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These 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the lives of a wide range of women - nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants - in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South.

The settlement of Martha Brae, Jamaica, has witnessed the unfolding of two distinct yet interrelated histories. Exploring its significance as a European Caribbean slaving port in the 18th century, Jean Besson also uncovers the story of Martha Brae's gradual appropriation by ex-slaves.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, Virginia legislature turned down two-thirds of all petitions for divorce. Men and women faced a harsh legal system. In this book, Thomas Buckley explores the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it.

In nine essays, this volume offers theoretical insights into the dilemmas facing Latin American politicians as they struggle to gain full control over their military institutions. The contributors use a wide range of contemporary models to analyze political and economic reform.

Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late 19th century. Examining the effects of this change, Kirsten Swinth explores how women's growing presence in the American art world transformed both its institutions and its ideology.

This collection of 17 essays reshapes the field of early American legal history by using the concept of ""legality"" to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, as individuals, groups, classes, communities and states.

This study of the vascular plant taxa in the southeastern United States includes keys, descriptions, habitats, distributional data, and pertinent synonymy to every vascular species without cultivation in the southeastern United States.

Analyzes how American female photographers contributed to a ""doctrine vision"", reinforcing the imperialism and racism of the dawn of the 20th century. This study is relevant to the fields of history of photography and gender studies, and to a growing understanding of US imperialism at the time.

Presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region.

This work combines an narrative of Glaspell's life with an analysis of her creative work. Rebelling early against the expectations imposed on women of her era, Glaspell grappled with the conflict between Victorian mores and feminist aspirations throughout her life.

Urging a re-examination of the literature and political culture of the 1930s Left, Robert Shulman explores the careers and creative work of five of the most talented writers of this group: Meridel Le Sueur, Josephine Herbst, Richard Wright, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes.

This study describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations, primarily religious and political, that transformed Virginia in the second half of the 18th century.

A call for the redesign of Western cultural studies - one that engages issues of gender and race. Surveying work by writers such as Joan Didion and Wanda Coleman, it shows how they have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West.

A study of directions in autobiography. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in crisis but develops a resolution, whereas contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crisis. The author examines works by a range of writers, including Primo Levi, Ernest Hemingway and Mary Meigs.

This study draws together scholarship on the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its aftermath. Contributors hope to draw attention to the tragedy, to honour its victims, and to bring a clear historical voice to the debate over its legacy.

A collection of 31 readings tracing the theme of American destiny under God through developments in US history. It features words of prominent Americans such as Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, and demonstrates how religion shaped Americans' understanding of themselves.

Exploring the importance of political festivals in the early American republic, this text shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in the expanding print culture, helped connect local politics to national identity.

Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developments in the period. He goes on to reveal the links between the tenets of phrenology and the cultural ideals of Jacksonian democracy.

The ""Eclogues"", Vergil's earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations. This translation renders the poet's words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original.

This collection of works from 15 scholars provides a complex portrait of lynching in the American South. Subjects range from the late antebellum period to the late 20th century, and in place from the border states to the Deep South. The essays address both the history and the legacy of lynching.

This volume juxtaposes the work of three pre-eminent 20th-century lesbian poets - Getrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich - investigating the ways in which each attempts to forge a poetic voice capable of expressing both public concerns and private interests.

Originally published by UNC Press in 1961, this work is a comprehensive history of the roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. It also addresses the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war.

This volume seeks to document the distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. It investigates colonial military life, giving attention to official records and to the diaries and writings of the common soldier.

Portugal enjoyed a rich and sophisticated culture in the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant literature. This a collection of over 100 translations of ""cantigas de amigo"", love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.

This text provides the story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the years preceding the civil rights era in the South of America.

These 13 essays evaluate the role of elcetions in the development of democracy in the nations of Central America: Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama. They explore the region's transformation since 1982 from dictatorial to electoral rule.

Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the ""moderate"" South, the author analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision through the mid 1970s.

In this study of the role of taverns in the development of Massachusetts society, David Conroy brings into focus a vital and controversial but little-understood facet of public life during the colonial era. Concentrating on the Boston area, he reveals a popular culture at odds with Puritan social ideals, one that contributed to the transformation of Massachusetts into a republican society.

The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought.

Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. The Lost Boy also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the century.