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In this comprehensive examination of British sympathy for the South during and after the American Civil War, Michael Turner explores the ideas and activities of A.J. Beresford Hope - one of the leaders of the pro-Confederate lobby in Britain - to provide fresh insight into that seemingly curious allegiance.

Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875.

Examines pressing questions of today, from equality and political unrest to the diminishing of democratic ideals, asking if it is even appropriate to write about love in a time seemingly hurtling toward authoritarianism.

Investigates how the physical presence of black Africans both enabled and disrupted English literary responses to Spanish imperialism. By examining the extent to which this population helped to shape early English narratives, Smith offers new perspectives on the literary, social, and political impact of black Africans in the early Atlantic world.

Taking its cue from Horace's saying "As is painting, so is poetry, Marc Fumaroli's treatise What Language to Say the Arts? revisits the genesis of the "conceptual turn" in art. Fumaroli argues that the origins of conceptual art can be found in the emergence of aesthetics as a distinct branch of philosophy in eighteenth-century Germany.

In the South, one notion of "being ugly" implies inappropriate or coarse behaviour that transgresses social norms of courtesy. Monica Carol Miller reveals how authors from Margaret Mitchell to Monique Truong employ "ugly" characters to upend the expectations of patriarchy and open up more possibilities for southern female identity.

In his stimulating study, Jesus Cruz examines middle-class lifestyles - generally known as bourgeois culture - in nineteenth-century Spain. Cruz argues that the middle class ultimately contributed to Spain's democratic stability and economic prosperity in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Examines the often-overlooked and undervalued impact of the US South on the origins and development of the detective genre and film noir. This wide-ranging collection engages with ongoing discussions about genre, gender, social justice, critical race theory, popular culture, cinema, and mass media.

Offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analysing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced and understood black freedom and resistance.

With this remarkable study, historian Keira Williams shows how fictional matriarchies - produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media - constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues.

Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William Cooper's illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad scope of Cooper's work.

Tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. These first-person accounts illuminate the experiences women of the post-World War II generation encountered when they chose to enter this male-dominated professional world.

As compelling as a novel, this audacious story of Grace King's northern ties unfolds in eloquent letters. They hint at the fictional themes that would end up in her own art; and they trace her development from literary novice to sophisticated businesswoman who leverages her own independence and success.

Explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship, Dubrulle offers a methodical dissection of the ideological forces that shaped opinion.

Illuminates the early phase of the French Resistance through first-hand accounts, describing how movements organised themselves in opposition to both German occupation and the collaborationist Vichy government. These writings reveal how the Resistance fighters experienced defeat and resurrection in the pivotal year of 1940.

From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theatre form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences. Clinton Young persuasively links zarzuela's celebration of Spanish history and culture to the development of concepts of nationalism and national identity at the dawn of the twentieth century.

For American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not: a milieu that nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination. How these expatriates interpreted and gave modernist shape to the myth of "the Paris moment" is the focus of Donald Pizer's study.

Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the nation's past.

Examines the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts, interests, and aesthetic techniques.

Examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions prompted by black social movements during the 1950s and 1960s. John Glenn presents detailed case studies of four major novels that illuminate specific periods crucial in the history of African American political struggles.

Situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works.

The collected essays in Upon the Fields of Battle demonstrate how historians enrich Civil War studies by approaching the period through the specific but nonetheless expansive lens of military history. Contributors present an innovative volume that deeply integrates and analyses the ideas and practices of the military during the Civil War.

Replete with pedagogical resources including a discussion of how and why the Holocaust should be taught, a timeline, and suggestions for further reading, Potter's translation of You've Got to Tell Them showcases a clear and moving narrative of a young French girl overcoming one of the darkest periods in her life and in European history.

Brings together historians, art critics, and literary scholars to provide a new social and cultural history of the Great Depression American South that moves beyond common stereotypes of the region.

Drawing from decades of publications by American and British writers, James Huston reveals the rhetorical strategies contemporary observers employed in defending or rejecting the organization of a society around broad notions of human equality.

French priest Joseph M. Paret (1807-1872) sketched landscapes, architecture, and interiors, capturing everyday life in prosperous St. Charles Parish. In 1987, fifty-three watercolors were discovered among his personal effects. Plantations by the River contains twenty-eight of these paintings created in or about the year 1859.

Examines the oceanographic conditions that US military planners considered, or should have considered, when landing troops and vehicles on the beach at three historic amphibious assaults: Normandy, Tarawa, and Inchon. Oceanographer Thomas Mitchell brings welcome insight into a little-studied yet extraordinary aspect of ground warfare.

Examining topics ranging from the architectural incorporation of cosmic cycles and standard measures to traditional native myths and magical beliefs, Archaic Earthworks of the Lower Mississippi Valley is the definitive study of the history and ethos of a much-debated era.

Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), a Louisiana native and the most innovative and influential leader of the United States Marine Corps in the twentieth century.