Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: sleuth, girl
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 082031739X
ISBN-13: 9780820317397

Author: Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: nature, book, foundation, wormsloe, toads, southeast, frogs
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0820329223
ISBN-13: 9780820329222

With more than forty native and introduced species of frogs and toads occurring in the southeastern United States, the region represents the heart of frog and toad diversity in the country. Renowned herpetologists Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative, yet accessible and fun-to-read, guide to these sometimes wet, sometimes warty wonders of nature. Dorcas and Gibbons enumerate the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads, including how they are different from other amphibians and the differences between a frog and a toad. Also discussed a

Author: Erskine Caldwell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: books, thrasher, brown, journeyman
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0820318485
ISBN-13: 9780820318486

Written immediately following Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre, this novel introduces one of Erskine Caldwell’s most memorable characters: the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humor, Journeyman,/i> tells of a stranger, as devilish as he is divine, who mysteriously arrives in Rocky Comfort, Georgia, and, inside of a week, nearly tears the small community apart.Helping Rocky Comfort’s citizens to rationalize their vices and weaknesses, Semon Dye then uses their flaws to his own advant

Authors:Anna Matilda Page King, Melanie Pavich-Lindsay,
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: plantation, mistress, island, simons, letters, anna
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2002-10-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820323322
ISBN-13: 9780820323329

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King’s ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer an absorbing firsthand account of antebellum coastal Georgia life.Anna Matilda Page was reared with the expectation that she would marry a p

Author: John Franklin JamesonJohn Franklin, Morey Rothber
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: institution, carnegie, washington, library, congress, vol, america, jameson, franklin, development, humanistic, scholarship, john
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820320390
ISBN-13: 9780820320397

This lucidly written book completes a three-volume documentary history of the work of John Franklin Jameson. Composed principally of Jameson’s extensive public and private correspondence, Volume 3 highlights his most important contributions as managing editor of the American Historical Review, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, and, most important, chief architect and promoter of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Archives. This volume brings once more to life a man whose deeds and thoughts cont

Author: Robin Ekiss
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: series, poetry, vqr, happiness, mansion
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0820334081
ISBN-13: 9780820334080

Created in 1843 by the daughter of a clergyman, The Mansion of Happiness was one of the first children’s board games published in America. Players encounter virtues and vices on a spiraling track in hopes of advancing to the board s center, where salvation awaits. As the daughter of a miniaturist, Robin Ekiss finds many parallels to her own experience in the moral authority and artificiality of the game. In examining the history of toys and the broader implications of invention and self-identity, Ekiss illuminates both personal and cultural myths about mortality and memory in this startl

Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: economy, society, modern, south, 1970s, 1940s, wave, southern, industrialization, second
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-09-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820322180
ISBN-13: 9780820322186

Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.From perspectives grounded in geography, law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense, cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the perception that sou