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Tells the story of the greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands. The story has been passed through generations for over two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail.

Offers an introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe. David Messenger argues that in order to understand the history of twentieth-century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how different societies and cultures remember their national conflicts.

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.

Looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.

Professor Franklin's book is guided by the assumption that Americans everywhere can find satisfaction in understanding the dynamics of social and political change, and they can be buoyed by the individual triumph of a person who beat the odds.

Provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama's status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists. The Blues Muse focuses on Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly, and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.

Explores Alabama's amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation. Even among Alabama's citizens, few outside a small circle of biologists, advocates, and other naturalists understand the special quality of the state's natural heritage. R. Scot Duncan rectifies this situation in Southern Wonder.

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers. Each chapter in this volume elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald's depiction of American society, specifically through the lens of the social sciences that most influenced Fitzgerald's writing and thinking.

Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature - Romanticism and Realism - have come to be understood and defined. Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather traces the complex and unexplored relationship between American realism and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Examines the legacies of eight momentous US Supreme Court decisions that have their origins in Alabama legal disputes. Written in a concise and accessible manner, each case law chapter begins with the circumstances that created the dispute. Brown then provides historical and constitutional background for the issue.

Takes a holistic and integrative approach to strategy, operations, and tactics during the Korean War's stalemate period and demonstrates how these matters shaped each other and influenced, or were influenced by, political and strategic policy decision-making.

Presents the definitive history of an iconic American food, with new chapters, sidebars, and updated historical accounts. Barbecue is the story not just of a dish but also of a social institution that helped shape many regional cultures of the United States.

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist?

The system of coastal defenses built by the US government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense. This book offers an examination of the fortifications that formed the backbone of US military defense during the National Period.

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America. This book lays out the history of Iberian slavery, explores its role in the Spanish Indies, and shows how Africans and their descendants used the legal system as they established their place in society.

The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production.

Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms.

With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolome de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. This book provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas's writings. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law.

Reveals a rare case of finding ethnicity by relying solely on archaeological remains. Howard Tsai analyses data from the excavation of Las Varas within a theoretical framework based on current understandings of ethnicity, and demonstrates the potential for archaeologists to discover how ethnic identities were constructed in the past.

An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organisations. Raul Acosta examines the manner in which progressive nongovernmental organisations and activists act in a more intermingled and processual way than scholars have previously acknowledged.

Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Ery Shin argues that Stein's later works engage with storytelling and life-writing in startling ways - most emphatically and poignantly through the surrealist lens.

Pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political, diplomatic, and philanthropic networks that enabled the establishment of new Jewish communities in Palestine and the United States.

Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, this book considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building. Carla Guerron Montero analyses the ways in which tourism becomes a vehicle for the development of specific kinds of institutional multiculturalism and nation-building projects.

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.

Alabama's military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause. In his new study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben Severance argues that Alabama's electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence.

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. The book's approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term "economic".