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I, Divided: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Chelsea Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body... Læs mere
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Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how... Læs mere
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The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo’s The... Læs mere
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How to Reread a Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of... Læs mere
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The Sentence: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, Morri Creech takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.
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Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill woodpecker’s status by examining reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana.
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Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of... Læs mere
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America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.
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The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the development of nationalism and its frequent manifestation, secession, by comparing the American experience with that of several other nations,... Læs mere
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Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-catastrophic realization in American history.
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Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An insightful social and military history of Civil War-era Louisiana. The book reveals the Civil War, state-building efforts, and democracy itself as... Læs mere
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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom.
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