University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the...
Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking...
by Richard A. Horsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth’s mission and how he became a significant historical figure. In his study Horsley brings a fuller historical knowledge of the context and implications of recent...
Notes from a Colored Girl
The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
To many, English immigrants contributed nothing substantial to the varied palette of ethnicity in North America. While there is wide recognition of German American, French American, African American, and Native American cultures, discussion of English Americans as a distinct ethnic group is rare....
The Civil War as Global Conflict
Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays to highlight the war not just as a North American conflict but as a global one affected by...
Speaking Qur'an
An American Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture, Timur R. Yuskaev examines how Muslim Americans have been participating in their country’s cultural, social, religious, and political life. Essential to this process, he shows, is how the Qur’an has become an evermore deeply American text that speaks...
Shurāt Legends, Ibāḍī Identities
Martydom, Asceticism, and the Making of an Early Islamic Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In Shurāt Legends, Ibāḍī Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature. He examines the catalogs or lists of martyrs (martyrologies) of the early shurāt (Khārijites) in the context of late antiquity, showing that...
Partners of Zaynab
A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles and interactions reveal about the Shia Muslim faith? In Partners of Zaynab, Diane D’Souza presents a rich...
Fundamentalism
Perspectives on a Contested History
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Through a collection of essays, Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History explores the ways in which the concept of global fundamentalism does and does not illuminate developments in modern Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. At issue is whether, beyond the specific milieu of American Protestantism...
From the Desk of the Dean
The History and Future of Arts and Sciences Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
For those who have devoted their lives to teaching, learning, and innovation in the arts and sciences, it likely comes as no surprise that there has been a revaluing and devaluing of the work of students and faculty in the arts and sciences fields. In response Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth A....
Pillaged
Psychiatric Medications and Suicide Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
It is estimated that forty-five to fifty percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general practitioners. In Pillaged Ronald William Maris...
Principle and Propensity
Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Scholars have for many years now relied upon the largely unexamined assumption that the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman in the Goethean tradition is somehow an intrinsically secular genre exclusive to Europe, incompatible with the literature of a democratically based culture. Combining intellectual...
The Headmaster's Darlings
A Mountain Brook Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The Headmaster's Darlings is a satirical comedy of manners featuring the morbidly obese Norman Laney, an unorthodox, inspirational English teacher and college counselor for an elite private school in Mountain Brook, a privileged community outside of Birmingham. A natural wonder from blue-collar Alabama,...