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Forgotten Women - Florida Women'S Letters From The Great Depression

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 Includes hundreds of letters which paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. This work reveals the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women, however, reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida.
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Gardens And Historic Plants Of The Antebellum South

by James R. Cothran

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 An illustrated volume featuring botanical prints, lithographs, garden plans, historic photographs, and contemporary photography to reveal the rich garden history of the American South.
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Stateside Soldier - Life In The Women'S Army Corps, 1944-1945

by Aileen Kilgore Henderson

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 Aileen Kilgore enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her discharge in late 1945, she served as one of more than 150,000 American women who joined the WAC. This work includes her diaries and letters of that time.
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The Essential Chaplin - Perspectives On The Life And Art Of The Great Comedian

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 In this collection of some thirty essays, Richard Schickel has selected the most provocative and insightful criticisms of Chaplin's life and work, from the great comedian's beginnings through his early features, his mid-life crisis, and his late films. Mr. Schickel, the last critic to study Chaplin intensively (for his award-winning documentary film of a year ago), offers a long Introduction.
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God On The Quad - How Religious Colleges And The Missionary Generation Are Changing America

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

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 In this eye-opening report, Naomi Schaefer Riley investigates religious colleges of various faiths, interviewing administrators, professors, and students to produce the first comprehensive account of this important trend. "Insightful, balanced, and respectful."-Alan Wolfe.
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Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe'S Tales From The Grand Tour, 1890-1910

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 Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sinkler married into Philadelphia's wealthy Coxe family in 1870. Widowed just three years later, she dedicated herself to a lifelong pursuit of philanthropy, intellectual endeavor, and extensive travel. This is a travelogue of adventures through exotic lands as experienced by her and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Echoes From A Distant Frontier - The Brown Sisters' Correspondence From Antebellum Florida

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 An edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen Brown, two single women in their twenties, who left a comfortable New England home in 1835 for the Florida frontier.
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Joyce'S Messianism - Dante, Negative Existence, And The Messianic Self

by Gian Balsamo

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 In his study of negative existence and how it affects James Joyce's principal characters, Gian Balsamo joins the ongoing debate about the Irish writer's relationship to Dante and considers the centrality of messianism to that relationship.
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A Faithful Heart - The Journals Of Emmala Reed, 1865 And 1866

by Emmala Reed

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 Emmala Reed's journals from 1865 and 1866 present a detailed account of life in western South Carolina as war turned to reconstruction. Reed's post-war writings are particularly important given their rarity - many Civil War diarists stopped writing at war's end.
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Country Women Cope With Hard Times - A Collection Of Oral Histories

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 This volume tells the stories of women born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, who grew up on farms, in labour camps and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically.
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Colonial Virginia'S Cooking Dynasty

by Katharine E. Harbury

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 The cookbooks of colonial and antebellum America contained recipes, medical cures and housekeeping information that women of that time deemed necessary for family life. This work contains commentary on two early manuals of food preparation and entertaining in colonial America.
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In The Great Maelstrom - Conservatives In Post-Civil War South Carolina

by Charles J. Holden

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 This work is a study of South Carolina intellectual history from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the 1945 advent of the Atomic Age. It shows how the state's conservatives adjusted their views at critical times, while clinging to the other core values through the decades after the war.
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Narrating Knowledge In Flannery O'Connor'S Fiction

by Donald E. Hardy

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 This work examines themes in Flannery O'Connor's fiction concerning the limitations of human knowledge. It argues that attending to O'Connor's stylistic strategies allows the best access to her views about knowledge in all its manifestations - spiritual, rational, and emotional.
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An Aesthetics Of Morality - Pedagogic Voice And Moral Dialogue In Mann, Camus, Conrad And Dostoevsky

by John Krapp

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 Allying himself with those who believe that there is room for attention to moral considerations in literary criticism, the author of this volume argues for the possibility of speaking about the ethical dimensions of reading without reducing the discussion to dogmatic declaratives.
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Southern Women At Vassar - The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916

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 When sisters Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, daughters of a prominent South Carolina mercantile family, left their home in the 1880s to attend Vassar College in New York, they entered a world that challenged their beliefs about women and society. This text collects their letters home.
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A Lady Of The High Hills - Natalie Delage Sumter

by Thomas Tisdale

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 Natalie Delage Sumter was the godchild of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and wife of Thomas Sumter Jr, a US diplomat and son of South Carolina's Revolutionary War "Gamecock". The author focuses on her adjustment to South Carolina, education of the family's slaves and creation of a lending library.
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The Carolinian Florist - Of Governor John Drayton Of South Carolina, 1766-1822

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 This remarkable regional botanical guide was authored by South Carolina's fortieth governor in 1888 and published for the first time by the South Caroliniana Library in 1943.
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Dearest Hugh - The Courtship Letters Of Gabrielle Drake And Hugh Mccoll, 1900-1901

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 Offers a window into courtship during the early twentieth century through a collection of three hundred love letters exchanged between Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl from 1900 to 1901, illustrating the hopes and sacrifices of an upper-class couple forging a marriage in a small southern town.
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Army 101 - Inside Rotc In A Time Of War

by David Axe

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 Offers an insider's look at the state of training and the cultural values being taught to those who join the ranks of ROTC graduates. The author spent a year interviewing and following the lives of student-cadets and trainers with the USC Gamecock Battalion to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a representative university ROTC program.
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A Bluestocking In Charleston - Life And Career Of Laura Bragg

by Louise Anderson Allen

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 In early 20th-century Charleston, Laura Bragg was called a woman ahead of her time, a fresh drink of water in a cultural desert, but never a "proper Southern lady". This biography tells the story of the woman who changed the cultural face of Charleston and the nation's approach to museum education.
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Lily Briscoe'S Chinese Eyes - Bloomsbury, Modernism And China

by Patricia Ondek Laurence

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 The author traces the romance of Julian Bell and Shuhua Ling, placing Ling, known as a Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. But she encounters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism.
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The Roman Years Of A South Carolina Artist - Caroline Carson'S Letters Home, 1872-1892

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 Caroline Petigru Carson seemed destined from birth for life as a southern plantation mistress. Yet Carson challenged the conventions of 19th-century Charleston and settled first in New York and then in Rome. From Italy Carson wrote hundreds of letters home, many of which are gathered here.
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Like A Sponge Thrown Into Water - Francis Lieber'S European Travel Journal Of 1844-1845

by Francis Lieber

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 The USA's first political scientist, Francis Lieber was the founder of the Encyclopedia Americana, wrote the Civil War-era code of military conduct, and published works of significance in penology and political philosophy. This text is the travel journal he wrote during a return to Europe.
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A History Of The University Of South Carolina, 1940-2000

by Henry H. Lesesne

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 This text recounts the historic transformation of the University of South Carolina into a modern research university, grounding that change in the context of the modernization of South Carolina and the South in general.
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