University of South Carolina Press

An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive authorFew if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than...

Examines the changing relationship of this Jewish sect to rabbinic Judaism and the influence of Muslim and Christian environmentsNotions of history and the past contained in literature of the Karaite...

Poems of discovery and loss pull the magical from the mundaneKeep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South...

An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, identity, and the meaning of freedomSet in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing tells the tragic tale of...

Demonstrates that control over knowledge and information is an important determinant of international policy coordination and the difficulty of achieving itThe increasing complexity of the world's...

A definitive look at the symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's writing and American culture.Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome...

Why major powers rise, fall, and fight about their changing statusThe idea that political and economic power moves in coordinated cycles has long intrigued political scientists and economists, for if...

An eyewitness account of Lee's Civil War serviceOf all those who served with Robert E. Lee in the headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, no one was as close to him as Walter Taylor...

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slaveryThe recipient of high praise--and considerable debate for its provocative thesis--William J. Cooper, Jr.'s sweeping...

A Good Morning America 2024 GMA Buzz PickPurchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish familyAs Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a grand townhouse in his...

A new edition of the groundbreaking social history of the American SouthCelebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of...

A coming-of-age story and commentary on the trials of womanhood in the Reconstruction SouthOriginally published in 1878 after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recommended it to Harper and Brothers, Like...

Robin Magowan's poems in Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral represent a poetry of heightened awarenesses and high-edge experiences caught on the run. Seized from a miniaturist's perspective, the...

A map of the mutual influence of Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and modernism in English and Chinese cultureLily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia...

Fresh interpretations of women's speaking and writing throughout western historyMost traditional works of rhetorical history have excluded the activities of women, but Listening to Their Voices...

A provocative reconsideration of two competing classical approaches to discourse, politics, and educationAs one of the founding philosophers of the Western tradition, Aristotle raised many of the...

A reassessment of the public works initiatives that built America's infrastructureIn this comprehensive survey combining architectural and social policy studies, Robert D. Leighninger Jr. reappraises...

The definitive literary biography of a New York "living landmark"With more than sixty published novels, short story collections, and works of criticism and history to his credit, Louis Auchincloss is...

A thorough account of rice culture's final decades and of its modern legacy.In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H. Tuten offers a...

A study of the role women played in the rebellious Dada art movement in the early twentieth centuryMamas of Dada focuses on the lives and works of six representative female supporters of the Dada...

The author of Porgy portrays Charleston's comic social climbersWhen Mamba appears on the Wentworth doorstep, this shrewd woman takes the first step in surmounting a social barrier as thorny as any in...

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of...

An investigation into the motives behind writing the canonical versions of Luke and ActsBuilding on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and...

A collection of sixty-four Atlanta newspaper columns showcasing the journalism career of the acclaimed Southern writerThe sixty-four columns in Margaret Mitchell: Reporter present a vivid portrait of...

A detailed history of communities of escaped slaves who survived in South Carolina swampsMaroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and...

Martin Faber and Other Tales includes the novella Martin Faber, as well as nine other short stories and a poem. This publication marks a significant branching out for Simms--up until this point he...

The landmark--but largely unsung--career of a civil rights pioneerMatthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy chronicles the life and accomplishments of the attorney who led the struggle for...

An Indian perspective into native and Euroamerican diplomacy in the SouthFirst published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American...

A thoroughly international study of the Huguenot migrationTraditionally known as le Refuge, the Huguenot diaspora is one of the most important dispersions of a religious minority in early modern...

A revealing look at a fifteenth-century messianic movement and its continuing relevance to Islamic sectarianismMessianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic...