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Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the... Læs mere
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The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reconstructs daily life in sixteenth-century Seville, exposing the difficult lives of ordinary men, women, and children and shedding light... Læs mere
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Secure the Shadow: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the... Læs mere
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A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao called the “week that changed the world.” Using declassified sources from... Læs mere
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The Swamp Monster at Home: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With quirky imagination and wry humour, Catherine Carter exposes the connections between human and nonhuman, blood and home. Varied in form, The Swamp Monster at Home offers accessible and rewarding, elegiac yet hopeful poems - an exciting collection from a remarkable writer.
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She Let Herself Go: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman's life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender, fairy tales, and myths.
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The Visible: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Enter into a surreal landscape “where it is neither day nor night / but both at once” where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures. The illegible draws us closer to the page - the visible revealed, paradoxically, by what we cannot see.
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Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This valuable study of Flannery O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of hyperbole, distortion, allusion,... Læs mere
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Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Robert Paul Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary... Læs mere
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Ephemeron: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
T.R. Hummer's new and characteristically pyrotechnic collection takes its title from the rare (in English) singular form of the common word “ephemera”. In a work of startling... Læs mere
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Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864.... Læs mere
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The Swing Girl: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Katherine Soniat contemplates the present through the fragmented lens of history. She swings the reader out across time, to ancient Greece and China, and into the chaos of... Læs mere
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