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Quail Plantations Of Sth Georgia

by Hank Margeson

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Panama And The United States - The Forced Alliance

by Michael L. Conniff

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What Is A Book?

by David Kirby

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 In this study David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic and book. He covers a range of writers, from Emerson, Poe and Melville to James Dickey, Charles Wright, Richard Howard and Susan Montez.
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Canada And The United States - Ambivalent Allies

by John Herd Thompson e Stephen J. Randall

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 An assessment of the relations between America and Canada, distilling a mass of social, economic, cultural and political developments of mutual importance. The authors argue that American policy towards Canada conforms to worldwide US policy, despite claims of a "special relationship".
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How I Got Cultured - A Nevada Memoir

by Phyllis Barber

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Cultural Theory And Popular Culture - An Introduction

by John Storey

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 In this new edition of his widely adopted Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture.
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The Simple Life - Plain Living And High Thinking In American Culture

by David E. Shi

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 Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.
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Ecuador And The United States - Useful Strangers

by Ronn Pineo

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 Ranging from Ecuadorâ€™s struggle for independence in the 1820s and 1830s to the present day, this book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, andâ€"from the U.S. perspectiveâ€"often unintended consequences that have sometimes arisen in relations between the two countries.
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Legba'S Crossing - Narratology In The African Atlantic

by Heather Russell

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 Heather Russell examines how writers from the United States and the anglophone Caribbean challenge conventional Western narratives through innovative use, disruption, and reconfiguration of form.
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Zoro'S Field - My Life In The Appalachian Woods

by Thomas Rain Crowe

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 Croweâ€™s chronicle of a time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income. It is a Walden for today, paced to natureâ€™s rhythms and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life.
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The Diary Of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848â€“1879

by Dolly Lunt Burge

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 Presents the story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia. This work also draws on census and probate records, and includes additional family photographs, and offers genealogical information on the African Americans from the Burge plantation.
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Thoreau'S Living Ethics - Walden And The Pursuit Of Virtue

by Philip Cafaro

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 The first full, rigorous account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. Focused on Walden but ranging widely across his writings, the study situates Thoreau within a long tradition of ethical thinking in the West, from the ancients to the Romantics and on to the present day.
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The Sweet Everlasting - A Novel

by Judson Mitcham

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 In The Sweet Everlasting, Judson Mitcham cuts through the moral ambiguities of life in the midcentury, rural South to show us the heart and soul of a good but flawed man.
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Mulattas And Mestizas - Representing Mixed Identities In The Americas, 1850-2000

by Suzanne Bost

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 This work measures contemporary representations of mixed-race identity in the United States against the history of mixed-race identity in the Americas. It warns us to be cautious of the current celebration of mixture in popular culture and identity studies, which may, contrary to all appearances, mask persistent racism and nostalgia for purity.
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We Shall Not Be Moved - The Desegregation Of The University Of Georgia

by Robert A. Pratt

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 Pratt offers a rigorously researched account of the tumultuous events surrounding the desegregation of Georgia's flagship institution. Relying on archival materials and oral histories, Pratt debunks the myths encircling the landmark 1961 decision: namely the notion that the University of Georgia desegregated with very little violent opposition.
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Steal This Music - How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity

by Joanna Demers

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 Demersâ€™s look at how overzealous intellectual property (IP) litigation both stifles and stimulates musical creativity. A musicologist, industry consultant, and musician, Demers dissects works that have brought IP issues into the mainstream culture.
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Brazil And The United States - Convergence And Divergence

by Joseph (Principal) Smith

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 Although Brazil and the United States have long regarded each other sympathetically, relations between the two countries have been adversely affected by distance, language barriers, and cultural indifference. In this comprehensive overview, Smith examines the history of Brazil-U.S. relations from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
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Brazil And The United States - Convergence And Divergence

by Joseph (Principal) Smith

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 Although Brazil and the United States have long regarded each other sympathetically, relations between the two countries have been adversely affected by distance, language barriers, and cultural indifference. In this comprehensive overview, Smith examines the history of Brazil-U.S. relations from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
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James Monroe Smith - Georgia Planter, Before Death And After

by E. Merton Coulter

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 Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in hearsay and folklore as profusely and as controversially as has James Monroe Smith, who became a millionaire farmer around the turn of the twentieth century. He was born near Washington, Georgia, in 1839 and died on his plantation a few miles from Athens in 1915.
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Born To Rebel - An Autobiography

by Benjamin E. Mays

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 Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years and as the first president of the Atlanta School Board. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.
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Never Surrender - Confederate Memory And Conservatism In The South Carolina Upcountry

by W. Scott Poole

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 Brings new clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and the South's collective memory of the Civil War. Poole explores notions of white supremacy, economic independence, masculine honor, evangelical religion, and a rejection of modernity.
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Where There Are Mountains - An Environmental History Of The Southern Appalachians

by Donald Edward Davis

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 Spanning a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, this work explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environments. It covers more than 400 years of geological, ecological, anthropological and historical development in the region.
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Cuba And The United States - Ties Of Singular Intimacy

by Louis A., Jr. Perez

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 PÃ©rez examines the points at which the two nations y have made contactâ€"politically, culturally, economicallyâ€"and explores the dilemmas that proximity to the United States has posed to Cubans in their quest for national identity.
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Hunger Overcome? - Food And Resistance In Twentieth-Century African American Literature

by Andrew Warnes

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 This book investigates the juxtaposition of malnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Warnes focuses on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison, and considers how black characters respond to whites' attempts at regulating access to nourishment, whether physical or intellectual.
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