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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
We remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and... Læs mere
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The Tacky South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South... Læs mere
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Three Centuries of Girls' Education: Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls.
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Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Twenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the author’s continual travels - and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters... Læs mere
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Engineering in the Confederate Heartland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
While engineers played a critical role in the performance of both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, few historians have examined their... Læs mere
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "the Beautiful and Damned: New Critical Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Published to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more... Læs mere
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Doll Apollo: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems in Doll Apollo merge mythology with close attention to the patterns, colours, and contours of the material world. Melissa... Læs mere
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Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around... Læs mere
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Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American... Læs mere
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The Tacky South (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South... Læs mere
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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for... Læs mere
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George Washington Carver: A Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and supporters. In pursuit of the... Læs mere
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