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One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades if the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness.
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The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shows how Robert Penn Warren's work, his fiction, poetry, literary criticism, historical and personal essays, journalism, is shaped largely by the circumstances not... Læs mere
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The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines various dimensions of abolitionism from its religious context to its international effect, from its attitude toward the northern poor to its impact on feminism, and from wars of words waged with southern intellectuals to the bloodier conflicts begun in Kansas.
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Duel Between the First Ironclads (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One was called “a tin can on a shingle”; the other, “a half-submerged crocodile.” Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the... Læs mere
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Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the first passage in William C. Davis' book about “the twilight of America's innocence” to the last, the reader is carried through what many in the 1860s believed would be the only major conflict between North and South.
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Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centres of black political influence in the late nineteenth century, North Carolina's... Læs mere
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The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organisations in nearby rural southwestern areas?
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George Mason: Reluctant Statesman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Few Americans who have served their country, however, have met with as little recognition as George Mason of Gunston Hall. In this concise, cogently written biography, a... Læs mere
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Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Union gunboat Cairo still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big... Læs mere
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Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local colour school when she in 1899 shocked the American reading public with The Awakening. This volume provides an extensive re-examination of both the life and work of Kate Chopin, basing it on her total oeuvre.
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