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The first and only treatise published by a southern author on slavery law. Based on extensive scholarship on the Roman law of slavery and racist to the core, the work fully explicates the southern defense of slavery.

These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.

By following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures. Cashin profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans.

Before the Civil War, two ideological cornerstones were laid that would eventually lead to Georgia's secession: the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery. Secession, the ultimate expression of white unity, flowed logically from the values, attitudes, and antagonisms developed during these decades of political strife.

This study of the secular and sacred music of colonial Georgia pieces together information drawn from court records, diaries, newspapapers, estate inventories and other documents in order to explore the ""musical landscape"" and identify the musical and cultural roots of some specific examples.

This text recalls a Catholic lay missioner's work alongside the Mon Buddhist monks of Bangkok. It also details her ongoing education: how to weave through an embassy bureaucracy; how to stave off burnout; how to pull money out of thin air; when to be cautious; and when to pray.

The never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s by Horace Bond, author of Forty Acres and a Mule, a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough.

Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five-school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course of achievement, he shows how the college was intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment.

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.

Seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. Taken together, the essays show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.

Discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic turmoil. Sharing a disdain for modernism's authoritarianism, elitism, and sterile preoccupation with despair, the three critics called for a postmodern art that would emphasise action, reality, and immanence and offer fresh envisionings of the world.

Based mainly on detailed journals and letters written by the Salzburgers' pastor, Johann Martin Boltzius, this work describes the expulsion of the Salzburger emigrants, their journey to Georgia, the hardships they endured, and their eventual success.

The people in Rawlins's debut collection brave the Big Questions about relationships, love, and death, finding that just getting by is not enough. Asking for truth or understanding, they struggle with feelings often too deep, too new, too disquieting to articulate.

By the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, these 15 short stories illuminate the vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. In the title story, April is an involuntary witness to the parade of lovers who frequent her mother's bed.

Presents the moving true story of a modern outlaw's struggle with faith, betrayal, and the accidental nature of life. Zack Rosen was a simple man, but one with many contrasts. An urban Jew from New Jersey who moved south and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, he was not a philosopher or theologian but a man's man.

Hailed in her native Campbell County, Tennessee, as ""the Mother Teresa of the coal country"", Tilda Kemplen was a teacher, activist, and founder and executive director of Mountain Communities Child Care and Development Centers (MCCCDC). Kemplen movingly describes her struggles to educate herself, her years as a teacher in rural schools and mining camps, and the establishment of MCCCDC.

To Miriam Levine, "devotion" implies love and self-creation; to her mother's generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes. Affirming her deep connection to people, Levine tells of the adventures and dangers of her emergence as a woman writer.

Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons.

Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. First published in 1971 and written mostly from the author's own recollections, tapes, and notes, the book blends detailed reportage of the dramatic events with insightful commentary.

Traces the history of spy writers and their fiction from creator William Le Queux, of the Edwardian age, to John le Carre, of the Cold War era. Stafford reveals the connections between fact and fiction as seen in the lives of writers with experience in intelligence, including John Buchan, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming, and Graham Greene.

Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics.

The first comprehensive history of the German-speaking settlers who emigrated to the Georgia colony from Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, and adjacent regions. Based on twenty-five years of research with primary documents, The Georgia Dutch is a reappraisal of an ethnic group whose role in colonial history has been unfairly minimized.

This powerful novel tells the story of Hinachuba Lucia, a Native American wise woman caught in the rapidly changing world of the early colonial South. With compelling drama and historical accuracy, Apalachee portrays the decimation of the Indian mission culture of Spanish Florida by English Carolina during Queen Anne's War.

In this study of political party development in North Carolina during the antebellum period, Thomas E. Jeffrey accounts for the persistence of the second-party system in that state, emphasizing the sectional conflict that divided eastern plantation and western small farming counties.

Hoole traces Low's adventures in the service of the Confederacy. Low aided in the acquisition and delivery of the ironclad Fingal and the Florida and served with Admiral Semmes aboard the famed raider Alabama and was involved in the capture, commissioning, voyage, and detention of the Tuscaloosa.

The essays in Instinct for Survival explore fundamental ideas about the ties of community, the trials and tribulations of family life, the sacrificial nature of public service, the yearnings of the spirit, and the tangled joys of teaching.