White Unionists in the Deep South During the Civil War and Reconstruction
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized place in the strategic thinking and public discourse of both the Union and the Confederacy. In True Blue, Clayton J. Butler investigates the lives of ......
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America-long romanticized in pastoral literature-becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US ......
Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped state power. In Mississippi Law, Justin Randolph explores policing's hinterland to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War ......
Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped state power. In Mississippi Law, Justin Randolph explores policing's hinterland to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War ......
Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, or-as current trends suggest-it will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization. There have been calls for economic redevelopment, but even with these proposals, J. Tom Mueller argues that policymakers, politicians, and academics rarely make a ......
Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, or-as current trends suggest-it will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization. There have been calls for economic redevelopment, but even with these proposals, J. Tom Mueller argues that policymakers, politicians, and academics rarely make a ......
The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch
A boom-to-bust generational saga of a pioneer family and their cattle empire Cattle ranching has long been a major force in Florida, covering over 12 percent of the state's lands. In Cow Creek Chronicles, journalist Gregory Enns explores this history through the century-long saga of the Raulerson family, who built a cattle empire at Cow Creek ......
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America-long romanticized in pastoral literature-becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US ......
A veterinarian is arguably the most broad-based medical practitioner, a "One Health" provider. Such a practitioner understands the intersections and overlap of animal health, human health, and the shared environment between the two. Pigs, Pets, and Public Health captures the multi-faceted expertise that such work requires and shows us how rural ......
