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Breaking Barriers: A View from the Bench (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Describes how the author made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court system. Judge Freddie Pitcher’s story of rising from ‘the bench to the bar to the bench’ is informative and inspiring.
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Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the tactical behaviour and operational performance of Sherman’s Fifteenth US Army Corps during its first year... Læs mere
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Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the formerly enslaved and northern reformers, John Cimprich shows... Læs mere
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Herbert Corey's Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With publication of Herbert Corey’s Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish... Læs mere
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Three Centuries of Girls' Education: Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls.
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Engineering in the Confederate Heartland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
While engineers played a critical role in the performance of both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, few historians have examined their... Læs mere
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "the Beautiful and Damned: New Critical Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Published to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more... Læs mere
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The Tacky South (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South... Læs mere
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Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization that examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate... Læs mere
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Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Approaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments and commentaries on labour struggles presented in novels by Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck.
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Cather and Opera (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of Willa Cather’s works and discussions of opera’s complex place in turn-of-the-century America, David McKay Powell’s Cather and Opera... Læs mere
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The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost... Læs mere
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