BOOKS FOR spring + summer 2012
T i t l e I n de x
African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry /
Morgan, ed.
37
Almost Free / Wolf
13
Altamaha / Holland, Dallmeyer, and Ray
28
Apples and Ashes / Hutchison
18
The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith,
Atlanta’s Scholar-Architect / Craig
26
The Art and Life of Clarence Major / Byerman
21
The Art of Golf / High Museum of Art
34
Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery / Davis and Davis
24
Beyond Katrina / Trethewey
35
The Bioregional Imagination / Lynch,
Glotfelty, and Armbruster, eds.
17
Black Elvis / Becker
38
Buried Lives / Tarter and Bell, eds.
12
Charlotte, NC / Graves and Smith, eds.
35
Civil War Time / Wells
36
Cornbread Nation 6 / Anderson, ed.
32
Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking / Claiborne 33
Creolization and Contraband / Rupert
14
Curled in the Bed of Love / Brady
38
The Dance Boots / Grover
38
The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare,
Ricegrower / Sullivan, ed.
37
Doing Recent History / Potter and Romano, eds.
1
Domesticating Foreign Struggles / Gemme
36
Exit, Civilian / Novey
20
Faith Based / Hackworth
2
The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents / Holmes
9
A Field Guide for Immersion Writing / Hemley
23
Georgia’s Frontier Women / Marsh
37
Identifying Marks / Putzi
36
James Habersham / Lambert
37
The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First
African Anglican Missionary / Carretta and
Reese, eds.
36
Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim / Murray
35
Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical
South / Harvey
8
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean / Block
15
Pauline E. Hopkins / Wallinger
35
Please Come Back To Me / Treadway
38
The Problem South / Ring
11
Reading for the Body / Watson
19
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation / Swanson
16
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera /
Jackson27
Ruin Nation / Nelson
7
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon / Ogilvie-White and
Santoro, eds.
4
South Carolina Women / Spruill, Littlefield,
and Johnson, eds.
10
Spit Baths / Downs
38
Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard / Corey,
Carlson, Ingle, and Wilson, eds.
22
Tell Borges If You See Him / LaSalle
38
They Saved the Crops / Mitchell
3
Unfinished Business / Faure, ed.
5
War upon the Land / Brady
6
The World of the Salt Marsh / Seabrook
30
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional
Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That
Talks Back
Edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano
A definitive guide to the practice of recent history
Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians
have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired
a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has
grown exponentially. From Walmart to disco and from Chavez to Schlafly,
books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most
exciting and talked-about part of the discipline.
Despite this rich tradition and growing popularity, historians have engaged
in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical
issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this
collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where
visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and
historiography is underdeveloped.
Those who write about events that have taken place since 1970 encounter
exciting challenges that are both familiar and foreign to scholars of a
more distant past, including suspicions that their research is not historical
enough, negotiation with living witnesses who have a very strong stake
in their own representation, and the task of working with new electronic
sources. Contributors to this collection consider a wide range of these
challenges. They question how sources like television and video games can
be better utilized in historical research, explore the role and regulation of
doing oral histories, consider the ethics of writing about living subjects,
discuss how historians can best navigate questions of privacy and copyright
law, and imagine the possibilities that new technologies offer for creating
transnational and translingual research opportunities. Doing Recent History
offers guidance and insight to any researcher considering tackling the notso-distant past.
“Potter and Romano have drawn together an admirably diverse set of
scholars and archivists at all levels of the profession to comment on a
broad range of critical and contentious issues in historical scholarship.
I am unaware of any other collection that accomplishes what this one
does so ably: allowing the reader to enter into and contend with a
set of larger epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, presentational, and legal issues that directly affect the ways historians do
their jobs in the second decade of the twenty-first century. This book
should become a standard reference and teaching tool.”
—Stephen Brier, codirector of the New Media Lab at the City University
of New York
Cover: Barbara Kraus, istockphoto.com.
Southeast Georgia coastal river through the marsh.
The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
“How I wish Doing Recent History had been available when I began
writing histories that were ‘just over my shoulder.’ Potter and Romano
demonstrate that tackling recent history poses unique challenges, and
they offer absolutely indispensable guidance in meeting them.”
—Alice Echols, author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of
American Culture
May
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“This book hits all the marks. The writing is lively and well paced; the
research and historiography are first-rate; there is a nice mixture of
known, established authors and rising young scholars; and the questions taken up are directly relevant to what many of us do every day,
both in our classrooms and in our scholarship. It’s timely, smart, wide
ranging, and thought provoking.”—Robert O. Self, Brown University
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doing
recent
history
From David Greenberg’s essay Do Historians Watch Enough TV?
Broadcast News as a Primary Source
on privacy,
copyright,
video games,
“Historians, like most intelligent people, tend to think that we have
better things to do than to watch TV. . . . Although we may seek
insight from television, we rarely think of television programs as
evidence, as we do with printed documents, or apply the same
critical standards to them. Oddly, this is not a mistake we make
when we write or even think about the world around us. In judging
contemporary figures, we rely heavily on impressions drawn from
having watched them on the screen, sometimes from clips that
originate on television and are recirculated many times over in the
virtual world. When we talk about major events like the terrorist
attacks of September 11, we naturally assume that the television
coverage of this event serves as a shared national reference
point. And yet when historians write about people or events from
earlier periods, we often deprive ourselves of the knowledge,
understanding, and perspective gained from having seen them on
TV. If we really want to do justice to the past—to capture it as
it was and as it was understood—maybe we should put down our
books, sit down on the sofa, and start watching more TV.”
YES
WE
CAN
institutional review boards,
activist scholarship, and
history that talks back
edited by claire bond potter and renee c. romano
Contributors
Olivia Drake
Claire Bond Potter (left) is a professor of history and American studies at Wesleyan
University. She is author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass
Culture and also the blog Tenured Radical. Renee C. Romano (right) is an associate professor of history at Oberlin College. She is author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage
in Postwar America and coeditor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
(Georgia).
Tanya Rosen-Jones
Willoughby Anderson
Julius H. Bailey
Eileen Boris
Laura Clark Brown
Alan S. Christy
Gail Drakes
David Greenberg
Nancy Kaiser
Jennifer Klein
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Martin Meeker
Claire Bond Potter
Renee C. Romano
Jeremy K. Saucier
Alice Yang
H istory
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Faith Based
June
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Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in
the United States
Jason Hackworth
Geographies of Justice and Social
Transformation 11
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A critical examination of faith-based organizations as a replacement for
the welfare state
g e o g r a P H i e s o f J u s t i c e a n d s o c i a l t r a n s f o r m a t i o n 11
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism
in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where
conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together
most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat for
Humanity, and religious charities in post-Katrina New Orleans, Jason
Hackworth describes both the theory and practice of faith-based welfare,
revealing fundamental tensions between the religious and economic wings
of the conservative movement.
Hackworth begins by tracing the fusion of evangelical religious conservatism and promarket, antigovernment activism, which resulted in what he
calls “religious neoliberalism.” He argues that neoliberalism—the ideological
sanctification of private property, the individual, and antistatist politics—has
rarely been popular enough on its own to promote wide change. Rather,
neoliberals gain the most traction when they align their efforts with other
discourses and ideas. The promotion of faith-based alternatives to welfare is
a classic case of coalition building on the Right. Evangelicals get to provide
social services in line with Biblical tenets, while opponents of big government chip away at the public safety net.
Faith Based
religious neoliberalism and tHe Politics
of welfare in tHe united states
Jason HackwortH
Though religious neoliberalism is most closely associated with George W.
Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the idea
predates Bush and continues to hold sway in the Obama administration.
Despite its success, however, Hackworth contends that religious neoliberalism remains an uneasy alliance—a fusion that has been tested and frayed by
recent events.
Also in the series
Bloomberg’s New York
Class and Governance in the Luxury City
Julian Brash
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Accumulating Insecurity
“Faith Based presents a penetrating analysis of the ‘fusion project’
forged between the Religious Right and the true believers of free-market
economics. Focusing on the contested field of social welfare policy,
Hackworth takes us inside this sometimes unhappy but nevertheless
consequential marriage, where rupture always seems more likely than
rapture.”—Jamie Peck, author of Constructions of Neoliberal Reason
Violence and Dispossession in the Making of
Everyday Life
Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and
Gayatri A. Menon, eds.
Photo courtesy of the author
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“Hackworth’s study begins to remedy the absence of attention to
religion within the critical scholarship on neoliberalism, and it will
push this literature in a new and much-needed direction. Faith Based
is very accessible and interesting, and it moves along nicely. It’s a
great book.”—Jason Dittmer, author of Popular Culture, Geopolitics,
and Identity
Jason Hackworth is an associate professor in the Department of Planning and
Geography at the University of Toronto. He is author of The Neoliberal City: Governance,
Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism, which was nominated for the Robert
Park Book Award.
G eography / P olitics
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
They Saved the Crops
April
6 x 9 | 576 pp.
50 b&w photos | 5 maps
6 tables | 3 figures
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4176-7
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4401-0
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Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial
Farming in Bracero-Era California
Don Mitchell
Geographies of Justice and Social
Transformation 10
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A MacArthur Award–winning scholar explores the explosive intersection
of farming, immigration, and big business
g e o g r a p h i e s o F J u s t i c e a n D s o c i a l t r a n s F o r M a t i o n 10
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the
cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great
Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor
relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming
frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros—“guest workers”
from Mexico hired on an “emergency” basis after the United States entered
the war—an even more intense struggle ensued over how agriculture would
be conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues that
by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labor as a problem and
solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers,
an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States
to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us.
They Saved
the Crops
They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative
account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption,
and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials
confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the
landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of
labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and
attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the
demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.”
l abor, l anDscape, anD the struggle over
inDustrial FarMing in bracero-era caliFornia
Don Mitchell
Also in the series
Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down
the state, Mitchell’s account promises to be the definitive book about
California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Making the San Fernando Valley
Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and
White Privilege
Laura R. Barraclough
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“The bracero program was the ideal business recipe for cheap
immigrant labor, cooked up by growers and stamped ‘Government
Approved.’ Mitchell has written the definitive history of the era,
which all future studies of California farming and Mexican immigration
must build upon. By its archival depth and trenchant analysis, it sets
a new standard in the study of farm labor and provides an unassailable indictment of grower power and abuse of workers—all the while
expanding the theoretical envelopes of geography, political economy,
and labor studies.”—Richard A. Walker, author of The Conquest of
Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California
Fitzgerald
Geography of a Revolution
William Bunge
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Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3974-0
Syracuse University. He is the author of many books including The Right to the City:
Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space and The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and
the California Landscape.
Steve Sartori
Don Mitchell is a distinguished professor of geography at the Maxwell School of
G eography
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Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
March
360 pp. | 1 table
978-0-8203-4246-7
978-0-8203-4380-8
978-0-8203-3689-3
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro
Exploring new directions in nuclear disarmament
www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/SSIA
In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall
Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry
Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear
weapons, helping to put disarmament back into international security
discussions. More recently, U.S. president Barack Obama, prominent U.S.
congressional members of both political parties, and a number of influential
foreign leaders have espoused the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons.
SLAYING THE
NUCLEAR
DRAGON
Turning this vision into reality requires an understanding of the forces
driving disarmament forward and those holding it back. Slaying the Nuclear
Dragon provides in-depth, objective analysis of current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and
stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities
faced by proponents of disarmament. These essays show that although
conditions are favorable for significant reductions, numerous hurdles still
exist. Contributors look at three categories of states: those that generate
momentum for disarmament; those with policies that are problematic for
disarmament; and those that actively hinder progress—whether openly,
secretly, deliberately, or inadvertently.
DISARMAMENT DYNAMICS
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Edited by Tanya Ogilvie-White & David Santoro
Nuclear deterrence was long credited with preventing war between the two
major Cold War powers, but with the spread of nuclear technology, threats
have shifted to other state powers and to nonstate groups. Slaying the
Nuclear Dragon addresses an urgent need to examine nuclear disarmament
in a realistic, nonideological manner.
Contributors
John Buck, Design Manager, IISS
Alistair Percival
Stephen F. Burgess
Devin T. Hagerty
Marianne Hanson
Togzhan Kassenova
Tanya Ogilvie-White
Maria Rost Rublee
David Santoro
Jacqueline Shire
“We need this book. Ogilvie-White and Santoro provide a timely, comprehensive analysis of how current threats are driving disarmament
activists and hard-nosed strategists towards a common agenda. Arms
control is the new realism. Professors and policymakers will benefit
from their detailed, country-by-country assessment of the trends and
challenges in the new nuclear security agenda.”
—Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund
Tanya Ogilvie-White (left) is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political
Sciences at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a consulting fellow at
the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She is coauthor of Nuclear
Weapons Policy at the Crossroads and editor of a forthcoming volume of the correspondence of Michael Quinlan. David Santoro (right) is a senior fellow for nonproliferation and disarmament at Pacific Forum CSIS. He is the author of Treating Weapons
Proliferation: An Oncological Approach to the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
Technology. Both editors worked on this volume as recipients of the 2010–11 Stanton
Nuclear Security Fellowship at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
I nternational R elations
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Edited by Guy Olivier Faure
August
6 x 9 | 408 pp. | 7 figures
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4315-0
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4382-2
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A new paradigm for peace-building studies
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Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their
subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention
to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show
that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from
successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes. Failure in this study pertains to a set of negotiating sessions that were convened for the purpose of
achieving an agreement but instead broke up in continued disagreement.
Seven case studies compose the first part of this volume: the United
Nations negotiations on Iraq, the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp
David in 2000, Iran-European Union negotiations, the Cyprus conflict,
the Biological Weapons Convention, the London Conference of 1830–33
on the status of Belgium, and two hostage negotiations (Waco and the
Munich Olympics). These case studies provide examples of different types
of failed negotiations: bilateral, multilateral, and mediated (or trilateral).
The second part of the book analyzes empirical findings from the case
studies as causes of failure falling in four categories: actors, structure,
strategy, and process. This is an analytical framework recommended by
the Processes of International Negotiation, arguably the leading society
dedicated to research in this area. The last section of Unfinished Business
contains two summarizing chapters that provide broader conclusions—
lessons for theory and lessons for practice.
“Presents a very innovative approach to understanding international
negotiations. Combining thematic examinations of causes of failures with illustrative case studies, this book provides a structured
approach to the field. It allows even those readers who are not
versed in negotiation theory to grasp both basic concepts and contextual complexities in a very helpful way.”—Pamela Aall, provost of the
Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding,
U.S. Institute of Peace
“An excellent set of essays about the resilience of countries facing
stalemate in resolving their conflicts and how the negotiation process
can be reinvigorated to reverse deadlock. This book provides an analytical and comparative perspective that fills a gap in the literature
and provides some optimism that negotiation can be an effective
tool in resolving intractable conflicts.”—Bertram I. Spector, executive
director of the Center for Negotiation Analysis and editor-in-chief of
International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice
Guy Olivier Faure is a professor of sociology at the Sorbonne University and
trains negotiators with UNESCO, the European Union, and the World Trade
Organization. He has written or edited fifteen books on negotiation and
conflict resolution, including most recently Negotiating with Terrorists: Strategy,
Tactics, and Politics. Faure acknowledges the assistance of Franz Cede, senior
advisor at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy.
edited by guy olivier faure
Unfinished
Business
why international negotiations fail
Contributors
Wendi Adair
Karin Aggestam
Cecilia Albin
Brook Boyer
Franz Cede
Moty Cristal
Christophe Dupont
Guy Olivier Faure
Daniele Fridl
Deborah Goodwin
P. Terrence Hopmann
Christer Jönsson
Andrew Kydd
Jez Littlewood
Axel Marschik
Laurent Mermet
Raymond Saner
Masako Taylor
Catherine Tinsley
Anthony Wanis-St. John
I. William Zartman
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War upon the Land
April
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Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern
Landscapes during the American Civil War
Lisa M. Brady
A nation’s physical and psychological landscape forever changed
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War,
Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were
central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
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From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature,
even as they battled one another. Northern soldiers encountered unfamiliar
landscapes in the South that suggested, to them, an uncivilized society’s
failure to control nature. Under the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, William
Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, the Union army increasingly
targeted southern environments as the war dragged on. Whether digging canals, shooting livestock, or dramatically attempting to divert the
Mississippi River, the Union aimed to assert mastery over nature by attacking the most potent aspect of southern identity and power—agriculture.
Brady focuses on the siege of Vicksburg, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley
campaign, marches through Georgia and the Carolinas, and events along
the Mississippi River to examine this strategy and its devastating physical
and psychological impact.
WAR UPON THE
LAND
MILITARY S TR ATEGY AND THE TR ANSFORM ATION
OF SOUTHERN L ANDSCAPES DURING
THE A MERICAN CIVIL WAR
Before the war, many Americans believed in the idea that nature must
be conquered and subdued. Brady shows how this perception changed
during the war, leading to a wider acceptance of wilderness. Connecting
environmental trauma with the onset of American preservation, Brady
pays particular attention to how these new ideas of wilderness can be seen
in the creation of national battlefield memorial parks as unaltered spaces.
Deftly combining environmental and military history with cultural studies,
War upon the Land elucidates an intriguing, largely unexplored side of the
nation’s greatest conflict.
LISA M. BRADY
Also in the series
Blue Ridge Commons
Environmental Activism and Forest History in
Western North Carolina
“Sophisticated, nuanced, and convincing, this book makes a substantial contribution to environmental history and to our understanding of
the Civil War.”—Mark Fiege, author of Irrigated Eden: The Making of
an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Kathryn Newfont
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4125-5
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4124-8
Conserving Southern Longleaf
Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of
Ecological Land Management
“Clearly written, fascinating in its details, and convincing in its arguments, Brady’s book provides the first in-depth environmental analysis
of Grant’s, Sheridan’s, and Sherman’s campaigns in the South. The
Civil War will never seem quite the same again.”
—J. R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the
Greater Caribbean, 1640–1914
Albert G. Way
Photo courtesy of the author
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Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4129-3
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Lisa M. Brady is an associate professor of history at Boise State University. She is the
associate editor for the journal Environmental History.
H istory
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
Ruin Nation
may
6 x 9 | 400 pp.
41 b&w photos
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4251-1
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4379-2
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Destruction and the American Civil War
Megan Kate Nelson
A new way to understand and remember the costs of warfare in
American history
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During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were
transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern
and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation
of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and
cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change.
DESTRUCTION
AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans
produced as they confronted the war’s destructiveness. Architectural
ruins—cities and houses—dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians
told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic
privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked
discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown
apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies
on nature and on individual identities.
The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience.
Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war’s ruination—in
a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common
ground as they considered the war’s costs. And yet, very few of these ruins
still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the
experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our
national consciousness.
MEGAN KATE NELSON
“An important new contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, environmental history, Civil War history, and American studies
scholarship. Among the book’s many strengths are its interdisciplinary
approach, showing a sophisticated understanding of fields ranging
from visual culture to gender studies to the history of science; a
truly impressive base of archival research; a very clear writing style;
and a subtle suggestion of the topic’s present-day resonance and relevance.”—Aaron Sachs, author of The Humboldt Current: NineteenthCentury Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Also in the series
Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges
Stephen Berry, ed.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4127-9
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4185-9
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Megan Kate Nelson is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. She is
the author of Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia).
Drew Fritschel Photography
“Nelson brings a truly original set of problems and questions to a thoroughly canvassed period of U.S. history. Engaging, deeply researched,
and lucidly and fluently written, her book is bound to interest scholars
and a broader readership alike.”
—Karen Halttunen, author of Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the
American Gothic Imagination
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Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster
in the Evangelical South
March
5.5 x 8.5 | 200 pp.
8 b&w photos | 1 map
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Paul Harvey
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
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A provocative tour of the South’s religious and cultural landscape
Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious
expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race,
and southern history.
PAUL HARVEY
MOSES
JESUS
The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves
as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and
African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own
purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life,
Harvey argues, southern evangelicals were instrumental in turning him into
an American figure. The ghostly presence of the Trickster, hovering at the
edges of the sacred world, sheds light on the Euro-American and African
American folk religions that existed alongside Christianity. Finally, Harvey
explores twentieth-century renderings of the biblical story of Absalom in
William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom and in works from Toni Morrison and
Edward P. Jones.
AND
THE
TRICKSTER
IN THE EVANGELICAL
SOUTH
Harvey uses not only biblical and religious sources but also draws on literature, mythology, and art. He ponders the troubling meaning of “religious
freedom” for slaves and later for blacks in the segregated South. Through
his cast of four central characters, Harvey reveals diverse facets of the
southern religious experience, including conceptions of ambiguity, darkness,
evil, and death.
“Harvey picks grand narratives of American religious history, including
its emphasis on freedom, its focus on evangelicalism, and its obsessions with Jesus, runs them through the mill of southern history, literature, and folklore, and produces so many new intellectual morsels
that it will take scholars a decade to digest them all. Bravo to such a
brave and delicious book.”—Edward J. Blum, author of Reforging the
White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898
Also in the series
Camille, 1969
Histories of a Hurricane
Mark M. Smith
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3954-2
Cloth, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3722-7
A Web of Words
“Harvey starts with one of the basic questions in the religious history of the South—how could the same set of religious ideas support
such powerful forces for both liberation and conservatism? Instead of
simply discussing tension or contradiction, Harvey analyzes the ways
different southerners understood and used the four central figures of
Absalom, Moses, and especially Jesus and the Trickster.”
—Ted Ownby, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
at the University of Mississippi
The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature
Richard Gray
Photo courtesy of the author
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3005-1
Paul Harvey is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
He is author or editor of numerous books including Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture
and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and The
Columbia Guide to Religion in American History.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
The Faiths of the
Postwar Presidents
Reannouncing
March
6 x 9 | 296 pp.
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3862-0
Ebook, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-3963-4
From Truman to Obama
George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in
American History, No. 5
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David L. Holmes
A compelling look at the role of religion in American politics and culture
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, an acclaimed look at the spiritual beliefs
of such iconic Americans as Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, established David L. Holmes as a measured voice in the heated debate over the
new nation’s religious underpinnings. With the same judicious approach,
Holmes now looks at the role of faith in the lives of the twelve presidents
who have served since the end of World War II.
Holmes examines not only the beliefs professed by each president but
also the variety of possible influences on their religious faith, such as their
upbringing, education, and the faith of their spouse. In each profile close
observers such as clergy, family members, friends, and advisors recall
churchgoing habits, notable displays of faith (or lack of it), and the influence of their faiths on policies concerning abortion, the death penalty,
Israel, and other controversial issues.
From Truman to Obama
D av i d L . H o l m e s
Whether discussing John F. Kennedy’s philandering and secularity or
Richard Nixon’s betrayal of Billy Graham’s naïve trust during Watergate,
Holmes includes telling and often colorful details not widely known or long
forgotten. We are reminded, for instance, how Dwight Eisenhower tried to
conceal the background of his parents in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and how
the Reverend Cotesworth Lewis’s sermonizing to Lyndon Johnson on the
Vietnam War was actually not a left- but a right-wing critique.
Also in the series
National interest in the faiths of our presidents is as strong as ever, as
shown by the media frenzy engendered by George W. Bush’s claim that
Jesus was his favorite political philosopher or Barack Obama’s parting with
his minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Holmes’s work adds depth,
insight, and color to this important national topic.
The Creation-Evolution Debate
Historical Perspectives
Edward J. Larson
Paper, $18.95s | 978-0-8203-3106-5
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The Protestant Voice in
American Pluralism
Praise for The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
Martin E. Marty
Paper, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-2861-4
Ebook, $16.95s | 978-0-8203-4283-2
“A model of accessible scholarship, and though it addresses a controversial topic, it actually generates more light than heat.”
—Christian Century
“Effectively challenges claims coming from both sides of the culture
wars.”—Houston Chronicle
“Exceptionally insightful guidelines for judging the faith of the founding fathers . . . Read this elegant book.”—New York Times Book Review
William and Mary. His books include the The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, A Brief
History of the Episcopal Church, A Nation Mourns, and The Life of the Reverend Devereux
Jarratt.
Rob Garland
David L. Holmes is Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of
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Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
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South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 3
EditEd by MarjoriE julian Spruill, Valinda W. littlEfiEld,
and joan MariE johnSon
ruby forsythe and fannie phelps adams Mary Gordon Ellis Mary blackwell baker
polly Woodham julia Wood peterkin and Wil lou Gray dr. hilla Sheriff julia and alice delk
dolly hamby louise Smith Susan dart butler and Ethel Martin bolden harriet Simons
alice buck norwood Spearman Wright Modjeska Monteith Simkins Septima poinsette Clark
Mary Elizabeth Massey Mary jane Manigault harriet Keyserling jean hoefer toal
Victoria Eslinger, Keller bumgardner barron, Mary heriot, tootsie holland, and pat Callair
Contributors
Jennifer E. Black
Carol Sears Botsch
W. Lewis Burke
Katherine Mellen Charron
Fritz P. Hamer
Patricia Evridge Hill
Joan Marie Johnson
Cherisse Jones-Branch
Valinda W. Littlefield
Georgette Mayo
Page Putnam Miller
Constance Ashton Myers
Mary Mac Ogden
Bakari T. Sellers
Marjorie Julian Spruill
Marcia G. Synnott
Melissa Walker
John W. White
Suzanne Wise
Kate Porter Young
South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 3
Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and
Joan Marie Johnson
The third and final volume of essays portraying South Carolina women
in the rich context of the state’s long and fascinating history
Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds
whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations
in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included
depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some
striking revelations emerge from these biographical portraits—in particular,
the breadth of interracial cooperation between women in the decades preceding the civil rights movement and ways that women carved out diverse
career opportunities, sometimes by breaking down formidable occupational
barriers. Some women in the volume proceeded cautiously, working within
the norms of their day to promote reform even as traditional ideas about
race and gender held powerful sway. Others spoke out more directly and
forcefully and demanded change.
Most of the women featured in these essays were leaders within their
respective communities and the state. Many of them, such as Wil Lou
Gray, Hilla Sheriff, and Ruby Forsythe, dedicated themselves to improving
the quality of education and health care for South Carolinians. Septima
Clark, Alice Spearman Wright, Modjeska Simkins, and many others sought
to improve conditions and obtain social justice for African Americans.
Others, including Victoria Eslinger and Tootsie Holland, were devoted to
the cause of women’s rights. Louise Smith, Mary Elizabeth Massey, and
Mary Blackwell Butler entered traditionally male-dominated fields, while
Polly Woodham and Mary Jane Manigault created their own small businesses. A few, including Mary Gordon Ellis, Dolly Hamby, and Harriet
Keyserling exercised political influence. Familiar figures like Jean Toal, current chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, are included, but
readers also learn about lesser-known women such as Julia and Alice Delk,
sisters employed in the Charleston Naval Yard during World War II.
“While the stories of towering figures like Septima Clark and Jean
Hoefer Toal will ring familiar, most of this volume reveals women
working in schools, farms, factories, and an astonishing array of voluntary associations to improve education and health, challenge racial
discrimination, and open opportunities for women. South Carolina is
a better place because of their unsung efforts, and their compelling
stories challenge us to reframe our understanding of the twentieth
century. This much needed book opens that possibility.”
—Sara Evans, author of Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
Marjorie Julian Spruill is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Valinda W. Littlefield is associate professor
of history and director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Joan Marie Johnson is a
lecturer in women’s and southern history at Northeastern Illinois University. Together they have edited volumes 1 and 2 of South
Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia).
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The Problem South
April
6 x 9 | 288 pp. | 10 b&w photos
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4260-3
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Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930
Natalie J. Ring
A new cultural history of the modernization of the American South
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For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw
the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction
give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is
said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and
industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology
competed with an equally powerful and far-reaching set of representations
of the backward Problem South—one that shaped and reflected attempts
by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts to
rehabilitate and reform the country’s benighted region. Ring rewrites the
history of sectional reconciliation and demonstrates how this group used
the persuasive language of social science and regionalism to reconcile the
paradox of poverty and progress by suggesting that the region was moving
through an evolutionary period of “readjustment” toward a more perfect
state of civilization.
natalie j. ring
The Problem South
In addition, The Problem South contends that the transformation of the
region into a mission field and laboratory for social change took place
in a transnational moment of reform. Ambitious efforts to improve the
economic welfare of the southern farmer, eradicate such diseases as malaria
and hookworm, educate the southern populace, “uplift” poor whites, and
solve the brewing “race problem” mirrored the colonial problems vexing
the architects of empire around the globe. It was no coincidence, Ring
argues, that the regulatory state’s efforts to solve the “southern problem”
and reformers’ increasing reliance on social scientific methodology occurred
during the height of U.S. imperial expansion.
reg i on, empi re, and th e
n ew li bera l state, 1880-19 30
Also in the series
Alabama Getaway
The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie
“This lucidly written study makes a bold argument for reimagining how
the South became modernized, how liberalism was constructed, and
how the region was part of a worldwide process. Imaginatively conceived and original in its conclusions, Ring’s book makes a significant
contribution to the literature about the Progressive Era South that will
force us to reconsider old assumptions and rethink how we frame the
Problem South into a global context.”—William A. Link, author of
The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880–1930
Allen Tullos
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3049-5
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3961-0
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3048-8
Liberalism, Black Power, and the
Making of American Politics,
1965–1980
Devin Fergus
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3324-3
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3323-6
Natalie J. Ring is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas.
She is coeditor, with Stephanie Cole, of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated
South, forthcoming from Texas A&M University Press.
John McConnell
“The Problem South is an extraordinary reimaging of the New South.
The book is, all at once, a complementary, synthetic, and constructively revisionist text. Elegantly and persuasively, Ring plots a new
narrative of the nation’s most complicated and historically significant
region and sets her story against a layered local, regional, national,
and global backdrop.”—Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of American
Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation
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Buried Lives
March
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
19 b&w photos | 4 tables
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Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4119-4
Incarcerated in Early America
Edited by Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell
Uncovering neglected stories in the long struggle between autonomy
and authority
Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several
carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and
the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. The historians and literary scholars included in this volume offer a complement and
corrective to conventional understandings of incarceration that privilege the
intentions of those in power over the experiences of prisoners.
Incarcerated in Early America
Considering such varied settings as jails, penitentiaries, almshouses, workhouses, floating prison ships, and plantations, the contributors reconstruct
the struggles of people imprisoned in locations from Antigua to Boston.
The essays draw upon a rich array of archival sources from the seventeenth
century to the eve of the Civil War, including warden logs, petitions, execution sermons, physicians’ clinical notes, private letters, newspaper articles,
runaway slave advertisements, and legal documents. Through the voices,
bodies, and texts of the incarcerated, Buried Lives reveals the largely ignored
experiences of inmates who contested their subjection to regimes of power.
E di t e d b y M ic h e l e L ise Ta r t e r
and Richard Bell
“Buried Lives is an antidote to the Rothman/Foucault/Ignatieff trilogy
that emphasizes prisons as engines of the state. Intersecting several
historical fields, the collection draws from studies on slavery and
abolition, reform, poverty and the working class, personal narratives,
and print culture. The variety of sources and methodologies employed
underlines the book’s potency as a revisionist project. The essays
make good use of overlooked or not-so-obvious sources to tease out
experiences, incidents, attitudes, and expressions of those incarcerated as well as their keepers.”—Susan Branson, author of Dangerous to
Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic
Contributors
“A challenging and thought-provoking collection. Prison history tends
to focus on the founding elite and to assume that their initial visions
were in fact carried out in practice. These lively studies uncover the
quotidian realities of guards, clergy, and inmates to counter these
assumptions and challenge some dominant theories of the meaning of
incarceration. The scholarship is first-rate, based on original archival
research into previously obscure sources. Combined, these essays
produce a fresh look at the roots of modern penal practices and at the
resistance offered by those in these institutions.”
—Susan E. Klepp, author of Revolutionary Conceptions: Women,
Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820
Michele Lise Tarter (left) is an associate professor of English at the College of New
Jersey. She is coeditor of A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. Richard Bell
Thai Nguyen
Anne Marie Young
Richard Bell
Jacqueline Cahif
Matthew J. Clavin
Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky
Judith I. Madera
Michael Meranze
Simon P. Newman
Susan Eva O’Donovan
Leslie Patrick
Jodi Schorb
Jason T. Sharples
Billy G. Smith
Caleb Smith
Michele Lise Tarter
Daniel E. Williams
(right) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He is the author of We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United
States.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
New series partner: Beginning with Almost Free, the Library Company of Philadelphia will copublish volumes in the Race in
the Atlantic World series. The Library Company is an independent research library concentrating on American history and
culture from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. It is the oldest institution of its kind in the United States.
www.librarycompany.org
Almost Free
June
5.5 x 8.5 | 192 pp.
6 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3230-7
Ebook, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-4364-8
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3229-1
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Eva Sheppard Wolf
An accessible history in the tradition of classroom staples like T. H.
Breen and Stephen Innes’s “Myne Own Ground”
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free
black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and
depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.
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eva s h e p pa r d wolf
There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After
ten years of elaborate dealings and negotiations, Johnson earned manumission in August 1812. An illiterate “mulatto” who had worked at the tavern
in Warrenton as a slave, Johnson as a freeman was an anomaly, since free
blacks made up only 3 percent of Virginia’s population. Johnson stayed in
Fauquier County and managed to buy his enslaved family, but the law of
the time required that they leave Virginia if Johnson freed them. Johnson
opted to stay. Because slaves’ marriages had no legal standing, Johnson was
not legally married to his enslaved wife, and in the event of his death his
family would be sold to new owners. Johnson’s story dramatically illustrates
the many harsh realities and cruel ironies faced by blacks in a society hostile
to their freedom.
a lmo s t fr e e
Wolf argues that despite the many obstacles Johnson and others faced,
race relations were more flexible during the early American republic than
is commonly believed. It could actually be easier for a free black man to
earn the favor of elite whites than it would be for blacks in general in the
post-Reconstruction South. Wolf demonstrates the ways in which race was
constructed by individuals in their day-to-day interactions, arguing that
racial status was not simply a legal fact but a fluid and changeable condition. Almost Free looks beyond the majority experience, focusing on those at
society’s edges to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of freedom
in the slaveholding South.
a story about
family and race
in antebellum
virginia
Also in the series
The American Dreams of John B.
Prentis, Slave Trader
Kari J. Winter
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3837-8
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-3953-5
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3838-5
“Once again, Wolf crafts an elegant and illuminating study that
reminds us just how complicated race was in the early national South.
Thanks to the author’s fascinating topic and lively prose, this is a book
that should be read by multiple audiences, from lay readers to academics to students.”—Douglas R. Egerton, author of Year of Meteors:
Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on
the Civil War
The Hanging of Angélique
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the
Burning of Old Montréal
Afua Cooper
Eva Sheppard Wolf is an associate professor of history at San Francisco State
University. She is the author of Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in
Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
Abraham Sheppard
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-2940-6
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-2939-0
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July
6 x 9 | 296 pp.
10 b&w photos | 5 maps
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4306-8
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4368-6
Cloth, $69.95y | 978-0-8203-4305-1
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Linda M. Rupert
Language, commerce, and cultural exchange in an
Atlantic world hot spot
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Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the early
Modern atlantiC World
Linda M. RupeRt
When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off
South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction
of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation,
and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic
networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of
the Dutch West India Company in the Americas.
The island’s main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed
largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated
across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For
Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two
defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curaçao. The other
was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations
to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the
sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires
thrust different peoples together.
Creolization and Contraband uses the history of Curaçao to develop the
first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial
trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early
modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers,
smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and
interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges
were the very building blocks of colonial society.
Also in the series
Sounds American
National Identity and the Music Cultures of the
Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860
Ann Ostendorf
Paper $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3976-4
Ebook $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4136-1
Cloth $69.95y | 978-0-8203-3975-7
The Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the NineteenthCentury Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez
Photo courtesy of the author
Paper $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4068-5
Ebook $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4180-4
Cloth $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3575-9
“This exploration of localized sociocultural mixing and extensive,
illicit commerce on a Dutch Caribbean island makes for a fascinating
study of colonial agency. The Antilles was the most dynamic site of
creolization and contraband in the early modern world. Anyone interested in Atlantic history will want to read this excellent book.”
—Philip D. Morgan, author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the
Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
“Rupert’s rich analysis of multiethnic Curaçao is an original and substantial contribution to Atlantic and Caribbean history. Her book is an
excellent case study of creolization and contraband trade—phenomena
that informed most, if not all, societies in the colonial Americas—and
scholars of the Atlantic world will turn to it for comparative purposes.”
—Wim Klooster, author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World:
A Comparative History
Linda M. Rupert is an assistant professor of history at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
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Ordinary Lives in the
Early Caribbean
Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
june
6 x 9 | 312 pp.
15 b&w photos |
Paper, $24.95s |
Ebook, $24.95s |
Cloth, $69.95y |
2 maps
978-0-8203-3868-2
978-0-8203-4375-4
978-0-8203-3867-5
Kristen Block
An ambitious recasting of early Caribbean history, told through the
lives of six people
Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the
Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s
two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.
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k rist en b lo ck
Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with
the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival.
Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied
the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas
Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish
governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry
Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver
Cromwell’s plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were
slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados.
Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern
capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community.
“Based on both a wide-ranging scholarly literature and a broad and
deep archival base, Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean raises
important questions about the relationship between Christianity and
profit seeking in the early modern Atlantic. Block’s use of personal
stories to advance her arguments allows her to address big questions
with a clarity and specificity that should appeal to undergraduates
and specialists alike.”—April Lee Hatfield, author of Atlantic Virginia:
Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
R eligio n, Co l o n i a l Co mpet i t i on ,
a n d t he Poli t i cs of Profi t
Also of interest
Christian Ritual and the Creation of
British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
Nicholas M. Beasley
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3645-9
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3605-3
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3339-7
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation
Jamaica, 1834–1866
Gale L. Kenny
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4045-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4197-2
Cloth, $44.95s | 978-0-8203-3399-1
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Tammy Clarke
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean works in both a comparative and
an integrative Atlantic world frame, drawing on archival sources from
Spain, England, Barbados, Colombia, and the United States. It pushes the
boundaries of how historians read silences in the archive, asking difficult
questions about how self-censorship, anxiety, and shame have shaped the
historical record. The book also encourages readers to expand their concept
of religious history beyond a focus on theology, ideals, and pious exemplars
to examine the communal efforts of pirates, smugglers, slaves, and adventurers who together shaped the Caribbean’s emerging moral economy.
Kristen Block is an assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University.
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Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
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The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Drew A. Swanson
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Place and preservation at an iconic southern property
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without
restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation,
located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that
question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the
lowcountry South.
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Wormsloe is one of the most historic and ecologically significant stretches
of the Georgia coast. It has remained in the hands of one family from 1736,
when Georgia’s Trustees granted it to Noble Jones, through the 1970s,
when much of Wormsloe was ceded to Georgia for the creation of a state
historic site. It has served as a guard post against aggression from Spanish
Florida; a node in an emerging cotton economy connected to far-flung
places like Lancashire and India; a retreat for pleasure and leisure; and a
carefully maintained historic site and green space. Like many lowcountry
places, Wormsloe is inextricably tied to regional, national, and global environments and is the product of transatlantic exchanges.
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Remaking
Wormsloe
Plantation
Swanson argues that while visitors to Wormsloe value what they perceive to
be an “authentic,” undisturbed place, this landscape is actually the product
of aggressive management over generations. He also finds that Wormsloe
is an ideal place to get at hidden stories, such as African American environmental and agricultural knowledge, conceptions of health and disease,
the relationship between manual labor and views of nature, and the ties
between historic preservation and natural resource conservation. Remaking
Wormsloe Plantation connects this distinct Georgia place to the broader
world, adding depth and nuance to the understanding of our own conceptions of nature and history.
drew a. swanson
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Also in the series
Pharsalia
An Environmental Biography of a Southern
Plantation, 1780–1880
Lynn A. Nelson
“This is a really fine book, rich in the kind of detail that explains the
lived-in quality of a place, deeply researched and broadly contextualized, with writing that is often graceful and a pleasure to read. ”
—Mart A. Stewart, author of “What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life,
Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920
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My Work Is That of Conservation
An Environmental Biography of George
Washington Carver
Mark D. Hersey
“A compelling read with the plantation as the star on a stage whose
supporting cast features not only the men and women who established, owned, and labored on it, reinventing it in each generation,
but the processes linking it with lowcountry, Atlantic, and global
arenas. Lucidly conceptualized and elegantly written, this is environmental history at its best.”—Shepard Krech III, author of Spirits of the
Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
Photo courtesy of the author
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Drew A. Swanson is an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in environmental his-
tory at Millsaps College. He was a fellow in environmental history at the Wormsloe
Institute for Environmental History from 2008 to 2010.
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The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster
March
6 x 9 | 440 pp.
24 maps | 9 figures
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The first collection of essays in bioregional literary criticism
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet
from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly
in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to
outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way
to read, write, understand, and teach literature.
the bioregional imagination
LITERATURE, ECOLOGY, AND PLACE
EDITED BY TOM LYNCH,
CHERYLL GLOTFELTY, AND KARLA ARMBRUSTER
The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is global
and includes such diverse places as British Columbia’s Meldrum Creek and
Italy’s Po River Valley, the Arctic and the Outback. There are even forays
into cyberspace and outer space. In their comprehensive introduction, the
editors map the terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history
and potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental literary criticism.
Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four sections. The essays in the “Reinhabiting” section narrate experiments in
living-in-place and restoring damaged environments. The “Rereading”
essays practice bioregional literary criticism, both by examining texts with
strong ties to bioregional paradigms and by opening other, less-obvious
texts to bioregional analysis. In “Reimagining,” the essays push bioregionalism to evolve—by expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives
with other approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the
“Renewal” section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the Internet.
In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our relationship
to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how literature and literary
studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining.
“The bioregional perspective has been around for over forty years
now. It has persistently and quietly examined and analyzed the ways
modern people live in their landscapes. Combining ecological and geomorphological science with culture and politics, it lays the groundwork
for better ways to be on earth. This welcome anthology of cultural
papers brings together a range of well-imagined texts and puts the
bioregional project front and center for humanists, educators, and
scientists.”—Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild
Tom Lynch is an associate professor of English at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. His book Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in
Southwestern Literature won the Western Literature Association’s Thomas J.
Lyon Award. Cheryll Glotfelty is a professor of English at the University
of Nevada, Reno. She is a cofounder and past president of the Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Karla Armbruster,
also an ASLE past president, is a professor of English at Webster
University.
Contributors
Daniel Gustav Anderson
Karla Armbruster
David Landis Barnhill
Wes Berry
Kyle Bladow
Ruth Blair
Norah Bowman-Broz
Pavel Cenkl
Laird Christensen
Christine Cusick
Jill Gatlin
Cheryll Glotfelty
Serenella Iovino
Erin James
Heather Kerr
John Lane
Tom Lynch
Kathryn Miles
Anne Milne
Laurie Ricou
Libby Robin
Kent C. Ryden
Mitchell Thomashow
Harry Vandervlist
Bart Welling
Rinda West
Chad Wriglesworth
Dan Wylie
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Apples and Ashes
March
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5 b&w photos
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Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate
States of America
Coleman Hutchison
Situating Confederate literature in a broader history of global
nineteenth-century culture and ideas
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Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The
product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a
nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in
intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially
those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it
has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly.
Apples and Ashes is organized by genre, with each chapter using a single
text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary
culture. Hutchison discusses an understudied and diverse archive of literary
texts including the literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe; southern responses
to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the novels of Augusta Jane Evans; Confederate popular poetry; the de facto Confederate national anthem, “Dixie”; and several
postwar southern memoirs. In addition to emphasizing the centrality of
slavery to the Confederate literary imagination, the book also considers a
series of novel topics: the reprinting of European novels in the Confederate
South, including Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Victor
Hugo’s Les Misérables; Confederate propaganda in Europe; and postwar
Confederate emigration to Latin America.
l i t er at u r e, n at i o n a l ism, a nd t he
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Coleman Hutchison
In discussing literary criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir,
Apples and Ashes reminds us of Confederate literature’s once-great expectations. Before their defeat and abjection—before apples turned to ashes in
their mouths—many Confederates thought they were in the process of
creating a nation and a national literature that would endure.
Also in the series
Reconstructing the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
Melanie Benson Taylor
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“Beautifully written and compellingly argued, this first literary history of the Confederacy displays its author’s extensive knowledge
of book history, print culture, Civil War history, and political theory.
Hutchison shows that there was a significant literary culture in the
Confederate States, and he pushes us to think against the grain in
taking account of that literature as a ‘national’ literature. One of his
major contributions is to offer a new, more complex, and contingent
way of thinking about U.S. literary nationalism. I am confident that
Apples and Ashes will become a standard work in the field of
nineteenth-century American literary/cultural studies.”
—Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in
Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
Southern Civil Religions
Imagining the Good Society in the PostReconstruction Era
Arthur Remillard
Jerry Whitten
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Coleman Hutchison is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas
at Austin.
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Reading for the Body
August
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The Recalcitrant Materiality of
Southern Fiction, 1893–1985
Jay Watson
New perspectives on historical and social representations of the body
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Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and
dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he
calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the
human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South
itself, ultimately happen.
Employing theoretical approaches to the body developed by thinkers such
as Karl Marx, Colette Guillaumin, Elaine Scarry, and Friedrich Kittler,
Watson also draws on histories of bodily representation to mine a century
of southern fiction for its insights into problems that have preoccupied the
region and nation alike: slavery, Jim Crow, and white supremacy; the marginalization of women; the impact of modernization; the issue of cultural
authority and leadership; and the legacy of the Vietnam War. He focuses
on the specific bodily attributes of hand, voice, and blood and the deeply
embodied experiences of pain, illness, pregnancy, and war to offer new
readings of a distinguished group of literary artists who turned their attention to the South: Mark Twain, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, William
Faulkner, Richard Wright, Katherine Anne Porter, Bobbie Ann Mason,
and Walker Percy.
In producing an intensely embodied U.S. literature these writers, Watson
argues, were by turns extending and interrogating a centuries-old tradition
in U.S. print culture, in which the recalcitrant materiality of the body serves
as a trope for the regional alterity of the South. Reading for the Body makes
a powerful case for the body as an important methodological resource for a
new southern studies.
Also in the series
American Cinema and the
Southern Imaginary
Deborah E. Barker
and Kathryn McKee, eds.
“A visceral and invigorating study that takes us on a fantastic voyage
through southern bodies and narratives, providing superb and often
startling readings of texts we thought we knew. Critically sophisticated, daring, and eloquent, Reading for the Body offers a thrilling
ride for aficionados of Southern and American literature.”
—John Wharton Lowe, Robert Penn Warren Professor, Louisiana
State University
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Disturbing Calculations
The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial
Southern Literature, 1912–2002
Melanie Benson Taylor
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Jay Watson is the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English at
the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in
Faulkner (Georgia) and editor of Conversations with Larry Brown and Faulkner
and Whiteness.
Kevin Bain
“Reading for the Body is a landmark study of Southern literature,
a magnificent work of scholarship written with crystal clarity.
Theoretically sophisticated and historically grounded, Watson’s book
repeatedly leads us to new insights, new illuminations. A remarkable
achievement.”—Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., author of The Fourth Ghost:
White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950
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Exit, Civilian
April
5.5 x 8.5 | 88 pp.
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Idra Novey
The National Poetry Series
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The National Poetry Series: Selected by Patricia Smith
In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses,
and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century.
From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American
families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex
that was once a field and imagines what’s next for the civilians who enter
and exit it each day.
Exit,
Civilian
Poems by Idr a Novey
“‘Enter an apple / And come out the teeth marks / In its yellowed
core,’ writes Idra Novey. In this spare, remarkable collection, she harnesses and transforms prison experience into a visionary exploration
where boundaries dissolve, and we find ourselves transformed.”
—Arthur Sze, author of The Ginkgo Light
“In Exit, Civilian, Idra Novey takes Vasko Popa’s ‘little box’ and
morphs it into a ‘little prison.’ The sweetness of the name ‘little
prison’ draws us in, and Novey tracks her discomfort with the justice
system with surprising and illuminating tenderness. Novey has taught
for the Bard Prison Initiative—one poem zooms in on the poignant
detail of the crumpling of a wedding dress as it moves into and out
of the prison, another imagines a mother named ‘Trial’ giving birth
to a child, ‘Verdict.’ I finished this book with these words still in my
head: ‘Do you want to hear more / About the little prison / Have you
noticed / It is everywhere.’ These poems truly change what and how
we see.”­—Matthea Harvey, author of Modern Life
t h e N at I o N a l
Poetry serIes
Selected by Patricia Smith
Also in the series
Stutter
Poems by William Billiter
On Bafflement
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Here Be Monsters
We drew a prison in the sand and it wouldn’t go away.
Not even beneath the foam of the biggest waves.
The torn leg of a starfish clung to the door.
A piece of seaweed clung to the bars over the windows.
The tide came in higher and we thought, So much for the prison.
Somebody asked why did we draw that thing,
And were we growing old watching it this way.
We felt compelled to make love in the sand a few feet off.
Then we drew another one, just to see if we’d make love again.
Poems by Colin Cheney
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If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
Poems by Anna Journey
Natasha Otrakji
Paper, $16.95t | 978-0-8203-3368-7
Idra Novey is the author of The Next Country and has received awards from the Poetry
Society of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PEN Translation
Fund. Her translations include Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., forthcoming from New Directions in fall 2012. She has taught in the Bard College Prison
Initiative and in Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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Spring & Summer 2012
The Art and Life of
Clarence Major
June
6 x 9 | 336 pp.
21 b&w images | 17 color plates
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Keith E. Byerman
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
An uncompromising assessment of an uncompromisingly creative
writer and artist
keith e. byerman
Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet—as
well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He
has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man
shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works
of fiction. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography
of this innovative African American writer and visual artist. Given the
full cooperation of his subject, Keith E. Byerman traces Major’s life and
career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters
with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to
his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living
in California.
the art
and
life of
Clarence
Major
In his introduction, Byerman asks, “How does a black man who does not
take race as his principal identity, an artist who deliberately defies mainstream rules, a social and cultural critic who wants to be admired by the
world he attacks, and a creator who refuses to commit to one expressive
form make his way in the world?” Tasking himself with opening up the
multiple layers of problems and solutions in both the work and the life to
consider the successes and the failures, Byerman reveals Major as one who
has devoted himself to a life of experimental art that has challenged both
literary and painterly practice and the conventional understanding of the
nature of African American art. Major’s refusal to follow the rules has challenged readers and critics, but through it all, he has continued to produce
quality work as a painter, poet, and novelist. His is the life of someone
totally devoted to his creative work, one who has put his artistic vision
ahead of fame, wealth, and sometimes even family.
Also by the author
Seizing the Word
History, Art, and Self in the Work of
W. E. B. Du Bois
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“This carefully researched bio-critical study not only provides a compelling view of Clarence Major’s life and multifaceted career but also
offers signal insights into the life and work of other writers of African
American descent whose artistic production has not been limited, and
should not be read as limited, by ‘race.’”
—Joe Weixlmann, editor emeritus of the African American Review
Fingering the Jagged Grain
Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-3776-0
Keith E. Byerman is a professor of English at Indiana State University. He is the author
or editor of six previous books including Remembering the Past in Contemporary African
American Fiction.
Indiana State University
“This groundbreaking study provides fresh insight into Major’s fiction,
poetry, and painting. By drawing on previously unknown archival material and interviews, Byerman develops a rich account of Major’s life
and sheds new light on the creative practice of an experimentalist
who is quite possibly the most prolific African American writer of his
generation.”—Linda Furgerson Selzer, author of Charles Johnson in
Context
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March
6 x 9 | 384 pp.
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World rights except United Kingdom
Publication of this book was made possible, in
part, by the President’s Venture Fund through
generous gifts of the University of
Georgia Partners.
Edited by Stephen Corey, with Douglas Carlson,
David Ingle, and Mindy Wilson Foreword by Barry Lopez
Stories Wanting Only
to Be Heard
Selected Fiction from Six Decades of
The Georgia Review
Edited by Stephen Corey with Douglas Carlson,
David Ingle, and Mindy Wilson
Foreword by Barry Lopez
Outstanding short fiction from one of the nation’s best
literary magazines
Stories
wanting only to be heard
S elect ed Fic t ion fro m
S i x d ec ades of
The Georgia Review
Contributors
Lee K. Abbott
T. C. Boyle
Kevin Brockmeier
Siv Cedering
Fred Chappell
Harry Crews
Jack Driscoll
Pam Durban
William Faulkner
Ernest J. Gaines
William Gay
Gary Gildner
Donald Hall
Jim Heynen
T. E. Holt
Mary Hood
Barry Lopez
James Lewis MacLeod
Lee Martin
Phyllis Moore
Naomi Shihab Nye
Joyce Carol Oates
Fred Pfeil
Marjorie Sandor
George Singleton
Jesse Stuart
John Edgar Wideman
Liza Wieland
Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever
since, The Georgia Review has become one of America’s most highly
regarded journals of arts and letters. Never stuffy and never shallow, The
Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious
readers—and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and
sustains repeated attention and consideration. Pulitzer Prize winners and
never-before-published writers are equals during the journal’s manuscript
evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print stories, poems, and
essays that promise to be of lasting merit.
The year 2012 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of The Georgia Review,
and Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard will acknowledge that milestone by
presenting a selection of the remarkable short fiction published across the
decades. The collection includes the work of well-known writers, many of
whom were not yet so well known when first selected for publication by the
review, and also highlights compelling work from writers whose names may
not be as familiar but whose stories are equally compelling and memorable.
The stories collected here—each one vivid, distinctive, and worthwhile
to read—stand as testament to the significance of The Georgia Review’s
decades of work to identify and promote writing of exceptional quality.
“In my experience, no other literary publication could shape an
anthology as wide in its range of subjects or as varied in its modes of
telling. This is not only an excellent anthology but an exciting one.”
—Kelly Cherry, author of We Can Still Be Friends: A Novel
“When a journal can bring together work originally published in its
pages by such authors as diverse as Mary Hood and Harry Crews,
Pam Durban and T. C. Boyle, Jesse Stuart and Ernest J. Gaines, John
Edgar Wideman and Jack Driscoll, we readers out here are blessed
beyond measure. This is a worthy book. Period.”
—Bret Lott, author of Ancient Highway
Stephen Corey is editor of The Georgia Review and the author of nine
collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World. Douglas
Carlson and David Ingle are assistant editors, and Mindy Wilson is man-
aging editor at The Georgia Review.
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A Field Guide for
Immersion Writing
March
6 x 9 | 192 pp.
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Ebook, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-4373-0
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Memoir, Journalism, and Travel
Robin Hemley
New and engaging ways to think about and
practice participatory writing
For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through
which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self.
Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of
one style—immersion writing—Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and
practical advice for writers of this nonfiction genre.
Robin Hemle y
a field
guide
for
immersion
Immersion writing can be broken down into the broad categories of travel
writing, immersion memoir, and immersion journalism. Using the work of
such authors as Barbara Ehrenreich, Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Conover,
A. J. Jacobs, Nellie Bly, Julio Cortazar, and James Agee, Hemley examines
these three major types of immersion writing and further identifies the subcategories of the quest, the experiment, the investigation, the infiltration,
and the reenactment. Included in the book are helpful exercises, models for
immersion writing, and a chapter on one of the most fraught subjects for
nonfiction writers—the ethics and legalities of writing about other people.
MeMoir,
JournalisM,
and Travel
writing
A Field Guide for Immersion Writing recalibrates and redefines the way
writers approach their relationship to their subjects. Suitable for beginners
and advanced writers, the book provides an enlightening, provocative, and
often amusing look at the ways in which nonfiction writers engage with the
world around them.
“Hemley constructs a vocabulary and taxonomy for the immersion
genre and makes a compelling argument for why these books matter,
beyond the gimmickry, and why these stories hit home.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
Also of interest
Fearless Confessions
A Writer’s Guide to Memoir
Sue William Silverman
Paper, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3166-9
Ebook, $19.95s | 978-0-8203-3606-0
“A Field Guide for Immersion Writing is indispensable. In it, Robin
Hemley is very funny but serious all the while. He explains and defines
and prompts and reports with great clarity, teaching and informing and urging as he entertains. The quotations and examples from
accomplished writers are generous and just plain great, many of them
from essays and articles and books I’ve missed, with lessons in the
most unexpected places. ‘A good book is always about more than one
thing,’ Robin says, and the Field Guide is a book about life as much
as it’s about writing. I mean, it’s that important, whether you plan
to write or not.”—Bill Roorbach, author of Writing Life Stories and
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Just beneath My Skin
Autobiography and Self-Discovery
Patricia Foster
Robin Hemley is a professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the
Nonfiction Writing Program. He is author or editor of eight books including Do-Over!
and Turning Life into Fiction and is editor of the magazine Defunct.
www.robinhemley.com
Catherine Segurson
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Regional Trade
Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery
An Illustrated History and Guide
Ren and Helen Davis
With an introduction by Timothy J. Crimmins
Living history in a city of the dead
The Marsh family mausoleum, built in the Gothic Revival
style, is noted for its two bronze urns cast at New York’s
Gorham Foundry, the country’s first art foundry.
In Atlanta and Environs, historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that Oakland
Cemetery is “Atlanta’s most tangible link between the past and the present.” Within its forty-eight acres are more than seventy thousand personal
stories—of settlers and immigrants who forged a city from a rowdy railroad
camp, former slaves who carved out lives in a segregated world, soldiers in
blue and gray who were cut down in a brutal civil war, and civic and business visionaries who rebuilt the Phoenix City from the ashes of war and
carried it to prominence on the international stage.
Today, Atlanta’s oldest public cemetery remains a must-see destination for
anyone interested in the city’s colorful story. Past the grieving mien of the
Lion of Atlanta, which guards nearly three thousand unknown Confederate
soldiers, visitors can pay respect to those who made Atlanta history—
former slave Carrie Steele Logan, who founded the first orphanage for
African American children; Joseph Jacobs, owner of
the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was first served as
a fountain drink; Morris and Emanuel Rich, founders of the storied Rich’s Department Stores; golfing
Grand Slam legend Bobby Jones; Gone With the
Wind author Margaret Mitchell; Maynard Jackson,
the city’s first African American mayor, and many
others. Aside from its importance as a historic site,
Oakland is among the nation’s finest examples
of a rural garden cemetery, characteristic of the
nineteenth-century movement to transform stark
burial grounds into pastoral landscapes for both the
repose of the dead and the enjoyment of the living.
With Ren and Helen Davis’s engaging narrative,
rich photography, archival images, and detailed
maps, Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery is a versatile
guide for touring the cemetery’s landscape of
remembrance, as well as a unique way to explore
Atlanta’s history.
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Spring flowers blossom near the Henson-Parris mausoleum, a
Classical Revival structure built in 1925.
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Atlanta’s
Oakland Cemetery
An Illustrated History and Guide
Ren and Helen Davis
Monument over the grave of Moses Formwalt, Atlanta’s first mayor. First interred in an unmarked grave in the
cemetery’s oldest section, the Original Six Acres, Formwalt’s remains were identified and relocated to this site in
Bell Tower Ridge in 1916.
“Ren and Helen Davis have produced a clear and concise guide to
Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. Well-researched and beautifully
illustrated with historic images, Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery provides
an insightful look at the many unique areas that characterize this
iconic burial space as it has been shaped, over time, by various social,
cultural, and religious traditions.”—James R. Cothran, author of
Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South
with an intro duction by
Timothy J. Crimmins
Published in association with the
Historic Oakland Foundation
For more information on Oakland Cemetery visit
www.oaklandcemetery.com
“Ren and Helen Davis have provided a valuable guide to Oakland
Cemetery, one of Atlanta’s true jewels. Their richly illustrated work
explores Oakland’s evolution, a wide range of characters both prominent and little-known, the cemetery’s natural landscapes, and its
rich symbolism and iconography. Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery will be
of interest to both students and scholars of the city’s past and the
general public alike.”—Cliff Kuhn, coauthor of Living Atlanta: An Oral
History of the City, 1914–1948
Nelson Davis
Ren Davis (left) is a native Atlantan whose travel writing and photography have
appeared in such places as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Magazine, and
Atlanta Magazine. Helen Davis (right) taught for nearly thirty years in Atlanta public
and private schools. The Davises are coauthors of several books including Georgia Walks
and Atlanta Walks. www.davisguides.com
history
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March
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This book was supported, in part, by generous
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Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the
Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc.
Robert M. Craig
The architectural work and legacy of the South’s
leading Beaux-Arts practitioner
THE ARCHITECTURE OF
FRANCIS PALMER SMITH
ATLANTA’S SCHOLAR-ARCHITECT
ROBERT M. CRAIG
Francis Palmer Smith was the principal designer of Atlanta-based Pringle
and Smith, one of the leading firms of the early twentieth-century South.
Smith was an academic eclectic who created traditional, history-based
architecture grounded in the teachings of the École des Beaux-Arts. As The
Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith shows, Smith was central to the establishment of the Beaux-Arts perspective in the South through his academic
and professional career.
After studying with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania,
Smith moved to Atlanta in 1909 to head the new architecture program
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He would go on to train some of
the South’s most significant architects, including Philip Trammell Shutze,
Flippen Burge, Preston Stevens, Ed Ivey, and Lewis E. Crook Jr.
In 1922 Smith formed a partnership with Robert S. Pringle. In Atlanta,
Savannah, Chattanooga, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Miami, and elsewhere,
Smith built office buildings, hotels, and Art Deco skyscrapers; buildings
at Georgia Tech, the Baylor School in Chattanooga, and the Darlington
School in Rome, Georgia; Gothic Revival churches; standardized bottling
plants for Coca-Cola; and houses in a range of traditional “period” styles in
the suburbs. Smith’s love of medieval architecture culminated with his 1962
masterwork, the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. As his career drew to a
close, Modernism was establishing itself in America. Smith’s own modern
aesthetic was evidenced in the more populist modern of Art Deco, but he
never embraced the abstract machine aesthetic of high Modern.
Also of interest
Marion Manley
Miami’s First Woman Architect
Catherine Lynn and Carie Penabad
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John Portman
Art and Architecture
Robert M. Craig details the role of history in design for Smith and his
generation, who believed that architecture is an art and that ornament,
cultural reference, symbolism, and tradition communicate to clients and
observers and enrich the lives of both.
Paul Goldberger and Robert M. Craig
Georgia Institute of Technology
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“This is how America was designed! A thoroughly captivating study
of an architect who taught generations of students at Georgia Tech
and built hundreds of houses in a variety of styles, churches, cathedrals, schools, Coca-Cola bottling plants, high rises, and many other
buildings throughout the South. Beautifully illustrated with original
drawings and vintage and new photographs.”—Richard Guy Wilson,
Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History at the
University of Virginia
Robert M. Craig is a professor emeritus of architectural history at the Georgia Institute
of Technology. He is the author of Bernard Maybeck at Principia College: The Art and
Craft of Building, Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929–1959, and coauthor, with Paul Goldberger, of John Portman: Art and Architecture.
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The Rise and Decline of
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May
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68 b&w photos | 2 maps
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An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
Harvey H. Jackson III
How a southern coastline became an iconic tourist attraction
HARVEY H. JACKSON III
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the
Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early
1930s, when it was sparsely populated with “small fishing villages,” through to
the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
Harvey H. Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and
Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Florida—an area known as
the “Redneck Riviera.” Jackson explores the rise of this area as a vacation
destination for the lower South’s middle- and working-class families following World War II, the building boom of the 1950s and 1960s, and the
emergence of the Spring Break “season.” From the late sixties through 1979,
severe hurricanes destroyed many small motels, cafes, bars, and early cottages
that gave the small beach towns their essential character. A second building
boom ensued in the 1980s dominated by high-rise condominiums and large
resort hotels. Jackson traces the tensions surrounding the gentrification of the
late 1980s and 1990s and the collapse of the housing market in 2008. While
his major focus is on the social, cultural, and economic development, he also
documents the environmental and financial impacts of natural disasters and
the politics of beach access and dune and sea turtle protection.
THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE
Redneck Riviera
AN INSIDER’S HISTORY OF T HE FLORIDAAL ABAMA COA ST
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera is the culmination of sixteen years
of research drawn from local newspapers, interviews, documentaries, community histories, and several scholarly studies that have addressed parts of
this region’s history. From his 1950s-built family vacation cottage in Seagrove
Beach, Florida, and on frequent trips to the Alabama coast, Jackson witnessed
the changes that have come to the area and has recorded them in a personal,
in-depth look at the history and culture of the coast.
Also of interest
Dixie Emporium
Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer
Culture in the American South
Edited by Anthony J. Stanonis
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“This is more than a history of a place and its brushes with disaster—the
BP spill—and its changing social landscape. It is a story of a coast and a
man’s relationship with it. Those of us who have stared into that bluegreen water have waited on this book for a long time.”
—Rick Bragg, author of The Prince of Frogtown
Creating the Big Easy
New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern
Tourism, 1918–1945
Anthony J. Stanonis
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Harvey H. Jackson III is Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University.
His many books include Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia
(Georgia), Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama, and Inside
Alabama: A Personal History of My State.
Elizabeth Jackson
“This is a splendid social history, and Jackson, a native son of the
coastal South, was born to write it. His witty prose combines the rigor
of the trained scholar, the sharp eye of a journalist, and the unsentimental affection of a skilled memoirist. The result is the best guide yet
to a geographic region that is also a cultural state of mind.”
—Howell Raines, author of My Soul Is Rested
H istory
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Altamaha
A River and Its Keeper
Photographs by James Holland
Text by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer and Janisse Ray
A compelling vision of three Altamaha natives calls for preserving a great American river
Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee
and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and
drains its third-largest watershed. It has been
designated as one of the Nature Conservancy’s
seventy-five Last Great Places because of its
unique character and rich natural diversity.
In evocative photography and elegant prose,
Altamaha captures the distinctive beauty of
this river and offers a portrait of the man who
has become its improbable guardian.
Erosion and transport of sediment cause
river meanders to curve so widely that
the Altamaha eventually cuts through
the base of a loop to shorten its path to
the sea. Although it is not yet completely
cut off from the river flow by accumulating sand shoals, an oxbow lake is
beginning to form on the left side of the
vegetated island. Isolated from the rest
of the river except during floods, these
lakes are famous among the angling
community for record largemouth bass
and other game fish.
Few people know the Altamaha better than
James Holland. Raised in Cochran, Georgia,
Holland spent years on the river fishing, hunting, and working its coastal reaches as a commercial crabber. Witnessing a steady decline
in blue crab stocks, Holland doggedly began
to educate himself on the area’s environmental
and political issues, reaching a deep conviction
that the only way to preserve the way of life
he loved was to protect the river and its watershed. In 1999, he began serving as the first
Altamaha Riverkeeper, finding new purpose in protecting the river and raising awareness
about its plight with people in his community and beyond.
At first Holland used photography to document pollution and abuse, but as he came to
appreciate and understand the Altamaha in new ways, his photographs evolved, focusing
more on the natural beauty he fought to save. More than 230 color photographs capture the
area’s majestic landscapes and stunning natural diversity, including a generous selection of
some the 234 species of rare plants and animals in the region. In their essays, Janisse Ray
offers a profile of Holland’s transformation from orphan and troubled high school dropout
to river advocate, and Dorinda G. Dallmeyer celebrates the biological richness and cultural
heritage that the Altamaha offers to all Georgians.
In an Altamaha freshwater marsh, a praying mantis
awaits its next meal on a flower spike of pickerel weed
(Pontederia cordata ).
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“A stunning and captivating collection of photographs of the
wildlife and habitat of the Altamaha River by riverkeeper and photographer James Holland is introduced by two solid essays—one, a
colorful portrait of the improbable life of the man who made the
photos; the second, a comprehensive, eloquent, and economical
survey of the natural history where they were made.”
—Sally Bethea, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
“This is a beautiful book about a beautiful place. Dallmeyer,
Ray, and Holland tell the story of the Altamaha River, southeast
Georgia’s extraordinary ecological gem, and in the process have
given us something to admire and inspire. James Holland’s photographs are stunning, and his personal story is as remarkable as his
art; he is already a hero to those of us familiar with his life and
work, and this book will undoubtedly expand his influence even
further. Everyone can learn something from this book—from the
natural resource professional to the average Joe concerned about
a favorite fishing hole.”—Albert G. Way, author of Conserving
Southern Longleaf
June
11 x 8.5 | 208 pp.
230 color photos | 2 maps
Paper with flaps, $29.95t
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Altamaha
p h oto g r a p h s by
James Holland
A River and Its Keeper
t e xt by d or i n da g. da l l m e y e r a n d ja n i s s e r ay
Bald cypress are well adapted to withstand as much
as a six-foot fluctuation in water levels, depending
on the season.
Nancy Marshall
University of Georgia
has received numerous awards and honors including being named River
Conservationist of the Year by the Georgia River Network and one of
the Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine. Dorinda G.
Dallmeyer (center) is director of the Environmental Ethics Certificate
Program at the University of Georgia and author or editor of numerous
books, including Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
(Georgia). Janisse Ray (right) is the author or editor of five books including Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha
River (Georgia) and the bestselling Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
Photo courtesy of the author
James Holland (left) was the Altamaha Riverkeeper for ten years. He
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The World of the Salt Marsh
May
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52 b&w photos | 1 map
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Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the
Southeastern Atlantic Coast
Charles Seabrook
Understanding and celebrating the places where land meets sea
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The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the
historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival.
the wor ld of the
Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral,
Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt
marsh, calling it “a biological factory without equal.” Twice-daily tides carry
in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina (Spartina
alterniflora)—a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety
of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention,
and pollution filtration.
Salt Marsh
appreciating and protecting
the tidal marshes of
the southeastern atlantic coast
Charles Seabrook
Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their
living from the coast’s bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among
them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by
development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Edisto
Island, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who
says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is
becoming scarcer.
For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many
still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or “improved” for
development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more
likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen,
and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly
amazing places.
Also of interest
Drifting into Darien
A Personal and Natural History
of the Altamaha River
Janisse Ray
Cloth, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-3815-6
Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4186-6
“The potential impact of The World of the Salt Marsh on society will
be similar to the impact Silent Spring and A Sand County Almanac had
in their time. Seabrook is a natural storyteller, and the book should be
enjoyed by anyone with an interest in life along our coasts.”
—Fred Holland, former director of NOAA’s Hollings Marine Laboratory
Liquid Land
A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Ted Levin
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-2672-6
James Holland
Charles Seabrook, a native of John’s Island, South Carolina, is a columnist and environ-
mental writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of Cumberland Island:
Strong Women, Wild Horses and, with Marcy Louza, Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White
Gold: The Kaolin Chalk Wars.
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The University of Georgia Press publishes a wide array of books about nature and the environment including environmental
history, narrative nonfiction, and some of our best-selling natural history guides. In 2005 the Southern Environmental
Law Center gave special recognition to the Press for its consistent commitment to publishing works about the southern
environment. Here are just a few recent publications. To receive regular updates about our nature and environment titles
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into Darien a n d Janisse Ray
e, and lovingly written. There are many
or’s sincerity and knowledge radiate from
nd tingle in the mind long afterward.
olor, universal insight, humor, and
adge, author of The Cincinnati Arch:
have such an eloquent spokesman.”
y of a Cracker Childhood
ring this unsung landscape is heartfelt and
Times Book Review
Rachel Carson. . . . in Ecology of a Cracker
call to save the longleaf pine, [Ray] casts a
g up poor and fundamentalist in southeast
powerful, it holds its writer hostage.”
ess
rg
Ja n is se Ray
author of ecology of a cracker childhood
a p e r s o n a l a n d n at u r a l h i s t o r y o f t h e a lt a m a h a r i ve r
Ray illustrates as never before the link
ously personal prose we count on from
of people who have begun to ‘reconcile
their home, and with each other.’ ”
Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites
ja ni sse
r ay
D R i F T i n G i n To Da R i e n
he real authentic deal. she feels deeply about
net. she lives that conviction. and she is
is earth in a way that touches us all. From
ou and your work inspire me. Read her
nsa, author of Taking after Mudear
georgi a
Invasive Pythons in the United States
A Personal and Natural History of the
Altamaha River
Janisse Ray
Ecology of an Introduced Predator
Michael E. Dorcas and John D. Willson
janisse ray was a babe in arms
when a boat of her father’s construction
cracked open and went down in the mighty
altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver,
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3835-4
she washed onto a sandbar as the craft
sank from view. That first baptism began a
lifelong relationship with a stunning and
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Ebook, $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4186-6
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
powerful river that almost nobody knows.
The altamaha rises dark and mysterious
in southeast Georgia. it is deep and wide,
bordered by swamps. its corridor contains an
extraordinary biodiversity, including many
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
rare and endangered species, which led the
nature Conservancy to designate it as one of
the world’s last great places.
The altamaha is Ray’s river, and from
“Ray, who danced nature writing into new and
fertile terrain with An Ecology of a Cracker
Childhood, introduces readers to one of the
glories of the South, the Altamaha River.”
—Booklist
childhood she dreamed of paddling its entire
length to where it empties into the sea.
Drifting into Darien begins with an account
of finally making that journey, turning to
meditations on the many ways we accept
Dr i f t i ng i nto Da r ien
a p e r s o n a l a n d n at u r a l h i s to ry o f t h e
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3815-6
ISBN-10: 0-8203-3815-X
Drifting into Darien
a lTa M a H a R i v e R
a world that contains both good and evil.
“The first book to focus solely on this issue,
Invasive Pythons in the United States is well
researched, well illustrated, and well timed.”
—Edward O. Wilson
With praise, biting satire, and hope, Ray
contemplates transformation and attempts
with every page to settle peacefully into
the now.
My Paddle to the Sea
Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
John Lane
Cloth, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-3977-1
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4131-6
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
“Three qualities exist in his writing that are
rarely compatible in an author: an intense
readability, a deep thoughtfulness, and a
largeness of spirit.”—David Gessner, author of
Return of the Osprey
Conserving Southern Longleaf
Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological
Land Management
Albert G. Way
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4017-3
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4129-3
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3466-0
Environmental History and the American South
“This book should be on the bookshelf of
not only every longleaf enthusiast but every
natural resource owner and manager.”
—Rhett Johnson, president and cofounder of
The Longleaf Alliance
An Everglades Providence
Black Nature
Paper, $26.95t | 978-0-8203-3779-1
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Environmental History and the American South
Winner of the Northern California Book Awards,
Special Recognition Award
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American
Environmental Century
Jack E. Davis
Winner of the Florida Book Award, Gold Medal in Nonfiction
Four Centuries of African American
Nature Poetry
Edited by Camille T. Dungy
“An impressive look at America during
Douglas’s lifetime and the growth of America’s
environmental movement.”—Library Journal
“Dungy enlarges our understanding of
the nexus between nature and culture,
and introduces a ‘new way of thinking
about nature writing and writing by black
Americans.’”—Booklist (starred review)
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy
The Art of Managing Longleaf
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3676-3
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The Activist Who Saved Nature from the
Conservationists
Dyana Z. Furmansky
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Winner of the Colorado Book Award, Biography
“Written with disarming and compelling glee
. . . the unlikely story of how a poor little
rich girl became the most effective American
conservationist between John Muir and
Rachel Carson.”—Audubon
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A Personal History of the
Stoddard-Neel Approach
Leon Neel with Paul S. Sutter
and Albert G. Way
“Herbert Stoddard and his acolyte Leon Neel
made a revolution in forestry among the
longleaf pines of Georgia’s Red Hills. . . . Now
Paul Sutter, Bert Way, and especially Neel,
himself, bring us the comprehensive narrative,
which is not only enlightening but irresistably
charming.”—Jack Temple Kirby, author of
Mockingbird Song
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10 b&w photos
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Published in association with the
Southern Foodways Alliance at the Center for
the Study of Southern Culture at the
University of Mississippi
Cornbread Nation 6
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Edited by Brett Anderson
General editor, John T. Edge
Essential writing about southern foodways in a rapidly changing South
www.southernfoodways.com
The hungrily awaited sixth volume in the Cornbread Nation series tells
the story of the American South—circa now—through the prism of its
food and the people who grow, make, serve, and eat it. The modern South
serves up a groaning board of international cuisines virtually unknown to
previous generations of Southerners, notes Brett Anderson in his introduction. Southern food, like the increasingly globalized South, shows an open
and cosmopolitan attitude toward ethnic diversity. But fully appreciating
Southern food still requires fluency with the region’s history, warts and all.
The essays, memoirs, poetry, and profiles in this book are informed by that
fluency, revealing topics and people traditional as well as avant garde, down
home as well as urbane.
The book is organized into six chapters: “Menu Items” shares ruminations
on iconic dishes; “Messing with Mother Nature” looks at the relationship
between food and the natural environment; “Southern Characters” profiles
an eclectic mix of food notables; “Southern Drinkways” distills libations,
hard and soft; “Identity in Motion” examines change in the Southern food
world; and “The Global South” leaves readers with some final thoughts on
the cross-cultural influences wafting from the Southern kitchen. Gathered
here are enough prominent food writers to muster the liveliest of dinner
parties: Molly O’Neill, Calvin Trillin, Michael Pollan, Kim Severson,
Martha Foose, Jessica Harris, Bill Addison, Matt and Ted Lee, and Lolis
Eric Elie, among others. Two classic pieces—Frederick Douglass’s account
of the sustenance of slaves and Edward Behr’s 1995 profile of Cajun cook
Eula Mae Doré—are included. A photo essay on the Collins Oyster
Company family of Louisiana rounds out Cornbread Nation 6.
Also published with the Southern
Foodways Alliance
Cornbread Nation 4
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton
Reed, eds.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3089-1
Cornbread Nation 5
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Fred W. Sauceman, ed.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3507-0
The Southern Foodways Alliance
Community Cookbook
Sara Roahen and John T. Edge, eds.
Foreword by Alton Brown
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“This collection captures both the spirit and the history of Southern
food culture. The breadth of this collection is inspiring. To be able
to read Frederick Douglass next to Edward Behr and Michael Pollan is
exciting to me. As someone who is passionate about American culinary
history and culture, I was also pleased to find that these writings
really challenged some of my most basic assumptions about why
Southern cuisine exists as it does today.”
—David Chang, chef/owner of Momofuku
“A veritable feast of good writing and original thinking . . . Like the
well-made meal, it’s carefully sequenced to document tradition as
well as innovation, history as well as the surprisingly new.”
—Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies at
Duke University
Brett Anderson is the restaurant critic and a features writer at the New
Orleans Times-Picayune. The winner of two James Beard awards for journalism, Anderson has written for such publications as Gourmet, Food & Wine,
and the Washington Post.
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The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
The University of Georgia Press has published a number of books about southern foodways, including numerous books
published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the
University of Mississippi. Some recently published titles are below. For more cookbooks see page 41.
New in paperback
A Mess of Greens
Southern Gender and Southern Food
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4037-1
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4187-3
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-3471-4
“A Mess of Greens is a landmark text for the study of
southern foodways. Engelhardt adds immeasurably to the
canon of food studies by bringing the best practices of the
discipline of American Studies informed by the analysis of
feminist studies.”—Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh
Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Vibration Cooking
or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
With a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson and a new preface
Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking
Foreword by John T. Edge and
Georgeanna Milam
Available April, Paper $22.95t | 978-0-8203-4334-1
Available now, Cloth, $29.95t | 978-0-8203-2992-5
Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic
New York Times food writer, and author of
more than twenty cookbooks, was always a
southerner at heart. This is the only one of
Claiborne’s cookbooks to focus exclusively
on the South. It was, he readily admitted,
his most personal book.
“Claiborne admires a good story and a good
meal. And his mostly nostalgic, comforting
view of southern food is as it should be.
Instead of creating stir-fries of collards or fried
chicken calzones he sticks to the basics. . . .
Mr. Claiborne’s collection is one the Southernstarved cook will reach for—recipes that stand
the test of time.”—Florence Fabricant,
New York Times
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3739-5
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3959-7
“You will learn from Vibration Cooking something about
the anger, pride, generosity, and will of one black woman.
Vertamae’s autobiography-travelogue-cookbook has a rare
distinction: There’s something in it for everybody—of either
sex or any color.”—Washington Post
Savage Barbecue
Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food
Andrew Warnes
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3109-6
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4018-0
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2896-6
“Warnes proves that barbecue is more than a word, more
even than a style of cooking. In this meticulously researched
work, Warnes demonstrates that the barbecue tradition
has long been about the careful separation of ‘us’ and
‘them.’”—Lolis Eric Elie, author of Smokestack Lightning:
Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country
“Craig Claiborne was the most important of all
food giants.”—Jacques Pepin
“He made food respectable.”—Julia Child
Hunger Overcome?
Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century
African American Literature
Andrew Warnes
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-2562-0
Cloth, $59.95y | 978-0-8203-2529-3
“I relish the idea, more than two hundred years after Phillis
Wheatley first published verses linking American liberty and
black freedom, that the black pen can ultimately serve to
liberate. In that, Warnes and I are truly in concert.”
—Rafia Zafar, Gastronomica
F ood S tudies
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Available
11 x 8.5 | 96 pp.
95 color illustrations
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-1-932543-44-5
Distributed for the High Museum of Art
www.high.org
The Art of Golf
Essays by Catherine Lewis, Richard Lewis, Rand Jerris, Tico
Seifert, and Jordan Mearns
An exploration of the royal and ancient game as depicted by landscape
and portrait artists, photographers, Pop artists, and sculptors
The game of golf, as we know it today, appears to have been first played
in North America in the late eighteenth century. By 1895, more than 125
golf clubs were established in the United States. Despite its popularity and
prominence in the American cultural landscape, it is surprising that the
sport has not attracted artists on a grand scale. No iconic American painting taking golf as a subject comes to mind, yet art and golf have intersected
in some interesting and important ways. The Art of Golf reveals to us renderings of golf as art, alongside essays that give us a historical understanding of the game in its cultural context.
Catherine Lewis, Richard Lewis, and Rand Jerris contribute an essay that
explores how the concepts of leisure, social aspirations, and the American
character were expressed in relation to golf by artists in the United States.
Tico Seifert examines the game’s Dutch antecedent and the buoyant
market for highly finished, detailed genre scenes full of incident and vivid
observation that flourished in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jordan Mearns explores depictions of golf in Scottish art
from the middle of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century
through the work of a wide variety of artists.
Also distributed for the
High Museum of Art
John Portman
Art and Architecture
With essays by Paul Goldberger and
Robert M. Craig
Paper, $30.00t | 978-1-932543-30-8
Cloth, $45.00t | 978-1-932543-29-2
Exhibition
High Museum of Art
February 5 – June 3, 2012
This exhibition will travel to other venues.
Please visit www.high.org for updates.
Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Landscape (ca. 1630). Oil on copper, 11¼ x 16¾ inches.
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Dr. Catherine Lewis is a professor of history, director of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, and Executive
Director of Museums, Archives, and Rare Books at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Richard Lewis is an expert on nineteenthcentury American art and culture and is Curator of Visual Arts at the Louisiana State Museum. Dr. Rand Jerris is a librarian,
historian, and Senior Managing Director of Public Services for the United States Golf Association. Dr. Tico Seifert is Senior
Curator of Northern European Art at the Scotish National Gallery and is currently preparing the catalogue of Dutch paintings in
the National Gallery of Scotland. Jordan Mearns is a research assistant at the Scottish National Gallery and PhD candidate at the
University of Edinburgh.
F ine A rt
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Spring & Summer 2012
New in paperback
G eography
/ U rban S tudies
C reative N onfiction
L iterary S tudies
/ biography
L iterary S tudies
/ biography
Charlotte, NC
Beyond Katrina
Pauline E. Hopkins
Margaret Fuller,
Wandering Pilgrim
The Global Evolution of a New
South City
Edited by William Graves and
Heather A. Smith
June | 6 x 9 | 320 pp.
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4308-2
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4393-8
Learning from a
Sunbelt city
“Recommended for all
urban geographers,
economists, and historians
interested in the modern
South. It would also be
useful reading for southern
politicians still struggling to
make up their minds about
the meaning and cultural
cost of embracing modernity.”—Journal of
American History
“An invaluable guide to
understanding Charlotte,
and more generally the
growth and transformation
experienced by cities in
the Sunbelt.”—Choice
A Meditation on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Natasha Trethewey
June | 5.5 x 8.5 | 144 pp.
Paper, $17.95t | 978-0-8203-4311-2
Ebook, $17.95t | 978-0-8203-3752-4
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
One of our finest poets on
memory, loss, and recovery
in the wake of Katrina
“By looking at the vast
devastation with sober and
poetic eyes, Trethewey has
written a hauntingly beautiful book.”—Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
“Within this book’s quiet
thoughts lies a powerful
story of things long gone
that will never come back.
What is lost can only be
captured by memory. And
Trethewey’s prose captures memory with poetic
precision.”
—W. Ralph Eubanks,
National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered
A Literary Biography
Hanna Wallinger
Meg McGavran Murray
June | 6 x 9 | 384 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4345-7
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4394-5
July | 6.125 x 9.25 | 552 pp.
Paper, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-4335-8
Ebook, $26.95s | 978-0-8203-3659-6
An in-depth study of the
recently rediscovered
African American writer
A new biography tracing
the “strange, dark, thorny
paths” taken by America’s
first full-fledged woman
intellectual
“A long awaited and much
needed resource for Hopkins
scholars . . . Extremely
valuable . . . Wallinger has
drawn a winning portrait
of the author and has met
a vital need in Hopkins
scholarship.”—Legacy
“[Wallinger] deserves
praise for the reification of
Hopkins’s image.”
—Journal of African
American History
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“[Murray] deserves praise
for her nuanced reading of
Fuller’s romantic personality. Murray’s scholarship
is impeccable and generous. . . . Her probing of
Fuller’s psychology deepens
understanding of Fuller’s
major works. . . . Murray
is especially conscious of
her place in the history of
Fuller criticism and biography, and this makes her
biography an astute contribution to the literature on
Fuller and on the development of American studies.”—Choice Outstanding
Academic Book
35
New in paperback
H istory /
literary S tudies
L iterary S tudies
H istory /
A merican S tudies
H istory
The Life and Letters of
Philip Quaque, the First
African Anglican Missionary
Identifying Marks
Domesticating Foreign
Struggles
Civil War Time
Edited by Vincent Carretta and
Ty M. Reese
June | 6 x 9 | 232 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4309-9
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
An important African
voice in the transatlantic
networks of the
eighteenth-century world
“A major contribution to
the growing literature on
the writing of the African
Diaspora—until recently
thought to be a contradiction in terms. Carretta and
Reese are model scholars
in the field, digging deep
to illuminate the crosscultural currents not only
of trade but also of religion
and literacy, and how each
buoyed yet challenged
transatlantic slavery.”
—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
36
Race, Gender, and the Marked
Body in Nineteenth-Century
America
Jennifer Putzi
The Italian Risorgimento and
Antebellum American Identity
Paola Gemme
June | 6 x 9 | 208 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4344-0
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4395-2
June | 6 x 9 | 216 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4341-9
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4399-0
Tattooed captives, scarred
maidens, and branded
slaves
Looking overseas to learn
about ourselves
“This book will make
significant differences
for critics of nineteenthcentury U.S. literature and
history; it will also appeal
to scholars who work on
identity politics through
attention to race and gender as dynamic and historically constructed products
of nineteenth-century U.S.
culture.”—Shirley Samuels,
author of Facing America:
Iconography and the
Civil War
The University of Georgia Press
“The movement toward
a comparative approach
to American studies and
its internationalization
receives an important contribution from Gemme’s
volume. . . . Gemme
offers a comprehensive
and compelling panorama
of antebellum American
views on the international
role of the United States
and the character of
American democracy. . . .
Gemme’s international and
comparative perspective,
combined with her clear,
jargon-free prose, makes
for stimulating and fascinating reading.”
—American Historical
Review
Spring & Summer 2012
Temporality and Identity in
America, 1861-1865
Cheryl A. Wells
June | 6 x 9 | 208 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4342-6
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4396-9
How the Civil War changed
the ways Americans
understood and used time
“Wells has written a
commendably short book—
sweeping yet succinct,
conceptual yet empirical,
dense yet readable—on the
unexpected but intriguing
subject of time consciousness during the Civil War.
. . . Civil War Time is
a fine addition to the
archival study of sensory
experience.”—Journal of
Southern History
New in paperback
H istory
history
H istory
H istory
James Habersham
Georgia’s Frontier Women
African American Life in the
Georgia Lowcountry
The Darien Journal of
John Girardeau Legare,
Ricegrower
Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce
in Colonial Georgia
Frank Lambert
June | 6 x 9 | 208 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4343-3
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4398-3
Female Fortunes in a Southern
Colony
Ben Marsh
June | 6 x 9 | 272 pp.
Paper, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4340-2
Ebook, $24.95s | 978-0-8203-4397-6
A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
The first biography of a
remarkable figure in early
Georgia
“A long-overdue assessment
of one of colonial Georgia’s
principle tidewater grandees . . . Admirably organized and lucidly written,
James Habersham does
ample justice to its subject
and richly details the era
and the world in which he
moved. This is impeccable
life-writing, vivid, judicious, and balanced.”
—Journal of Southern
History
Winner of the Malcolm
Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow
Bell Award, Georgia
Historical Society
“Marsh refines our
understanding of how the
southern frontier became
the South, giving his fellow
historians a revised chronology and a new understanding of gender’s role in
colonization to ponder.”
—American Historical
Review
The Atlantic World and the
Gullah Geechee
Edited by Philip Morgan
Available | 6.125 x 9.25 | 376 pp.
Paper, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4307-5
Ebook, $24.95t | 978-0-8203-4274-0
Published in association with the Georgia
Humanities Council
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Winner of the Malcolm
Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow
Bell Award, Georgia
Historical Society
“All of the essays are well
crafted, and several of
them, particularly those
by Vincent Carretta,
Betty Wood, and Michael
A. Gomez, are by themselves worth the price
of the volume. . . . This
book greatly deepens our
understanding of the life
and culture of lowcountry
blacks and is essential
reading for all interested in
the African experience in
early America.”—Journal of
American History
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Edited by Buddy Sullivan
July | 6 x 9 | 172 pp.
Paper, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4310-5
Ebook, $22.95s | 978-0-8203-4370-9
A revealing look at the
decline of the rice industry
in the South
“The editor’s greatest
contribution, however, is
in the copious notes that
identify and elaborate on
the subjects of Legare’s
comments. These notes,
themselves, are an encyclopedia of Darien and
McIntosh County history.”
—Georgia Historical
Quarterly
37
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New in paperback
Curled in the Bed of Love
STORIES BY
Catherine Brady
Curled in the Bed of Love
The Dance Boots
Stories by Catherine Brady
Stories by Linda LeGarde Grover
April | 5.25 x 8 | 216 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4220-7
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4369-3
April | 5.5 x 8.5 | 168 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4217-7
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-3748-7
“It’s rare for a writer to explore
with such subtlety and respect the
curious symbiosis of the needy and
the needed as Brady does.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York
Review of Books
“As we weave in and out of lives
and times, the ‘I’ that emerges
here and there reminds us of how
these stories have been transmitted from one generation to the
next, in the end creating one vast
but finely detailed tapestry of the
life and history of a community.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Spit Baths
Please Come Back To Me
Stories by Greg Downs
Stories and a novella by Jessica
Treadway
April | 5.25 x 8 | 192 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4218-4
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4293-1
April | 5.5 x 8.5 | 256 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4221-4
Ebook, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-3751-7
“[Downs’s] prose is evocative and
finely tuned to his gritty material, and his narratives illuminate
his characters and their concerns
while acknowledging that the
social forces that inform both
are impossible to explicate, not
because they are too far outside
the reader’s experience but,
rather, because they are too
close.”—Virginia Quarterly Review
“Beautifully written and fully
imagined, Treadway’s work reminds
us that the short story form is alive
and well.”—Chicago Tribune
Black Elvis
Tell Borges If You See Him
Stories by Geoffrey Becker
April | 5.5 x 8.5 | 192 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4219-1
Ebook, $18.95t | 978-0-8203-4028-9
Peter LaSalle
Tell Borges If You See Him
“Black Elvis addresses the most
potent of the bittersweet mysteries, herein writ right, that animate
our condemned kind: family,
loyalty, love, religion, memory and
love. If there were a short story
Hall of Fame, Geoffrey Becker
would be installed in its rotunda—
on the Jumbotron, in fact, keyboard held aloft in much-deserved
triumph.”—Lee K. Abbott, author
of All Things, All at Once: New and
Selected Stories
38
The University of Georgia Press
Spring & Summer 2012
Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism
Stories by Peter LaSalle
April | 5.25 x 8 | 272 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 978-0-8203-4216-0
Tales
bulism
mnam
So
orary
ntemp
of Co
“LaSalle has worked his way deep
into the storytelling place. Serious,
anomalous, his narratives are set
into motion by the obsessions and
perturbations of living. There is
no model, no recipe—each world
is uniquely known and irresistibly
defined. Tell Borges If You See Him
is a keeper collection.”
—Sven Birkerts, author of Reading
Life: Books for the Ages
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The VQR Poetry Series
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Dianne Nelson Oberhansly
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Sonja Livingston
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J. D. Scrimgeour
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Carol Lee Lorenzo
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Mort Zachter
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