Louisiana State University Press Forlag
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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke.
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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Local lore about supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful... Læs mere
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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration.
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Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this volume, William J. Cooper, Jr trains his expert eye specifically on Davis's participation in and influence on events central to the American Civil War. Nine... Læs mere
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Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of... Læs mere
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Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the... Læs mere
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Drums at Dusk: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk immerses readers in the opulent and brutal - yet also very fragile - society of France's richest colony, Saint Domingue.
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Sook's Cookbook: Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brims with delicious, uniquely southern recipes such as green olive jambalaya, watermelon rind preserves, and poinsettia cake, as well as classic buttermilk biscuits and lemon meringue pie.
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern,... Læs mere
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Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign - which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War - Gordon Rhea vividly recreates the battles and manoeuvres from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive.
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Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Discusses the ways immigrants from Haiti affected southern agriculture, architecture, language, politics, medicine, religion,... Læs mere
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