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Analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings.

Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of the debate over whether or not Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur.

This chronicle mirrors the experience of many women torn between loyalty to the Confederate cause and dissatisfaction with the unrealistic ideology of white southern womanhood. In powerful, unsentimental language, Buck's diary reveals her anger and ambivalence about the challenges thrust upon her, her family, and the world as she knew it.

Gail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation of the city-country dichotomy to reveal a series of oppositions that operate within the city's walls.

A valuable document from the Reconstruction era, The Journal of Archibald C. McKinley offers the modern reader a rare glimpse of daily life on Sapelo Island, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class farmer.

Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.

From the mud of our formation (""Choir"") to the dust of our dying (""After Kandinsky""), Tod Marshall's poems lyrically obsess over how the broken and violated can envision and speak a heaven of which we know.

Provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, Adam Fairclough explores the development of educational ideals in the black community up through the years of the civil rights movement.

Now being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars, William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870) has come to be acknowledged as the ancestral father of modern southern literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his multifaceted portrayal of America's westward migration and examines his depictions of the frontier from traditional and theoretical perspectives.

In this groundbreaking study of what motivated soldiers to enlist and fight in the US's most bloody conflict, Joseph Allan Frank argues that politics was central to the development of the armies of the North and South: motivating soldiers, molding the organisation, defining the qualifications of officers, shaping fighting styles, and framing the nature of relations between the army and society.

Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies. Based on official records and public documents, historical research, literary works, and personal accounts, these essays present a detailed view of the lives of those who experienced this period of rebellion and change.

An anthology of major writers that focuses on nature writing by African American poets. It offers fresh perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics.

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination.

Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one young couple during World War II, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.

This work brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, "The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves". This version includes more accurate text and critical information. It also includes an examination of "Sir Launcelot Greaves", the first illustrated serial novel.

An allegory of England during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), draping kings and politicians, domestic and foreign affairs in a veil of satire. This is a book of tales about ancient Japan related to a London haberdasher by an atom that has lived in the bodies of great figures of state.

This is a reprinting of Tobias Smollett's translation of The Devil upon Crutches. Alain Rene Le Sage's novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmodeus, a refined, likable but decrepit devil, and Zambullo, his newfound mortal companion. This edition is based on the 1759 second edition of Smollett's translation.

The first critical edition of Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 "Mirror of Princes," one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.

In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan explores the familiar rituals, the shared dreams, and the guarded secrets that bind a family together.

Offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalised invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history and migration that have linked the coastal American South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world.

Brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies. Together, these scholars argue for rethinking the academic seating arrangement in a way that acknowledges the centrality of childhood to the work of the humanities.

Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature writing by Janisse Ray, Terry Tempest Williams, and Linda Hogan are at the heart of Wohlpart's endeavor. His exploration of these literary works, based on deep anthropology and Native American philosophy, opens a pathway into a new way of thinking called sacred reason.

This is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. Although many of these characters inhabit a world in which the bottom is about to fall out, they invariably find good reason - and courage - to take the next treacherous step.

The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the centre of this prize-winning collection of stories.

Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions.

Filled with sharp dialogue, engaging characters, and offbeat detail, the twelve stories collected in The Melancholy of Departure describe an outsider's world of longing, disillusion, and survival, where hope is found in unexpected places and understanding comes from unlikely sources.

The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner's stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there's a better life, just over the horizon, after the next race.

This collection of stories penetrates the essential nature of human relationships. Most of the narrators are young black women whose relationships with the men in their lives are ending. While dealing indirectly with race, the stories are more about the complexities of identity and alienation.