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The Confederate Congress

by Wildred Buck Yearns

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 Published in 1960, this study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Jefferson Davis administration describes the legislation, debates, personalities, and politics of this turbulent time. An appendix gives brief biographical data on the Confederate congressmen, including their voting records on the Davis administration proposals.
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The Travels Of William Bartram - Naturalist Edition

by William Bartram

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 For years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harperâ€™s naturalistâ€™s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartramâ€™s pioneering survey. Complete with notes and commentary, an annotated index, maps, a bibliography, and a general index, this classic is now back in print.
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The Great New Wilderness Debate

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 An expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of â€œwildernessâ€ reveals the recent controversies that surround those conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness â€œpreservationâ€ and those who argue for â€œwise use.â€
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Dixie Emporium - Tourism, Foodways, And Consumer Culture In The American South

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 This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners' efforts to commodify their identity reveal regional anxieties about consumerism, tourism, and memory.
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On Interpretation - Meaning And Inference In Law, Psychoanalysis, And Literature

by Patrick Colm Hogan

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 On Interpretation challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. Patrick Colm Hogan first sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and then develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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Here, George Washington Was Born - Memory, Material Culture, And The Public History Of A National Monument

by Seth C. Bruggeman

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 Bruggeman sifts through years of park records to reconstruct negotiations of power among unexpected claimants on Washington's memory. By paying close attention to material culture, he reveals the centrality of race and gender in the construction of Washington's public memory and reminds us that national parks have not always welcomed all Americans.
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Hardscrabble - Poems

by Kevin Mcfadden

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 Playful and rich, formally inventive, funny and wry, Kevin McFadden's poems examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language. Transforming empty spans of interstate and inconspicuous small towns into landscapes fertile with wordplay and rampant with irony.
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A Companion To The Crying Of Lot 49

by J. Kerry Grant

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 Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes an addition of more than fifty annotations and approximately eighty annotations have been expanded.
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Social Harp

by John G. Mccurry

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 One of the rarest country songbooks, it contains 222 pieces, mostly folktune settings, dating from the time between the Revolution and the Civil War. This facsimile reprinting has appendices useful for the study of its sources and an introduction that throws light on the men who wrote for nineteenth-century American songsters.
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Illustrating The Machine That Makes The World - From J. G. Heck'S 1851 Pictorial Archive Of Nature And Science

by Joshua Poteat

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 In this book-length series, poems with titles such as â€œIllustrating the theory of interferenceâ€ and â€œIllustrating the construction of railroadsâ€ are paired with nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics. Yet the poems relate to the images in an oblique rather than a direct way.
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The Bigness Of The World

by Lori Ostlund

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The Mansion Of Happiness - Poems

by Robin Ekiss

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 Robin Ekiss's meditations on memory and mortality are a canary in the coal mine of imagination. Reading her work is like peering into the perfectly still world of a diorama or daguerreotype: an experience both uncanny and uncompromising.
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The Pale Of Settlement - Stories

by Margot Singer

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 The Pale of Settlement is a collection of stories that explore the borderland between Israelis and American Jews, emigrants and expatriates, and vanished homelands and the dangerous world in which we live today.
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Free Union - Poems

by John Casteen

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 The poems in this debut collection revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen ranges from the farm to the shop floor, from the rivers of the Piedmont to the shoulders of the Blue Ridge, and from the hyperattentiveness of childhood through the anxieties and joys of fatherhood.
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Quiver - Poems

by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

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 At the crossroads of science, mathematics, and art lives Quiver, a stunning collection of poems that seeks to reconcile the empirical truths of science with the emotional truths of human experience.
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A Voice For Earth - American Writers Respond To The Earth Charter

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 A collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter, which was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.
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A Companion To The Crying Of Lot 49

by J. Kerry Grant

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 This expanded and updated companion to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying Lot of 49 contains more than five hundred notes keyed to the 2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics, the 1986 Harper Perennial Library, and the 1967 Bantam editions. It adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994.
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Anna, Washing - Poems

by Ted Genoways

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 Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm. Genowaysâ€™s graceful formalism makes percussive music of a story marked by isolation and brutal difficulty.
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On Tarzan

by Alex Vernon

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 As Alex Vernon looks at how and why we have accorded mythical, archetypal status to Tarzan, he takes stock of the Tarzan books, films, and comics as well as some of the many faux- and femme-Tarzan rip-offs, the toys and other tie-in products, the fanzines, and the appropriation of Tarzan's image in the media.
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Devotion - A Novel Based On The Life Of Winnie Davis, Daughter Of The Confederacy

by Julia Oliver

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 Re-creates the life of Varina Anne (Winnie) Davis, the youngest child of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. This book measures the massive weight of memory on individuals caught up in the sweep of history.
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Southeastern Indians Since The Removal Era

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 The authors of these essays are an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists and historians who present a comprehensive study of their subject. Published in 1979, the book takes an ethnohistorical approach and touches on the history, anthropology, and sociology of the South as well as on Native American studies.
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T. S. Eliot - An Essay On The American Magus

by Marion Montgomery

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 This study is focused on T. S. Eliotâ€™s developing commitment to Christianity. Montgomery shows how Eliotâ€™s intellectual and emotional uneasiness in the early poems is reflected in his technical devices and how Eliotâ€™s imagery grows richer during the progress of his spiritual journey.
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The Civil Rights Reader - American Literature From Jim Crow To Reconciliation

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 An anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry that presents a classroom-tested selection of literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. It shows how Americans negotiated the civil rights movement - politically, philosophically, emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.
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Here, George Washington Was Born - Memory, Material Culture, And The Public History Of A National Monument

by Seth C. Bruggeman

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 Examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. This book looks at patriotism and collective memory.
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