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A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword b...
$9.75
This small but powerful book initiated a major shift in literary theory and method when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical inquiry into certain specialized issues in the practice of editing, McGann gradually unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of litera..
A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in t...
$43.67
Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian communities of North Georgia, things were very different. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia’s northern ..
All That Mighty Heart: London Poems
$8.97
Lisa Russ Spaar has assembled a collection of poems about London to appeal to most anyone: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the most critical reader of poetry. The book conveys a sense that London, as both city and text, is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean ..
An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing C...
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In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, ..
An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Wom...
$36.80
A book that will greatly enhance understanding of the situation of single women in the nineteenth-century South, An Evening When Alone presents the journals of four very different women who, although their lives were worlds apart, each lived and wrote in the South during the years 1827-67. Intimate ..
An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architec...
$93.34
Covering the full range of building in the South from 1607 to the 1820s, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape is now available for the first time in paperback. This unique and exhaustive compilation traces the origin and development of an American architectural vocabu..
University of Michigan Press ELT
An Introduction to Pragmatics: Social Action for L...
$30.37
An Introduction to Pragmatics is designed for use in introductory courses in pragmatics (both undergraduate and graduate level) for students preparing to teach. By including the perspective of ESL and EFL educators, this book provides prospective teachers with an understanding of pragmatics that wil..
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissio...
$13.84
ReviewThis incisive history should dispel the pernicious notion that the Confederacy fought the Civil War to advance the constitutional principle of states' rights and only coincidentally to preserve slavery. (The New York Times Book Review)Dew has produced an eye-opening study....So much for states..
Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of...
$19.56
Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained until recently closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace push well beyond that established framework with ..
By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-Americ...
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In this book, America's foremost scholar of African-American folklife revolutionizes our understanding of Afro-American material culture. Bringing to the essays his extensive research into the written, oral, and material sources of Afro-American culture as well as his impressive scholarly knowledge ..
University of California Press
Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their E...
$14.73
When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been..
City of Trees: The Complete Field Guide to the Tre...
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Washington, D.C., boasts more than three hundred species of trees from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and City of Trees has been the authoritative guide for locating, identifying, and learning about them for more than twenty-five years. The third edition is fully revised, updated, and expanded a..
Completing the Circle (North American Indian Prose...
$16.32
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve tells her own story and the story of her family. An expert quilter, she recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together. "I think of how she and her woman friends sat aroun..
Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little ...
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Creationism on Trial is Gilkey's blow-by-blow account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, AR. Author: Gilkey, Langdon Publisher: University of Virginia Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0813918545 ISBN-13: 9780813918549..
Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, ...
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This book is the most comprehensive and rigourous critique of the ways disciplinary boundaries still inhibit knowledge-production and integration. Author: Klein, Julie Thompson Publisher: University of Virginia Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0813916798 ISBN-13: 9780813916798..
Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent ...
$72.58
Ghost stories in various forms have been a part of popular literature for centuries, from Shakespeare to Dickens to Faulkner. Over the past twenty-five years, a resurgence of haunting plots has occurred in American literature. In Cultural Haunting, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that this recent pre..
Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontologi...
$26.50
In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web."Katz explores how political and so..
Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family...
$12.33
In Domesticating the Empire, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda bring together twelve essays- most of them original- that probe issues of gender, race, and power in the French and Dutch Empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This collection goes beyond the crude dichotomies of "European..
Eco-Man: New Perspectives on Masculinity and Natur...
$35.22
The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male’s reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner look to the wild as the site for establis..
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education...
$8.04
Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson’s vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved the objecti..
Escapade
$65.30
In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn- later to be known as Evelyn Scott- turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son..
ETHYL A History of the Corporation and the People ...
$9.62
This book tells the story of a small paper company founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1887 that evolved into a diversified chemical enterprise with worldwide operations. The central event is the borrowing of $200 million in 1962 by Albernarle Paper Manufacturing Company for the acquisition of Ethyl C..
Exile: According to Julia (Caribbean and African L...
$7.86
Gisèle Pineau was born, and spent the first fourteen years of her life, in Paris. Her parents, originally from the island of Guadeloupe, were part of the massive transplantation of Antilleans to the métropole after World War II. Most had left their homeland hoping to improve their lives and their ch..
Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffal...
$15.27
Italian Studies, Social Studies, American Studies Author: Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia Publisher: University of Illinois Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0252009169 ISBN-13: 9780252009167..
Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stori...
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"'Grandpa,' I quietly asked, 'how come when you talk about the past, you say you were a cowboy and an Indian ' I sensed the regret in his short laugh when he answered, 'Cause I was both and both ways are gone forever.'”With great imagination and vigor, award-winning Lakota storyteller Virginia Drivi..