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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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Murder in the MA©tro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as the shocking truth about... Læs mere
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Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy epitomized the “American democrat”. In Democracy's Lawyer, the... Læs mere
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Possessive: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sally Van Doren's imaginative new collection offers bold and beguiling poems. Uttered in intense lyrical bursts that reflect the poet's command of language both familiar and strange,... Læs mere
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Words Before Dawn: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In well-crafted free verse, traditional meter and rhyme, prose poems, and nonce forms, William Wenthe meditates on family, language, art, history, and the natural world, striving to find words to capture the richness of life.
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