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In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis English analyses why Perry county, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighbouring counties.

A unique creative writing text that will appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from grade nine through college and beyond. The exercises use a broad range of creative approaches, aesthetics, and voices, all with an emphasis on demystifying the writing process and having fun.

Explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature, and how can reading guide us to a deeper understanding of place and identity? Thomas Hallock charts a teacher's journey to answering these questions, framing personal experiences around the continued need for a survey course covering early American literature.

A groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico, this book provides a new way to understand the scope and impact of crony capitalism on institutional development in Mexico.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and appreciation. These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal his personal and literary life.

Highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays explore the ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a perpetual process of recalibration and reformulation, provided the lens through which Protestants understood social and political change in the Age of Revolutions.

Salt, once a highly prized trade commodity, is often overlooked in research because it is invisible in the archaeological record. This book brings salt back into archaeology, showing that it was valued as a dietary additive, had curative powers, and was a substance of political power and religious significance for Native Americans.

A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II.

Contributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.

The southeastern United States is home to a remarkable and diverse mammalian fauna that is a significant part of the region's rich natural heritage. Mammals of the Southeastern United States presents accounts of 137 species that currently or previously occurred in the Southeast.

Takes a holistic and integrative approach to strategy, operations, and tactics during the Korean War's stalemate period and demonstrates how these matters shaped each other and influenced, or were influenced by, political and strategic policy decision-making.

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.

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist?

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.