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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are...
Blacks in Blackface
A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage between 1900 and 1940. An invaluable resource for scholars and historians focused on African American culture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by...
by James M. Paradis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The Sesquicentennial edition of African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign, expands the range of research beyond its original 2006 edition. With a foreword from chief historian emeritus of the National Park Service, Edwin C. Bearss, Paradis sets the stage by introducing readers to the important...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
Beneath the American Renaissance
The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation,...
Who Writes for Black Children?
African American Children’s Literature before 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history. A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. This history incorporates...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
The antiquity of Native American bounces back hundreds of years ago till the extant. The aboriginal inhabitants left their mark in many climates and tribes in the form of ethnicities, relic’s and registers made by the white voyagers. When European explorers set foot on American soil and had dealings...
by George Catlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Crow, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche, Mandan, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Winnebago, Creek, Assiniboin; wild prairies teeming with buffalo; the sacred site of Catlinite stone — all were subjects of Catlin's letters and paintings. For eight years (1832–39) George Catlin ventured among the Indians of...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists...
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the...
by Clare Virginia Eby, Benjamin Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important...