This history of the political fortunes of the populist movement of the late nineteenth century examines the one region in which affiliated parties and candidates failed to make electoral headway. The
Stephen Cushman's Riffraff embodies the spirit of its title, a Middle English word for "every particle" or "things of small value." In this striking collection, scraps of the overlooked, and distastef
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced
Knight, a registered US patent agent, draws on the registry of the Confederate States Patent Office and other primary sources in this history of the Confederacy's patent office, how it operated, and h
Any appreciation of Louisiana's beautiful outdoors must include the lush variety of the state's ferns and lycophytes. Their striking diversity in form, color, and size makes identifying the array of s
Alice Friman's latest collection, Vinculum, roots for deep connections between people, nature, retrospection, and the inevitable biological destiny of the body. Friman's work branches out from the cor
Editors Mann (mass communication, Louisiana State U.) and Perlmutter (journalism and mass communication, U. of Iowa) and 26 contributors examine the new political playing field, one that includes the
Prenshaw, professor emerita of Southern studies at Louisiana State University, looks at the life writing of 18 Southern women authors, analyzing various issues such as racial consciousness and the def
The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile and divisive decade in American history. As an articulate and sagacious witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, America's Bicentennial, Jimmy Carte
Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide, a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding is a framed photograp
In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery.
From critically reading the corpus of American novelist and playwright Cormac McCarthy, Cooper (English, Monmouth College, Illinois) makes the case that idealism, heroism and redemption obliquely infu
In Occupied Women, twelve distinguished historians consider how womens reactions to occupation affected both the strategies of military leaders and ultimately even the outcome of the Civil War. Civil
Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In the thought-provoking The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature Tara Powell consi
Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Best known for his path-breaking work on the American Civil War and for an interdisciplina
Part crime novel, part text book, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into a lively narrative to educate and entertain.
This is a meticulous study of a neglected subject, with much that will reward scholars in the fields of Spanish and European studies--be they specialists in history, literary studies, art history, soc
The construction of the notions of nation and national identity followed its own distinct form in the Spanish speaking lands following the French Revolution, as demonstrated in this detailed analysis
In 1932 a young Fonville Winans (1911--1992) left his home in Fort Worth and set out on the waterways of south Louisiana searching for adventure and fortune. This journal recounts, in his own words, h
