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Presents Transcendentalism as a living movement, evolving out of such origins as New England Unitarianism and finding inspiration in European Romanticism. This work conveys the movement's expectations that its radical spirituality would lead to personal perfection and also inspire solutions to national problems like slavery and disfranchisement.

A collection of natural-history essays, which looks at a series of expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Each essay is a lesson in stewardship about the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it - and who, in turn, work to ensure the tree's survival.

In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret map of her memory, which ""does not betray."" Agosin writes of Diaspora, exile, and oppression.

Set in what remains the wildest country in the United States, this book recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. The text tells the story of Andrew Gennett, one of the most successful lumbermen in Carolina in the early 20th century.

Spartanburg is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations. Enriching our understanding of what globalization means to millions of small-town, blue-collar Americans, this title looks at Spartanburg as a model of how determined communities can shape and influence globalization to their benefit.

Covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive introduction to the history of US relations with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. This book provides an informed account of the role and place of the United States in the hemisphere.

Includes diaries that address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and more.

Set during the infamous Atlanta race riot of 1906, in which dozens of African Americans were killed or injured, this novel explores the tensions that exploded into three days of deadly mob violence through the intertwined stories of a white journalist, a black college professor, and the woman they both love.

Focuses on international law as the means of regulating and influencing international behavior. This work shows it to be a system unique in its nature - nonterritorial but secular, cosmopolitan, and traditional. It ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law to assess its prospects as a viable legal system.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America - and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture. Religious historian Martin E. Marty looks at the factors behind both the long period of Protestant ascendancy in America and the comparatively recent diffusion and diminution of its authority.

A study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South that takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. This work sheds light on the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

Expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. It identifies a theory of "ecological burden and beauty" in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order.

During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. This work contains twenty-three stories that give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed.

A Spanish-language edition of ""The Latin Deli"", Judith Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. This work opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as the ""El Building"".

Arranged in sections discussing southern agricultural history, Edmund Ruffin's observations on nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil rejuvenation. This volume offers his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. It presents a portrait of a progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist.

A biography of George Washington, written by his close friend and military aide, this work offers a glimpse of Washington's life, from his birth in 1732 until his assumption of the presidency in 1789. It assembles manuscripts from three separate archives to reconstruct and publish the biography along with Washington's ""Remarks.

Tracking Desire looks at the natural history and biology of Elanoides forficatus, the swallow-tailed kite. Once at home throughout much of the eastern United States, the swallow-tailed kite is now seldom seen.

In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. This book centers on a character who mixes Yiddish with his southern and has for his neighbors small merchants from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.

Explains how, for the author, such concerns as music, race, politics, and conscience revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. The author writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Provides an analysis of the powerful role played by folk culture in 3 major African American novels of the early 20th century: ""The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man"", ""Jonah's Gourd Vine"", and ""Black Thunder"". This book explains how the survival of cultural traditions originating in Africa and in slavery became a means of historical reflection.

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of timefrom the early seventeenth century to the Civil War.

Tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, and current threats to its survival. The author discusses aspects of Gullah history and culture such as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, trades and skills, and arts and crafts.

What desire doesn't seem as of the distance across a sea? asks the voice in this collection of poetry, even as the poems attempt the transformation of that liminal space wherein word meets sense, loneliness meets solitude, and surface meets interior. In this space, human intimacy encounters the transience and frailty of language.

Presents the study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States that offers a fresh perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority.

Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists.

Applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland's iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry.

This study details botanical, clinical, spiritual, historical, and material aspects of ""black drink"", including its importance not only to southeastern Native Americans, but also to many of their European-American contemporaries.

In Jennifer K. Dick's ""Fluorescence"", very real places - Paris, Massachusetts, Colorado, Iowa, Morocco - mix into the imagined, into Breughelian villages where there's ""a persimmon in the corner knitting"".

Arranged by theme according to the basic elements by which many cultures on earth interpret themselves and their place in the world - earth, air, fire, water - the writings consider actual and assumed connections in the greater scheme of functioning ecosystems.

This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.