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  • - New and Selected Poems
    av Daniel Hoffman
    334,-

    When Daniel Hoffman published a brief volume of selected poems in England, the Times Literary Supplement praised "his zestful verbal performance, supple use of rhyme and other sound effects". That same vitality inform Hang-Gliding from Helicon, which presents more than forty new poems and a selection from six of Hoffman's previous books.

  • - Statesmanship and Power
    av Kenneth W. Thompson
    508,-

  • - A Series of Sketches
    av James H. Justus & Joseph G. Baldwin
    458,-

    The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, originally published in 1853, consists of twenty-six sketches and satires drawn from Joseph G. Baldwin's experiences as an attorney on the turbulent Mississippi and Alabama frontiers in the 1830s and 1840s. Like experiences, attempted to depict a lawless and colorful era in American history. Originally from Virginia, the author paints vivid and authentic portraits of shifty lawyers, unlettered judges, and inept prosecutors, as well as serious profiles of respected colleagues such as Seargent S. Prentiss. Even the narrator, we learn, is granted a license to practice law by a circuit judge who asks him "not a single legal question." One of the collection's most memorable characters is Ovid Bolus, whom Baldwin describes as a "natural liar, just as some horses are natural pacers, and some dogs natural setters." His adventures reflect Baldwin's fascination with the meaning of the law and the legal profession under the conditions that existed on the American frontier. James H. Justus' introduction places this new edition of The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi in its historical literary context. According to Justus, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, published in 1835, is the volume credited as the first to exploit the southern backwoods In the vernacular realism we now call the humor of the Old Southwest. Justus also notes that in the preface to his book, Baldwin indirectly acknowledges his familiarity with earlier writers, and one sketch, "Simon Suggs, JR.," specifically pays homage to Johnson Jones Hooper. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi possesses enormous value for both literary scholars and historians. It remains a classic, not simply because it is sprightly social history, but because it is also an engrossing memoir by a man of uncommon subtlety of mind who projected his own sensibility into the record.

  • - Mississippi, 1770-1860
    av John Hebron Moore
    508,-

    Traces the evolution of cotton culture in the region bordering the Mississippi River. John Hebron Moore examines the society supported by that industry, emphasising technological changes that transformed cotton plantations.

  • - The Perils of Writing History
    av C. Vann Woodward
    434,-

  • - The American South, 1920-1960
    av Jack Temple Kirby
    582,-

    Jack Temple Kirby's massive and engaging study examines the rural southern world of the first half of the twentieth century, its collapse, and the resulting "modernization" of southern society. Rural Worlds Lost is the first book to thoroughly assess the profound changes modernization has wrought in the US South.

  • - A Novel
    av Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan & John Pendleton Kennedy
    458,-

    Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn, John Pendleton Kennedy's novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, was described by its author as "variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a drama, and a history."

  • - Poems
    av Henry Taylor
    267,-

  • - Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric
    av Richard M. Weaver
    320,-

    Richard M. Weaver believed that "rhetoric at its truest seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves." Language is Sermonic offers eight of Weaver's best essays on the nature of traditional rhetoric and its role in shaping society.

  • - The History of the Louisiana State Penal System
    av Mark Thomas Carleton
    508,-

    One of the few studies of its kind, this political history of the Louisiana penal system from its origin to the near-present places emphasis on the development of penal policy and shows how the vicissitudes of the system have reflected the prevailing social, economic, and political views of the state as a whole.

  • - William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings
    av Max Putzel
    508,-

    Until recently most discussions of William Faulkner have centred exclusively on his novels. Yet no chronicle of Faulkner's Growth as a literary artist can afford to overlook the years he spent struggling to establish himself as a writer of short stories. Max Putzel provides a critical study of these crucial formative years.

  • - The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867
    av Dan T. Carter
    458,-

    Dan T. Carter's When the War Was Over is a social and political history of the two years following the surrender of the Confederacy--the so-called period of Presidential Reconstruction when the South, under the watchful gaze of Congress and the Union army, attempted to rebuild its shattered society and economic structure. Working primarily from rich manuscript sources, Carter draws a vivid portrait of the political leaders who emerged after the war, a diverse group of men--former loyalists as well as a few mildly repentant fire-eaters--who in some cases genuinely sought to find a place in southern society for the newly emancipated slaves, but who in many other cases merely sought to redesign the boundaries of black servitude. Carter finds that as a group the politicians who emerged in the post-war South failed critically in the test of their leadership. Not only were they unable to construct a realistic program for the region's recovery--a failure rooted in their stubborn refusal to accept the full consequences of emancipation--but their actions also served to exacerbate rather than allay the fears and apprehensions of the victorious North. Even so, Carter reveals, these leaders were not the monsters that many scholars have suggested they were, and it is misleading to dismiss them as racists and political incompetents. In important ways, they represented the most constructive, creative, and imaginative response that the white South, overwhelmed with defeat and social chaos, had to offer in 1865 and 1866. Out of their efforts would come the New South movement and, with it, the final downfall of the plantation system and the beginnings of social justice for the freed slaves.

  • - Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865
    av Richard S. Brownlee
    412,-

    Offers a history of the Confederate guerrillas who, under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theatre of the Civil War.

  • av James Dickey
    508,-

    In Self-Interviews, James Dickey speaks thoughtfully and with candour of his life as a poet. He recalls how poetry came to be his career, tracing its growing importance in his life from his youth in Georgia through his years overseas with the Air Force, as a student at Vanderbilt, as a teacher, and as a successful advertising executive.

  • - Journals and New Essays
    av James Dickey
    508,-

    James Dickey's creativity as a poet is well known. But there have been few opportunities for his readers to become familiar with the thoughts and perceptions that lie just outside the matter of his poetry. Sorties brings together the contents of a journal kept by Dickey for several years and six essays on poetry and the creative process.

  • - Stories
    av Lou V. Crabtree
    359,-

    Tells of life in the hills of Appalachia some fifty years ago, a primal world of craggy hills and tangled forests where good and evil, charity and malice exist in their purest forms. If the pleasures of men, women, and children in these seven stories are simple, the ills and misfortunes that beset them are equally forthright and undiluted.

  • av Grady McWhiney & Frank Lawrence Owsley
    334,-

    First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials to reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant "yeoman farmer" middle class.

  • av David L. Carlton
    582,-

    Probing the social repercussions of the industrial development of South Carolina in the decades following Reconstruction, David Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920, tells of the conflict that erupted between the rising middle class of the South's small towns and the rural whites who came to labour in the towns' textile mills.

  • - An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture
    av John Shelton Reed
    508,-

    In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades if the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness.

  • - An Informal History
    av Joe Gray Taylor
    397,-

    A lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern hospitality and cuisine, Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South traces regional gastronomy from the sparse diet of Jamestown settlers, who learned from necessity to eat what the Indians ate, to the lavish corporate cocktail parties of the New South.

  • av William Gillette
    508,-

    According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasise idealistic motivations at the expense of assessing concrete achievements of the era. Thus, he maintains, the failure of both the purpose and the promise of Reconstruction has not been deeply enough analysed.

  • av James H. Justus
    458,-

    Shows how Robert Penn Warren's work, his fiction, poetry, literary criticism, historical and personal essays, journalism, is shaped largely by the circumstances not only of his birth and early career as a border-state southerner but also oh his training and later career as a transregional artist and intellectual.

  • - New Perspectives on the Abolitionists
    av Michael Fellman & Lewis Perry
    458,-

    Examines various dimensions of abolitionism from its religious context to its international effect, from its attitude toward the northern poor to its impact on feminism, and from wars of words waged with southern intellectuals to the bloodier conflicts begun in Kansas.

  • av William C. Davis
    393,-

    One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the USS. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia(formerly the USS. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever.

  • - The Black Second
    av Eric Anderson
    458,-

    Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centres of black political influence in the late nineteenth century, North Carolina's second congressional district. Race and Politics in North Carolina illuminates the complex effects upon whites of the rise of black leadership, both within the Republican party and in the larger community.

  • - Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943
    av James R. Green
    458,-

    Answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organisations in nearby rural southwestern areas?

  • av John A. Crow
    508,-

    Presents the best translations available - by such poets as Richard Franshawe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Southey, and many modern poets - of poems ranging from the eleventh century to the present to make this the most complete collection of both Spanish and Spanish American poetry in English translation.

  • - The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo
    av Edwin C. Bearss
    461,-

    Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Union gunboat Cairo still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was on the December morning when the crew abandoned her - and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored.

  • av Alpheus Thomas Mason
    508,-

    During the past half century the Supreme Court has been a storm center of controversy. Since 1920 the Court has shattered precedent after precedent and has leveled a number of social, political, and economic landmarks. This perceptive study of the Court during that period received much critical acclaim when it was published in 1958 and revised ten years later. In this third edition, Alpheus Thomas Mason, one of the country's leading authorities on the Court, updates his survey to include some of the most dramatic events in its history. In a new preface, Mason sets the tone for his treatment of the Burger Court, saying, "One thing seems certain: never before has the Supreme Court put its constitutional fingers in so many social, cultural, and political pies. The irony is that four of its present members were elected as 'strict constructionist.'" Mason examines the dicta of various justices against the background of the times and the issues with which they were concerned: the judicial slaughter of legislation in the early thirties and Roosevelt's retaliatory "courtpacking" attempt in 1937, judicially sanctioned federal interference in economic affairs, the bitterly contested integration decisions in 1954, and the explosive rulings of the 1960s supporting federal intervention in the fields of education, representation, and criminal justice. Mason also covers Earl Warren's resignation as Chief Justice, the Senate's refusal to confirm Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas for Chief Justice and Fortas' later resignation under political pressure, the failure of two Nixon nominees--Haynesworth and Carswell--to receive Senate endorsement, the impeachment proceedings initiated against William O. Douglas, Nixon's avowal to reverse the Warren Court's protection of civil rights and liberties by appointing a "law and order" Court, and the implications of the Stanford Daily and Bakke cases. Professor Mason's insight into the peculiar nature of the judicial function brings a deeper understanding of the Court as a creative force in American life.

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