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The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, from the French Quarter to Uptown, from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, from Westwego to New Orleans East, and from Gentilly to Gretna. A detailed description accompanies each image, providing insight into the history, geography, and architecture of this dazzling municipality.

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts. Cynthia A.

Nancy Reddy's Pocket Universeexplores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. The collection begins in the public hospitals in sixteenth-century Paris-where women giving birth were as likely to die of fever as go home with healthy newborns-travels through the dizzying world of Instamommies and celebrities who effortlessly got their body "back" after baby, and ends with children singing at a bounce-house birthday party.

Preparing your PDF for download... There was a problem with your download, please contact the server administrator. The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War 256 Pages / 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.69 in / 8 halftones, 5 graphs, 13 tables Hardcover / 9780807181409 / Published: February 2024 eBook / 9780807181874 / Published: February 2024 (Requires the Leaf e-Reader app) Description Praise Press Kit Cecily N.

Description Praise Press Kit America’s Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington Cable, Albion Tourgée, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, and W. E. B.

Description Praise Press Kit Kudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion, this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious invader capable of smothering everything in its path. To many, the plant’s enduring legacy has been its villainous role as the “vine that ate the South.” But for a select few, it has begun to signify something else entirely.

The reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not only physical-a traveler's movement in a crowded, thrilling world-but imaginative, and its poetic idiom is no less varied, as a breezy conversational tone serves as a counterpoint to traditional form.

Del Hall stands as one of the few journalists able to chart their careers through the milestones and icons of the late twentieth century-the civil rights movement, Vatican II, the Beatles' arrival in the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, the 1968 Chicago Riots, the Vietnam War, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall.

By Nikesha Elise Williams In this post, we celebrate both Black History Month and the Mardi Gras season by presenting an excerpt from our new book Mardi Gras Indians, by Nikesha Elise Williams. There is no one single, definitive origin story that pinpoints the beginnings of what has been extrapolated over centuries into today’s Black masking, or Mardi Gras, Indian culture. Instead, there is a multiplicity of stories that have more or less fidelity to a truth none of us were alive to know.

"If you can read only one book about how history happened to the post-Civil War economy, read this one."- New York Review of Books In this provocative and intricate analysis of the post-Civil War southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labor market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market embedded in a high-wage national economy.