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Forsyth
The History of a County on the March
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This is a carefully researched and completely rewritten version of Adelaide Fries's 1949 history that traced the Forsyth story from its Moravian beginnings through the joining of Winston and Salem and concluded with a forward look to Wake Forest College as a key to future cultural growth. The authors...
Germans in the Civil War
The Letters They Wrote Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German...
Cornwallis
The Imperial Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis. It details Corwallis's work in India, his contributions in Britain as master general of ordnance, his tenure as lord lieutenant and commander in chief in Ireland, and his diplomacy in negotiating the peace of...
Lands, Laws, and Gods
Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.C.). During this period of territorial expansion, the Romans developed the basic legal forms by which...
Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory
Conceiving the Supreme Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954. The author offers new readings of a number of poems and passages and clarifies certain controversial conceptions developed...
Transfiguration
Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literature's complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life. He shows that while poetic and conceptual modes of discover are different, they are nevertheless mutually interdependent....
by David R. Slavitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt addresses, invokes, or simply enjoys the civilization that has been the poet's true subject from the time of the wandering bards. Upon the foundation of technical mastery, he has begun to build an oeuvre,...
by David R. Slavitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that...
by Bentley Glass
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Bentley Glass, one of the world's leading investigators in the field of human genetics, is concerned with the moral absolutes and ethics involved in experimentation with human life in the laboratory. He feels that with the development of knowledge must come wider recognition of consequences. His book...
Southeastern Geographer
Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that...
Southeastern Geographer
Winter 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that...
Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints
The Laudatio Parentum in Western France, 1050-1150
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society in the Middle Ages which is impressive in its breadth and illuminating in its detail. By examining the practice whereby gifts of land were approved...
Environmental Policy Under Reagan's Executive Order
The Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental...
Southern Capitalists
The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Studying the changing strategies used by the nineteenth-century southern leaders to justify their direction of the South's economy and politics, Shore shows how leaders before, during, and after the Civil War attempted to set standards of success in southern society and to clarify the relations between...