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The Preacher
and the Politician
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America
Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers
Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African
American president of the United States has caused many
commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial
age. The Preacher and the Politician argues otherwise,
reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama’s nomination
was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out:
Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport
Vivian E. Thomson
The patterns of trash migration reveal much about power
sharing among state, local, and national institutions, about
the Constitution’s protection of trash transport as
a commercial activity, and about competing notions of social
fairness. Vivian Thomson looks at Virginia’s status
as the second-largest importer of trash in the United States
and uses it as a touchstone for exploring the many controversies
around trash generation and disposal.
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Fixing College Education
A New Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century
Charles Muscatine
"Fixing College Education is full of cogent,
frank, even refreshingly blunt criticism of undergraduate
education. Muscatine’s passion pervades the volume,
and he does not hesitate to criticize the sacred cows of
academe in search for improved education of students."Jerry
G. Gaff, Senior Scholar, Association of American Colleges
and Universities, Washington, D.C.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers:
Volume 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948
Edited by Allida Black
Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton
The University of Virginia Press is pleased to be the
new publisher of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers, a projected
five-volume project designed to make Eleanor Roosevelt
's human rights work accessiblke to scholars, teachers,
students, and policy makers, as well as to those actively
engaged in defining human rights in their own time.
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Best New Poets 2009:
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Edited by Kim Addonizio
Jeb Livingood, Series Editor
In just four years Best New Poets has established
itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable
resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its
kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work
by writers who have not yet published a full-length book.
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The Barking Tree Frog
and Other Curious Tales
Diane Casto Tennant
Selected from Tennant’s widely admired writing for
the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, these stories reveal
the rich natural history Virginia had compiled long before
the first human set eyes on itas well as the fascinating
phenomena that still surround us.
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Buildings of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin
Toker
This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians’
Buildings of the United States series considers the architecture,
landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of
Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and
communities big and small, from Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls,
Johnstown, and Altoona to Bellefonte, State College, Lock
Haven, Clarion, and Erie, and scores of places in between.
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| Shaping the American
Landscape:
New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Project
Charles A. Birnbaum and Stephanie S. Foell
This book explores the lives and work of 151 professionals
who quite literally shaped both the land itself and our
ideas of what the American landscape means. Although the
contributors consider many important figures from the past,
the book breaks new ground by including seminal designers
who are in their twilight years, and in some cases still
professionally active, to provide a fascinating look at
the modern era of design in action.
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Melodramatic Landscapes
Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Heath Schenker
During the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban
parks began to appear in cities around the world. These
parks, as Melodramatic Landscapes engagingly demonstrates,
offered the opportunity for visitors to assert their social
status in performances suited to the theatrical age in which
they flourished. How and why did prototypical park landscapes
become the norm in the midst of modernizing industrial cities?
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Rome Reborn on Western
Shores:
Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American
Republic
Eran Shalev
"Not only does this study bring a heightened sophistication
to the old idea of Revolutionary America as the new Rome,
but it presents as well an intriguing challenge to our conventional
understanding of the way Americans conceived of history
and time. And it does it all in clear and engaging prose."Gordon
Wood, Brown Univesity
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Scientific Jefferson: Revealed
Martin Clagett
Well known as a politician and architect, Thomas Jefferson
also made important contributions to science. He was elected
the third president not only of the United States but also
of that most august of scientific clubs, the American Philosophical
Society, following in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin
and David Rittenhouse. This volume explores how science
shaped Thomas Jefferson's views on politics, religion, economics,
and social developments in America.
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Thomas
Jefferson's Academical Village:
The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece
Edited by Richard Guy Wilson
The story of the University encompasses the political
and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against
great opposition to establish a new type of educational
institution. This volume offers a comprehensive look at
Thomas Jefferson's design for the University, at how it
came into being, at the different perecptions of its successes
and failures, and at the alterations that have taken place
down through the years.
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Matisse, Picasso,
and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections
at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and the University of
Virginia Art Museum
Featured essays by John Ravenal and Matthew Affron
A New York lawyer with Virginia roots, T. Catesby Jones
acquired an extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings,
prints, and sculptures by some sixty artists working in
Paris during the early twentieth century. Jones's collection
of almost three hundred works, divided between two Virginia
institutions after his death, is reunited here in an illustrated
catalogue with a full-color checklist accompanied by entries
on twenty-four of the artists.
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Darkroom:
Photography and the New Media in South Africa, 1950-Present
Tosha Grantham
With a preface by Deborah Willis
Essays by Isolde Brielmaier and Tumelo Mosaka
Photography and video are powerful tools for shaping perception
and effecting change, as is convincingly portrayed through
the images in this catalogue. Featuring the works of sixteen
South African photographers and video artists from 1950
to the present, the catalogue was conceived to accompany
the exhibition of the same name at the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts.
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"Answer at Once"
Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park,
1934-1938
Edited by Katrina M. Powell
With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation
Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand
tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park.
The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families
so that their land could be "donated" to the federal
government and placed under the auspices of the National
Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land,
the residents began writing letters.
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The Fight for Fairfax:
A Struggle for a Great American Country
Russ Banham
The Fight for Fairfax presents the story of a group
of local citizens in Fairfax County, Virginia, and their
efforts over the past half-century to invent a place that
would be more than simply a Washington, D.C., suburb. Told
from the group's point of view, the book chronicles their
vision of Fairfax and the steps they took to bring it to
life.
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Acts of Narrative Resistance:
Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Laura J. Beard
This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in
the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio,
metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation.
What makes Laura J. Beard’s work distinctive is her
pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different
countries and traditions.
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Above All, Don't Look Back
Maïssa Bey Translated by Senja L. Djelouah
With an afterword by Mildred Mortimer
Above All, Don't Look Back follows the path of a
young womanAminaas she makes her way through
a city, a life, and a sense of self that have been ravaged
by an earthquake. In this powerful novel, inspired by a
devastating earthquake in northern Algeria in 2003, the
acclaimed Algerian writer Maïssa Bey skillfully interweaves
descriptions of the earthquake with descriptions of Amina's
family, culture, and country and her place within them.
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Spectacular Blackness:
The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the
Search for a Black Aesthetic
Amy Abugo Ongiri
"Spectacular Blackness is one of the sharpest discussions
of the Black Arts Movement, Black Power, and popular culture
that I have encountered. It is the best account of the cultural
impact of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense that
I have read." James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts
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Wanted:
The Outlaw in American Visual Culture
Rachel Hall
Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the
eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a
history of the "wanted" poster, examining its
uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as
an iconic print genre. Her narrative covers a wide range
of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices,
private detective posters, FBI posters, artists' approximations,
and the depiction of key figures in the "war on terror."
Hall's cultural analysis has profound implications for our
understanding of contemporary America.
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Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity:
Returning Medusa's Gaze
Maria Cristina Funagalli Taking up the challenge of redefining
modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming
that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal,
Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions
to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account
of the past but also have the potential to change the way
in which we imagine the future.Fumagalli uses the myth of
Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the
way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a
state of perpetual backwardness.
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Exhibiting Slavery:
The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum
Vivain Nun Halloran
This book examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern
historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English,
and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing
and curating a collection of "primary documents"
within their pages. As Vivian Nun Halloran attests, these
novels highlight narrative "objects" extraneous
to their plot. In doing so, they demand that their readers
go beyond the pages of the books to sort out fact from fiction
and consider what relationship these featured "objects"
have to slavery and to contemporary life.
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Building Charleston:
Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
World
Emma Hart
In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the
largest city in the American South. From 1700 to 1775 its
growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of
Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial
colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of
one of early America's great cities, revealing its importance
to the evolution of both South Carolina and the British
Atlantic world during the eighteenth century.
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Accommodating Revolutions: Virginia's Northern Neck in an
Era of Transformation, 1760-1810
Albert H. Tillson Jr.
This book addresses a controversy of long standing among
historians of eighteenth-century America and Virginiathe
extent to which internal conflict and/or consensus characterized
the society of the Revolutionary era. In particular, it
emphasizes the complex and often self-defeating actions
and decisions of dissidents and other non-elite groups.
By focusing on a small but significant region, Tillson elucidates
the multiple and interrelated sources of conflict that beset
Revolutionary Virginia, but also explains why in the end
so little changed.
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Revolutionary Negotiations:
Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America
Leonard J. Sadosky
Revolutionary Negotiations examines early American
diplomatic negotiations with both the European powers and
the various American Indian nations from the 1740s through
the 1820s. Sadosky interweaves previously distinct settings
for American diplomacycourts and council firesinto
one singular, transatlantic system of politics.
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Strategies
for Survival:
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
William Dusinberre
"With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre
solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians
of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of
interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic
questions, but offers startling fresh answers. Like his
classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies
for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all
students of antebellum American history." James Oakes,
author of Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the
Old South
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Take Care of the
Living:
Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia
Jeffrey W. McClurken
Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and
long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families
of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia.
Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and
state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860
and 1870 Pittsylvania County manuscript population census,
McClurken explores the consequences of the war for over
three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families.
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| The Correspondence
of John Cotton Jr.
Edited by Sheila McIntyre and Len Travers
John Cotton Jr. (1639-1699) was the second son of one of
the most famous clergymen of New England's founding generation.
He wrote during an era when it was widely accepted that
letters would circulate far beyond the immediate addressee.
Thus, both his letters and those addressed to him often
read more like newsletters than personal correspondence,
documenting some of the most dramatic events of the late
seventeenth century.
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Portrait
of a Patriot:
The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior,
Volumes 4 & 5
Edited by Daniel R. Coquillette and Neil Longley York
Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775), Boston lawyer and patriot
penman, had he lived longer could have been a leader of
the new American Republic with a name familiar in most households.
In a five-volume series, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
will reprint his major political and legal writings.
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"Evil People"
A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and
the Electorate of Trier
Johannes Dillinger
Translated by Laura Stokes
"In this groundbreaking comparative study of witch-hunting
in two German territories Johannes Dillinger reaches novel
conclusions regarding the support of local communities for
the trials, the complex web of popular witch beliefs, and
the role of centralized princely authority in bringing the
trials to an end. The book illuminates the ‘magical
world’ of early modern Germany and analyzes the forces
that drove the prosecutions."Brian Levack, author
of The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
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Law,
Politics, and Perception:
How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning
Eileen Braman
Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal
inclinations or legal authority? The answer, Eileen Braman
argues, is both. This book brings cognitive psychology to
bear on the question of the relative importance of norms
of legal reasoning versus decision markers' policy preferences
in legal decision-making. While Braman acknowledges that
decision makers' attitudes can play a significant role in
judicial decisions, she also believes that decision-makers'
belief that they must abide by accepted rules of legal analysis
significantly limits the role of preferences in their judgements.
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Is Killing
Wrong?
A Study in Pure Sociology
Mark Cooney
"Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic
moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some
killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved
and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized.
Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated
depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive
or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors
cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials'
and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues
that a radically new style of thoughtpure sociologycan.
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The
Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
This online resource contains all of the editorial content
of the print edition and adds to this a powerful XML-based
search functionality, linked cross-references, and the ability
to navigate chronologically or by series volume. As part
of the new Rotunda platform, it can be included in searches
across the entire American Founding Era Collection, providing
invaluable additional context to the great statesman's works.
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