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The Other War Of 1812 - The Patriot War And The American Invasion Of Spanish East Florida

by James G. Cusick

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 Cusick, a lively storyteller as well as a meticulous scholar, conveys the savagery of the borderlands conflict that pitted American adventurers and anti-Spanish partisans against Spanish loyalists and their allies, who included Seminole Indians and escaped slaves.
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The Muses Among Us - Eloquent Listening And Other Pleasures Of The Writer'S Craft

by Kim Stafford

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 An encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. Guiding us from ideas through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of write
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Fate Of The Wild - The Endangered Species Act And The Future Of Biodiversity

by Bonnie B. Burgess

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 a factual and balanced discussion of the various sides of the contemporary debate over the Endangered Species Act, alongside the author's clearly stated position: We are overpopulating, polluting, and overdeveloping our environment, and as a species we have embarked on a crash course toward a sixth great extinction event on this Earth.
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Chimpanzee Travels - On And Off The Road In Africa

by Dale Peterson

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 A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he crisscrossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. Along the way, he meets Jane Goodall and several other renowned primate researchers. This is travel writing with a purpose, his account inspires both admiration and concern for Africaâ€™s people and natural diversity.
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Values At Sea - Ethics For The Marine Environment

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 While the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship, and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Values at Sea makes an important step toward moving environmental ethics discussions into a broader framework.
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Women And British Aestheticism

by Talia Schaffer

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 A collection of essays on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists and critics who played a central and long-forgotten role in the history of aestheticism. It demonstrates how aestheticism offered people a set of concepts and a vocabulary for addressing issues such as gender.
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George And Martha Washington - Portraits From The Presidential Years

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 George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits between 1789 and 1797, collected here in this volume. It suggests that what they all reflect is the great need the new Republic had for portraits of its first chief executive. The book offers a portrait of the original First Couple.
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A Southern Practice - The Diary And Autobiography Of Charles A Hentz, Md

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 As a physician practicing in the rural South in the years leading up to and through the Civil War, Charles Arnould Hentz (1827-1894) lived in the midst of enormous changes in southern society and medicine. A Southern Practice is the diary that Hentz kept for more than twenty years.
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Caribbean And Southern - Transnational Perspectives On The U.S. South

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 Ranging across the colonial and postcolonial eras of the American South and the Caribbean, the six essays in this volume take a fresh look at the regionsâ€™ transnational linkages and challenge our notions about the cultural and economic trajectories of the African diaspora in this part of the world.
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Mary Telfair To Mary Few - Selected Letters, 1802-1844

by Mary Telfair

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 This volume gathers nearly half of some 300 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend, Mary Few of New York. These remarkable literary exchanges between women of high social rank in the early national and antebellum United States address both personal affairs and intellectual interests.
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The American South In The Twentieth Century

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 Reflecting the writers' interests in southern history, politics, literature, and religion, the essays engage some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed - or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness?
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The Correspondence Of Sarah Morgan And Francis Warrington Dawson, With Selected Editorials Written By Sarah Morgan For The Charleston News And Courier - With Selected Editorials Written By Sarah Morgan For The Charleston News And Courier

by Giselle Roberts

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 The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). Morganâ€™s commentary gives us a candid portrayal of the way one southern woman viewed her postwar worldâ€"even as she struggled to find her place in it.
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Pioneering American Wine - Writings Of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist

by Nicholas Herbemont

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 This volume collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is considered to be the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States. Included are his two major treatises on viticulture, 31 other published pieces on vine growing and wine making, and essays on his agrarian philosophy.
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The Architecture Of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta'S Scholar Architect

by Robert M. Craig

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 Francis Palmer Smith was the principal designer of Atlanta-based Pringle and Smith, one of the leading firms of the early twentieth-century South. As "The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith" shows, Smith was central to the establishment of the Beaux-Arts perspective in the South through his academic and professional career.
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Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim

by Meg Mcgavran Murray

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 Margaret Fuller, was a feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary. This biography discusses her Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father, who took over her upbringing, and her escape from her loveless home into books.
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America And The Americas - The United States In The Western Hemisphere

by Lester D. Langley

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 In this completely revised and updated edition, Langley covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive introduction to the history of U.S. relations with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada and discusses the formal structures and diplomatic postures underlying U.S. policy making.
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Princes Of Cotton - Four Diaries Of Young Men In The South, 1848-1860

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 These diaries, along with Stephen Berry's introduction, address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and how the Civil War provoked a seismic shift in southern masculinity.
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A Dubose Heyward Reader

by DuBose Heyward

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 DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a central figure in both the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance. This volume acquaints readers with writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by his play Porgy, and it also plumbs the complex sensibilities of the man behind that popular and enduring creation.
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A Dubose Heyward Reader

by DuBose Heyward

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 DuBose Heyward was a central figure in both the Charleston and Southern Renaissances, although he is often remembered simply as the author of "Porgy", the 1925 novel of Charleston. This reader acquaints us with the writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by "Porgy".
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Shared Histories - Transatlantic Letters Between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds And Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929â€“1966

by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds e Virginia Potter

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 These letters are filled with unguarded reflections on current events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Readers will also encounter various prominent English people and members of the aristocracy, the American southern elite, and such familiar names as Martha Graham, Walt Disney, and Ellen Glasgow.
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Shared Histories - Transatlantic Letters Between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds And Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-1966

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 Contains a collection of letters that include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. This book is filled with unguarded reflections on the events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war.
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A History Of The European Economy 1000-2000

by Francois Crouzet

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 A history of the European economy during the second millennium. It considers Europe as a whole rather than as a mosaic of individual states, and stresses the common economic institutions shared over time by the different regions of Europe and the networks of relations that have linked them.
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A History Of The European Economy 1000-2000

by Francois Crouzet

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 A history of the European economy during the second millennium. It considers Europe as a whole rather than as a mosaic of individual states, and stresses the common economic institutions shared over time by the different regions of Europe and the networks of relations that have linked them.
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Journey On The James - Three Weeks Through The Heart Of Virginia

by Earl Swift

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 From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other American landscape. This is a chronicle of the author's three weeks travelling through the heart of Virginia.
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