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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic ""The Everglades: River of Grass"" had become synonymous with Everglades protection. This is a biography on Marjory.

Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing.

The stories in Silent Retreats trace the tentative journeys of men as they redefine who they are in a changed world while still coping with memory and desire in the old ways. Above all, these stories chronicle a search for absolution for the elusive freedom lurking among the very syllables of the word."

Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. This biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera's ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.

The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants - people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. This title includes essays that examine various aspects of Georgia Lowcountry life.

Ernest Vandiver was elected Governor of Georgia in 1958. Using primary sources and interviews with the Governor and his contemporaries, this is the story of Vandiver's life as a transitional figure in the political history of the state.

Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain's best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the ""odd couple"" image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds various dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship.

A collection of fifteen essays that place issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality at the center of the narrative of southern history. It covers topics such as: wars, reform efforts, social movements, and political milestones.

Athens, Georgia, seems the quintessential southern university town, its geography chiseled over geologic time by its lifeblood. This title pays attention to Athens' natural and built environments and their coevolution into one of the modern South's most dynamic small cities.

The largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States, the Everglades holds a unique place among all the world's wetlands. This title provides an account of bygone days in the Everglades. It takes us to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century.

Describes how the author's mother, as the dean of girls at a high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, ""constructed a nostalgic past out of nothing.

Features poems from the collections, ""Somewhere in Ecclesiastes"" (1991) and This April Day"" (2003). This collection shows how the moments that truly save us - that make us human - are necessarily the most fleeting.

Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's ""Vineland"" and Toni Morrison's ""Paradise"". What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. This work is a study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms.

A collection of poetry which reflects author's many passions as a poet, his deep engagement with what it means to work in the African American literary tradition, and his lively voice, infused with hip-hop sensibility and idiom. It examines an America increasingly stifled by dogmas and inept social categories.

Contains readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this literary form reveals about the ""art of living."" This book offers advice on the demands that essays make and the opportunities that they offer, especially for college courses.

A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution to the South, this book finds that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen advocated a comprehensive vision for modernizing their region.

In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled ""Campus Sexpot."" Carkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. His memoir is a poignant and hilarious coming-of-age story.

This book recalls the author's quest for wordliness-through-rock as he came of age under the gaze of his father's congregation. Set against the sounds of Guess Who, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bruce Springsteen, this is a look back at a time when ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" climbed the pop charts.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community and proposes directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking.

Includes poems which make a case that neither gentleness nor easiness is appropriate in the attempt to contend with the trauma and violence that are an inescapable part of human history and human experience.

Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth.

Looks at the legal and cultural implications of bequests that crossed the color line. This book examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

Examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion.

Approaches John Ashbery's critically neglected poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun ""you"" and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. This book argues the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers.

Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. This work makes an appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art.

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.

Considers how Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of President John Adams) looked at the region during various phases of his life. This title also explores the cultural and familial impulses behind those views and locates them in American intellectual history.

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.