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  • - Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634
    by Martha K. Hoffman
    £37.99

    The children of Philip III of Spain (1578-1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584-1611) inherited great potential power. In Raised to Rule, Hoffman presents a deeply researched and stimulating study of the formative experiences of children in the royal households of early modern Spain.

  • - Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story
    by Robert Paul Lamb
    £27.99

    Provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Robert Paul Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.

  • by Grady McWhiney & Frank Lawrence Owsley
    £23.49

    First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials to reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant "yeoman farmer" middle class.

  • - Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900
    by William Ivy Hair & W. Fitzhugh Brundage
    £27.99

    With the few clues available, William Ivy Hair has pieced together the story of a man whose life spanned the thirty-four years from emancipation to 1900 - a man who tried to achieve dignity and self-respect in a time when people of his race could not exhibit such characteristics without fear of reprisal.

  • - Poems
    by Margaret Gibson
    £19.99

    One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honour the injunction "Work to simplify the heart", the poems are direct, empathetic, and tender in their study of life and death.

  • - Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition
    by Barbara L. Bellows
    £44.49

    Josephine Pinckney (1895-1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Barbara Bellows has produced the first biography of this private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time.

  • - Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans
    by Stephen J. Ochs
    £35.99

    Chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre.

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