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Assessing their constituency and impact, Gillespie concludes that third parties draw disproportionately from the ranks of agitators and act as agents for change, with many stances adopted--often in modified form--by mainstream parties.

A self-portrait of an admirable plantation mistress spanning a period from antebellum days until World War I.

The most complete social, political, and cultural history of Charleston, this book is a treasure chest for historians and for anyone interested in delving into this lovely city, layer by layer.

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War. The Confederate Southerners likened themselves to the American revolutionaries of 1776. Although both revolutions sought independence and the overthrow of an existing political system, the Confederates battled for a political separation to conserve rather than to create. The result, however, was a transformation of the antebellum traditions they were fighting to preserve.

A champion of state rights, he is an important figure in the drama of expansion and conflict that is at the heart of American history in the nineteenth-century.

The riveting story of a cabin boy in the Union navy and his participation in 19 sea battles.

The revised edition of a popular text, it is geared toward nurses, social workers, psychologists, gerontologists, counselors, and others who work in senior adult positions and settings.

The book concludes by recommending an open system of political persuasion even though abuses of the system have provided its critics with arguments for change.

CONTRIBUTORSAlice AdamsToni Cade BambaraSallie BinghamJane BradleyMary Ward BrownMoira CronePam DurbanEllen GilchristMarianne GingherGail GodwinShirley Ann GrauMary HoodGayl JonesBobbie Ann MasonJill McCorkleNaomi Shihab NyeJayne Anne PhillipsAnn Allen ShockleyLee SmithElizabeth SpencerAlice Walker

Through the use of logic, simulation, and empirical data, Most and Starr develop and demonstrate a new and more appropriate conceptualization of explanation in international relations and foreign policy. They demonstrate that a concern with the logical underpinnings of research raises a series of theoretical, conceptual and epistemological issues that must be addressed if theory and research are to meet the challenges of cumulation in the study of international relations. The authors argue for understanding the critical, yet subtle, interplay of the elements within a research triad composed of theory, logic and method.

The sacred biography of Muhammad has shaped Muslims' perceptions of the place of Islam in the religious history of the world and located the Islamic founder and prophet as the last of God's messengers. As Muslims established political control over ancient Jewish and Christian communities, they also claimed hegemony over the panorama of biblical prophets and holy men. In the eighth century, the author of the first complete biography of Muhammad set out a plan for a history of the world that culminated with the advent of Muhammad and the religion of Islam. The biography not only gave the details of Muhammad's life but also retold the stories of past prophets from an Islamic perspective. The Making of the Last Prophet is an examination of the reshaping and retelling of the biblical past to form the image of Muhammad as the "e;Seal"e; of the prophets of God. Through a translation of the reconstructed Arabic text, the sources, the form, and uses of the eighth-century biography are examined for the ways in which attitudes toward Muhammad were shaped in early Islam. The work particularly underscores the interplay of Jewish, Christian, and other Near Eastern religious ideals in the formation of Islam's notions of prophethood.

At first hand took into treatment of the wartime wounded by a woman serving behind battle lines.

A section on the principal cities and towns, their history and interesting facts about the present-day communities, and points of interest are included.

These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain contemporary writers--identifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.

The Union efforts to capture Fort Sumter.

A look at the rise and decline of the Pinckney family whose members were present at every major point in Charleston's history.

This is a biography of John P. Holland, whose technological innovations led to the launching of the first modern submarine in May 1897. The work draws on diaries and papers to trace the inventor's eventful life, including frustration with the US Navy and the eventual loss of his company.

Expounds on some of the most provocative, arresting issues surrounding the Civil War, including the dispute over inevitability of Northern victory and the question of Lee's greatness on and off the battlefield.

Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and it also features one essay original to this volume. In a model of scholarly collaboration, coauthors Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis are joined in select pieces by Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter, and Robert M. Weir. Among the topics broached by this noted group of historians are the diverse political ideals represented in the Loyalist stance; the coherence of the Loyalist press; the loyalism of garrison towns, the Floridas, and the Western frontier; Carolina loyalism as viewed by Irish-born patriots Aedanus and Thomas Burke; and the postwar reintegration of Loyalists as citizens of the new nation. Included as well is a chapter and epilogue from Calhoon's seminal-but long out-of-print-1973 study The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. This updatedcollection will serve as an unrivaled point of entrance into Loyalist research for scholars and students of the American Revolution.

A collection of rhetorical case studies that fathom the construction and destruction of communities. It considers such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into communities, what sustains constructive communities, how communities become fragmented, and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender.

A revealing account of Reconstruction by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform. In 1884, Albert T. Morgan published ""Yazoo"" to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in the South.

This collection of poems by Robin Magowan represent moments such as a child mat-riding on Red Flag day, and drug overdoses during an affair with a terrorist dragon lady. It aims to take the reader inside, using an instinctive notation to register his fascination with sensation, movement and colour.

A collection of 33 letters from seven Confederate soldiers sent to Lucretia Caroline Barrett McMahan and her husband between 1861 and 1864. The letters are published with their original spelling and punctuation intact and illustrate the experiences of the common soldier of the Confederacy.

In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Cote Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adapt or resist changes to their way of life. Gillin accurately perceives racial violence as an attempt by white southern men to reassert their masculinity, weakened by the war and emancipation, and as an attempt by white southern women to preserve their antebellum privileges.As she reevaluates relationships between genders, Gillin also explores relations within the female gender. She has demonstrated that white women often exacerbated racial and gender violence alongside men, even when other white women were victims of that violence. Through the nineteenth century, few bridges of sisterhood were built between black and white women. Black women asserted their rights as mothers, wives, and independent free women in the postwar years, while white women often opposed these assertions of black female autonomy. Ironically even black women participated in acts of intimidation and racial violence in an attempt to safeguard their rights. In the turmoil of an era that extinguished slavery and redefined black citizenship, race, not gender, often determined the relationships that black and white women displayed in the defeated South.By canvassing and documenting numerous incidents of racial violence, from lynching of black men to assaults on white women, Gillin proposes a new view of postwar South Carolina. Tensions grew over controversies including the struggle for land and labor, black politicization, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, the election of 1876, and the rise of lynching. Gillin addresses these issues and more as she focusses on black women's asserted independence and white women's role in racial violence. Despite the white women's reactionary activism, the powerful presence of black women and their bravery in the face of white violence reshaped southern gender roles forever.

Pat Conroy's work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and it has staked out a more complex geography as well, one defined by domestic trauma, racial anxiety, religious uncertainty, and cultural ambivalence. In Understanding Pat Conroy, Catherine Seltzer engages in a sustained consideration of Conroy and his work. The study begins with a sketch of Conroy's biography, a narrative that, while fascinating in its own right, is employed here to illuminate many of the motifs and characters that define his work and to locate him within southern literary tradition. The volume then moves on to explore each of Conroy's major works, tracing the evolution of the themes within and among each of his novels, including The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and South of Broad, and his memoirs, among them The Water Is Wide and My Losing Season. Seltzer's insightful close readings of Conroy's work are supplemented by interviews and archival material, shedding new light on the often-complex dynamics between text and context in Conroy's oeuvre. More broadly Understanding Pat Conroy also explores the ways that Conroy delights in troubling the boundaries that circumscribe the literary establishment. Seltzer links Conroy's work to existing debates about the contemporary American canon, and, like Conroy's work itself, Understanding Pat Conroy will be of interest to his readers, students of American literature, and new and veteran South watchers.

Examines major Southern battles and tactics in the war for independence. This book suggests that the paradox of the British defeat in 1781 - after Crown armies had crushed all organized resistance in South Carolina and Georgia - makes sense only if one understands the fundamental flaws in what modern historians label Britain's 'Southern Strategy.'

Using forums, interviews, and individual essays, this collection offers contrasting views on such topics in military history as the existence and function of military revolutions, the experience of soldiering and combat, the particularly violent and gruesome nature of twentieth-century warfare and projections of nature of future wars.

A biography of a Cuban and Confederate rebel. It presents the story of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales (1818-1893), a revolutionary who figured prominently in both his native country's struggle against Spain and the Confederacy's fight for secession.

Explores the idiosyncratic vision that permeates Heller's writings, and maps the dark terrain Heller carved out, novel by novel, with considerable verbal dazzle.

The Civil War was the first major American conflict in which women nurses played a significant role. This diary records the daily experiences, hardships and joys of a Southern plantation owner and widow whose patriotism prompted her to care for confederate wounded.