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Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky: A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born in Virginia circa 1805, Francis Fedric was not unlike thousands of other African Americans who escaped slavery and... Læs mere
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A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's biography of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), the reputed intellectual engine behind... Læs mere
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Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Linda Bolton uses six extraordinarily resonant moments in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history to highlight the ethical challenge... Læs mere
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Heredities: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence.
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The Keeper's Voice: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Stations West: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dramatic and lyrical, Allison Amend's first novel, steeped in the history and lore of the Oklahoma Territory, tells an unforgettable multigenerational - and very American - story of Jewish pioneers, their adopted family, and the challenges they face.
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Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgee (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgee... Læs mere
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Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Perhaps America's foremost literary stylist and most mordant wit, H.L. Mencken's most engaging writing told about his own life and... Læs mere
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America's Modernisms: Revaluing the Canon, Essays in Honor of Joseph N. Riddel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These eleven essays confront the ongoing problem of defining American and modern - terms that often travel together as they... Læs mere
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Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Breach: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Recalls Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in gritty, poignant detail, bearing witness to the destruction of a region and to its recovery. Ranging from the urgent to the reflective, these... Læs mere
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Six Poets from the Mountain South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller:... Læs mere
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