Search Results - "American Civil War
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Writers of the Spanish Civil War the testimony of their auto/biographies /
Published 2011“…Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Participation, American.…”
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The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative
Published 2007An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Shelby Foote, novelist and historian
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Representing America : the American as traveler in the work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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Claiming Exodus a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.…”
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Shadow and shelter the swamp in southern culture /
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Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Pearson ; Woolson's two women : 1862 : a Civil War romance of irreconcilable difference / Caroline Gebhard -- Zephaniah Swift Spalding : Constance Woolson's Cipher / Cheryl B. …”
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