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Gullah Folktales From The Georgia Coast

de Charles Colcock Jones

31,77€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.
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The Chicken Book

de Charles Daniel e Page Smith

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 This original, frequently astounding book is a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chickenâ€™s biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology. It includes lively discussions of the chickenâ€™s role in literature and history, its medicinal uses, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more.
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The Civil War As A Crisis In Gender - Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

de Leeann Whites

41,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A groundbreaking study of how the Civil War challenged, changed, and confused gender roles in a South that had long been ordered according to a privileged white male overview. Whites focuses on Augusta, Georgia, to follow wartime events as they were played out in the lives of actual men and women.
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Poems Of Sidney Lanier

de Sidney Lanier

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 Though Lanier's poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the Old South, his concerns for the natural world, spirituality, and the character of society offer universal appeal. This anthology includes Lanier's best-known and most celebrated works.
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Where Death And Glory Meet - Colonel Robert Gould Shaw And The 54th Massachusetts Infantry

de Russell Duncan

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 Using information gleaned from Shaw's letters home before and during the war, Duncan tells the story of the rebellious son of wealthy Boston abolitionists who never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's vanguard black regiment and give his life to the cause of freedom.
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The Flexible Lyric

de Ellen Bryant Voigt

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 These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems.
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The Year Of The Hare - America In Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964

de Francis X. Winters

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 When the United States government engineered the overthrow of the troublesome South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963, it set in motion a tumultuous course of events deepening the Vietnam War. The Year of the Hare asks why President John F. Kennedy decided to depose his ally of nine years.
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Sky Over El Nido - Stories

de C. M. Mayo

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 Mayoâ€™s strangely beautiful yet disturbing stories reveal characters who envision the solutions to their lives in a world where nothing is stable, nothing can be nailed down, and we are all suddenly, dizzyingly faced with sharing the same pitiless sky.
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The American Roman Noir - Hammett, Cain, And Chandler

de William Marling

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 Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His search for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-era culture.
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Confessions Of Edward Isham - A Poor White Life Of The Old South

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 This compelling collection of original documents sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. Essays accompanying the autobiography examine the document from a variety of perspectives: crime, frontier life, gender relations, labor, and the genre of nineteenth-century confessional literature.
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The Inward Morning - A Philosophical Exploration In Journal Form

de Henry Bugbee

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 When first published in 1958, The Inward Morning was ahead of its time. Boldly original, it blended East and West, nature and culture, the personal and the universal. Readers, however, later embraced Bugbeeâ€™s lyrical philosophy of wilderness, making it an underground classic.
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A Documentary History Of Slavery In North America

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 Intimate as well as comprehensive, the documentsâ€"personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sourcesâ€"reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the most respected catalogs of firsthand information about slavery in North America.
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Culture, Biology, And Sexuality

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 Through articles dealing with the difficulties in obtaining observational data and the relationship between biological and cultural influences, the contributors seek to understand why anthropology has not been better able to integrate behavioral and ideological approaches.
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Southern Indians And Anthropologists - Culture, Politics, And Identity

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 The contributors consider such issues as education, community development, funding, and the preservation of languages, sacred texts, oral traditions, and artifacts. They also offer personal insights into the pressures that can bear on working relationships between anthropologists and Native Americans.
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Nature'S Management - Writings On Landscape And Reform, 1822-1859

de Edmund Ruffin

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 History remembers Edmund Ruffin as the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861. This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from his writings, Kirby presents an innovative agronomist and pioneering conservationist.
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Selling Mrs. Consumer - Christine Frederick And The Rise Of Household Efficiency

de Janice Williams Rutherford

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 In an effort to reconcile her desire to succeed in the public sphere of modernization and consumerism with the knowledge that most middle-class Americans still held traditional beliefs about gender roles, Frederick fashioned a career for herself that encouraged other women to remain at home.
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Signifying Serpents And Mardi Gras Runners - Representing Identity In Selected Souths

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 This work offers challenging new insights into some of the roles that the media, tourism, and charismatic community members can play when a community compromises its heritage or even denies it. The setting of each study is a different marginalized community in the South.
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Unintended Consequences Of Constitutional Amendment

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 In this collection of original essays, a team of distinguished historians, political scientists, and legal scholars led by award-winning constitutional historian David E. Kyvig examines significant instances in which reform produced something other than the foreseen result.
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Tales From The Cloud Walking Country

de Marie Campbell; Ilustração: Clare Leighton

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 Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths.
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Communities And Capital - Local Struggles Against Corporate Power And Privatization

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 The eleven anthropologists, economists, and researchers represented in this volume address this disparity of global capitalism and offer surprising solutions to the present effects of the burgeoning "global marketplace" on some of today's struggling communities.
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El Deli Latino - Prosa Y Poesia

de Judith Ortiz Cofer

29,07€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Christmas Emporium - The Miniature Shop Of Imagination

de Sally Wallace

53,78€

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The Long Ride

de Pelt Virginia Van Pelt e Woolston D.M. Woolston

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The Print Renaissance In America - A Revolution

de Ronald L Ruble

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