Offers a comprehensive guide to the history of trees in urban landscapes. Covering four centuries of development in... Læs mere
Takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's least known and most colourful carnivals. Similar in many ways to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and... Læs mere
Examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented.... Læs mere
Rumours of Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to... Læs mere
Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet,... Læs mere
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book... Læs mere
Focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day.