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Love, Etc.
The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting …
The Last of the African Kings
The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal BÉhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was …
Black Reason, White Feeling
The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration …
The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef
The role of food writing in the sustainable food movement At turns heartfelt and witty, accessible and engaging, The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef explores how Wendell …
Empire of Commerce
A groundbreaking study situating the Mississippi River valley at the heart of the early American republic's political economy Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution …
Comforting Myths
A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine …
Plowswords
A critical examination of the ‘agricultural trap’ in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over …
Sacred Capital
How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious …
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Haunting Ecologies
Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the …
Witch of Pungo
The authoritative cultural history of Virginia's most famous accused witch In 1706, Grace Sherwood was ';ducked' after her neighbors in Princess Anne County accused her of …
Changed Men
Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families …