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Appalachian Passage
$25.95Appalachian Passage is based on the journal kept by Helen B. Hiscoe during the year that she, her physician husband, and their baby daughter spent in a West Virginia coal-mining…
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Bound for Shady Grove
$28.95In Bound for Shady Grove, essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music,…
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Flannery O’Connor’s South
$25.95Flannery O’Connor’s South offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O’Connor’s life and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles’ personal experiences in…
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Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia
$29.95Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written…
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Invisible Southerners
$28.95Most Southerners who fought in the Civil War were native born, white, and Confederate. However, thousands with other ethnic backgrounds also took a stand–and not always for the South. Invisible…
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$26.95Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and…
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Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia
$46.95This history of the American Revolution in Georgia offers a thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and challenged colonists’ loyalties. Despite underdevelopment and isolation, eighteenth-century Georgia was an alluring…
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New Studies in the History of American Slavery
$71.95These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades,…
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Nonproliferation Norms
$23.95Too often, our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking an important question: Why do so many more states not have such weapons?…
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Styles of Creation
$46.95The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing…
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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872
$25.95It is remarkable that the most serious intervention by the federal government to protect the rights of its new African American citizens during Reconstruction (and well beyond) has not, until…
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The Quiet Enemy
$20.95In seven stories set in the rural South and West, Cecil Dawkins displays her remarkable talent for getting beneath the surface of ordinary lives and revealing their foibles and idiosyncrasies….