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An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s.

This anthology offers pieces which embody the characteristically exaggerated and highly imaginative frontier humour of the old Southwest in the period 1835 to 1861. Among the authors represented are Philip B. January, Matthew C. Field, John Gorman, and George Washington Harris.

Spanning the period from the earliest European expeditions to the eve of the Civil War, this book assembles a collection of first hand perspectives on the forces and experiences that defined the American south. Subjects include slavery, hospitality, religion and culture.

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies and novels, this book examines the strategies that various southern women writers in the USA have used to create their own ""voice"", their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. This book is written within a chronological framework.

Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing--sometimes worse--lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service.

An account of the people and forces that shaped the development of Georgia and other regions of the South. Enlarged and updated, this edition places greater emphasis on how urbanization and industrialization contributed to the development of a more cosmopolitan political culture.

This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters. Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation.

A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family - eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister - and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead.

In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities--among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.

This story tells of a venture between John Morgan, Jr. the dissolute heir to Appalachee's leading white family, and Baby Sweet Jackson, owner of the once-vibrant Red's Cafe in Dark Town. On Independence Day, 1966, the partners open Muskhogean County's first bordello, with two dark-skinned black women, Lana Lips and Fig, ready for the expected white clientele. Then a mysterious woman announcing herself as the 'third whore, ' she proclaims that her body will be 'for colored only.'

The Stegemans follow the life of a woman whose spirit and determination led her far beyond the domestic concerns of most women of her day. The wife of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, Caty was a close friend of George and Martha Washington, a business partner of Eli Whitney, and mistress of two Georgia plantations.

Weeds threaten the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of food, feed, fibre, and biofuel throughout the world. Featuring more than fourteen hundred full-colour photographs, this handy guide provides essential information on more than 350 of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants found in the midwestern US and central Canada.

Presents the social and cultural history of the New South's ""Gate City"", which looks at the variety of public amusements available to Atlantans from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of the Great Depression, including theater, vaudeville, dime museums, movies, radio, and classical, blues, and country music.

Reveals aspects of Atlanta by examining how Peachtree Creek shaped and was shaped by the history of the area. This title explains the dynamics of water run off that cause the creek to go from a trickle to a torrent in a matter of hours. It also suggests ways to a more sustainable stewardship of Peachtree Creek.

Set in rural South Carolina in the early twentieth century, this work weaves a complex tale from the threads of actual events in author James Kilgo's family history. At the center of the story are two brothers, Hart and Tison Bonner, and their cousin Jennie Grant, the mixed-race woman one brother loves and the other dishonors.

Southern Prohibition examines political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movements in Middle Florida. Scholars have long held that liquor reform was largely a northern and mid-Atlantic phenomenon before the Civil War. Lee L. Willis takes a close look at the Florida plantation belt to reveal that the campaign against alcohol had a dramatic impact on public life in this portion of the South as early as the 1840s.Race, class, and gender mores shaped and were shaped by the temperance movement. White racial fears inspired prohibition for slaves and free blacks. Stringent licensing shut down grog shops that were the haunts of common and poor whites, which accelerated gentrification and stratified public drinking along class lines. Restricting blacks access to alcohol was a theme that ran through temperance and prohibition campaigns in Florida, but more affluent African Americans also supported prohibition, indicating that the issue was not driven solely by white desires for social control. Women in the plantation belt played a marginal role in comparison to other locales and were denied greater political influence as a result.Beyond alcohol, Willis also takes a broader look at psychoactive substances to show the veritable pharmacopeia available to Floridians in the nineteenth century. Unlike the campaign against alcohol, however, the tightening regulations on narcotics and cocaine in the early twentieth century elicited little public discussion or concerna quiet beginning to the states war on drugs.

A collection of essays interwoven with poems and folklore. Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practise her art.

The poems in this collection comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time, these poems struggle to conceive of the beautiful and the hopeful in some way that can escape the purely naive.

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarisation and modernisation of the Cold War-era American South.

Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger examines films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native.

A collection of 14 short stories which provoke, illuminate and startle as they explore our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us. The authors include Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Margaret Atwood, E.L. Doctorow, Linda Hogan and Chris Offutt.

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout the city's amicable race relations. Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of its moderate progressivism.

Examines what it means to live in a place that once was, but no longer is, ethnically and religiously diverse. This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.

Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes.