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A history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850. It charts the transformation of the legal process and the evolution of professional standards of conduct for the criminal bar by examining the working lives of the Old Bailey barristers.

Theodore Parker was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and Jesus, a brilliant scholar, an agitator for women's rights, an abolitionist and one of the intellectuals who shaped transcendentalism. This account covers hidden facets of his life as well as his public profile.

The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The ""spiritelli"" embody a minor species of demon, neither good not bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature.

The Tar Heels were one of the hardest-fighting units in the Army of Northern Virginia, Hess draws on letters, diaries, memoirs and service records to explore the camp life, social backgrounds and political attitudes as well as chronicling their military engagements.

From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, this title considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery.

The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world. Using original sources in the various Islamic languages, Annemarie Schimmel explains the central place of Muhammad in Muslim life, mystical thought, and poetry.

The Jiangyuin mission station in the Shanghai region of China is used in this book to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the 20th century. The author concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed because of the secular benefits it provided.

Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era

In 1948 a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the ""Dixiecrats"". This volume situates the Dixiecrat movement within the tumultuous social and economic milieu of the 1930s and 1940s South.

Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis

The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognised as the first African American novelist for Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834.

Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance

Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston

In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939

Explores the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities - especially New York - from all parts of the United States.

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasise violence, deprivation, and trauma. In contrast, this focuses on the non-combat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat.

On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible.

Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach used "soft power" in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc.

Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State

In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the ""logic of sympathy"" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells.

This is a brilliant demonstration in text and picture of the fact that the South is responding to its industrial revolution with a contemporary architecture that may in time recapture the graciousness that had been lost by the beginning of this century in the sterile repetition of old forms. The body of the book is a carefully chosen selection of modern southern architecture.

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy.

Gale considers the imagery in all of the 135 novels and short stories of Henry James and presents what may well be the first extensive treatment of figurative language in the complete works of any novelist. All of the images have been recorded, but the author does not claim too much for his deductions concerning them.

From this notable and engaging study we learn that the education of the Arthurian hero is a romance motif as significant to the hero's exploits as his beseiged damsel or his fierce joust. Accounts of the births and childhoods of religious and mythical protagonists at once prefigure and explaining their later powers.

Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.

People in Auschwitz is very different from other works on the most infamous of Nazi annihilation centers. Langbein's account is a scrupulously scholarly achievement interwining his own experiences with quotations from other inmates, SS guards and administrators, civilian industry and military personnel, and official documents.

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion - both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment - linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.