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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.

Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from a corrupt and sullied port of call into a national tourist destination. The author tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure.

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.

Presents an illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the ""plain style"" of furniture made in the 1800s. This book features 126 pieces of furniture (including chairs, tables, slabs, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands). It provides information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. The photographs are in full color.

Bugs can sometimes really bug you. On the flip side, they pollinate crops, provide food for birds and other wildlife, produce honey and other useful things, and serve as bellwether indicators of our environment's health. This book profiles over 60 crawling and flying bugs commonly found in homes, gardens, and yards in Georgia and the Southeast.

Focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. This book also provides a separate context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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.

Visit any pond on a summer day and the air will be alive with dragonflies and damselflies - shimmering aerobatic daredevils that dart above the water and even into nearby fields and woodlands. This illustrated guide, with more than 400 color photographs, covers Georgia's dragonflies and damselflies (odonates). It details more than 150 species.

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.

Offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization.

The story of Junius Irving Scales - the only American ever to be convicted solely for being a member of the Communist Party - following Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil- and labor-rights work, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison.

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.

A playfully contrarian take on the teaching and learning of creative writing. The pieces are drawn from a career spent loosening the creative strictures on writing. Including articles, public addresses, essays, interviews, and an eulogy, these writings vary in form but are unified in addressing the technical and artistic issues that face writers.

This is John Lane's search for the real Chattooga, for the truths that reside somewhere in the river's rapids, along its shores, or in its travellers' hearts. Lane balances the dark, mythical river of Deliverance against the Chattooga known to locals and the outdoors enthusiasts who first mastered its treacherous vortices and hydraulics.

Influenced by the author's experiences as a relief worker in a Croatian refugee camp at the height of the Bosnian War in the 1990s, these poems with tender voices document a nameless, mythological war that has collapsed the boundaries between contemporary and ancient history and between personal memory and folklore.

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.

Using newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, this book relates the experience of working-class women - as community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services - to the process of urban development.

Reflecting the writers' interests in southern history, politics, literature, and religion, the essays engage some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed - or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness?

Illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is a comprehensive history of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. It tells how Martha Berry's founding vision - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands - evolved to meet the challenges of each new generation. The book will be of interest to historians and scholars, among others.

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.

Bringing together the disparate fields of neuroscience, theology, linguistics, particle physics and theology, this collection of poems investigates in lyrical and scientific terms the relationship of brain to mind and soul, and of brain to the cosmos and God.

This study draws on research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on him and distinguishes the man and his life from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. Included are his attempted suicide, his tuberculosis, and his relationship with his parents.

The ""iron lace"" that graces the businesses, homes, squares, and cemeteries of Mobile, Alabama, is as vital a part of that southern port city. Looking at how ornamental cast iron defines Mobile's heart and soul, this work explains how the local iron industry developed and then fiercely competed with big northern foundries.

This book looks at the careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison and suggests that an unproductive author could command critical attention by offering volumes of silence. Consuming Silences injects energy into debates about the nature of literary production and the cultural place of authors who do not publish.

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"".