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  • Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals

    From His Times to Ours

    by Matthew Mancini ...
    Series series American Intellectual Culture
    In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. The author uncovers an historical record that is replete with unmistakable evidence of Tocqueville's continuing importance to American intellectuals throughout ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • One Dies, Get Another

    Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928

    by Matthew J. Mancini ...
    A chronicle one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American historyIn his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J. Mancini chronicles one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history. Devastated by war, bewildered by peace, and unprepared to confront the problems of prison management, Southern states sought to alleviate the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature

    by Alan Jackson, Alex Lichtenstein, Alexander Macaulay, Angela Pulley, Anna Holloway, Barbara Wade, Brian Ferguson-Avery, Bruce Clayton, Carey Olmstead Shellman, Carl Weeks, Carlos Dews, Carmine Palumbo, Carol Andrews, Catherine Badura, Charlotte Pfeiffer, Clayton Morton, Craig Lloyd, Dana F. White, Darren Grem, David B. Parker, David Des Jardines, David Payne, David Rachels, Dede Yow, Derrick P. Alridge, Don Rhodes, Edna Acosta-Belen, Edwin T. Arnold, Francis Ticknor Mallard, Gary Kerley, Gary M Fink, Greg Lisby, Herbert Denmark, Herbert Shippey, Hubert H. McAlexander, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James C. Cobb, James J. Lorence, James Murphy, Jan Whitt, Jane Thomas, Janet Gabler-Hover, Jarrod Atchison, John Kirk, John Mcleod, Joy Mallard, June Seese, Kay Beck, Keith Hulett, Kelly Gerald, Kenneth Janken, Kim Purcell, Lamar York, Leonard Ray Teel, Lesa Corrigan, Mae Claxton, Matthew Mancini, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael E. Price, Michael Jordan, Michael O'Dwyer, Miriam Terry, Philip Lee Williams, Qiana Whitted, R. Bruce Bickley Jr., Renee Pearman, Robert Hamblin, Robin Ogier Warren, Sam Prestridge, Sandra Hughes, Sarah Gordon, Scott Romine, Stephen Corey, Steven Harvey, Susan Henry, Suzanne Sowinska, Ted Spivey, Ted Wadley, Thomas Cooksey, Thomas L. McHaney, Valerie Frazier, Valerie Levy, Wayne Mixon, William Starr, Yi-Hsuan Tso ...
    Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

    by Robert E. Burns ...
    I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice.In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

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  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

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  • The N Word

    Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

    by Jabari Asim ...
    A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the "nigger." In a seminal but now ... Read more

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

    A History

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    by Edward E Baptist ...
    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

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  • Not So Black and White

    A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

    by Kenan Malik ...
    Is white privilege real? Does American history begin in 1619 or 1776? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? How racist is the working class? Who benefits most, when anti-racists speak in racial terms? These very different questions have all emerged from today's heated debates around race, identity and culture. The "culture wars" have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. Not So Black ... Read more

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  • Zora Neale Hurston

    A Life in Letters

    by Carla Kaplan Ph.D. ...
    “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the ... Read more

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