Rupert uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial... Læs mere
This memoir of incest and survival destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them.
A richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates... Læs mere
They draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion: spinning while orbiting, actively shifting our point of view. More... Læs mere
This collection highlights Stanford’s writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs. Editors Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini annotate his life and work throughout the volume, placing him within the context of his peers as a writer and editor.
A fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda. Dale Laackman's uncovered never-before-published... Læs mere
The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its... Læs mere
Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs’s... Læs mere
Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. First published in 1933, God's Little Acre was censured by the Georgia Literary... Læs mere
In one of the most widely cited works in the field of geographical theory, Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy—employment and housing location, zoning,... Læs mere
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them.
Carter established the Carter Presidential Library and the Carter Center in Atlanta and became a professor at Emory University.