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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.

Through extended readings of the works of P.T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and Fanny Fern, Bonnie Carr O'Neill shows how celebrity culture authorizes audiences to evaluate public figures on personal terms and in so doing reallocates moral, intellectual, and affective authority and widens the public sphere.

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.

Examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated medical fictions about their patients. Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races.

In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gilmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries - between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young - as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom.

William Stephens was Secretary of the Province of Georgia from 1737 to 1750 and was President from 1741 for ten years. During this period, Stephens kept a journal. In this volume (and the previous one) the journal is published for the first time. This close-up view of Georgia the details of the everyday life of the people, and records development in the colony.

William Stephens was Secretary of the Province of Georgia from 1737 to 1750 and was President from 1741 for ten years. He was sent to America by the Trustees of Georgia, who resided in London, to keep them informed on conditions in the colony. Besides writing numerous letters to the Trustees, Stephens kept a journal which he sent to them periodically. The journal down to 1741 was printed by the Trustees. Here in this volume (and the volume for 1743-1745) the continuation of the journal is published for the first time. Through his journal Stephens undertook to inform the Trustees of everything which happened in Georgia, from the most trivial to the most important. This close-up view of Georgia, the details of the everyday life of the people, and the record of significant development in the colony all make his journal a valuable document in American colonial history.

Assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the US South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore.

Offers the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labour.

Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Chris Hesketh's discussion of state formation in Mexico explores the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub-national articulations of power.

Uses theories of the body to detail the ways colonial states and their agents appropriated physicality to debase the black body, assert the inviolability of the white body, and demarcate the social boundaries between them.

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "everyday", the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this aspect of reality. Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew.

Accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused on trains, buses, and streetcars. It is essential to add aeroplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation over the re-negotiation of racial identities.

In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others.

This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between soldiers and their home communities.

This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between soldiers and their home communities.

Examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and shows the movement's influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the creative outpouring it produced.

William M. Leary Jr.'s study combines history with personal drama to reconstruct an important chapter in the early years of aviation. He has conducted intensive research in American governmental archives, the Hoover Institution, and numerous libraries throughout the United States, in addition to obtaining access to the records of Pan American Airways (who bought out CNAC in 1933). His history of CNAC offers insights into the history of modern China and sheds light on several key aspects of Sino-American diplomatic and business relations.

Years after his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to captivate both the popular and the critical imagination. This collection of essays presents fresh insights into his writing, discussing neglected texts and approaching familiar works from new perspectives.

In "e;Waiting for Nothing"e; and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament.Waiting for Nothing, Kromers only completed novel, is largely autobiographical and was written at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California. It tells the story of one man drifting through America, east coast to west, main stem to side street, endlessly searching for "e;three hots and a flop"e;food and a place to sleep. Kromer scans, in first-person voice, the scattered events, the stultifying sameness, of "e;life on the vag"e;the encounters with cops, the window panes that separate hunger and a "e;feed,"e; the bartering with prostitutes and homosexuals.In "e;Michael Kohler,"e; Kromers unfinished novel, the harsh existence of coal miners in Pennsylvania is told in a committed, political voice that reveals Kromers developing affinity with leftist writers including Lincoln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser. An exploration of Kromers proletarian roots, "e;Michael Kohler"e; was to be a political novel, a story of labor unions and the injustices of big management. Kromers other work ranges from his college days, when he wrote a sarcastic expose of the bums in his hometown titled "e;Pity the Poor Panhandler: $2 an Hour Is All He Gets,"e; to the sensitive pieces of his later lifeshort stories, articles, and book reviews written more out of an aching understanding of suffering than from the slick formulas of politics.Waiting for Nothing remains, however, Kromers most powerful achievement, a work Steffens called "e;realism to the nth degree."e; Collected here as the major part of Kromers oeuvre, Waiting for Nothing traces the authors personal struggle to preserve human virtues and emotions in the face of a brutal and dehumanizing society.

This text emphasises the links between ecology, aesthetics, nature and design. It looks at the practical application of ecological principles to the selection of plant groups, that are suited to a particular climate, soil, topography and lighting. It focuses on vegetation in the northeastern US.

A comparative and historical examination of the way legal rules and structures relate to society. The book includes a revised and enlarged version of the author's ""The Law of the Ancient Romans"" with a discussion of the role of comparative law in uncovering the causes of legal development.

The first novel by a young native of south Georgia, Swamp Water was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia, ""the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go."" Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.

In Legal Transplants, one of the world's foremost authorities on legal history and comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis on the way that law has developed throughout history. Alan Watson's argument challenges the long-prevailing notion that a close connection exists between the law and the society in which it operates.

Examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.

This collection of 39 essays reflects environmental discussion in the modern era. It examines the varied constructions of ""wilderness"", revealing the controversies that surround those conceptions and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness ""preservation"" and those who argue for ""wise use"".