Lsu Press: 854 books
by Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle...
Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
It is beyond dispute that slavery has always been abhorrent and, wherever it still exists, should be abolished. Where most scholarly writing on slavery in the past has concentrated on examining slaves as victims, recent writings have taken a more nuanced view of slavery in focusing on the slaves themselves...
New Directions in Slavery Studies
Commodification, Community, and Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes—commodification, community, and comparison—and indicating paths for future inquiry.
New Directions in Slavery...
Political Polling in the Digital Age
The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions...
Selling ASAP
Art, Science, Agility, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Selling ASAP combines both timely and timeless components of selling to help professionals achieve their sales objectives in today's fast-paced business world. As the authors demonstrate, rapidly changing customer expectations have led to a dramatic shift in the business of selling. Customers no longer...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Propaganda has become an inescapable part of modern American society. On a daily basis, news outlets, politicians, and the entertainment industry -- with motives both dubious and well-intentioned -- launch propagandistic appeals.
In Propaganda and American Democracy, eight writers explore various...
St. Francisville
Louisiana’s Historic River Bluff Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In the rolling hills of Louisiana's Felicianas, less than an hour north of Baton Rouge on the east bank of the Mississippi River, lies the historic community of St. Francisville. For generations, this picturesque town has inspired a variety of creative artists, from naturalist John James Audubon,...
Louisiana Place Names
Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an...
The Coming of Southern Prohibition
The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In The Coming of Southern Prohibition, Michael Lewis examines the rise and fall of South Carolina's state-run liquor dispensary system from its emergence in the 1890s until statewide prohibition in 1915. The dispensary system, requiring government-owned outlets to bottle and sell all alcohol, began...
Casanova Was A Book Lover
And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who,...
Wolf Moon Blood Moon
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In Wolf Moon Blood Moon, Ed Falco considers love and the loss of love, what we have today and what we remember of yesterday, the promise of youth and the disappointments and pleasures of aging. By turns whimsical, meditative, and poignant, these poems examine the joys and sorrows of living.
The...
Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace
Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace, David Dowling examines an often-overlooked aspect of the history of publishing -- relationships, of both a business and a personal nature. The book focuses on several intriguing duos of the nineteenth century and explores the economics of literary partnerships...
by Jan Heller Levi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I’ve read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversations....
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
The Apprentice Years 1924-1934
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
In America’s twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989). The most intimate of Warren’s “letters,” his personal correspondence, now join...