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Chunyan Li is a course instructor with many years of experience in teaching about time series analysis. His book is essential for students and rese...

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. The first in a...

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy, " he descri...

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide mul...

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

A groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization that examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. ...

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word 'tacky' has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called 't...

With On to Petersburg, Gordon Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between General...

Explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two fame...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

Reducere. On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft t...

If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the ...

As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illne...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

The compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young a...

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." --...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Ge...

Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

Reducere. Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set...

Reducere. Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at L...

Reducere. DescriptionToo often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range ...

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Ameri...

Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sea...

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, encompassing ecological devastat...

Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Evere...

Examines blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of Gamerg...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as "the brains of the Confederacy." H...

DescriptionAlthough we remember John James Audubon's years in Louisiana primarily for the art he produced there, his writings reflect the profound ...

Reducere. A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk im...

Reducere. Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

Reducere. Located at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped Mississippi flyway zone, south Louisiana serves as a seasonal stopover for wintering birds from all ...

"Splendid. . . . McAlexander's biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters."--Chicago Tr...

"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us, " writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabi...

Reducere. Two self-proclaimed "crotchety old horticulture professors, " Ed O'Rourke and Leon Standifer share an immense love of gardening, a vast knowledge o...

Reducere. Nestled on the banks of the Cane River, Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) is perhaps the most beautiful inland town in Louisiana. Founded in 171...

Reducere. The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high. It stands out today as one of the most successful and inspi...

Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first...

Reducere. Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career a...

Reducere. Before The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth n...

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical disc...

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical disc...

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becomi...

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prej...

Reducere. Unsurpassed since their publication fifty years ago, Ezra J. Warner s Genderals in Blue and Generals in Gray provide a complete guide to the milita...

Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking-- over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no perio...

Reducere. A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (Ki...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-d...

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. Hi...

Reducere. At nearly 1.4 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin in south central Louisiana comprises America's largest swamp wilderness. Award-winning nature ph...

Reducere. With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconst...

Reducere. "A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study ...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans: The Underground Guide shows visitors how to experience the Big Easy like a local, looking past staples like beignets and Bo...

Reducere. In the post--World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America'...

Reducere. Louisiana Young Readers' Choice AwardMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So...

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -...

Reducere. Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured...

Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson explores ...

Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countr...

Reducere. The Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinki...