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An annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain. Twain discusses matters as varied as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humour, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers.

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists. The Blues Muse focuses on Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly, and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, Ruth Herskovits Gutmann's powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter.

The system of coastal defenses built by the US government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense. This book offers an examination of the fortifications that formed the backbone of US military defense during the National Period.

Investigates public administration's increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices.

One of the enduring yet little examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread belief that members of Masonic lodges would give aid and comfort to wounded or captured enemy Masons. This work is a deeply researched examination of the recorded, practical effects of Freemasonry among Civil War participants on both sides.

Follows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers.

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America. This book lays out the history of Iberian slavery, explores its role in the Spanish Indies, and shows how Africans and their descendants used the legal system as they established their place in society.

Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Harvey Kline, an expert on Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia's population, politics, and military for decades.

The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production.

Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms.

With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolome de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. This book provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas's writings. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law.

Reveals a rare case of finding ethnicity by relying solely on archaeological remains. Howard Tsai analyses data from the excavation of Las Varas within a theoretical framework based on current understandings of ethnicity, and demonstrates the potential for archaeologists to discover how ethnic identities were constructed in the past.

An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organisations. Raul Acosta examines the manner in which progressive nongovernmental organisations and activists act in a more intermingled and processual way than scholars have previously acknowledged.

Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Ery Shin argues that Stein's later works engage with storytelling and life-writing in startling ways - most emphatically and poignantly through the surrealist lens.

Pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political, diplomatic, and philanthropic networks that enabled the establishment of new Jewish communities in Palestine and the United States.

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.

Alabama's military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause. In his new study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben Severance argues that Alabama's electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence.

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. The book's approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term "economic".

In a clear-eyed and eloquent voice, Vic Sizemore grapples movingly with his own bewilderment and chagrin as he struggles to reconcile the essential philosophical and moral decay that he believes many evangelicals have come to embrace.

Makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary'sex panics' are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don't appear to have much to do with queerness. Ian Barnard presents six case studies that treat a wide range of sex panic rhetorics to demonstrate his argument.

Shows how the social attitudes of women were shaped during the Progressive era. By studying primary documents, Carol Crawford Holcomb uncovers ample evidence that WMU leaders, aware of the social gospel and sympathetic to social reform, appropriated the tools of social work and social service to carry out their missionary work.

Investigates the fin de siecle search for truth and meaning in a world that had been radically transformed. John S. Haller Jr. examines the moral and philosophical journeys of nine European and American intellectuals who sought deeper understanding amid such paradigmatic upheaval.

Examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale.

Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention. The explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the "Palestine question" whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I.

Known to today's biologists primarily as the "Michx", at the end of more than 700 plant names, Andre Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, this book is the first complete English edition of Michaux's American journals.