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Captive University
The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian...
by Sallie Ann Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Walsh's book should be a vade mecum for anyone who would teach the Carmina Burana on any level and be of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.--New England Classical Newsletter and Journal
"Teachers, students, and any reader interested...
Southeastern Geographer
Fall 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 3 (Fall 2012)
Cover Art
Co-producing Space Along the Sweetgrass Basket Makers' Highway in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Brian Grabbatin
Introduction
David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
Pet Ownership and the Spatial...
Southeastern Geographer
Fall 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Table of Contents for Volume 53, Number 3 (Fall 2013)
COVER ART
The View from Huayna Picchu
Carl A. Reese
Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 3
David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese
PART I: PAPERS
High Temporal Resolution Land Use/ Land Cover Change...
by Claude Andrew Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head...
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Central Georgia, 1800-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps,...
Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between...
The Land Was Ours
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social...
Subduing Satan
Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes.
"Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the...
Black Life on the Mississippi
Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from...
by George C. Rable
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, "Give them Fredericksburg!" Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers.
Fought...
Looking for Longleaf
The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher...
by Eric H. Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.
Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather...