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A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Documents the oil industry's sharp interface with Louisiana's environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped, John Arnold traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation.
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Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company: Anton Reiff's Riverboat Travel Journal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Anton Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled across America by river and rail.
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Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of... Læs mere
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Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley's presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans, including their appointment to significant roles in the federal government and the safeguarding of their rights as US citizens.
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Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.
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The Shattered Cross: French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698-1725 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the lives and work of five priests of the Seminaire de Quebec, the first French Catholic missionaries to... Læs mere
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The Pleasures of Death: Kurt Cobain's Masochistic and Melancholic Persona (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As the first academic study that provides a literary analysis of Kurt Cobain's creative writings, Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin's... Læs mere
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Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s.
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Race and Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Churches of Christ offer a unique perspective for observing how Christian fellowship and human equality intersected during the... Læs mere
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The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972: A Comparative Study (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An important new cultural study of the Cold War, Guolin Yi's The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972 analyses how the... Læs mere
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Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers,... Læs mere
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The War Went on: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theatre, political, and disability history, as well as... Læs mere
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