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The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Innovatively draws upon postmodern thinking to consider the various perspectives that southern writers have brought to the concept of ‘place’ and to look at its fate in a national and global context.
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Money, Power, and Elections: How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was... Læs mere
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents and colourful street life. A young... Læs mere
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Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By 1877 the US imported half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 to 1867, when slave traffic to Cuba ceased.
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Cosmos: A Poem (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in... Læs mere
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The Cabinetmaker's Window: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker - defined by the peppery dust from the woodworker planing a walnut board, turning an oak spindle at the lathe, or honing... Læs mere
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Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and... Læs mere
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Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how leaders at five of the American south's most prestigious private universities - Duke, Emory, Rice,... Læs mere
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Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of the least publicly recognised heroes of the civil rights, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit... Læs mere
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Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. In this welcome book, Meredith... Læs mere
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New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's... Læs mere
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Venera: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems in Jay Rogoff's Venera explore varieties of love, both sacred and profane, by drawing from the natural world, personal intimacy, and the human imagination as evoked in biblical narratives and art.
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