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From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus …
Raised to Rule
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578–1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584–1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate …
The Life of Johnny Reb
In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and …
When the War Was Over
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an …
The Politics of Rage
Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a …
A Confederacy of Dunces (35th Anniversary Edition)
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many …
Alive Together
A collection of poems addresses such topics as family history, music, language, art, and mortality
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, …
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana examines the political economy surrounding the use of enslaved laborers in the capital of Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. In this …
Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the …
The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the …
Upon the Fields of Battle
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. …