. He
decided to combine in a single project his
love for the Everglades—where he continues to camp, canoe, and bike—and his
fascination with the wetland’s most prominent protector. An Everglades Providence, a
book equally devoted to Douglas’s life and
to the natural history of the Everglades,
was born.
“Organizing the book was ultimately
very difficult,” Jack says. “The challenge
The author and his daughter Willa.
was integrating Everglades history with the
biography. For years I struggled with this,
until I ended up with something along the
lines of alternating short chapters. For the
periods when Douglas’s life intersected
with Everglades history—when she used
the Everglades as a setting in a story, when
she served on the founding committee of
Everglades National Park, when she wrote
River of Grass, and when she became at age
seventy-nine an environmental activist—I
created chapters that merge biography and
history. I ended up with thirty-six chapters,
so I like to say the book is a yard long. I
suppose that was a better way of describing the book than telling the Press I had
a thousand-page manuscript boxed up and
on its way in the mail and would they mind
reimbursing me for the postage.”
An Everglades Providence came to the
University of Georgia Press via Paul Sutter,
associate professor of history at UGA and
editor of the Press’s series Environmental
History and the American South. He met
Jack at the Southern Historical Association
conference several years ago. “As I remember it, Jack and I sat by the hotel pool for
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The field of environmental history has exploded during
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that neglect by publishing books that explore the critical importance of human-environmental interactions
to the history and culture of the region.
Paul S. Sutter is an associate professor of history at the University of
Georgia whose academic interests include environmental history and
modern U.S. history.
Series Advisory Board
Judith Carney
University of California,
Los Angeles
Paul S. Sutter, editor of the Environmental
History and the American South series,
and Jack E. Davis at the American Society
for Environmental History meeting,
February 2009.
Robbie Ethridge
University of Mississippi
Ari Kelman
University of California,
Davis
Jack Temple Kirby
more than an hour talking about Douglas
and the project, and I was overwhelmed by
Jack’s passion for his subject and, in equal
measure, his commitment to producing a
balanced and contextual biography. Needless to say, I was thrilled when he eventually agreed to publish in the series, and I
am even more excited with the result.”
Sutter is not alone in his excitement; An
Everglades Providence is receiving superlative reviews. Library Journal called it “an
outstanding volume” that “offers an impressive look at America during Douglas’s
lifetime and the growth of America’s environmental movement.” Jack chalks up the
book’s success to its inherently appealing
subject matter—“a humanitarian to the
bone, an implacable feminist, a lifelong
learner, a beautiful writer, an insatiable
reader, and a scary-smart and extremely
funny individual who happened to find
her true love in a stunning and peaceful
place. Douglas had a lot to teach us about
ourselves and our relationship with our
natural surroundings, and I hope with
this book her lessons will add a bit more
longevity to her 108 years.”
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Making Catfish Bait out
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The Fight against Cattle Ticks
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Claire Strom
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Lizards and Crocodilians
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Parting
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The Work of Joe Webb
Appalachian Master of Rustic
Architecture
Reuben Cox
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Distributed for the Jargon Society
During the 1920s and 1930s, builder Joe Webb
constructed nearly three dozen log homes in
the tiny Appalachian town of Highlands, North
Carolina. The cabins were built without the aid
of power tools—or architectural plans—and all
of these exquisite structures are located within
a five-mile radius.
In The Work of Joe Webb, photographer
Reuben Cox captures the atmosphere and
ambience of these idiosyncratic and important historic buildings. Using a large-format
field camera, Cox has documented all of
Webb’s extant cabins. Beautifully presented
in tritone, his images explore the lush,
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chestnut and pine posts and beams. Cox,
a Highlands native, also includes an essay
that places the work within a regional and
historical context. Yet this is less an analytical
taxonomy of Webb’s cabins than an expansive
meditation in which Cox employs his own art
to understand another man’s lifework and the
extraordinary qualities of that which is handmade and unique.
Photograph from
The Work of Joe Webb: Appalachian Master of Rustic Architecture
Reuben Cox
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