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Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange.

A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona. Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.

Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape

Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War

Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces

Offers an innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys. Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture expands on recent cultural criticism that focuses on the ways men and boys deemed to be feminine have been - and continue to be - condemned for their personalities and behaviour.

Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature - Romanticism and Realism - have come to be understood and defined. Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather traces the complex and unexplored relationship between American realism and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Maxwell's work provides the first complete, deeply researched biography of Pelham, perhaps Alabama's most notable Civil War figure, and explains his enduring attraction.

Translation from French of an essay on the nature and character of human laughter

A classic political philosophy text, available again

The Japanese annexed the archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack by the US in World War II. This book offers an ethnographic study of how Palau and Peleliu were transformed by warring powers and explores how their conflict is remembered differently by the three peoples who shared the experience.

An account that will long stand as the definitive treatment. In this work, Charles A. Misulia, a lifelong student of the Civil War and expert on the Battle of Columbus, provides a comprehensive study of the Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, conflict.

A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment.

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution. R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society's functioning.

Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast. In Megadrought in the Carolinas, John Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that a fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast.

In 1967, a US Marine firebase only two miles from the DMZ captured the attention of the world's media. "Con Thien" combines James P. Coan's experiences with information from archives, interviews with battle participants, and official documents to construct a story of the daily life and combat on the red clay bulls-eye known as "The Hill of Angels."

In this study centering on the Cherokee Nation, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries - removal, the Civil War and allotment of their lands - forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society.

On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay, ripping the Liscome Bay in half and killing 644 of her crew. This title pays homage to the crew by telling their story of experience and sacrifice.

This comprehensive history of Mobile celebrates the heritage of Alabama's oldest city and commemorates the city's tricentennial from 1702 to the 21st century. Scholars of Mobile history have collaborated to produce a narrative that showcases the range of influences on this bustling maritime city.

This text confronts questions public managers face in their efforts to meet demands of reform and innovation. It considers bureaucratic resistance, the dilemma faced when a reform agenda runs counter to the law, and the belief that improved management can remedy flawed policy.

A comprehensive description of the African language of Yoruba - the dominant language of the east Guinea coast - as it is used on the Island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. This work examines the linguistic heritage of the language as it was successively altered, retained and discarded.

A study of bank-loan failures during the Florida land-boom of the mid-1920s. The author shows that, despite official disclaimers and previous historical accounts, virtually every bank failure that occurred involved massive insider abuses, a conscious conspiracy to defraud - or both.