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Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...
by Paul B. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's...
Sunday Dinner
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bridgette A. Lacy offers an ode to a meal that, notably in the Sabbath-minding South, is more than a meal. Sunday dinner, Lacy observes, is "a state of mind. It is about taking the time to be with the people who matter to you." Describing her own childhood Sunday dinners, in which her beloved, culinary-minded...
Shrimp
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Recalling boyhood shrimping expeditions with his father and summoning up the aromas and flavors of a southern shrimp boil or shrimp fry, chef Jay Pierce brings America's favorite shellfish to center stage with fifty recipes for southern classics, contemporary dishes, and international delicacies....
The Cuban Connection
Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades...
Decolonizing Feminisms
Race, Gender, and Empire-building
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Donaldson presents new paradigms of interpretation that help to bring the often oppositional stances of First versus Third World and traditional versus postmodern feminism into a more constructive relationship. She situates contemporary theoretical debates about reading, writing, and the politics...
Live and Let Live
Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
We are in a bind," writes Evelyn M. Perry. While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing inequality in the United States, Americans are demonstrably not very good at living with difference. Perry's analysis of the multiethnic, mixed-income...
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...
In This Timeless Time, Enhanced Ebook
Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences...
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...
by Arthur F. Raper
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed...
Havana
Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
One of the oldest and most celebrated cities in the Western Hemisphere, Havana is a fascinating metropolis where history has left its handprint on every corner. Here, an international trio of well-known architects and planners assesses nearly five hundred years of development in the Cuban capital....
C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution
An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
In C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier Trevino reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in 1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and controversial sociologist wrote a small paperback on...