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African Impressions

Rebekah Mitsein

• Hardcover | Engels
• Shortlist--2023 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize Winner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious ... Lees meer

The Knowing Most Worth Doing

Wayne Booth

• Hardcover | Engels
• Throughout the second half of the twentieth century until his death in 2005, Wayne Booth was one of the most influential literary critics in America a... Lees meer

Slavery in the City

• Hardcover | Engels
• Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the Ci... Lees meer

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Stephanie Harzewski

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
• Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women... Lees meer

Shortest Way with Defoe

Michael B Prince

• Hardcover | Engels
• A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe conte... Lees meer

Male Armor

Jon Robert Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
• There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature--one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in... Lees meer

The Papers of James Madison

James Madison

• Hardcover | Engels | Retirement
• During the period around volume 3 of the Retirement Series, James Madison remained largely at Montpelier, except for occasional visits to neighbors an... Lees meer

The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories Thereon Depending

James Knight

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Histories
• Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight--a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica--wrote a massive two-volume history of... Lees meer

The Selected Papers of John Jay

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Selected Papers of John Jay | nr. 4
• Volume 4 of The Selected Papers of John Jay opens in January 1785 as John Jay assumes office as secretary for foreign affairs and brings system and or... Lees meer

Paper Gardens

Evelyne Bloch-Dano

• Hardcover | Engels
• From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as repres... Lees meer

Hidden Lives

Barbara J Heath

• Paperback | Engels
• LIKE MONTICELLO, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest offers a significant archaeological view of slave life at the turn of the nineteenth century in rura... Lees meer

Architecture in Play

Tamar Zinguer

• Hardcover | Engels
• Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In Arch... Lees meer

Against Popery

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Histories
• Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically signi... Lees meer

Vein of Iron. Afterword by Anne Firor Scott

Ellen Glasgow

• Paperback | Engels
• A novel that takes place in the Valley of Virginia, tracing the experience of a family with four generations of strong women. Lees meer

Humus

Fabienne Kanor

• Paperback | Engels | Caraf Books
• While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written ... Lees meer

The Poetic Justice

John Charles Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels
• This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black--and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest--j... Lees meer

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Annette Gordon-Reed

• Paperback | Engels
• When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had ... Lees meer

Satan and Salem

Benjamin C Ray

• Paperback | Engels
• The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the ... Lees meer

The Princess of Albemarle

Jane Turner Censer

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• At the turn of the twentieth century, Amélie Rives was one of the most famous women in America. A member of Virginia's First Families--and granddaught... Lees meer

Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas

Steven V Hunsaker

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY in the Americas puts texts from English and French Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United S... Lees meer

Crucible of the Civil War

• Hardcover | Engels
• Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contenti... Lees meer

The Romance of the Harem

Anna Leonowens

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• From setting foot in Asia in 1849 (or was it 1845?) as Anna Crawford (or was it Anna Edwards?) to waltzing with Yul Brynner in glorious technicolor, A... Lees meer

Drone Enlightenment

Peter Degabriele

• Paperback | Engels
• Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones condu... Lees meer

Topographies of the Sacred

Kate Rigby

• Hardcover | Engels | Under the Sign of Nature
• Although the British romantic poets--notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron--have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, Kate Rigby's ... Lees meer