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Published in 1960, this study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Jefferson Davis administration describes the legislation, debates, personalities, and politics of this turbulent time. An appendix gives brief biographical data on the Confederate congressmen, including their voting records on the Davis administration proposals.

Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta's famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. Williford describes the social, civic, and business life that flourished along the busy corridor.

A paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change that draws on perspectives from diverse fields. It looks at the South to develop the idea of ""grounded globalism"" in which abstract global forces and local cultures rooted in history, and place reverberate against each other in mutually energizing ways.

Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Drawing on an array of primary documents, this title offers a comprehensive account of Emerson's antislavery position.

Illuminates the moral, social, political, and religious values in canon law as it developed through the seventeenth century and reveals the attitudes and formal techniques of the authors, practitioners, and interpreters of canon law. The author also discusses the Corpus iuris canonici, texts which form the foundation of canon law.

In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with-rather than escape from or obscure-social and political issues.Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Belliss subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society.Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as neutral territory where the Imaginary and the Actual-the aesthetic and the historical-can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence.In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.

Presents the texts of forty-eight lectures delivered during the middle years of Ralph Waldo Emerson's career. This title offers his thoughts on New England and 'Old World' history and culture, poetic theory, education, the history and uses of intellect - as well as his ideas on race relations and women's rights, subjects that sparked many debates.

Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history.

Explains how religious dogma and perceptions of Union barbarity and ineptitude affirmed in the Confederate soldiers a view of an indomitable South.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. This book states that the Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression.

Documents the rise and fall of 1960s liberalism. This book covers topics including anticommunism, civil rights, Great Society programs, and the counterculture.

Traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with small fishing villages, through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Harvey H. Jackson III explores the rise of this area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and working-class families.

Explores the historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi. This book acknowledges the state's diverse cultural and physical landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class affected women's lives in various private and public spheres.

Examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards. This book offers a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World.

While referring to Samual Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays - Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth - to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities.

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.

Drug wars, NAFTA, presidential politics, and heightened attention to Mexican immigration are just some of the recent issues that are freshly interpreted in this updated survey of Mexican-U.S. relations.The fourth edition has been completely revised and offers a lively, engaging, and up-to-date analysis of historical patterns of change and continuity as well as contemporary issues. Ranging from Mexican antiquity and the arrival of the Spanish and British to the present-day administrations of Felipe Caldern and Barack Obama, historians Dirk Raat and Michael Brescia evaluate the political, economic, and cultural trends and events that have shaped the ways that Mexicans and Americans have regarded each other over the centuries. Raat and Brescia pay special attention to the factors that have subordinated Mexico not only to the colossus of the North but to many other players in the global economy. They also provide a unique look at the cultural dynamics of Gran Chichimeca or Mexamerica, the borderlands where the two countries share a common history. The bibliographical essay has been revised to reflect current research and scholarship.