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  • - An Encyclopedia of Forms
    av Miller Williams
    461

    An encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced with a brief discussion of its origin, which is followed by a graphic presentation of its scansion, metrics, and rhyme scheme.

  • av James I. Robertson Jr
    427

    A valuable and entertaining document that should find a place among the enduring books on the Civil War.

  • - Race and Class in Modern Society
    av Judith Stein
    627

    In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture.Judith Stein has not written a conventional biography, though Garvey is the central character. The book is more a study of Garvey's ideology and appeal and of the UNIA and the social basis of its support. Stein examines Garvey's movement in light of the dialectic of race and class that shaped it. Whereas other historians have depicted Garveyism variously as a back-to-Africa, civil rights, or Black Power movement, Stein places Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and economics of the period. She analyzes the ways in which the UNIA was a response to the social and political upheaval of world War I and its aftermath. Garvey and other UNIA leaders were part of an international elite of blacks who applauded the triumph of capitalism, though they excoriated the new order's racial discrimination, which denied people like themselves places of prestige in it. Their response to exclusion from the mainstream Western economic world was to construct black institutions modeled on those of white elites. The Black Star Line, the UNIA's steamship company, was just such a venture, and though Garvey's goal of incorporating the black working class into his movement seemed promising briefly after World War I, it ultimately failed. The promise of Garveyism, supported by ideologies generated by the new social movements of the 1920s, was undercut by UNIA leaders' doomed effort to adapt a bourgeois mode of operation to a mass movement. Garveyism was fatally flawed by the ultimate disjunction of its elite methods and mass base. In addition to her reevaluation of standard views of Garvey and Garveyism, Stein sheds new light on her subject with her use of new sources. Among the most interesting of these are her interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports on Garvey by agent of the federal government's intelligence organizations.Judith Stein is the first historian both to take Garveyism seriously and to treat it in its own right as a product of its own time. The resulting study should be of great interest to anyone interested in Garvey, his historical period, or the ways in which his work and ideology still influence us today.

  • av Lawrence Lee Hewitt
    461

    Located just north of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Louisiana, was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River and the site of the longest genuine siege in American military history. This book offers a compelling account of the Confederate occupation of Port Hudson in August, 1862, and the Union's efforts to capture the stronghold.

  • - The Story of the South's Modernization
    av Numan V. Bartley
    621

    This work returns the South's civil rights revolution of 1954-1965 to its historical context. It anchors the racial crises within other nonracial events of the postwar decade, and pursues its transforming and often paradoxical consequences through the quiet death of Jim Crow in the 1970s.

  • - Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War
    av Mary Denis Maher
    461

    The contributions of more than 600 Catholic nuns to the care of Confederate and Union sick and wounded made a critical impact upon 19th-century America. This text covers this era in detail, describing the suspicion and prejudice, suffering and self-sacrifice, ingenuity, benificence, and gratitude.

  • - Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
    av David Heidler & Jeanne Heidler
    631

    Presents an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Andrew Jackson's involvement in the Creek War of 1813-1814 and the First Seminole War in 1818. Their exciting narrative shows how the general's unpredictable behaviour brought the US to the brink of an international crisis.

  • - Poems
    av Taije Silverman
    337

    Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented lyrics that convey the ambiguity of loss, these poems both arc into the past and question the possibility of the future.

  • - Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
    av Annette Finley-Croswhite & Gayle K. Brunelle
    477

    The first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as the shocking truth about the victim was slowly revealed. Gayle Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite unravel a complicated and mysterious life, assessing the victim's complex identity within the larger political context of the time.

  • - Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
    av James K. Hogue
    591

    No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics.

  • - The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
    av Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
    537

    In this groundbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region.

  • - New and Selected Poems
    av Robert Morgan
    371

    These 93 poems by Robert Morgan span 35 years.

  • - The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
    av Hilary Holladay
    547

    Inthis text, Hilary Holladay offers the a full-length study of Lucille Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particula

  • - A Biography of the Capital
    av Emory M. Thomas
    471

    Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Emory Thomas vividly recounts the military, political, social, and economic experiences of the Confederate capital, providing a compelling drama of home-front war that, in Richmond's case, rivaled the spectacular events on the battlefield.

  • - A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America
    av Karl A. Roider & Ella E. Schneider Hilton
    471

    In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood - one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream.

  • - Poems
    av Adam Vines
    327

    Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease, desire, and isolation through an array of twentieth- and twenty-first century painters.

  • - How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals
     
    467

    Ten scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans.

  • - Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside
    av Jeff Forret
    557

    Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and under-reported. Forret's findings challenge historians' long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups' interactions.

  • - Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
    av Keith M. Finley
    621

    Explores gradations in the opposition to civil rights by examining how the American south's principal national spokesmen, its United States senators, addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.

  • - Poems
    av J. Michael Martinez
    331

    In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence.

  • - The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
    av Gavin Cologne-Brookes
    621

    Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of Oates, finding evidence in her novels of an evolving consciousness that forgoes abstract introspection in favour of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding both personal and social challenges.

  • - New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
    av Ellen Bryant Voigt & Eleanor Ross Taylor
    387

    Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems.

  • av Richard B. McCaslin
    471

    While most historians agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard B. McCaslin further demonstrates that Lee's true call to action was the legacy of the American Revolution viewed through his reverence for George Washington.

  • - The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
    av Robert H. Gudmestad
    557

    Provides an in-depth examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early nineteenth century, using the business as a means to explore economic change, the culture of honour, master-slave relationships, and the justii cation of slavery in the antebellum South.

  • - Poems
    av Stephen Cushman
    327

    In his second collection of poems, Stephen Cushman explores, appraises, and celebrates many different forms of connections - domestic, social, historical, and religious. With an easygoing voice, an engaging humor, and a sure understanding of his craft, he illustrates the rewards of a sensitive regard for the junctions in everyday life and language.

  • - The Confederate Command System
    av Frank E. Vandiver
    371

    Discusses the nature and effectiveness of the Confederacy's high command, the men who composed it, the decisions they made, and the influences that shaped their policies. Frank Vandiver presents not only a concise description of the machinery of the Confederate high command but also sharp analyses of the figures who dominated the system.

  • - Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest
    av J. Roderick Heller III
    621

    A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy epitomized the "American democrat". In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.

  • - Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas
    av Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
    547

    Offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel explores the crucial roles Native Americans, African Americans, and white women played in the literal and rhetorical battle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in the region.

  • - Judge John Minor Wisdom
    av Joel William Friedman
    697

  • - Poems
    av Kathryn Stripling Byer
    327

    Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often "it's safer to stay blind." Ultimately, Descent creates a fragile reconciliation between past and present, calling over and over again to celebrate being Here. Where I am.

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