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The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lauded for its vivid description, trenchant analysis, and meticulous research, this award-winning account of the battle at Fredricksburg, Virginia, makes for compulsive reading. 17 halftones. 15 maps.
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An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with an array of social,... Læs mere
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Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An intimate, conversational treatise on poetry by a man of letters with decades of practice in both the business and the craft of... Læs mere
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864.
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Caryn Cossé Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of the Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
It seems appropriate, if not inevitable, that one of America’s best critics should be the foremost authority on one of America’s best... Læs mere
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On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this enlightening study, Clarence Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the... Læs mere
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Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume contains Jay Wright's previously published collections of poetry, including "The Homecoming Singer" and "Transformations". It reveals the consistency of his theme - the spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development in the African American past and present.
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The third in a series of narratives by Gordon C. Rhea on the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May... Læs mere
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Black Face, Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. Anthony Barthelemy shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness.
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The Canary Islanders of Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Canary Islanders, or Isleños, of Louisiana, like some of the state's other ethnic groups, have received little scholarly attention. Utilizing a range of source... Læs mere
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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this penetrating survey of the last three decades, Dan Carter examines race as an issue in presidential politics. Concise yet replete with insight, wit, and often-amusing, always-telling anecdotes, this timeless book is an uncommon blend of important and enjoyable reading.
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