John Hope Franklin, one of the US's foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically... Læs mere
First published in 1961, A New History of Spanish Literature has been a much-used resource for generations of students. The book has now been completely revised and updated to include extensive discussion of Spanish literature of the past thirty years.
Examines slavery in the antebellum South's newest state and reveals how significant slavery was to the history of Texas. The “peculiar... Læs mere
Offers a comprehensive history of black mobility from the Civil War to World War I. William Cohen treats... Læs mere
Challenging commonly held assumptions about the attitudes and actions of the pre-Civil War southern elite, Jane Turner Censer draws on an impressive... Læs mere
Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as “something like a verse... Læs mere
The poems in this collection have to do with memory and metaphor, two forces that enable us to interpret our experience. Each is in a sense a second language, and in Lisel Mueller's employ each gains expression in an imaginative and humanistic voice.
First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor... Læs mere
After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognised both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South.