New in History
The University of Virginia Press offers three of its latest history titles at a special 30% discount. To take advantage of this special price, please call our toll-free number 1-877-288-6400 and reference the discount code NR2013. A shipping fee of $5.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book will apply. This offer is good from August 19 to September 19, 2013.
Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America—with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings
James Corbett David
280 pages // 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 // 12 b&w illustrations, 5 maps
2013 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8139-3424-2
$24.95
Discount price $17.47
“Dunmore’s New World is the best new book-length work in early American history that I have seen in more than a decade. The author’s impressive new research offers a view of Revolutionary North America as revealed through the experiences of a remarkably able, knowledgeable, skillful, and deeply flawed imperial operative.”—Robert M. Calhoon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, author of Dominion and Liberty: Ideology and the Anglo-American World, 1660–1801
Dunmore’s New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore’s War, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography, James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809.
Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson’s Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos
200 pages // 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 // 22 b&w illustrations
2013 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8139-3470-9
$24.95
Discount price $17.47
“Tales of intrigue, political infighting, rebellion on all sides—well, it’s good to know nothing’s changed at the University of Virginia! Carlos Santos and Rex Bowman paint a colorful portrait of the University of Virginia in its early years.”—Larry J. Sabato, Director, Center for Politics, University of Virginia
[A] gripping, chronicle of ‘Mr. Jefferson’s university,’… Bowman and Santos bring to life the university’s growing pains through a roughly year-by-year account of the unruly and out-of-control students who ‘randomly [shot] at passersby’ and dogs, ‘whip[ped] professors,’ disrupted classes in various ways, and settled disputes with knives.”—Publishers Weekly
Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the university’s creation, its success now seems preordained—its founder, after all, was a great American genius. Yet what many don’t know is that Jefferson’s university almost failed.
The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Gregory J. Dehler
272 pages // 6 x 9 // 17 b&w illustrations
2013 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8139-3410-5
$29.95
Discount price $20.97
“Gregory Dehler’s The Most Defiant Devil is a brilliantly written and finely researched look at William Temple Hornaday. Dehler presents the famed zoologist in all his glory and pathos. This is an essential book in our growing U.S. environmental history library. Highly recommended!”—Douglas G. Brinkley, Rice University, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Gregory Dehler explores the life of William Temple Hornaday the hunter, museum builder, zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and was racist even by his era’s standards, going so far as to display an Mbuti pygmy as a “living specimen” in a zoo. A passionate hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.In this single, fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive Era’s most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened visions.
To take advantage of the 30% discount, please call our toll-free number 1-877-288-6400 and reference the discount code NR2013. This offer is good from August 19 to September 19, 2013.