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French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600-1875 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875.
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Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers - Black and white, North and South. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by America’s most tragic conflict.
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Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's Florida parishes in... Læs mere
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A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organised in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut... Læs mere
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Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces the transition from the labour-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations... Læs mere
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Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
During the American Civil War the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental... Læs mere
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Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American-born descendants.
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Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments, although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to... Læs mere
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Broken Cup: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as “traveling the Way of Alzheimer's” with her husband, poet David McKain. After his diagnosis, Gibson suspended her... Læs mere
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Put Your Hands in: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a... Læs mere
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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke.
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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Local lore about supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful... Læs mere
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