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The Equus Men: Rhodesia's Mounted Infantry: The Grey's Scouts 1896-1980This entirely new work by accomplished military historian Alexandre Binda, former paymaster to the Grey's Scouts, tables the remarkable story of Rhodesia's mounted infantry.Working closely with the last commanding officer, squadron commanders, and a whole host of regimental personalities, all of whom have given...
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The Tragic Era: The Revolution After LincolnNever have American public men in responsible positions, directing the destiny of the Nation, been so brutal, hypocritical and corrupt than in the period between 1865 and 1877. This is the detailed story of that tragic era.Author: Claude G. BowersPublisher: Simon PublicationsPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 608Binding...
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A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent AfFor several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese...
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Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North CarolinaNorth Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough,...
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The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it....
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Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in AppalachiaAllison E. Carey is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Marshall University.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 278Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438493565
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New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great SocietyIn the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the...
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Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut Jr.The expansive autobiography of J. L. Chestnut Jr., a key figure of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama Born in Selma in 1930, Chestnut left home to study law at Howard University in Washington, DC. Returning to Selma, Chestnut was the town's first...
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Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to PresentOther Souths collects fifteen innovative essays that place issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality at the center of the narrative of southern history. Using a range of methodologies and approaches, contributing historians provide a fresh perspective to key events and move long-overlooked...
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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible EastWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these...
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Cather Among the ModernsA masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates...
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Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global SpacesLatin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson...
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Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service StorePatented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly...
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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth CenturyWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging...
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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and CultureDressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that...
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century FictionNew in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has...
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Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American PoliticsAt 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory...
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Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on TuberculosisImagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas--and across the United States--throughout...
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The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEnriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture...
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Hannah Whitman Heyde: The Complete CorrespondenceThe correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor...
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