This Is My Century - Margaret Walker - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Addressing the literature and culture of black America, This Is My Century, a classic first published in 1989, marked a significant contribution to American Poetry, bringing together Walker's selection of one hundred of her own poems.

A Century of Early Ecocriticism - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

A Century of Early Ecocriticism looks behind these recent developments to a prior generation’s ecocritical inclinations. Written between 1864 and 1964, these thirty-four selections include scholars writing about the “green” aspects of literature as well as nature writers reflecting on the genre.

Music in Eighteenth-Century Georgia - Ron Byrnside - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

This volume explores the musical landscape of Georgia's colonial period, from traditional ballads and operatic productions to John Wesley's first hymn book and New England fuging tunes that took root in south Georgia in the latter half of the century.

Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century - Michael H. Hoeflich - Bog - University of Georgia

Seeking to fill a gap in our knowledge of the legal history of the nineteenth century, this volume studies the influence of Roman and civil law upon the development of common law jurisdictions in the United States and in Great Britain.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter - Cynthia J. Lowenthal - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu (1689–1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Her letters illuminate the difficulties she encountered in an era of significant cultural change.

Flashes of a Southern Spirit - Charles Reagan Wilson - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery.

Flashes of a Southern Spirit - Charles Reagan Wilson - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery.

North Carolina Women - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women’s experiences across time, place, race, and class.

Liberals, Politics, and Power - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. It focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latinos who applied liberal ideology to the founding of new states.

A Familiar Strangeness - Stuart Burrows - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Challenges the notion of a break between nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century modernism based on the two movements' supposedly differing relation to the camera. Burrows argues that just as modernist fiction questions the link between visuality and knowledge, so realist fiction makes the world less knowable by making it more visible.

Dynamic Design - Tommye Mcclure Scanlin - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Details Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge’s cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history.

Personal Equation - Charles Stephen Gurr - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Steadman Vincent Sanford was a distinguished educator instrumental in shaping higher education in Georgia and in the South during the first half of the twentieth century.

Preaching in Medieval Florence - Daniel R. Lesnick - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

In the thirteenth century, expansions in international commerce brought a new class of merchants and bankers to Florence who displaced the old, semifeudal aristocracy from power.

Torn between Empires - Luis Martinez Fernandez - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

Public Los Angeles - Don Parson - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.

The Sentimental State - Elizabeth Garner Masarik - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentiment” to generate political action in the Progressive Era.

South Carolina Women - Marjorie Julian Spruill - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

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

The Sentimental State - Elizabeth Garner Masarik - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentiment” to generate political action in the Progressive Era.

The Southern Judicial Tradition - Timothy S. Huebner - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of regional peculiarities and attitudes on legal development.

The Constitution, Law, and American Life - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

The eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era.

The American South in the Twentieth Century - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness?

Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century - - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607–1785 - David Dobson - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.

Sounding the Color Line - Erich Nunn - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts.