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46 produkter
Myles Horton Reader
Education for Social Change
Av Myles Horton
Häftad, 2003
338 kr
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Cornel West has called Myles Horton “an indescribably courageous and visionary white brother from Tennessee.” Horton (1905-1990) cofounded the Highlander Folk School (now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center), an institution controversial from its beginnings. During the early labor …
Killing Time
Morant Bay Rebellion Jamaica
Av Gad Heuman
Häftad, 1995
266 kr
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The Killing Time is the first full-length study of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica- an event that transformed the political system of the island and marked a watershed in Caribbean history.
In the Wake of the Sun
Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy
Häftad, 2010
292 kr
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At Fault
Scholarly Edition W/Background Readings
Av Kate Chopin
Häftad, 2001
318 kr
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Celebrated for her depictions of life among Louisiana’s Creole and Cajun peoples, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) is today seen as a major figure in southern literature. Her short stories and her last novel, The Awakening (1899), are widely read and studied. Unjustly neglected, however, is her first novel, …
Black Tennesseans, 1900-1930
Häftad, 2002
305 kr
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A study of racial relations in Tennessee during years of increasing migration of Blacks from the Deep South and of ideological competition between the followers of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois. An important contribution to Black history.
TVA and the Dispossessed
The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area
Häftad, 2002
358 kr
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Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors
Frank Cheatham His Confederate Division
Häftad, 2002
339 kr
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This is the best book about Cheatham's brigade, nearly forgotten soldiers in the ill-fated Confederate Army of the Tennessee.
African American Religion
Varieties of Protest & Accommodation
Av Hans A. Baer
Häftad, 2002
220 kr
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Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a …
Black Radicals & Civil Rights Mainstream
Häftad, 2002
264 kr
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Haines argues that expanding black radicalism enhanced the successes of mainstream organizations and furthered many of the goals pursued by moderate black leaders.
Lines That Divide
Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender
Häftad, 2003
358 kr
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"A truly creative, rigorous, and novel interdisciplinary collection that rethinks some of historical archaeology’s most fundamental questions."—Paul Mullins, Indiana University–Purdue UniversityThe division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the …
Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870
War and Peace in the Upper South
Av Stephen Ash
Häftad, 2006
300 kr
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Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War—an approach exemplified and extended in Ash’s later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award and named …
On Harper Lee
Essays and Reflections
Av Alice Petry
Häftad, 2008
367 kr
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon - tens of millions of copies have sold worldwide - there is surprisingly little secondary literature on Lee and her novel. On …
At Work in the Atomic City
A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Häftad, 2008
309 kr
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Founded during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military’s atomic bomb assembly line—the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. To construct and operate the plants needed for this …
Inventing Black Women
African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877-2000
Av Ajuan Mance
Häftad, 2008
335 kr
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“Ajuan Mance’s original and provocative study fills a gap in the scholarship on African American women poets. The historical sweep of her analysis of these poets’ efforts at self-representation is as impressive as the depth of her analysis of individual poems. Students and scholars of African …
Professional Pursuits
Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
Häftad, 2009
305 kr
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The American Arts and Crafts movement, which began in the late 19th century, promoted hand craftsmanship over mass production. In the context of an era that offered women few professional opportunities, Zipf (cultural and historic preservation, Salve Regina U., Newport, Rhode Island) profiles five …
Face Boss
The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner
Häftad, 2009
354 kr
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Face Boss tells a story that few people have heard: what it is really like to labor inside the dark and dangerous world of a vast underground coal mine. With unflinching honesty, as well as considerable humor and insight, Michael Guillerman recalls his nearly eighteen years of working as both a …
Parlor Ladies & Ebony Drudges
African American Women
Häftad, 2011
285 kr
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Born into a relatively privileged family, Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman earned a reputation as a maverick in her life-long home of Orangeburg, South Carolina, a semi-rural community where race and class were very much governed by the Jim Crow laws. Educated at Nashville’s Fisk University, Zimmerman …
Parties Politics Sectional Conflict
Tennessee 1832-1861
Häftad, 2011
417 kr
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In this thought-provoking study, Jonathan M. Atkins provides a fresh look at the partisan ideological battles that marked the political culture of antebellum Tennessee. He argues that the legacy of party politics was a key factor in shaping Tennessee's hesitant course during the crisis of Union in …
Addicts Who Survived
An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America Before 1965
Av David T. Courtwright, Herman Joseph m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
285 kr
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The authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the 'classic' era of strict narcotic control.
Eastern Band Cherokee Women
Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches
Häftad, 2015
305 kr
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For the first time, the voices of Eastern Band Cherokee women receive their proper due. A watershed event, this book unearths three centuries of previously unknown and largely ignored speeches, letters, and other writings from Eastern Band Cherokee women. Like other Native American tribes, the …
From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville
Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Woodlands
Häftad, 2015
679 kr
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The orthodox view of the Mississippian social world hinges on the idea that chiefdoms—dominance- based hierarchical societies in the Eastern Woodlands of North America—vied for power, often violently but at times cooperatively, through political and economic avenues. These chiefdoms represented …
