Author: Ben Box
Publisher: Footprint Handbook
Keywords: south, handbook, american, america, footprint, travel, annual, 86th, bible
Number of Pages: 1872
Published: 2009-11-24
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1906098719
ISBN-13: 9781906098711
Footprints South American Handbook is a legend in travel guide publishing. The one-and-only Travelers Bible has had its annual overhaul, giving a comprehensive update of everything one ever needed to know about how to discover this fascinating continent. This new edition is unparalleled in its depth of coveragetaking independent travelers from the well-trodden Gringo Trail to the wilds of the Andes, up the Amazon River, and onto deserted beaches.
Author: C. Vann Woodward
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: south, history, new, origins
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1971-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0807100196
ISBN-13: 9780807100196
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: south, traditions, asia, seminar, expressive, asian, genre, power, gender
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0812213378
ISBN-13: 9780812213379
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Author: Wayne Mixon
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: south, minds, new, caldwell, writer, erskine, people
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0813916275
ISBN-13: 9780813916279
During his long life, Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) published twenty-five novels, nearly one hundred and fifty short stories, and twelve volumes of nonfiction, and he saw his work translated into more than forty languages. Most critics have considered Caldwell to be only a minor southern writer, often associating him with his worst writing, but now a Caldwell revival is under way. In The People’s Writer, Wayne Mixon gives Caldwell long-overdue recognition, asserting his portrayal of social injustice raises his work to the level of greatness. Mixon convincingly demonstrates that the writer
Author: Geoffrey A. Oddie
Publisher: Routledge/Curzo
Keywords: south, studies, asia, london, east, christian, hindu, india
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0913215554
ISBN-13: 9780913215555
Author: Anne Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: south, asian, religion, series, routledge, asia, religious, imaginary, time, history
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2011-11-10
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415595975
ISBN-13: 9780415595971
Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the co
Author: Lou Falkner William
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: south, legal, history, studies, klan, carolina, klux, trials
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820326593
ISBN-13: 9780820326597
In the late 1860s South Carolina Klansmen unleashed a reign of terror over blacks, and even some whites, in the state. Suppression of the uprising entailed federal military intervention, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, highly publicized trials, and the conviction of several Klansmen. All are detailed in this gripping study.
