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Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency, the commission's charge was to... Læs mere
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Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“August First Day” became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern US, the... Læs mere
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In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ten scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three... Læs mere
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Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Until now, Civil War scholars considered Bright and the Union incursion that culminated in his... Læs mere
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Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the... Læs mere
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The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reconstructs daily life in sixteenth-century Seville, exposing the difficult lives of ordinary men, women, and children and shedding light... Læs mere
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Secure the Shadow: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the... Læs mere
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A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao called the “week that changed the world.” Using declassified sources from... Læs mere
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The Swamp Monster at Home: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With quirky imagination and wry humour, Catherine Carter exposes the connections between human and nonhuman, blood and home. Varied in form, The Swamp Monster at Home offers accessible and rewarding, elegiac yet hopeful poems - an exciting collection from a remarkable writer.
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She Let Herself Go: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman's life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender, fairy tales, and myths.
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The Visible: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Enter into a surreal landscape “where it is neither day nor night / but both at once” where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures. The illegible draws us closer to the page - the visible revealed, paradoxically, by what we cannot see.
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Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This valuable study of Flannery O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of hyperbole, distortion, allusion,... Læs mere
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