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Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By examining how ordinary Virginia citizens grappled with the vexing problem of slavery in a... Læs mere
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Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South.
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Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems.
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Houses Are Fields: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented... Læs mere
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Lucy Audubon: A Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Intelligent, adaptable, and strong-willed, Lucy Bakewell Audubon was, DeLatte shows, the partner Audubon needed for his life and for his work. As noted Audubon expert Christoph... Læs mere
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The Burden of Southern History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of... Læs mere
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If the Heart Is Lean: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective.
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Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a detailed study of the rhythms of highland Berber life, from the daily routines of making a living in such a demanding environment to the relationships between individuals, the community, and the national economy.
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Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An innovative blend of cultural and political history, this is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York... Læs mere
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Myself Painting: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art, with poems that speak not of painting itself but of its underlying process.
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Figure Studies: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called “All Girls School”, offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls.... Læs mere
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Whirl Is King: Poems from a Life List (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ranging in tone from the elegaic to the comic, Whirl Is King collects 43 of Brendan Galvin's poems about human encounters with birds. Written over the past five... Læs mere
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