Louisiana State University Press Forlag
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Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Marcia Gaudet and Carl Wooton's Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines is a collection of interviews conducted on the porch of Gaines's home in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Fascinating in its depiction of an intelligent young man's coming of age in the days of the Land Rush and the closing of the frontier, My Life and an Era is equally important for its reporting of the triracial culture of early Oklahoma.
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Confederate Mobile (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“It is … refreshing to find a work that illuminates the complete war years of this major southern city.... Confederate Mobile will prove an invaluable guide to anyone wishing to... Læs mere
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Costa Rica Before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on the decade of the 1840s, when the impact of coffee and export agriculture began to revolutionize Costa Rican... Læs mere
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I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on his unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz.
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Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first published personal narrative by a regimental commander of free black troops, Thank God My Regiment an... Læs mere
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1990, award-winning historian Joseph Glatthaar recreates the events that gave the United States Colored Troops and their 7,000 white officers justifiable pride in their contributions to the Union victory and hope of equality in the years to come.
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The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The 30 poems in this collection show Dave Smith turning from the work of an accomplished past to new formal practices that highlight a poetry autumnal in its recognition of life's limits.
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The Narrative Forms of Southern Community (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the paradox that communities famous for their cohesiveness and moral stability were in fact oppressive along race and class lines. The author uses... Læs mere
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Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Cultural Traditions and Literary Form (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
William Gilmore Simms was the preeminent southern man of letters in the antebellum period, a prolific, talented writer in... Læs mere
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Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Symbols, the News Magazines and Martin Luther King (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is an important, perceptive study of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s career and an astute critical analysis of the reporting practices of the news media in the modern era.
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