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    460,-

    Offers a book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. These essays show that attitudes on nonproliferation depend on a ""complex, contingent decision calculus"", as states gauge how their actions within the regime will affect trade, regional standing, and other interests.

  • - Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014
    av Judith Kitchen
    460,-

    Contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon.

  • - Stories
    av Anne Raeff
    326,-

    You'll see how beautiful it is in the morning - jungle all around us"" says one of the characters in Anne Raeff's story collection. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical and real, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam.

  • av Benjamin P. Fagan
    520,-

    Shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black ""chosenness"" into plans and programs for black liberation. Benjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality.

  • - Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing
    av Donna M. Campbell
    489,-

    Examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles. Donna Campbell looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century.

  • - How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
    av Catherine M. Lewis & Michael J. Coles
    460,-

    Michael Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the US Congress, and set transcontinental cycling world records. His story also offers a firsthand perspective on Georgia's business, political, and philanthropic climate in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

  • - Poems
    av Rosa Lane
    320,-

    Rosa Lane's poems take a deep dive into the emotional and the erotic. Gender bent, her poems reside amid a tomboy's emerging sexual identity within a world confined by heterosexual construction and its persistent mores.

  • - Histories and Legacies
     
    1 676,-

    Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

  • - The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement
    av Thomas Aiello
    486 - 1 676,-

    Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).

  • - Histories and Legacies
     
    489,-

    Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

  • - Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge
    av James A. Tyner
    1 046,-

    Provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political and economic context: the materialization of a political organisation in an era of anticolonial and decolonization movements.

  • - Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South
    av Rick Van Noy
    600,-

    Like Rachel Carson's groundbreaking work Silent Spring, Rick Van Noy's Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer climate, Van Noy shows us what communities in the South are doing to become more climate resilient.

  • - Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
    av Robin Mitchell
    1 580,-

    Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France's post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

  • - In Defense of Free Movement
     
    1 680,-

    Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

  • - Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
     
    320,-

    Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.

  • - An Anthology from 1655 to 2000
     
    1 676,-

    Brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. Their contributions prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay.

  • - An Anthology from 1655 to 2000
     
    550,-

    Brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. Their contributions prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay.

  • - In Defense of Free Movement
     
    486,-

    Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

  • - Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay
    av Kafui Attoh
    470 - 1 590,-

    Drawing on a detailed case study of the struggles that have come to define public transportation in California's East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, this book argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.

  • - A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
    av Eddie & Jr. Glaude
    320 - 1 580,-

    With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals to be otherwise - no matter the risk.

  • - A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
    av Andrew C. Baker
    1 046,-

    Examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across America.

  • - Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
     
    1 676,-

    Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

  • - Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
     
    656,-

    Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

  • av Jeannette Money & Sarah Lockhart
    1 186,-

    Examines the patterns of migration flows during the post-World War II period, with particular attention to crises or shocks to the international system, as in the case of migration following the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. The authors' analysis makes several important contributions to this debate.

  •  
    1 676,-

    As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

  •  
    550,-

    As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

  • - Stories
    av Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
    490,-

    The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or disappointment when love fails or disaster strikes? How do we maintain the stamina to carry on in an uncertain world? The characters in her stories are living these questions.

  • - Appalachia, Race, and Film
    av Meredith McCarroll
    456 - 1 590,-

    Analyses the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ""rednecks"" are, Meredith McCarroll argues, we rely on the use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other.

  • - Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
    av Gina Caison
    966,-

    Examines how the recurrent use of Native American history in southern cultural and literary texts produces ideas of "feeling southern" that have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States.

  • - Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
    av Michael Martone
    380,-

    This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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