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Reducere. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book Award of the American Revolu...

Reducere. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his p...

Reducere. Pat Conroy�s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has r...

This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines recurring thematic ...

A dissection of 20th century author W.G. Sebald's fiction and his acclaim. It investigates his universal appeal and explores themes, issues, and in...

Surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of ""The Barr...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of S...

Reducere. Tideland Treasure is an illustrated guide to the beaches and marshes of the eastern coast of the United States, encompassing seashores and wetlands...

Reducere. Rife with historical details and peppered with comic characters, The Golden Christmas remains a timeless tale of South Carolina's rich holiday heri...

Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal i...

Serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifac...

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. Th...

Serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifac...

Reducere. Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers-until now. My...

Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. ...

Reducere. The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America seri...

This is the comprehensive biography of one of the least known Revolutionary War generals, Benjamin Lincoln. It explains the events that shaped Linc...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1779 Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York, seeking to capture the colonies' most...

Reducere. First published in 1930 as 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, this collection of more than three hundred recipes was gathered by Blanche S. Rhett fro...

Reducere. Gardening Notes for South Carolina offers is a handbook for beginners and intermediate gardeners and includes expert guidance on planting and maint...

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

Reading the World explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works, crafted during his Tennessee period from 195...

Reducere. First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the breeding and rearing of slaves for sale to Weste...

Reducere. The Hindu world is permeated by sound: drums, bells, gongs, cymbals, conches, flutes, and an array of vocalizations play a central role in worship....

Reducere. Jonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled ...

Reducere. For topping French fries or cottage cheese, K rations or school lunches, ketchup has long been an American favorite. In Pure Ketchup, Andrew F. Smi...

DescriptionSince the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety of dramatic and literary genres. T...

DescriptionIn Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum examines the thematic intricacies and astute social commentary of Adams's eleven novels and ...

Reducere. As the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a recons...

Reducere. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illus...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): Richard A. HorsleyNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 236 x 159 x 22Cover...

Reducere. Powerful and mysterious, sharks inspire both fascination and fear. Worldwide, oceans are home to some five-hundred species, and of those, fifty-six...

Presents a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833-1921), who was among the most successful captains runn...

Reducere. In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for socia...

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still kno...

Reducere. In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten s...

DescriptionContinuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountr...

Reducere. When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of...

Reducere. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This souther...

On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State Colle...

DescriptionIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined force...

Reducere. For decades racism and social inequity have stayed at the center of the national conversation in the United States, sustaining the debate around pu...

Reducere. In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the...

For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity. Through ...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): Richard C. MarbackNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2012Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Reducere. The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide...

DescriptionHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no smal...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Once the dust set...

Reducere. DescriptionA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South ...

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily ...

Since the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the national Democratic Party, rural white southerners have experienced a painstakingly slow transformational ...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectua...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decad...

Reducere. As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, Sout...

DescriptionIn this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of r...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Provides an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, s...

Reducere. The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated; Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart fr...

DescriptionIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, ...

Reducere. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentie...

Reducere. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...