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Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895
Av Theda Perdue
Inbunden, 2010
544 kr
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The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world’s fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of color who participated.White …
Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895
Av Theda Perdue
Häftad, 2011
443 kr
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The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world’s fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of color who participated.White …
Material of Poetry
Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics
Häftad, 2012
457 kr
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Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain …
Natives and Newcomers
Ethnic Southerners and Southern Ethnics
Inbunden, 1995
611 kr
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In Natives and Newcomers, George Brown Tindall surveys the changes in the South's cultural and racial makeup over the past two centuries. Tindall discusses southern ethnicity in light of immigration laws and trends, attitudes toward immigrants, and economic and political forces that have changed …
One Name but Several Faces
Variety in Popular Christian Denominations in Southern History
Inbunden, 1996
2355 kr
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In this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant denominational families in the region: Baptists, "Christians" (for example, the Churches of Christ), and the "of God" groups (Pentecostals, among …
Civil War Stories
Häftad, 1998
396 kr
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Civil War Stories is Catherine Clinton's fresh look at some everyday and extraordinary people whose lives were forever transformed by the impact of war. Her multifaceted perspective includes the stories of sisters, children, and friends torn apart by the crisis of Confederate independence, as well …
Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age
The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820
Av Betty Wood
Inbunden, 2000
2425 kr
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This definitive work thoroughly explores, for the first time, the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Lowcountry. Betty Wood analyzes the …
Dylan Thomas
An Original Language
Inbunden, 2000
2708 kr
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Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as one of the "great individualists of modern art." In this contemplative, focused study of poems, stories and other works by Thomas, including …
Critical Memory
Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America
Inbunden, 2001
960 kr
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From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in …
Nations Divided
America, Italy, and the Southern Question
Av Don H. Doyle
Inbunden, 2002
627 kr
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In Nations Divided, Don H. Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history. What we learn will reattune us to the complexities and ironies of nationalism. During his travels around southern Italy not long ago, Doyle was caught off guard by frequent images of the Confederate …
Look to the Lady
Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage
Inbunden, 2005
702 kr
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Look to the Lady examines the careers, talents, and styles of three women who were acknowledged, each in her time, as the greatest interpreter of Shakespeare's heroines: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench. In the eighteenth century, Siddons was celebrated for playing Shakespeare's tragic …
Southern Histories
Public, Personal, and Sacred
Inbunden, 2003
627 kr
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In this challenging look at some of the historical forces actively at work in today's South, David Goldfield draws pointed, provocative links between the "Lost Cause" mythology that emerged from the chaos of Confederate defeat, the region's reputation for intolerance, and southern evangelical …
Invisible Southerners
Ethnicity in the Civil War
Inbunden, 2006
627 kr
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Most Southerners who fought in the Civil War were native born, white, and Confederate. However, thousands with other ethnic backgrounds also took a stand—and not always for the South. Invisible Southerners recounts the wartime experiences of the region's German Americans, Native Americans, and …
