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    - Footsteps in Time
    av Stephen Doster
    387

    Offers readers a complete history of Cumberland Island combined with stunning photography and historical images. Richly illustrated with more than 250 colour and black-and-white photographs, it is a comprehensive history, from native occupation to the present.

  • av MCCASKILL SERAFINI
    481

    The charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (1860-1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. This collection highlights Stanford's writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs.

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    457

    There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.

  • - Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
    av Kit Candlin & Cassandra Pybus
    507

    These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.

  • - Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
    av Emily Blanck
    601

    Uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several naval battles until the Massachusetts brig Tyrannicide led them to Massachusetts.

  • - American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004
    av Lawrence J. McAndrews
    637

    Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the US. With the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. This book traces the role of American Catholics in presidential policies and politics from 1960 until 2004.

  • - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938
     
    537

    Brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston - Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist - played in his work.

  • - Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
    av Lisa Ze Winters
    521

    Representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict the women as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and offer evidence of the means to their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. Lisa Ze Winters contends that these representations conceal the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.

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    Examines how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions - imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively - played in the formation of American communities. These essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the US.

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    557

    Explores the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together.

  • - Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
    av Paul S. Sutter
    507

    Providence Canyon State Park preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon - and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning - to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the US south.

  • - Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making
    av Aaron Franklin Brantly
    537

    Investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. Aaron Franklin Brantly contextualizes cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility-rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons.

  • - Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
    av Sarah L. Silkey
    551

    During the early 1890s, a series of lynchings brought international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist, to travel to England to cultivate moral indignation against lynching. This title explores Wells's antilynching campaigns.

  • - A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
    av Joseph Madison Beck
    417

  • - Food, Fiber, and Friends
    av Erin McKenna
    1 497

    Most livestock in the United States currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives.

  • av Eric Zencey
    1 251

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    1 417

    Constitutional amendments, like all laws, may lead to unanticipated and even undesired outcomes. In this collection of original essays, a team of distinguished historians, political scientists, and legal scholars examines significant instances in which reform produced something other than the foreseen result.

  • - Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century
    av Stacey Olster
    1 417

    Looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.

  • - Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture
     
    1 417

  • av Dale Peterson
    1 411

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    451

    Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of programs considered for Peabody Awards that were not honoured and thus have largely been forgotten and yet have the potential to reshape our understanding of American television history.

  • - Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham
    av Bobby M. Wilson
    431

    A persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama's slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America's Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.

  • av John David Smith
    391

    William Hannibal Thomas (1843-1935) served with distinction in the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War (in which he lost an arm) and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, and journalist following Appomattox. In many publications up through the 1890s, Thomas espoused a critical though optimistic black nationalist ideology. After his mid-twenties, however, Thomas began exhibiting a self-destructive personality, one that kept him in constant trouble with authorities and always on the run. His book The American Negro (1901) was his final self-destructive act.Attacking African Americans in gross and insulting language in this utterly pessimistic book, Thomas blamed them for the contemporary "e;Negro problem"e; and argued that the race required radical redemption based on improved "e;character,"e; not changed "e;color."e; Vague in his recommendations, Thomas implied that blacks should model themselves after certain mulattoes, most notably William Hannibal Thomas.Black Judas is a biography of Thomas, a publishing history of The American Negro, and an analysis of that books significance to American racial thought. The book is based on fifteen years of research, including research in postamputation trauma and psychoanalytic theory on selfhatred, to assess Thomass metamorphosis from a constructive race critic to a black Negrophobe. John David Smith argues that his radical shift resulted from key emotional and physical traumas that mirrored Thomass life history of exposure to white racism and intense physical pain.

  • - The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
     
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    The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King - then, now, and in the future.

  • - The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare
    av William H. Gregg
    367

    During the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill's de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making him one of the closest people to the Confederate guerrilla leader. This book presents his personal account of that era.

  • av Lester D. Langley
    357

    Brings together Lester D. Langley's personal and professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative that spans more than 150 years and places the Revolution in multiple contexts - from the local to the transatlantic and hemispheric and from racial and gendered to political, social, economic, and cultural perspectives.

  • - The Nazarene Through Jewish Eyes
    av Schalom Ben-Chorin
    1 621

    A picture of Jesus through Jewish eyes. Ranging across such events as the wedding at Cana, the Last Supper and the crucifixion, Schalom Ben-Chorin reveals, in modern Christianity, the traces of the Jewish codes and customs in which Jesus was immersed.

  • - A Native American Tea
    av Charles M. Hudson
    1 621

    Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern US were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known as black drink. This study details botanical, clinical, spiritual, historical, and material aspects of black drink, including its importance not only to Native Americans, but also their Euro-American contemporaries.

  • av Vlad Kravtsov
    447

    Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

  • - Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist
    av Nicholas Herbemont
    487

    Presents foundational texts in American wine making. This volume collects important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States.

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