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Perfecting Friendship
Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture,...
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses
Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were viewed with suspicion...
The Lesbian South
Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential...
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy
The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this...
The Press Gang
Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to separate themselves from partisan control and assert...
Zero Hunger
Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil's Workers' Party soared to power in 2003, he promised to end hunger in the nation. In a vivid ethnography with an innovative approach to Brazilian politics, Aaron Ansell assesses President Lula's flagship antipoverty program, Zero Hunger (Fome Zero), focusing...
The Limits of Sisterhood
The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and...
Pie
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Sara Foster takes the expression "easy as pie" seriously. New and experienced bakers alike will thrill to Foster's encouraging approach to tossing together the most delicious made-from-scratch pies. A southern kitchen is unimaginable without pie, says Foster, who grew up on a farm in Tennessee, where...
Beans and Field Peas
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Robust and delicious, beans and field peas have graced the tables of southerners for generations, making daily appearances on vegetable plates, sideboards, and lunch counters throughout the region. Indeed, all over the world, people rich, poor, or in between rely on legumes, the comforting "culinary...
Bourbon
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Did you know that bourbon must be made in America and aged for at least two years in new American oak barrels that are charred on the inside? In this spirited little cookbook, Kathleen Purvis explores the history, mythology, and culinary star power of this quintessential southern liquor. On the scene...
Unnatural Selections
Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois,...
by Linda Przybyszewski
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisions--as well as in some areas of his life--Harlan's actions directly...
by Knut Walter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
To many observers, Anastasio Somoza, who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, personified the worst features of a dictator. While not dismissing these characteristics, Knut Walter argues that the regime was in fact more notable for its achievement of stability, economic growth,...
Genocide and the Politics of Memory
Studying Death to Preserve Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other....