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Skandalon: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Christian theology, a skandalon is a distraction from grace, a maze of error where we wander pointlessly, wasting our lives. To the ancient Greeks, a skandalon was the trigger of a... Læs mere
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The View from Saturn: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Looks at the earth and our life on it from two perspectives at once: objectively, as if from a great distance, and subjectively, focusing in on the body with all its cells and hungers. Alice Friman's poems dance between these two vantage points, asking important questions.
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Spans: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a visit to an art museum.
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The Red List: A Poem (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The ‘red list’ of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge... Læs mere
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From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using the innovative methods of the New Louisiana Legal History, Mark Fernandez offers the first comprehensive analysis of... Læs mere
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The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his “Yankee” town in the heart of the... Læs mere
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The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what he... Læs mere
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The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Innovatively draws upon postmodern thinking to consider the various perspectives that southern writers have brought to the concept of ‘place’ and to look at its fate in a national and global context.
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Money, Power, and Elections: How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was... Læs mere
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents and colourful street life. A young... Læs mere
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Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By 1877 the US imported half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 to 1867, when slave traffic to Cuba ceased.
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Bourbon Street: A History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella's comprehensive cultural history spans from the street's inception during... Læs mere
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