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Newly not Eternal (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of... Læs mere
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Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The essays in Chad Davidson’s Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year mainly concern the loss of the author’s father directly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which the pandemic itself provided a strangely ideal backdrop to grieving.
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Mom in Space: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Using the lens of spaceflight, Lisa Ampleman explores subjects ranging from the personal to the political, from fertility tests and parenting to climate change and civil rights.
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The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history.... Læs mere
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John Randolph of Roanoke (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The first biography of Randolph in... Læs mere
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The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and... Læs mere
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LSU Law: The Louisiana State University Law School from 1906 to 1977 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From its founding in 1906, the Louisiana State University Law School has offered its students a truly distinctive legal education. In... Læs mere
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural... Læs mere
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Alabama: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry,... Læs mere
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Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. Liz Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition.
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves... Læs mere
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The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson to be among the most significant sources on... Læs mere
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