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The Tennessee Valley Authority was the largest agency created under the auspices of the New Deal. The TVA was responsible for three large scale environmental projects - the river, land, and power machines - but the project also had social goals. This volume will be of interest to environmental historians and historians of the Progressive Era.

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By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene’s study provides unparalleled detail about the character of Jamaica’s settler society during the decade of the 1750s.

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The first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature.

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In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women's individual and collective memory in recording events of the violent anticolonial conflict.

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Mouloud Feraoun grew up in the Kabyle region of French-controlled Algeria, where the prospects for most Muslim Berber men were shepherding or emigrating to France for factory work. While Feraoun escaped by excelling in the colonial school system -- as a student and, later, as a teacher at the Ecole Normale -- he remained rooted in Kabyle culture.

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Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take “nature” to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.

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Arguing that Rousseau and Goethe are the foremost practitioners of Romantic autobiography, this is a comparative study of these foundational figures. It shows how they fashioned a distinctive type of self-writing at the time when modern autobiography emerged in its identifiable form.

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Challenging a long tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theatres, boroughs, churches, and beyond.

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