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The 'Baby Dolls': Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)One of the first women's organisations to “mask” in a Mardi Gras parade, the “Million Dollar Baby Dolls”... Læs mere
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Its Ghostly Workshop: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)From the Mediterranean to the American West, the poems in Ron Smith's new collection move across time and place to find reliable truths through personal observation. Beyond his own experiences Smith draws from the lives of notable and diverse figures.
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Next to Last Words: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)For sixty years Daniel Hoffman has drawn on a lifetime of experiences to engage readers with his powerful imagination. The poems in Next to Last Words - illuminated by the poet's unique vision and leavened by touches of humour - continue this tradition.
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Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Documents a number of lawsuits challenging various requirements - including literacy tests, poll taxes, and white primaries - designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves.
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The Tree of Forgetfulness: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A mesmerising and disquieting novel that recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the... Læs mere
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Earth, Mercy: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation - pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions - looking for a kind of junkyard grace: “Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind.”
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Women of the Iberian Atlantic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Explores the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Unlike previous scholarship, which has focused primarily on upper-class and... Læs mere
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Descent: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often “it's safer to stay blind.”... Læs mere
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Theater of Memory: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Moving and unpretentious, the poems in this collection range from verses about the poet’s childhood, including the early death of his father, to pieces in conversation with Chinese poet T’ao Ch’ien, to poignant poems about his grandson.
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War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Until now, scholars have portrayed America’s antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such... Læs mere
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On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this riveting narrative, Seymour Topping chronicles his extraordinary... Læs mere
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