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Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving together official German war-time records, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, this work provides an assessment of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine. It shifts attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs.

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Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work is a complete bibliography of Italian dialect dictionaries that had appeared at the time of its publication.

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Through careful reading of Luis Cernuda's later poetry, written after 1936, Alexander Coleman argues that Luis Cernuda was a poet whose primary impulse in his art was the suppression of the subjective and the consequent objectivization of poetry.

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Ruth el Saffar's study of novelistic technique in Don Quixote focuses on the interplay of characters, authors, and readers who populate the work.

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Traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyses the literary technique employed by these writers and evaluates their contributions to American thought.

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Guest edited by Regina Bradley, The Sonic South issue examines sound. From Deafness to silence to a tool of liberation, “Sound is where the South can be its most complicated and unapologetic”, writes Bradley, ""where it can boast its plurality and multiple communities.

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Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This volume celebrates this essential element of southern life.

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Reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories, Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. Diane Wolfe Levy shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters.

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In this text, Jerrold Hirsch reviews the founding of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) and the significance of its ""American Guide"" series, considering the choices made by the administrators who wanted to celebrate diversity as a positive aspect of American cultural identity.

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This text examines the techniques of first-person interpretation - the portrayal of historical characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying - to identify those that have been most effective with audiences while allowing interpreters to maintain historical fidelity.

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Argues that white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. This book draws from church records and slave narratives to illuminate the relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. It argues that black evangelicals inadvertently shaped the proslavery argument.

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Provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy's approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade an audience of the truth of their messages. These writers employed rhetorical conventions that were widely known and imitated in the society of the times.

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This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.

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This edition traces the role of Christian Identity figures in the events of the first half of the 1990s, from the Oklahoma City bombing, to the rise of the militia movement and the Freemen standoff in Montana. It explores the government's response to these challenges to the legitimacy of the state.

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Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel The Holy Sinner (1951). The introduction situates Hartmann's poem in the pantheon of Gregorius legends by writers from Sophocles to Mann.

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Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, ""Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special happen."" Buttermilk explores the rich possibilities of this beloved ingredient and offers remarkably wide-ranging recipes for its use in cooking and baking--and drinking.

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In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against France and the USA. This book examines China's conduct towards Vietnam, providing important insights into Mao Zedong's foreign policy and the motives behind it.

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In 1775, when patriot leaders formed the Continental army, they were informed by their knowledge of the British army. This book shows that, following this decision, a gap existed in the conditions of service between soldiers and officers of the Continental army. It illuminates the social world of the Continental army.

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Thematically, Chandler's work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero. Originally published in 1963.

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Looking at a century of struggle, liberation and gutsy play, this title chronicles women's basketball in the US. Offering portraits of heroes and contemporary stars, it provides a perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights.

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Shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. Robert Palmer's book, based on all of the available legal records, establishes a genuinely new interpretation and chronology of these important legal changes.

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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.

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This study refutes the vision of the USA's stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety and health, political economy and property, and morality. Challenging the myth of individualism, the author explores the commitment to public duty.

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Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.

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In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.

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These 16 essays open with a contribution by Fergus Millar, in which he defends studying Classics. He also questions the dominiant interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power, therefore shedding new light on Augustus' regime.

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What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent.

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This textbook offers students an introduction to classical Greek. Among the features of the book are a two-week introduction to spoken Greek, folklore stories from around the world rendered in classical Greek, and special sections on aspects of Greek culture.

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Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), the great German humanist, remained a towering figure in Europe long into the twentieth century. Published in 1954, this translation by Stephen Emery and William Emery was the first English translation of Dilthey's Das Wesen der Philosophie (1907) and his first work to be translated completely into English.

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This volume introduces the modern cook to 408 recipes covering pickles, preserves, relishes, conserves, jellies, marmalades, chutneys, jams, fruit butters, pickled meats, mincemeats, ketchups, sauces, and candied fruits.

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Using a variety of sources - official papers, travel documents, diaries and newspapers - Duane Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migaration, their life in America and their curious allegiance to George III.

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During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations.

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In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness - Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister.

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Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is “numb” to outrage.

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Using documentary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the fighting at Cowpens, 1781, this volume provides a minute-by-minute account of the clash that many believed turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South.

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This study on the triumph of motherhood in Britain and France during World War I argues that throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities.

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Offering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them.

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Shows how the American stake in Saudi Arabian oil challenged the US to create closer ties with the Saudi kingdom, compelling the move from isolation to involvement with the Middle East. Miller describes the growing awareness of the strategic importance of Saudi Arabia, US shrinking oil reserves and the focusing of America on gaining access to the king's oil.

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A genealogical chart of virtually all named figures of Greek mythology that can be shown to be related. The text includes a 72-page chart that links 3673 named figures into a single ""family tree"", and an 80-page index that provides a citation to an ancient source for each relationship.

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Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was one of the biologically diverse ecosystems. The author explores the history of these forests and the biodiversity within them, telling the story through first-person travel accounts and interviews with foresters, ecologists, biologists, botanists, and landowners.

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