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  • av Thomas D. Wilson
    1 769

  • av Barbara Harris Combs
    1 755

  • av Joseph a Ranney
    989,-

  • av Thomas D Wilson
    499

  • av Melissa Garcia-Lamarca
    449

  • av Toni Ann Johnson
    369,-

  • av Virginia Gardner Troy
    615,-

    "Mary Crovatt Hambidge (1885-1973) was an aspiring actress and a professional whistler on Broadway when she met Canadian-born Jay Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator, and scholar. Their relationship would prove to be both a romantic and an artistic partnership. Jay Hambidge formulated his own artistic concept, known as Dynamic Symmetry, which stipulated that the compositional rules found in nature's symmetry should be applied to the creation of art. Mary Hambidge pioneered new techniques of weaving and dyeing fabric that merged Greek methods with Appalachian weaving and spinning traditions. The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, formed during the mid-1930s, provides an artists' community situated on six hundred rural acres in the north Georgia mountains where hundreds of visual artists, writers, potters, composers, dancers, and other artists have pursued their crafts. Dynamic Design details Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge's cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history. Virginia Gardner Troy illustrates how Jay and Mary were important independently and collectively, providing a wider understanding of their lives within the larger context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and design. They were from two different worlds, nearly a generation apart in age, and only together for ten years, but their lives intertwined at a pivotal moment in their development. They shared parallel goals to establish a place where they could integrate the arts and crafts around the principles of Dynamic Symmetry. Troy explores how this dynamic duo's ideas and artistic expressions have resonated with admirers throughout the decades and reflect the trends and complexities of American culture through various waves of cosmopolitanism, utopianism, nationalism, and isolationism. The Hambidges' prolific partnership and forward-thinking vision continue to aid and inspire generations of aspiring artists and artisans"--

  • av Kien Lam
    279

  • av James McGraw
    475 - 1 675

  • av Eric Baratay
    445

    What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? ric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries most interesting animals. He offers brief yet innovative accounts of these animals lives in a way that challenges the readers thinking about animals. Baratay illustrates the need to develop a nonanthropocentric means of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in the narrative of their lives. Animal Biographies launches an all-new investigation into the lives of animals and is a major contribution to the field of animal studies.This English translation of ric Baratays Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouves, originally published in France in 2017 (ditions du Seuil), uses firsthand accounts starting from the nineteenth century about specific animals who lived in Europe and the United States to reconstruct, as best as possible, their stories as they would have experienced them. History is, after all, not just the domain of humans. Animals have their own. Baratay breaks the model of human exceptionalism to give us the biographies of some of history and literatures most famous animals. The reader will catch a glimpse of storied lives as told by Modestine, the donkey who carried Robert Louis Stevenson through the Alps; Warrior, the World War I horse made famous in Steven Spielbergs War Horse; Islero, the bull who gored Spains greatest bullfighter; and others. Through these stories we discover their histories, their personalities, and their shared experiences with others of their species.

  • - Telling Truths About Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica
    av Celia E. Naylor
    469

  • av Jim Casada
    489,-

    Fishing for Chickens is a well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook. It offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia-the Smokies. Casada serves up a detailed description of the folkways of food as they existed in the Smokies over a span of three generations, beginning early in the twentieth century. Fancy-dancy food magazines and self-ordained cuisine cognoscenti regularly rave about gustatory delights reflecting the Appalachian cooking tradition. Yet they focus on restaurants in regional cities such as Asheville and Nashville, Chattanooga and Cleveland, or even the bustling metropolis of Atlanta. Simply put, they are missing the boat, at least in Casada's eyes. Peppered with ample anecdotes, personal memories and experiences, the wisdom of wonderful cooks, and recipes reflective of the overall high-country culinary experience, Casada's book brings these culinary tales to life.Fishing for Chickens includes dishes that Casada has cooked and eaten, recipes handed down through family or close friends, food memories of an intensely personal nature, and an abiding love for a fast-fading way of life. In addition to twenty-four chapters focusing on such diverse topics as "e;Yard Bird,"e; Nuts,"e; and "e;New Year's Fare,"e; the author includes nearly two hundred family recipes. With his story, Casada guides readers through a fast-vanishing culinary world that merits not only recollection but preservation.

  • av R. Scott Huffard, David Mason, Julia Brock, m.fl.
    545

    Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild's collection explores Gwinnett County's history in a systematic way - avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories.

  • - Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
    av Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
    409,-

    Tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discrimination. Taking a long view, from 1850 to the 1920s, Holly Pinheiro Jr shows how Civil War military service worsened already difficult circumstances.

  • - A New History of Reconstruction
    av John Patrick Daly
    379,-

    Offers a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments.

  • - A Reader
    av Lisa C. Fein, Jeremy B. Straughn, Anna Holyan, m.fl.
    595

    A collection of original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political science, sociology, journalism, and philosophy. The book offers both graduate and undergraduate students a grasp on both foundational issues and more contemporary debates in security studies.

  • - Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
     
    629,-

  • - The Natural History of North Carolina's Coastal Plain
    av Eric G. Bolen
    579

    Beginning with an overview of early naturalists who marveled at the region's natural treasures, Eric Bolen and James Parnell's natural history of the Coastal Plain offers a nature-focused walk through the distinctive geological features and plant and animal communities of the area that extends from the Fall Line to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.

  • - Where Coastal History Is Captured in Unique Oyster-Shell Structures
    av Jingle Davis
    665,-

    Provides a guided tour of some of the most significant tabby structures found along the American southeastern coast and includes more than two hundred illustrations that highlight the human and architectural histories of forty-eight specific sites.

  • - A Revolutionary Dialogue
    av Merrill D. Peterson
    505 - 1 755

  • av Robert F. Moss
    445

    In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Americans played in the evolution of southern cuisine is coming to be recognized, and writers are finally clearing away the cobwebs of romantic myth that have long distorted the picture. The story of southern dining, however, remains incomplete.The Lost Southern Chefs begins to fill that niche by charting the evolution of commercial dining in the nineteenth-century South. Robert F. Moss punctures long-accepted notions that dining outside the home was universally poor, arguing that what we would today call "e;fine dining"e; flourished throughout the region as its towns and cities grew. Moss describes the economic forces and technological advances that revolutionized public dining, reshaped commercial pantries, and gave southerners who loved to eat a wealth of restaurants, hotel dining rooms, oyster houses, confectionery stores, and saloons.Most important, Moss tells the forgotten stories of the people who drove this culinary revolution. These men and women fully embodied the title "e;chef,"e; as they were the chiefs of their kitchens, directing large staffs, staging elaborate events for hundreds of guests, and establishing supply chains for the very best ingredients from across the expanding nation. Many were African Americans or recent immigrants from Europe, and they achieved culinary success despite great barriers and social challenges. These chefs and entrepreneurs became embroiled in the pitched political battles of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and then their names were all but erased from history.

  • - From 9/11 to Endless War
     
    445

    Presents essays that explore the long shadow of America's 'War on Terror' discourse. Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this book calls on us to resist the tyranny of collateral language at a time when the need for such interventions in the public sphere is more urgent than ever.

  • - Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Successful Head Waiters
    av E.A. Maccannon
    469

  • - America's Revolutionary Privateers
    av Kylie A. Hulbert
    1 659

    The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.

  • - Alaska Stories
    av Melinda Moustakis
    379,-

    In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path of destruction-sometimes a harsh snowstorm, sometimes each other-and live to tell the tale. While backtrolling for kings on the Kenai River or filleting the catch of the Halibut Hellion with marvelous speed, these characters recount the gamble they took that didn't pay off, or they expound on how not only does Uncle Too-Soon need a girlfriend, the whole state of Alaska needs a girlfriend. A story like 'The Mannequin at Soldotna' takes snapshots: a doctor tends to an injured fisherman, a man covets another man's green fishing lure, a girl is found in the river with a bullet in her head. Another story offers an easy moment with a difficult mother, when she reaches out to touch a breaching whale.This is a book about taking a fishhook in the eye, about drinking cranberry lick and Jippers and smoking Big-Z cigars. This is a book about the one good joke, or the one night lit up with stars, that might get you through the winter.

  • - Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism
    av Andrew J. Douglas & Jared A. Loggins
    419

    Shining new light on Martin Luther King's largely implicit economic and political theories, and expanding appreciation of the Black radical tradition to which he belonged, Andrew Douglas and Jared Loggins reconstruct, develop, and carry forward King's strikingly prescient critique of capitalist society.

  • av Mary Carpenter
    315,-

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