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View book details for Cassius M. Clay
Freedom's Champion
Turner Publishing Company
The emancipationist Cassius M. Clay has long been one of Kentucky's most controversial and misunderstood figures. This new biography examines his important, though undervalued, place in history from the anti-slavery movement to his role as Lincoln's minister to Russia during …
View book details for Raumerfahrung - Raumerfindung
Erzahlte Welten des Mittelalters zwischen Orient und Okzident
De Gruyter
Gegenstand der Beitrage des Bandes sind literarische Raumkonzepte des europaischen Mittelalters. Das Begriffspaar "Erfahrung" und "Erfindung" stellt dabei eine entscheidende Weiche: Reale und imaginare Welten stehen nicht, wie es scheinen konnte, im Widerspruch zueinander, sondern erganzen sich auf dynamische Weise. …
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Die offentliche Debatte in der deutschen Aufklarung 1687-1796
De Gruyter
Nach einer umfangreichen theoretischen Einfuhrung wird auf der Grundlage von sieben Fallstudien die Funktion der offentlichen Debatte fur die Entstehung burgerlicher Offentlichkeit und Aufklarung im protestantischen Raum des Alten Reiches analysiert. Die Untersuchung bietet zugleich einen methodischen Zugriff zur Erforschung …
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Letters from a Louisiana Swamp Rabbit
LSU Press
Swamper, a fictitious swamp rabbit, lives in the bottomland hardwood forest, or overflow swamp, which is a very real environment. In twelve "letters" addressed to his human friends, Swamper shares his vivid observations about life in a Louisiana swamp. With …
View book details for A Broken Regiment
The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
LSU Press
A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered …
View book details for City Adrift
New Orleans Before and After Katrina
LSU Press
Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror asdespite all the warnings and studiesevery system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more …
View book details for The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection
A Drama in Five Acts
LSU Press
Based on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a representative of the French Assemblee nationale, Monsieur de Tendale, arrives at …
View book details for Treating the Public
Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
LSU Press
In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This innovative study uncovers the rapid expansion …
View book details for Counterfeit Justice
The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne
LSU Press
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly …
LSU Press
"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on …
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The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868
LSU Press
This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. …
LSU Press
In March, 1945, the U.S. War Department issued a restricted document called Handbook on German Military Forces. The restricted classification was removed in 1953, but the handbook has until now remained virtually unknown. The book is a massive compendium of …
View book details for From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
A History of Ecological Design
LSU Press
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing …
View book details for Defying Jim Crow
African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 19001960
LSU Press
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories …
View book details for Designing in Ivory and White
Suzanne Perron Gowns from the Inside Out
LSU Press
The name "Suzanne Perron" is synonymous with exquisite detail. Her expertly tailored gowns -- worn at the elaborate balls of Mardi Gras and down the aisle at New Orleans weddings -- draw from the legacy of couture design. After years …
View book details for The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America
LSU Press
Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American …
LSU Press
Walter Schmidt's life isn't simple: His wife Nadine wants to live next door to her dead first husband's mother, the Mississippi River is three blocks down the street and rising dangerously, FDR is dead, and the war seems like it …
LSU Press
In the heart of Louisianas Atchafalaya Basin, a letter sent from an isolated settlement, addressed to Hautes-Pyrenees, France, and marked undeliverable, shows up at the Bayou Chene post office. That same day locals find a dog, nearly dead and tethered …
View book details for Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Finding Center in Theory and Practice
LSU Press
The successful realization of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity for clear and …
View book details for Designing for Sustainability
A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services
O'Reilly Media
Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. Thats because todays average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow …
Sigma Theta Tau International
Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world have attempted to build and sustain evidence-based practice (EBP) cultures and environments, yet they have struggled to clearly understand what EBP competency means. Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare clears up …
Grand Central Publishing
Surviving the holidays will take a Christmas miracle . . . Ex-cop Cat O'Connor is bored working for her sister, Chloe, as a personal assistant on the set of her soap opera. Until Chloe gets an opportunity to audition for …
View book details for The Social History of Agriculture
From the Origins to the Current Crisis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller argue that people, rather than markets, have been …
Grand Central Publishing
When a drunken decision takes a newly single, newly unemployed woman thousands of miles from the life she knows, she'll need to figure out what she truly wants for her futureand who she truly loves.28-year-old Cassie Moore has always played …
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