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From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. This title features essays that include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history, including Mary Latimer McLendon, Mildred Rutherford, and Martha Berry.

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimise their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures.

Offer a critical assessment of Margaret Walker's literary career. The contributors to this collection reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker's writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, they remark on how Walker's emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writings.

These ten essays reflect the broadening critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. They offer insights into previously ignored issues, and include consideration of her early stories, her canonical status, and the phenomenon of doubling.

Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States, revealing as much about our sense of place in the present as our conception of the past. These essays explore the mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War.

An exploration of perfection. Study in Perfect winds its way around and through the many permutations of this most hermetic and exalted concept and proceeds with the full consciousness that perfection's exact definition is subjective, reliant on who is speaking, and easily unmoored by time, geography, and the vagaries of taste.

In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others.

In Karin Lin-Greenberg's Faulty Predictions, young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. These stories provide insight into the human condition over a varied cross section of geography, age, and culture.

Explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban living for American Jews across three centuries. Looking at synagogues, streets, and snapshots, Deborah Dash Moore contends that key features of American Judaism can be understood as an imaginative product grounded in urban potentials.

Traces the 430-mile course of the Chattahoochee River from its headwaters at a spring on Coon Den Ridge in northeastern Georgia to its confluence with the Flint River, where they form the Apalachicola River. This guide provides many little-known facts about the river, and brings to life the river's cultural and natural history.

The first biography of one of the Civil War's most famous disabled veterans and most prominent public figures in the Gilded Age. An examination of the dynamics of disability, the culture and politics of the Gilded Age, and the aftereffects of the Civil War.

Revisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. This book provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today. It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.

When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided in 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh child as to the hardships of life in a third world country. This is a chronicle of the month they spent together in the poorest of conditions.

The middle Georgia area is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek Revival, and Victorian styles, and beyond.

An insightful collection of observations on various American funerary traditions. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.

A collection of ten essays that focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. It views a region often at odds with itself on matters like race and religion, and identifies spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness.

Provides a comparative analysis of diverse postwar families and examines the lives and case records of men and women who applied to adopt or provide pre-adoptive foster care in the 1940s and 1950s. The book considers an array of individuals who found themselves on the margins of a social world that privileged family membership.

Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the US. With the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. This book traces the role of American Catholics in presidential policies and politics from 1960 until 2004.

In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the ""Arkansas morass"" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart's adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835.

Pugh explores Capote through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works that composed his fraught relationship with the Hollywood machine.

A collection of fifteen original essays that touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theatre, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations; the influence of his work on film and theatre; and the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment.

Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.

Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways.

Griswold, alternately known by his pen name, Oronte Churm, offers pithy essays with a nuanced look at life, death, transience, toil, class, and family. A vital attempt at making sense of his life as a writer and now professor, his answers are both comic and profound.

First published in 1972, it is one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in the antebellum South's history, culture, and politics. Drawing from diaries, the census, the press, and farm records, it has become a landmark of food ways scholarship.