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In this collection of essays, historians, political scientists and legal scholars examine significant instances in which legal reform produced something other than the foreseen result. Subjects addressed include: the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

This volume assembles 78 stories from six residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories and Greek myths, the tales have been handed down through generations.

The 11 anthropologists, economists and researchers represented in this volume address what they consider to be the disparities of global capitalism and offer solutions to the effects that the burgeoning ""global marketplace"" has on some of today's struggling communities.

Concerned with the way in which women writers are represented, this collection of essays questions the current boundaries of literary periods and advocates a revised literary canon. It also examines the need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.

This story is about Ann Kimmage's experiences as a child of American communists who, in 1950, fled the US to avoid possible espionage charges. After travelling to Caechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China they return to the US, the family tried, tested and changed.

A portrait from Lydia Maria Child of the cultural realities of New York as an emerging urban centre with essays on the Amistad captives and women's suffrage. In this introduction and annotation of the text, Mills reconstructs the biographical and cultural context surrounding the book's publication.

Covering topics such as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, this work emphasizes: the diversity that existed within regions, states and denominations; the importance of local factors in shaping responses; and the pulls toward moderation that existed within the institutional church.

In 1947, Eugene Talmadge died before he could be inaugurated as governor of Georgia. For 63 days, Georgia waited for the state supreme court to decide whether Herman, Talmadge's son, or the lieutenant governor-elect would be seated. This book examines this period in Georgia's political history.

Seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina's Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, leaving possessions and slaves. This is the story from that time until Reconstruction.

This is a chronicle of Bulldogs' football from 1891 to 1916. Players covered include George Woodruff, Herschel Walker, and Hafford Hay.

This text focuses on the Jekyll Island social club's members and the ""cottages"" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. It tells the story of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.

This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dicksons life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras.Although legally a slave herself well into her adolescence, Dickson was much favored by her father and lived comfortably in his house, receiving a genteel upbringing and education. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. When the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the will, Dickson became the largest landowner in Hancock County, Georgia, and the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South.Kent Anderson Leslies portrayal of Dickson is enhanced by a wealth of details about plantation life; the elaborate codes of behavior for men and women, blacks and whites in the South; and the equally complicated circumstances under which racial transgressions were sometimes ignored, tolerated, or even accepted.

This work examines how the civil rights movement crystallised views of citizenship as a grassroots-level, collective endeavour and of self-respect as a formidable political tool.

One of the most popular and revered works of the 18th century. This text is a critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 ""Mirror for Princes"", written for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV.

Underlining the importance of fiscal policy in the fashioning of state power, this volume serves as a guide to the liberal principles and practices that governed state formation in 19th-century Latin America. The political dynamics of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru are considered.

This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights movement. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the race problem through the many people that he met.

Sarah Harriet Burney published five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, all of which met with reasonable success. These letters position her with her fellow women writers and shed light on her relations with her publisher and her ambivalence toward her own work and her readership.

This is a collection of stories about people boldly facing the sorrows and strains of everyday life. The author was the recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for this collection.

This volume examines the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The essays look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture and of religious and educational foundations.

This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values.

A look into the troubled, racially torn South. This collection of informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the Brown versus Board of Education decision, explores the theme of race in American life and reports the different responses to the Court's decision.

Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening.

This edition of Smollett's classic features a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive textual editing, and detailed notes that cite passages from Smollett's non-fictional works and the works of his contemporaries to analyse the mass of allusions and references in the novel.

These 15 original essays consider armed conflict as a central aspect of science-fiction and fantasy writing. Looking beyond the superficial conventions of ray guns and aliens, they show how writers in the genre now are not so much imagining war more fully as they are ""re-imagining"" it.

A volume containing 862 poems of one of the most significant figures of American Transcendentalism, a protege of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It also makes available some previously unpublished material by Very. Historical notes and full textual apparatus complete the edition.

Colombia has long been one of the key players in the USA's relations with its Latin American neighbours. This study examines the course of those relations over two centuries, taking into account the political, social, cultural and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction.

Examines the work of 20th-century white American poets from Carl Sandburg to Adrienne Rich, from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg, revealing within their poetry and casual writings a body of literature that transmits racism, even as it sometimes speaks against it.

Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and stories of the American South bear witness to the area's strong oral tradition. This book is a collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, told in voices of African-American, Anglo-Saxon and Native American descent.

Traces the often stormy course of US-Chilean relations, covering not only policy decisions but also the overall political, cultural and economic developments that formed the context in which these policies unfolded.