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  • A Warring Nation

    Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad

    de Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown ...
    In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honor cannot be understood without considering the role of humiliation, which not only sets victor apart from ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    de Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Hearts of Darkness

    Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition

    de Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    ? ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    de Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • The Battlefield and Beyond

    Essays on the American Civil War

    de Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Rosemarie Zagarri, Alan M. Kraut, Leonne Hudson, Michael Connolly, Daniel E. Sutherland, Emory M. Thomas, David Kyvig, Judith Gentry, Herman Hattaway, Ken Nivison, Jane Turner Censer ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • American Literature from 1600 Through the 1850s

    de Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    Fiercely nationalistic, the first prominent American writers exhibited a profound pride in the territory that would come to be known as the United States. Predating even the Declaration of Independence, much early American writing entailed commentary on the newly developing American society. This volume examines the literature of the country in its nascence and writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, and ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beauty and the Brain

    The Science of Human Nature in Early America

    de Rachel E. Walker ...
    Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now-discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    de Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Leer más

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  • Mightier than the Sword

    Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

    de David S. Reynolds ...
    “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New YorkerIn this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    de Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus