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  • - Indigenous North American Film
    av Lee Schweninger
    549 - 1 249,-

    Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger examines films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native.

  • - Stories of Wildness
     
    475,-

    A collection of 14 short stories which provoke, illuminate and startle as they explore our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us. The authors include Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Margaret Atwood, E.L. Doctorow, Linda Hogan and Chris Offutt.

  • - Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis
     
    515

  • - Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City
    av Benjamin Houston
    549 - 1 249,-

    Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout the city's amicable race relations. Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of its moderate progressivism.

  • - Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul
    av Amy Mills
    505 - 1 175,-

    Examines what it means to live in a place that once was, but no longer is, ethnically and religiously diverse. This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.

  • - Why International Negotiations Fall
     
    565,-

    Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes.

  • av Major Jackson
    379,-

    In this collection, which features both formal and free-verse poems, Major Jackson renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbours and friends while growing up in Philadelphia.

  • - The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk
    av David M. Head
    445

    Thomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was intimately involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that era. This biography of Norfolk confronts the central paradox of Norfolk's career - one that lies in his unpleasant personality, marked by vain and tyrannical behavior.

  • - American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
     
    519

    Offers perspectives on civil rights. This anthology gathers works by some of the influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice in America, including James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Amiri Baraka, and Nikki Giovanni.

  • - Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
     
    555,-

    Provides in-depth, objective analysis of current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament.

  • - Incarcerated in Early America
     
    549,-

    Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation.

  • - Literature, Ecology and Place
     
    1 265,-

  • - Incarcerated in Early America
     
    1 249,-

    Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation.

  • - Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
    av Kevin Pelletier
    505 - 865

    Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy.

  • - Literature, Nationalism and the Confederate States of America
    av Coleman Hutchison
    549 - 1 469

    The first literary history of the Civil War South. Covering criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir, Hutchinson reminds us of the Confederacy's once-great expectations. Before their defeat--before apples turned to ashes in their mouths--many Confederates thought they were creating a nation and a national literature that would endure.

  • - Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
     
    1 319

    Provides in-depth, objective analysis of current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament.

  • - Literature, Ecology and Place
     
    595

  • - Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil war
    av Anthony J. Stanonis
    1 245

    While traditional industries like textile or lumber mills have received a majority of the scholarly attention devoted to southern economic development, Faith in Bikinis presents an untold story of the New South, one that explores how tourism played a central role in revitalizing the southern economy and transforming southern culture after the Civil War.

  • - The Traditional Arts of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley - Folklife and Traditional Music from the Deep South - Photographs, Interviews, and Field Recordings by George Mitchell
    av George Mitchell
    355,-

    Focusing on a community and the changing nature of tradition, this work presents, through word, photographs, artwork and music, the world of southern folk culture in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. The book includes two compact discs containing 36 traditional folk songs.

  • - Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria
    av Michael J. Watts
    799,-

    Why do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Michael J. Watts examines the relationships between famine, climate, and political economy.

  • - Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-century America
    av Jennifer Putzi
    475,-

    Looks at the presence of marked men and women in an array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. This study shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social.

  • av Buddy Sullivan
    445 - 795,-

    In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. His journal contains many observations on contemporary national events. Buddy Sullivan has placed the Journal in context with an introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying people and events.

  • - Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
    av Jason Hackworth
    445 - 1 019

    Explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the US, bringing a particular focus to welfare - an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

  • - Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
    av Kathryn Newfont
    579 - 1 265,-

    Newfont examines the environmental history of the Blue Ridge Commons over the course of three hundred years. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, she reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms.

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    475,-

    In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.

  • - Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
    av Marc Sommers
    1 249,-

    Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human popu-lation today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Stuck demonstrates how the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world's youth.

  • - Religion, Colonial Competition and the Politics of Profit
    av Kristen Block
    549 - 1 249,-

    Examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century, focusing on the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Kristen Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival.

  • - Memoir, Journalism and Travel
    av Robin Hemley
    389 - 1 015

    Recalibrates and redefines the way writers approach their relationship to their subjects. Suitable for beginners and advanced writers, the book provides an enlightening, provocative, and often amusing look at the ways in which nonfiction writers engage with the world around them.

  • - Or, The Travel Notes of a GeeChee Girl
    av Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
    409,-

    First published in 1970, not long after the term ""soul food"" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black ""consciousness raising"".

  • - On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship and History That Talks Back
     
    1 319

    Historians have engaged in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and historiography is underdeveloped.

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