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  • Denmark Vesey’s Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

    **One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor“A fascinating and important new historical study.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.”—Civil War TimesThe stunning, groundb... ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Denmark Vesey's Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

    One of Janet Maslin's Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner's Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the "Best Civil War Books of 2018" by the Civil War Monitor"A fascinating and important new historical study."— Janet Maslin, The New York Times"A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies."— Civil War TimesThe stunning, grou... ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bauhinia Star

    par Robert Blain ...
    A man. A heartbreak. A boat. Afloat. What do you do when your wife kicks you out of your home and you've got nowhere to live? Well, if your name's Matthew Swain, you live on a boat. It doesn't matter that you don't know anything about the sea or that the person who sold you the craft is dodgy boat dealer Garry Jones. What could possibly go wrong?Matthew Swain is a devoted father of three, deeply ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women

    Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

    par Blain Roberts ...
    From the South’s pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow–era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that ... En savoir plus

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  • Harry

    par Robert Blain ...
    Two friends out for a night on the town in Singapore bite off more than they can chew when they score from a stranger in a park. ... En savoir plus

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  • Clydebank Blitz

    par Robert Blain ...
    Over two horrifying nights in March 1941, the Luftwaffe bombed Glasgow’s Clydebank Shipyards. The destruction and loss of life was enormous, with the death toll widely believed to be higher even than that of the German bombing of Coventry. Seen through the eyes of two Scottish engineers, this short work of fiction seeks to capture the dreadful unfolding of events on the unsuspecting people of ... En savoir plus

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  • How to skin a cat

    par Robert Blain ...
    Journalist Craig Fox arrives in Hong Kong to take up a position as a magazine editor for Pronto Media, and soon finds out that all is not as it seems on the surface. Rather than being serious publications, the magazines are being run purely for advertising profit in a masterly sleight of hand by the proprietor, Mark Chiefly. He sells the advertising on the premise that the printed circulation is ... En savoir plus

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  • The Redemption of Garry Jones

    par Robert Blain ...
    Dodgy boat dealer Garry Jones is run out of Hong Kong when his once-lucrative business falters and he is charged by the police over fake ownership papers for a new car. The hard-drinking, hard-womanising Jones lands in Shanghai, where he teams up with old business associate Mister Near.But it quickly becomes apparent that it’s a case of out of frying pan into the fire, as Jones becomes embroiled ... En savoir plus

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  • Knowing Me Roger Vim

    par Robert Blain ...
    Meet Roger Vim – a 24-year-old graduate from university East Anglia with a degree in software engineering. He also has Asperger’s. Vim has strong opinions on a range of topics – not least of which is that Asperger’s is most definitely not a disorder. Merely an alternate mindset.Vim wakes up in a Norwich hospital without any idea how he got there. Things get even stranger when his comedic hero gets ... En savoir plus

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    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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    A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter ... En savoir plus

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  • Smith Street Investigator

    par Robert Blain ...
    A call out. A knife. A victim. A tragic mistake.Smith Street Investigator chronicles the spectacular fall from grace of high-flying Detective Andrew Schlakier and his reincarnation as a private investigator. As he becomes increasingly caught up in a hard-working, hard-boozing culture, things spiral out of control and his relationship with his girlfriend disintegrates. His life implodes amid a slew ... En savoir plus

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  • Nations Apart

    How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America

    par Colin Woodard ...
    **"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in ... En savoir plus

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