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This study explores the relationship between experimental forms and oppositional politics in Dorothy Richardson's autobiographical ""Pilgrimage"", demonstrating how the novel challenged the literary conventions and cultural expectations of the late-Victorian and Edwardian world.

This text explores the way in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in, and influenced by poetry. It illustrates how poetry can identify, interpret and celebrate issues related to nature and our place in it, with examples from poets such as T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers.

Seeking to fill a gap in our knowledge of the legal history of the 19th century, this volume studies the influence of Roman and civil law upon the development of common law jurisdictions in the United States and in Great Britain.

A collection of most of the writings published by the Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot. The work documents letters, articles, pamphlets and editorials in order to demonstrate the stages of Boudinot's religious, philosophical and political growth.

An introductory survey that explains the fundamental concerns and methods of philosophy and then guides readers through a philosophical inquiry into some of the major issues surrounding technology's impact on our lives.

This collection of 59 primary documents presents multiple viewpoints on more than four centuries of growth, conflict and change in Georgia. Drawn from such sources as government records, newspapers, oral histories, personal diaries and letters, the documents provide a voice to people's concerns.

A collection of 14 essays on women's experiences of slavery in America. The study presents a range of questions and findings about American slavery that are engendered by the exploration of the experience and roles of women generally left invisible by conventional American slave history.

A broad cross-section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of ""Little Women"". This collection provides an autobiography spanning 45 years and provides an account of Alcott's life and development as a writer.

This text examines the post-World War II political evolution of the USA's 11 southern states and traces the effects of such influences as ""Brown versus Board of Education"", the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the rise of African Americans in the political landscape.

The autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the colour line and gather vital information.

This collection of 96 stories presents the best of Erskine Calder's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included here is ""Crown-Fire"", ""Country Full of Swedes"", ""The Windfall"", ""Horse Thief"", ""Yellow Girl"" and ""Kneel to the Rising Sun"".

A graphic portrayal of the sharecropper's plight. This book documents the living conditions of the sharecroppers, America's poor rural underclass. Supported by commentary, the poor tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them.

Attempts to account for nearly two centuries that are ""missing"" from the history of the American South. Using Spanish explorers' chronicles to corroborate artefacts and topography, the text surveys the chiefdoms of the Southeast and re-examines many of the expeditions conducted at this time.

This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter and others, the writings range from farce to fantasy to satire.

This volume presents an oral, musical and photographic record of the Gullah culture. With their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders of South Carolina, and their folk traditions, are a link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.

This collection of folktales and superstitions presents the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. A section follows in which superstitions are arranged by topic; and finally, the compilers have included slave narratives for a view of 19th-century African-American life.

Analyses the ideological changes that grew out of the American Revolution and caused substantial structural change in the legal and social order of Massachusetts and the nation at large. A new preface discusses the historiographical issues that have arisen since this book was first published.

This survey of Cherokee removal brings together essays by eight authors in the field of history, geography, sociology and law. They address such topics as Cherokee politics, class structure, and land-use patterns before the removal.

Discusses the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. Driven by deep concerns about society, ethics and new technology, cyberpunk is the literature of the first generation of science fiction writers actually to live in a science fiction world.

Addresses the state of scholarly and critical writing as Atkins argues for a criticism that is at once theoretically informed and personal. The revitalised critical writing he advocates may entail a return to the essay, the form that is now enjoying a resurgence of popularity and excellence.

This study examines the reasons behind the demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia, showing that a primary factor was the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters. The book also looks at recent writing on Reconstruction.

In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for Time Magazine, attended the court fight that led to the admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their first week at the university-a week that began in relative calm, moved on to a riot and the suspension of the two students "e;for their own safety,"e; and ended with both returning to the campus under a new court order.Shortly before their graduation in 1963, Trillin came back to Georgia to determine what their college lives had been like. He interviewed not only Holmes and Hunter but also their families, friends, and fellow students, professors, and university administrators. The result was this book-a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change.

Reflecting a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism, this book examines racism, class stratification and sexism as they bear on the African-American struggle for social justice, equality and cultural identity in the South.

In this book, the author recreated the South of her childhood and recorded the journey she took from her early instruction as a daughter of the 'Lost Cause' to the liberal viewpoints she championed as an adult.

In The Nature of Copyright L. Ray Patterson and Stanley W. Lindberg present an extended analysis of the fair-use doctrine and articulate a new concept that they demonstrate is implicit in copyright law: the rule of personal use.

Examines traditional attitudes toward nature and the degree to which these attitudes enable people to cope with modern ecological problems. It looks particularly at the Judaeo-Christian heritage of belief in man's dominion, the tradition of stewardship and the more recent belief in progress.

A biography of Katherine Anne Porter, described as ""the first lady of American letters"", who lived a life of drama and passion that spanned nine decades and witnessed some of this century's most tumultuous events.

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old.