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John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An unprecedented window into the life of a Virginia bondsman, John Washington's Civil War communicates with real urgency what it meant to be a slave during a period of extreme crisis that sounded the notes of freedom for some and the end of a way of life for others.
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Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under.
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Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. The eleven essays... Læs mere
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Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences “Via Appia” and “To Ithaca”, Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel.
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Political Philosophy and the Open Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tracing the concept of the open society - one based on the idea of a universal community of mankind - from its origins to the present day, Dante Germino reveals... Læs mere
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Waugh in Abyssinia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Floating City: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of... Læs mere
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The Ship of Birth: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Range of Light: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Catharine Savage Brosman offers lyrical and narrative poems about the American West and Southwest, from Wyoming to New Mexico to California. She explores three different types of ranges- mountains, grazing ranges, and the scope and spectrum of light, a constant motif.
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The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first “impossible but... Læs mere
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Displaced Person: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood - one that took her from the purges of... Læs mere
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