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    £95.49

    Offers an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general. The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking.

  • - The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
    by Joyce Linda Broussard
    £90.49

    Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands.

  • - Their Lives and Times
     
    £95.49

    This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War to the struggle to secure rights for gay and lesbian women in the late twentieth century.

  • - Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
    by Sarah L. Silkey
    £33.49

    During the early 1890s, a series of lynchings brought international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist, to travel to England to cultivate moral indignation against lynching. This title explores Wells's antilynching campaigns.

  • by Vlad Kravtsov
    £25.99

    Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

  • by Tiyi M. Morris
    £74.99

    Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.

  • - The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
    by Jon Smith
    £74.99

    The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.

  • - Their Lives and Times - Volume 2
     
    £95.49

    By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. This is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives.

  • - The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
    by Benjamin Gardner
    £29.49 - 85.49

  • by Elizabeth Kytle
    £29.49

    A description of the inner life of a paranoid schizophrenic, Robby Wilde, who, from the age of nine, heard a man's voice saying ""I've got you"". At the age of 53 he asked his friend, Elizabeth Kytle, to write about his affliction.

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