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by Norman T. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society.
Seneca's drama shows the nature of...
Popular Religion in Late Saxon England
Elf Charms in Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical...
by Robert K. Krick
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
At Cedar Mountain on August 9,1862, Stonewall Jackson exercised independent command of a campaign for the last time. Robert Krick untangles the myriad original accounts by participants on both sides of the battle to offer an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless...
Prairie Patrimony
Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural...
Learn to Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways
Traditional, Contemporary, International
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Jennifer Brule is on a mission, southern style, to teach people to cook. Her method: master twenty-five classic southern dishes, and then--using similar ingredients or cooking techniques or both--make two variations, one contemporary and one inspired by international tastes. Brule's line-up of beloved...
Remembering Bill Neal
Favorite Recipes from a Life in Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A gifted chef, restaurateur, and writer working at a time when Americans were beginning to take a new interest in their culinary heritage, Bill Neal (1950-1991) helped raise Southern food to national prominence.
Having rescued spattered and faded recipe cards from the Chapel Hill restaurant...
If That Ever Happens to Me
Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions...
Language Variety in the New South
Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South...
The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology
Durkheim, Weber, and Garfinkel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hilbert demonstrates the historical connection between the nineteenth-century theory of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, in which sociology had its origins, and the ethnomethodological approach articulated in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel. The author rejects the conventional view that draws radical distinctions...
by Diane B. Kunz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Diane Kunz describes here how the United States employed economic diplomacy to affect relations among states during the Suez Crisis of 1956-57. Using political and financial archival material from the United States and Great Britain, and drawing from personal interviews with many of the key players,...
Arming the Free World
The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a worldwide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach...
by Joan Shelley Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The career of Constance Rourke (1885-1941) is one of the richest examples of the American writer's search for a "usable past." In this first full-length study of Rourke, Joan Shelley Rubin establishes the context for Rourke's defense of American culture -- the controversies that engaged her, the books...
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Hot Springs, Arkansas
by Keith Maillard
World War II-era Hot Springs is the foundation for this author's story, a tale about his family's crumbling dynamics in troublesome times.
"'Well, of course I remember Pearl Harbor,' my mother says, the tone of her voice adding,What do you think...