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  • - America's Revolutionary Privateers
    av Kylie A. Hulbert
    1 529,-

    The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.

  • - Alaska Stories
    av Melinda Moustakis
    365,-

    In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and hunters, scrappy storytellers who put themselves in the path of destruction-sometimes a harsh snowstorm, sometimes each other-and live to tell the tale. While backtrolling for kings on the Kenai River or filleting the catch of the Halibut Hellion with marvelous speed, these characters recount the gamble they took that didn't pay off, or they expound on how not only does Uncle Too-Soon need a girlfriend, the whole state of Alaska needs a girlfriend. A story like 'The Mannequin at Soldotna' takes snapshots: a doctor tends to an injured fisherman, a man covets another man's green fishing lure, a girl is found in the river with a bullet in her head. Another story offers an easy moment with a difficult mother, when she reaches out to touch a breaching whale.This is a book about taking a fishhook in the eye, about drinking cranberry lick and Jippers and smoking Big-Z cigars. This is a book about the one good joke, or the one night lit up with stars, that might get you through the winter.

  • - Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism
    av Andrew J. Douglas & Jared A. Loggins
    409

    Shining new light on Martin Luther King's largely implicit economic and political theories, and expanding appreciation of the Black radical tradition to which he belonged, Andrew Douglas and Jared Loggins reconstruct, develop, and carry forward King's strikingly prescient critique of capitalist society.

  • av Mary Carpenter
    267,-

  • - Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review
     
    486,-

    Charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms.

  • av Melton A. McLaurin
    286,-

    Originally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society by focusing on the role of gender and the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. An important addition to our understanding of the pre-Civil War era, Celia, a Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level.

  • - Disability in the Civil War North
    av Sarah Handley-Cousins
    396

    In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.

  • - People of Persistence
    av Sharlotte Neely
    354,-

    An ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as the most traditional, but also the most adaptive, members of the entire tribe. Neely explains this paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture.

  • - Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
     
    1 737

    Takes OutKast's aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. These essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South.

  • - Comparing Faith-Based and Secular Approaches
    av Maia Carter Hallward & Charity Butcher
    1 081,-

    Uses a new dataset of more than three hundred organisations affiliated with the United Nations Human Rights Council to compare the extent to which religious and secular NGOs differ in their framing, discussion, and operationalisation of human rights work.

  • - Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894
    av Kenneth H. Wheeler
    494

  • - Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women
     
    468

    With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write's insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration, history, religion, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how these factors intersect and affect daily lives. The volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature.

  • - A People's Poetry
     
    354,-

    Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, these poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials - and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices.

  • - Humans, Canine Companions, and a New Philosophy of Cognitive Science
    av Michele Merritt
    380 - 2 030

  • - Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians
     
    438,-

    The hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family, one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in antebellum America, laboured in households and on plantations that spanned Georgia. This book provides a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained this community of the enslaved.

  • - Nineteenth-Century American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment
    av Karen L. Kilcup
    805

  • - Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852
    av Martha J. Cutter
    483

    Analyses some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship.

  • - Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture
    av Robert Yusef Rabiee
    933

    Analyses literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War-era studies of US culture, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century.

  • av Dale W. Laackman
    423,-

    Selling Hate is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda. Dale W. Laackman's uncovered never-before-published archival material, census records, and obscure books and letters to tell the story of an emerging communications industry-an industry filled with potential and fraught with peril.The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke-together, the Southern Publicity Association-met the fervent William Joseph Simmons (founder of the second KKK), saw an opportunity, and played on his many weaknesses. It was the volatile, precarious terrain of post-World War I America. Tyler and Clarke took Simmons's dying and broke KKK, with its two thousand to three thousand associates in Georgia and Alabama, and in a few short years swelled its membership to nearly five million. Chapters were established in every state of the union, and the Klan began influencing American political and social life. Between one-third and one-half of the eligible men in the country belonged to the organization. Even to modern sensibilities, the extent of Tyler and Clarke's scheme is shocking: the limitlessness of their audacity; the full-scale and ongoing con of Simmons; the size of the personal fortunes they earned, amassed, and stole in the process; and just how easily and expertly they exploited the particular fears and prejudices of every corner of America. You will recognize in this pair a very American sense of showmanship and an accepted, even celebrated, brash entrepreneurial hustle. And as their story winds down, you will recognize the tainted and ultimately ineffectual congressional hearings into the Klan's monumental growth.

  • - The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South
    av Sharon Monteith
    508

  • - Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York
    av Timo Schrader
    420,-

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    - Poems
    av Diane Louie
    226

    Carlo Rovelli, Italian physicist, says that ""the world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events."" Poet Diane Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion.

  • - Postwar Rebel Networks in Liberia
    av Mariam Bjarnesen
    867

    Based on original interview material and findings from fieldwork, Repurposed Rebels follows former rebel soldiers from the time of the Liberian civil war to 2013. These actors have reemerged as ""recycled"" warriors in times of regional wars and crisis and as vigilantes and informal security providers for economic and political purposes.

  • - Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures
    av Gabrielle Owen
    393,-

  • av Bob Gale
    396

    Compiled from decades of visiting beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts collecting fossils and conducting extensive research, A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils is the definitive guide for amateur collectors and professionals interested in learning more about the deep history they tread on during their vacations.

  • av Michael P. Rucker
    475

    Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. One such officer was Edmund Winchester Rucker. This first biography of Rucker examines the military and business accomplishments of this outstanding leader.

  • - Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York
    av Simon Black
    440,-

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