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John Wiley & Sons The Role of Place in Literature
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study exploring the use of metaphors and images of place in literature. Drawing comparisons over a wide range of works, principally American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lutwack illustrates how writers have charged different environments with symbolic and psychological meaning.Trade ReviewFor its magisterial scope and referential breadth, Lutwack’s book is essential for anyone interested in the interrelationships of place and literary value. Lutwack has made a notable scholarly contribution with his book. The Role of Place in Literature has a place in literary studies. Will be of interest to geographers as well as to all readers who share a sensitivity to the rich rhetoric of place and a concern for the future of the earth.
£22.46
Syracuse University Press The Plays of Margaret Drabble
Book SynopsisMargaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and Bird of Paradise (1969). This penetrating new critical edition makes both plays available for the first time, giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand her work.
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Syracuse University Press The People of the Book and the Camera
Book SynopsisOffers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.
£27.50
Syracuse University Press Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Book SynopsisIn this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics”, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.
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Syracuse University Press Unaccompanied Traveler
Book SynopsisWith its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, this book retrieves the remarkable travel accounts of Kathleen M. Murphy from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.
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John Wiley & Sons Victims of Commemoration
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of space's centrality to confronting state-endorsed violence, this volume draws upon ethnographic research gathered throughout the first half of the 2010s, the period of Turkey's quickly deteriorating global image.
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Syracuse University Press Errancies of Desire
Book SynopsisFocuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.
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Syracuse University Press Erasure and Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial
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John Wiley & Sons The Dark A Critical Edition
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University of Minnesota Press Postmodern Fables
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of fifteen 'fables' that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic, irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics and judgement.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Wilderness Life
Book SynopsisUsing his vast knowledge of campcraft, Rutstrum describes the wilderness life and details what one can expect from the wild- inspiration from exploring, pleasure from encountering natural settings, satisfaction after gaining experience, and mental stimulation from observation and problem solving.
£12.34
University of Minnesota Press Gay Rights at the Ballot Box
Book SynopsisFrom Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measuresTrade Review"Amy L. Stone crafts a compelling, deeply textured portrayal of the more than 200 anti-gay ballot campaigns in the U.S. since 1974. Through interviews with movement leaders and other sources, Stone deftly analyzes the tension between winning campaigns and building a sustainable movement, between national, urban activists and local, rural communities, as well as debates over tactics and messaging. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the central, disturbing role anti-gay politics has played in contemporary U.S. politics." —Sean Cahill, Ph.D., Fenway Institute and New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Winning (but Mostly Losing) at the Ballot Box1. From Anita Bryant to California Proposition 8: The Religious Right’s Attack on LGBT Rights2. An Uphill Battle in the 70s and 80s: Building LGBT Movement Infrastructure3. Fighting the Right in the 90s: Developing Sophisticated Campaigns4. A Winning Streak: Teaching Campaign Tactics, Building Statewide Organizations, and Spreading Victories 5. Losing at Same-Sex Marriage: Rethinking Ballot Measure Tactics6. Smears, Tears, and Queers: Race and Transgender Inclusion in CampaignsConclusion: The Future of Gay Rights at the Ballot BoxNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press German Autumn
Book SynopsisThe first U.S. edition of Dagerman’s account of postwar life in GermanyTrade Review"Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion."—Graham Greene"German Autumn is one of the best collections ever written about the aftermath of war. It is on par with John Reed’s classic articles from the Soviet Union as well as with Edgar Snow’s articles about the great political revolution in China. Stig Dagerman depicts the tragic realities of post–World War II Germany with astonishing clarity and artistic skillfulness. He provides the reader with a profound insight, which ultimately is the story of every war. To anyone interested in understanding what great journalism means, German Autumn is indispensable. It should be compulsory reading for all young people who might consider becoming a journalist, and it is as alive as it was when first published in 1947. Read it."—Henning Mankell"German Autumn is a very important book and it is a very good thing that an English language version is becoming available for Americans. We need this book. "—Mark Kurlansky, from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword: Pitiless FallMark KurlanskyIntroductionRobin Fulton Macpherson1. German Autumn2. Ruins3. Bombed Cemetery4. Poor Man’s Cake5. The Art of Sinking6. The Unwelcome7. The Rivals8. Lost Generation9. The Course of Justice10. Cold Day in Munich11. Through the Forest of the Hanged Boys12. Return to Hamburg13. Literature and Suffering
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University of Minnesota Press Why We Left
Book SynopsisA grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialismnow in paperback with a new preface Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. For generations, they lived hardscrabble lives, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they continually moved west in search of a better life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey through an obscure dimension of American history. Why We Left reveals the violence and dislocation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, presenting a powerful restorying of how we arrived at our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic to find histories of econ
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University of Minnesota Press Care of the Species Races of Corn and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press Bargaining for Womens Rights Activism in an
Book SynopsisProviding a solid analytic framework for understanding conflict over women's rights policies without stereotyping Muslims, Bargaining for Women's Rights demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on the prospects of such legislation. Trade Review"Alice J. Kang compellingly argues that governments are more likely to adopt women's rights reforms when local activists mobilize for them, that opposing activists must also be considered, and that political context is essential for understanding outcomes around women's rights."—Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware"Bargaining for Women’s Rights is a refreshing approach to thinking about women's rights in majority Muslim countries that captures how civil society groups mobilize and how multiple components of 'the state' actually debate women's rights legislation."—Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University"[Kang] includes an impressive combination of original empirical research and review and analysis of alternative hypotheses to assert the argument that women, and women's movements, matter in the adoption of gender equality policies."—CHOICE"An engaging, detailed look at how women activists played a vital role in Niger’s adoption of women’s rights policies."—Washington Post"Fills an important research void on determinants of women’s rights policy making in Muslim-majority democracies."—International Journal of Feminist Politics"Scholars in political science, sociology, women’s studies, and public policy will benefit from the theoretical and substantive contributions of Bargaining for Women’s Rights."—Mobilization"An impressive study of the competition between women activists and religious conservatives in Muslim-majority, francophone Niger."—Canadian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Women’s Rights in an African Muslim Democracy1. A French Colonial Legacy: The Making of Niger’s Legal System2. The Puzzle of Non-Adoption: Why Niger Has No Family Code3. Bargaining for Women’s Representation: The Adoption of a Gender Quota4. Bringing Rights Home: How Niger Ratified CEDAW and Rejected the Maputo ProtocolConclusion: Rethinking Women’s ActivismAppendix: Research MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Civil Racism The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lynn Mie Itagaki's book is an incisive critique of the civil racism that has become dominant in both liberal and conservative discourses of race in the post-Civil Rights era."—Daniel Kim, Brown University"Given recent urban unrest that lays bare tensions between state power, late capitalism, and race, this is a timely book."—CHOICE"Civil Racism considerably advances literature on the concept of racial civility. Lynn Mie Itagaki's text will be of significant interest to race—specifically those in Asian American studies—and feminist scholars, pushing readers to consider how systems of oppression manifest in insidious forms such as civility."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Exceptionally timely."—American Literary History"Much-needed contribution."—Critical Ethnic Studies "As a sociologist coming to this work, I found Itagaki’s elaboration of civil racism theoretically rich and relevant for many other facets of race relations in the US post-Cold War context. [...] I appreciated Itagaki’s careful use and analysis of language. Calling the events that occurred in 1992 a rebellion instead of a riot provides insight into how the rest of her book centers the subversion of people of color in the face of state oppression. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about race, intersectionality, citizenship, and critical literary/media analysis." —Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyPrefaceIntroduction: The 1992 Los Angeles CrisisPart I: Racial Civility1. Model Family Values and Sentimentalizing the Crisis2. In/Civility, with Colorblindness and Equal Treatment for All3. The Territorialization of Civility, the Spatialization of RevengePart II: Counterdiscourse of Civility4. At the End of Tragedy5. The Media Spectacle of Racial DisasterEpilogue: Lives That MatterAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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SPIE Press Introduction to Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the theory of image formation in a confocal fluorescence microscope, as well as a practical guideline to the operation of the instrument, its limitations, and the interpretation of confocal microscopy data. The appendices provide a reference to optical theory, microscopy-related formulas and definitions, and Fourier theory.
£52.25
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imagining the Earth Poetry and the Vision of
Book SynopsisThis text explores the way in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in, and influenced by poetry. It illustrates how poetry can identify, interpret and celebrate issues related to nature and our place in it, with examples from poets such as T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Philosophy of Ecology From Science to Synthesis
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Slavery in America A Reader and Guide
Book SynopsisDesigned specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of timefrom the early seventeenth century to the Civil War.Trade ReviewI am impressed by the organization, content, and coverage of this reader. The editor has blended most, if not all, of the latest developments in the field of slavery studies with appropriate documents. He has done so in a very organized and logical fashion, and I would not hesitate to assign this work in my undergraduate classes." —Christine Daniels, Michigan State University"The combination of secondary and primary extracts with substantial editorial pieces is particularly impressive. The overview, followed by essays for each section, looks good. Often editorial pieces in other works are too brief. The coverage of the colonial period as well as later years is a significant strength, and the balance between thematic and chronological emphasis is good." —Michael Tadman, University of Liverpool"Kenneth Morgan then is to be complimented for attempting to bring together a range of documents, essays, and short synopsis, all into one work accessible to undergraduate students. All of us who teach undergraduate history courses, whether surveys or upper division courses will be in Morgan’s debt for producing a work that should stimulate classroom discussion. . . . Kenneth Morgan has done a remarkable job synthesizing a tremendous amount of historical research. . . . He has also managed to put into the hands of students and scholars a concise volume that tells us a great deal about the institution of slavery. This is clearly an important work that students and teachers will do well to consult as a very useful resource." —H-Net
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Georgia Quilts Piecing Together a History
Book SynopsisShowcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state since the nineteenth century. This book also reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture. It contains chapters that follow various threads of the craft, including Civil War - era quilts, the cotton economy, quilting groups, and more.
£42.44
LUP - University of Georgia Press Creolization and Contraband
Book SynopsisUses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The World of the Salt Marsh Appreciating and
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it "a biological factory without equal.Trade ReviewThe potential impact of The World of the Salt Marsh on society will be similar to the impact Silent Spring and A Sand County Almanac had in their time. Seabrook is a natural storyteller, and the book should be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in life along our coasts.|Charles Seabrook spent his childhood next to a marsh, and in this marvelous and insightful book he shares his intimate knowledge and his love of these unique green meadows that fill the sounds and bays behind barrier islands. With numerous interviews of scientists and colorful local characters and with Seabrook as our guide, we envision the geologic history of the lower coastal plain of the southeastern U.S., see the sights, observe the plants and animals, hear the sounds, and even smell the smells of the marshes. Irrevocably intertwined with nature here is the fascinating cultural history from Native Americans through the slave culture of the plantations right up to the environmental impact of today’s human rush to the shore. Breathtaking in its scope and highly readable, this book is a must-read for those interested in coasts and concerned for their future.|Told through the life experiences of his friends and colleagues—fisherman, crabbers, oystermen and other—the author’s story frequently returns to his main theme: the destruction of this important environmental resource. . . . [Including] history, a summary of contemporary scientific research and current legislative initiatives. . . . [The World of the Salt Marsh is] another excellent wake-up call about the need to prevent the destruction of our natural environment.|You can read The World of the Salt Marsh cover to cover, or dip into it at random, but be prepared to get hooked at any point. The Wild Georgia columnist is a most entertaining and knowledgeable tour guide, whether nibbling a saltwort leaf that resembles a 'moist potato chip' and tastes 'great in stuffed crab'; teaching an impromptu lesson on how to wriggle out of quicksand-like 'pluff mud' by 'belly-crawling' across it; or in his description of the imperiled diamondbacked terrapin: 'Imagine a reptile with the dreamy eyes of a golden retriever and the unassuming face of a manatee. Add the docile temperament of a lamb and the beauty of a seashell.'|This book is highly recommended to anyone who shares our respect of the salt marsh and would like to learn about its biology and culture.|In this book, [Seabrook] takes a very personal—but still beautifully reported—journey as he explores the Southeastern U.S. coast, from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida. A native of Johns Island, South Carolina, Seabrook delves into natural history and ecological threats without letting the poetry of the marsh get lost in the science.|At first glance . . . The World of the Salt Marsh is the poignant story of the coast. On second glance, the richly woven layers of this compelling narrative blend coastal culture and natural history with saltwater ecosystem dynamics to educate and inform. . . . This book provides a clear shapshot of the life and times of a salt marsh in today's fast-paced world. Just as clearly, it illustrates the need for stewardship and education among people whose activities impact the ecosystem. Carefully researched and thoughtfully illustrated with 52 crisp black and white photos, The World of the Salt Marsh is a book for your keeper shelf.|In The World of the Salt Marsh, Charles Seabrook's masterful and comprehensive examination of what remains of these endangered and disappearing wetlands, the native of Johns Island, SC explains why we should be 'appreciating and protecting the tidal marshes of the southeastern coast.'
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University of Georgia Press Divided Sovereignties Race Nationhood and
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University of Georgia Press Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
Book SynopsisPresents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.
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University of Georgia Press Introduction to Housing
Book SynopsisThis foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery.Table of Contents Editors’ Introduction to Introduction to Housing, second edition SECTION I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Current Trends in the U.S. Housing Market Chapter 2. Influences on Housing Choice SECTION II: HOUSING DESIGN Chapter 3. Kitchen and Bathroom Design Chapter 4. Single-Family Residential Design Chapter 5. Multifamily Residential Design Chapter 6. Universal Design in Housing SECTION III: HOME OWNERSHIP Chapter 7. Home Buying and Homeownership Chapter 8. The Housing Finance Industry Chapter 9. Renting Chapter 10. Housing Affordability Chapter 11. Homelessness SECTION IV: HOUSING POLICY Chapter 12. Housing and Community Chapter 13. Neighborhood Amenities Chapter 14. Federal Housing Policy Chapter 15. The Great Recession SECTION V: SPECIAL TOPICS IN HOUSING Chapter 16. Housing and Racial and Ethnic Diversity Chapter 17. Housing and Aging Chapter 18. Home Environments and Health Chapter 19. Sustainable Housing Chapter 20. Housing and Disasters SECTION VI: HOUSING IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Chapter 21. Housing in Asia Chapter 22. Housing in Europe Chapter 23. Housing in Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter 24. Housing in Africa Chapter 25. Global Housing Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Medical Bondage Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology
Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated medical fictions about their patients. Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Geography of the Everyday Toward an
Book SynopsisAnthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday”, the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this aspect of reality. Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Sleeping with One Eye Open Women Writers and the
Book SynopsisHow do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make time for their lives as artists? In this anthology, noted female novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, and nonfiction writers address the old and new challenges of ‘doing it all’ that face women writers as the twenty-first century approaches.
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University of Georgia Press Detain and Deport The Chaotic U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisTracing the rise in criminalization of immigrant communities, the book outlines a groundbreaking transnational ethnographic approach.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Captured The Japanese Internment of American
Book SynopsisMore than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps - the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labour, and increasingly severe malnourishment.
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University of Georgia Press William Greggs Civil War The Battle to Shape the
Book SynopsisDuring the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill's de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making him one of the closest people to the Confederate guerrilla leader. This book presents his personal account of that era.
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University of Georgia Press Black Judas William Hannibal Thomas and The
Book SynopsisWilliam Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, and journalist following Appomattox. Black Judas is a biography of Thomas, a publishing history of his book The American Negro, and an analysis of that book's significance to American racial thought.
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University of Georgia Press Americas Johannesburg Industrialization and
Book SynopsisA persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama's slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America's Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press City of Refuge Slavery and Petit Marronage in
Book SynopsisIn his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.
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University of Georgia Press Divided Sovereignties Race Nationhood and
Book SynopsisReveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and jurisdiction; economic uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and religious differences; international relations; immigration; and arguments about personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The SlaveTraders LetterBook Charles Lamar the
Book SynopsisRecounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. The second part presents the ""Slave-Trader's Letter-Book"" which sheds light on the lead-up to the American Civil War.Trade Review“Jim Jordan has given us a fascinating look at little-known yet divisive events that occurred during the years leading up to the Civil War, particularly the illegal, transatlantic African slave trade. He brings them to life through the provocative and often outrageous words of a man involved in those activities. Mr. Jordan’s thorough research provides a compelling and comprehensive account of the infamous Wanderer expeditions and the men behind them. This intriguing and educational book is in two parts. The first, a thorough and well-researched biography of one of antebellum Georgia’s most famous scoundrels; the second, a professionally edited and annotated printing of Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar’s long-lost and recently rediscovered letter-book. Both parts are well worth the read by scholars and the general public. Charles Lamar was the instigator of the infamous voyage of the Wanderer. He was a hero to southern secessionists and a criminal to northern abolitionists. That makes this book important to all those interested in the antebellum and Civil War history of Georgia.”
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University of Georgia Press Modern Cronies Southern Industrialism from Gold
Book SynopsisTraces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern US. This book explicates the networks of associations and interconnections across varied industries in a way that newly interprets the development of the southeastern United States.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Curious Garden of Herbs Cultivated and Wild
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates the ""why"" rather than the ""how"" of the historical kitchen garden. Rather than offering a how-to of gardening methods, Kay Moss and Suzanne Simmons trace herbs and their uses back to earlier times and places.
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University of Georgia Press Fractal Shores Poems
Book SynopsisCarlo 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.
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University of Georgia Press Selling Hate
Book SynopsisA 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 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.Trade ReviewI’ve read countless histories of the Ku Klux Klan . . . . Each has its strengths, but none accomplishes what this book does, which is to show that the Invisible Empire was in many ways the creation of modern public relations. Selling Hate is a splendid book on the so-called 'second era' Klan, the largest in the 150-year history of the organization. In a detailed account rich with fascinating characters, Dale W. Laackman shows how the group's exponential growth was driven almost entirely by an unlikely pair of public relations experts who turned out to be consummate swindlers. Behind the cross burnings and hooded rallies, the Ku Klux Klan was fueled by shady marketers who sold hate across America. Selling Hate pulls back the curtain on the secret PR operation that built the Invisible Empire. Dale W. Laackman delves into a dark chapter of American business history, where PR entrepreneurs and Klansmen forge an alliance with long-reaching effects. Filled with unexpected twists and characters you only wish were fictional, coupled with expert research, Laackman’s book skillfully tells an original and riveting tale.
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University of Georgia Press Stronger Truer Bolder American Childrens Writing
Book SynopsisCovering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America's nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Untold War at Sea Americas Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThe 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.
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University of Georgia Press Commanders of the Dining Room Biographic
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff, giving insight into the traditions and personalities that shaped these culinary institutions.Trade ReviewThe story of these men provides a powerful addition to a growing attention on black political, social, and economic activism on the eve of codified Jim Crow segregation, a legalized apartheid that fell over the land at the very moment when these waiters gathered in Chicago to form their organization. . . . One can easily imagine curious hands leaving through the pages of this work and finding upon them a truth that transforms not only their conception of history but also supplies an inspired imagining of what is possible in their own life.""- Justin A. Nystrom, author of Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
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University of Georgia Press City of Refuge Slavery and Petit Marronage in
Book SynopsisTells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. This examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.Trade ReviewIn addition to a careful social history of this untamable land, Nevius has written a thoughtful reflection on the various 'landscapes of slavery' that spread over early America. He directly engages with the perennial problem of archival silence, reading all kinds of documents-tax records, work contracts, company orders-against the grain. In this way he enables at least some of the people who endured "swamp slavery" to tell us how they survived." —J. M. Opal, Journal of Southern History
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University of Georgia Press Patrolling the Border Theft and Violence on the
Book SynopsisFocuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples.
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University of Georgia Press Contextualizing Security A Reader
Book SynopsisA collection of original essays, primary source lectures, and previously published material in the overlapping fields of security studies, political science, sociology, journalism, and philosophy. The book offers both graduate and undergraduate students a grasp on both foundational issues and more contemporary debates in security studies.
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