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  • - North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
    von Lynn Keller
    44,00 - 85,00 €

    Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.

  • - The Yijing (I Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China
    von Richard J. Smith
    51,00 €

    Offers the first full-length study in any Western language of the development of the Yijing in China from earliest times to the present. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in both Asian and Western languages, Richard J. Smith offers a fresh perspective on virtually every aspect of Yijing theory and practice for some three thousand years.

  • - How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests
    von Stephen Nash
    55,00 €

    Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of climate change to the state of Virginia. Weaving together a compelling mix of data and conversations with both respected scientists and Virginians most immediately at risk from global warming's effects, the author details how Virginia's climate has already begun to change. In engaging prose and layman's terms, Nash argues that alteration in the environment will affect not only the state's cities but also hundreds of square miles of urban and natural coastal areas, the 60 percent of the state that is forested, the Chesapeake Bay, and the near Atlantic, with accompanying threats such as the potential spread of infectious disease. The narrative offers striking descriptions of the vulnerabilities of the state's many beautiful natural areas, around which much of its tourism industry is built.While remaining respectful of the controversy around global warming, Nash allows the research to speak for itself. In doing so, he offers a practical approach to and urgent warning about the impending impact of climate change in Virginia.

  • - The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
    von Brian Steel Wills
    50,00 €

    This work reconstructs life for soldiers from the region on the battlefield and for civilians in the homes of southeastern Virginia, providing a depiction of what life was like for the ordinary person - black, white, soldier, or Unionist - contending with the hardships of the Civil War.

  • - Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
    von Candace Ward
    42,00 €

    Examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. White creoles faced a considerable challenge in showing they were driven by more than a desire for power and profit. Crossing the Line explores the integral role early creole novels played in this cultural labour.

  • - English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century
    von Suvir Kaul
    55,00 €

    This text argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule Britannia!" (1740), is the condition to which much English poetry of the late 17th and 18th centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller, Dryden and Defoe, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the British nation.

  • von Jacques Stephen Alexis
    44,00 €

    The first novel of the Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother appears here for the first time in English. Its depiction of the nightmarish journey of the unskilled laborer Hilarion and his wife from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the cane fields of the Dominican Republic has brought comparisons to the work of Emile Zola, André Malraux, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway.Alexis, whose mother was a descendant of the Revolutionary General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was already a mature thinker when he published General Sun, My Brother (Compère Général Soleil) in France in 1955. A militant Marxist himself, Alexis championed a form of the "marvelous realism" developed by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who called for a vision of historical reality from the standpoint of slaves for whom the supernatural was as much a part of everyday experience as were social and other existential realities. General Sun, My Brother opens as Hilarion is arrested for stealing a wallet and imprisoned with an activist named Pierre Roumel--a fictional double for the novelist Jacques Roumain--who schools him in the Marxist view of history. On his release, Hilarion meets Claire-Heureuse and they settle down together. Hilarion labors in sisal processing and mahogany polishing while his partner sets up a small grocery store. After losing everything in a criminally set fire, the couple joins the desperate emigration to the Dominican Republic. Hilarion finds work as a sugarcane cutter, but the workers soon become embroiled in a strike that ends in the "Dominican Vespers," the 1937 massacre pf Haitian workers by the Dominican army. The novel personifies the sun as the ally, brother, and leader of the peasants. Mortally wounded in crossing the Massacre River back into Haiti, Hilarion urges Claire-Heureuse to remarry and to continue to work for a Haiti where people can live in dignity and peace.

  • - The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment
    von Catherine Cusset
    49,00 €

    This work traces the moral meaning of pleasure in libertine works of 18th-century France. The author contends that libertine works are linked by an ""ethics of pleasure"" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being.

  • - Bridging Socio-Ecological Research and Practice
    von Juliana E. Birkhoff
    46,00 €

    The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources. In Community-Based Collaboration: Bridging Socio-Ecological Research and Practice, contributors offer an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration of what attracts people to this collaborative mode.

  • - The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century
    von Richard Nash
    49,00 €

    This work charts the travels of the figure of the wild man through the invented domain of the bourgeois public sphere. He is followed through the discursive networks of novels, broadsheets, pamphlets and advertisements and through fair booths, the Royal Society and Parliament.

  • - Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865
    von Patience Essah
    49,00 €

    This text describes the introduction, evolution, demise and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. The author uncovers why Delaware, a staunch Unionist state during the Civil War, failed to abolish slavery until 1901 and repeatedly denied its black citizens the right to vote.

  • - Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
    von Russell R. Menard
    44,00 €

    Reveals that black slavery's emergence in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar; in doing so Russell Menard both reverses the long-held understanding of slavery as a consequence of the island's economic boom and repositions the impact that this surge of slavery had on America's slave trade.

  • - The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park
    von Katrina M. Powell
    49,00 €

    Following Congress's approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to US government officials requesting various services, property, and harvested crops. The collection of 300 handwritten letters that resulted from this relocation reveals a complex dynamic between the people and the government.

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    28,00 €

    Offers a ready reference to Madison's thought, including his most perceptive observations on government and human nature. The compendium brings together excerpts from his writings on a variety of political and social issues, ranging from agriculture to free trade, from religion and the state to legislative power, from friendship to fashion, from slavery to unity.

  • - Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938
     
    38,00 €

  • - The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton
    von Annis Boudinot Stockton
    61,00 €

    Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) wrote over a hundred poems on the most important political and social issues of her day. Only for the Eye of a Friend brings back into public view the works of a poet whose published works and manuscrits earned her, in her day, a wide audience among colonists and international readers alike.

  • - Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions
    von Carol Siegel
    53,00 €

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    49,00 €

  • von Henry Goings
    43,00 €

    Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man's name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation's roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways.A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings's life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.

  • - Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
    von Jeannie M. Whayne
    41,00 €

    Traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and federal and state agencies to gain control over land policy, Poinsett County planters fought to maintain their place on the land amidst tenancy, sharecropping, and the mechanization of farming.

  • von Alison Case
    55,00 €

    Identifies a convention of ""feminine narration"" characterized by the exclusion of the female narrator from shaping her experience into a coherent, meaningful, and authoritative story. Instead, a male narrator steps in to shape the narrative either within the text or in a pseudoeditorial frame.

  • von Edward L. Freehling
    54,00 €

  • - Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)
    von Coates
    65,00 €

    This novel, published for the first time in English, is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. Depestre's ironic note denying historical origins for the novel does not obscure the scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country, which is called "Zacharyland" after the fictionalized President-for-life Zoocrates Zachary.

  • von Charles E. Connerly
    52,00 €

  • - Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities
    von Julie Thompson Klein
    36,00 €

    Boundary work studies examine how boundaries of knowledge are formed, maintained, broken down and reconfigured. This text investigates the claims, activities and institutional structures that define and legitimate interdisciplinary practices.

  • - Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
    von David Chidester
    41,00 €

    Examines the emergence of the concepts of "religion"and "religions" on colonial frontiers. The book offers an analysis of the ways in which European travellers, missionaries, settlers, and government agents, as well as indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural contact.

  • von BURTON
    50,00 €

  • von Jerome J. McGann
    29,00 €

    Starting from a critical inquiry into specialised issues in editing, this work unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study as a whole. It argues that the theory of text must ground itself in a recovery of the entire productive/reproductive history of the text.

  • - The Story of a New York Working Girl.
    von Dorothy Rlchardson
    34,00 €

    A wonderfully readable personal narrative of the trials and tribulations of an ""unskilled, friendless, almost penniless girl of eighteen, utterly alone in the world"" who arrives in New York City in 1905 to earn her livelihood. The book reveals much about the lives of working women in early twentieth-century urban America.

  • - The Story of a City
    von Virginius Dabney
    39,00 €

    Chronicles the growth of this historic city over nearly four centuries from its founding in the early 1700s to its recent urban and suburban developments. Virginius Dabney updates his history by examining developments in racial relations, cultural institutions, and downtown architecture that have taken place over the past two decades.

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