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  • - History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's ""Jubilee
    av Jacqueline Miller Carmichael
    459

    Jubilee is the historical and fictional account of the life of Margaret Walker's great-grandmother, from slavery through Reconstruction. Here, Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the structure and narrative strategies and more.

  • av Shelley Sallee
    489 - 1 325,-

    Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the motivations behind the ""whites-only"" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labour and fewer regulations found the South's doors wide open.

  • - A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond
    av Gregg D. Kimball
    565,-

    This history reveals the Richmond community as a series of dynamic, overlapping networks to show how various groups - including merchant families, the city's largest black church congregation, ironworkers and militia volunteers - understood themselves and their society.

  • av Harvey H. Jackson
    505,-

    This prominent planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army, is often simply known as the man who mortally wounded Button Gwinnett. This biography fleshes out the man who lived during a crucial period in history.

  • - A Winter Guide
    av Ron Lance
    965,-

    Winter, when plants are dormant and leaves may have fallen, is a challenging time to identify woody flora. Designed for winter, with almost 600 illustrations, this taxonomic guide describes species by their twig, bud, and bark characteristics. Covers the trees, shrubs, and woody ground covers that grow without cultivation in the Southeast USA.

  • - A Biography of Carson McCullers
    av Virginia Spencer Carr
    639

    From McCullers' birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this book covers every significant event in and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; and her travels.

  • - The Obedient Imagination
    av Sarah Gordon
    515,-

    Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity.

  • - Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier
    av Carolyn Earle Billingsley
    505 - 1 415,-

    Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In this text, she studies a southern family to show how the biological, legal and fictive kinship ties between him and some 7000 of his descendants helped shape the interior South.

  • - Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft
    av Kim Stafford
    439,-

    In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls ""what we almost know"". By recommending ways for writers to seek beyond the self for material, he aims to demystify the process of writing.

  • - The Endangered Species Act and the Future of Biodiversity
    av Bonnie B. Burgess
    505,-

    This work offers an illuminating assembly of facts about biodiversity and a straightforward analysis of the legislative stalemate surrounding the Endangered Species Act. Burgess surveys the history of the conflict over the legislation and the heated issues regarding its enforcement.

  • - On and Off the Road in Africa
    av Dale Peterson
    475,-

    A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he criss-crossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveller, Peterson tells of trains and riverboats, opportunities and ecotourists, rain forests and shanty towns.

  • - Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency
    av Janice Williams Rutherford
    529 - 1 469

    This text covers the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) and reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early 20th century. Contrary to her role as home efficiency expert, she epoused the 19th century ideal of preserving the virtuous home - and a woman's place in it.

  • - Autobiographical Reflections
     
    535,-

    This volume gathers personal recollections by 15 eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's richness on many levels.

  • - Representing Identity in Selected Souths
     
    439,-

    These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how the community both regards itself and reveals itself to others.

  • - Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist
    av Betty Jean Craige
    505,-

    A biography of Eugene Odum. Betty Jean Craige depicts the intellectual growth, creativity and vision of the scientist who made the ecosystem concept central to his discipline and translated the principles of ecosystem ecology into lessons in preserving the natural environment.

  • - Race, Politics and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina
    av William J. Billingsley
    565 - 1 495,-

    North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to ""known members of the Communist Party"" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment. This work bares the truth behind the false image of the speaker ban's ostensible concern.

  • - Ambivalent Allies
    av John Herd Thompson & Stephen J. Randall
    505 - 579,-

    From the American Revolution to NAFTA to the Helms-Burton Act and beyond, this work offers an assessment of relations between the USA and Canada. It seeks to distil a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic and political developments of mutual importance during the past two centuries.

  • - A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
    av Bill Belleville
    475 - 1 619,-

    First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's east coast, making it the longest river in the state. In the first contemporary book about the river, Bill Belleville describes his journey down its length, kayaking, boating, hiking, diving, and exploring its underwater caves.

  • - An Atlanta Family
    av Carole Merritt
    635 - 759,-

    This is a portrait of one of Atlanta's most prominent African American families, illustrating Alonzo Herndon's ascent from slavery to the business elite. Their story is one of by-the-bootstraps resolve, tough compromises in the face of racism and lasting contributions to their city.

  • - American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940
    av Douglas Carl Abrams
    739,-

    This work tells how the first generation of Protestant fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel.

  • - Culture and Myth in American Fiction
     
    505,-

    At once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.

  • - The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo
    av Mary Stanton
    475

    Viola Liuzza was the only white woman honoured at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. This biography follows Liuzza through her childhood in the south, adult life in Michigan, to the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, where she died in a Klan ambush.

  • av Leslie Hall
    505 - 815,-

    Through analysis of the history of the American revolution in Georgia, this study presents a thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and challenged the loyalties of the colonists.

  • - On Chimpanzees and People
    av Jane Goodall & Dale Peterson
    489,-

    After introducing the reader to the animal that fashions and uses tools, exploits forest medicines and exhibits human-like emotions, this text presents a study of the threats to wild chimpanzees' habitats and the many abuses that chimps have endured and continue to face at the hands of humans.

  • av Charles W. Chesnutt
    489,-

    John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his share of the American dream. Without sentimentality, this novel probes deeply into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege.

  • av Sue William Silverman
    405,-

    From age four to 18, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking government official. This is an often graphic memoir of those years which recounts how Silverman's mother ignored her distress, thus conspiring in an attempt to keep the situation unreported and undetected.

  • av Chretien de Troyes, Chretien de & Troyes
    505,-

    In the poem presented in this volume, the romance begins with the marriage of Cliges's parents and continues with the clandestine mutual love of their son and his uncle's bride, Fenice. Cliges and Fenice are finally united after executing a false-death plot aided by black-magic.

  • av Troyes, Chretien de & Chretien de Troyes
    505 - 1 415,-

    The text presents is a circa 1170 version of the Griselda legend which tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. The translator's introduction includes discussion of the Arthurian legends in history.

  • - Three Stage Versions
    av Robert Penn Warren
    845

  • - To be Free, Black and Female in the Old South
     
    459

    This text aims to offer an insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of colour. The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, while her granddaughter, Catherine, wrote the diary.

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