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  • The Field of Honor

    Essays on Southern Character and American Identity

    Modifié par John Mayfield, Todd Hagstette ...
    Current research on the history and evolution of moral standards and their role in Southern societyFor more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental to understanding southern culture and history. Defined chiefly as reputation or public esteem, honor penetrated virtually every aspect of southern ethics and behavior, including race, gender, law, education, religion, and violence. ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Engine of Complexity

    Evolution as Computation

    par John Mayfield ...
    The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Counterfeit Gentlemen

    Manhood and Humor in the Old South

    par John Mayfield ...
    Collections series New Perspectives on the History of the South
    What does it mean to be a man in the pre–Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by revealing how early nineteenth-century Southern humorists addressed the anxieties felt by men seeking to chart a new path between the old honor culture and the new market culture. Lacking the constraints imposed by journalism ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Human Tradition in the Old South

    par Peter Stern, Gary L. Hewitt, Michael D. Green, Ellen Eslinger, Douglas R. Egerton, Randolph Hollingsworth, John C. Inscoe, John Mayfield, Randolph Campbell, Carol Reardon, Connie L. Lester, Richard Zuczek ...
    Collections series The Human Tradition in America
    The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor James C. Klotter has gathered twelve insightful essays that explore the region's past and ponder ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction

    par Neal Salisbury, Rosalind J. Beiler, Gary L. Hewitt, John Shy, Gary B. Nash, Laura McCall, Donna L. Akers, George R. Price, Helen Deese, John Mayfield, Steven E. Woodworth, Ethan S. Rafuse, Lesley J. Gordon, Richard Lowe, Marilyn Westerkamp, Marla R. Miller, Anya Jabour, Robert J. Allison ...
    Collections series The Human Tradition in America
    The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the ... En savoir plus

    $52.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    Dandruff Hits The Turtleneck

    par John Mayfield ...
    Lu par Prunella Scales ...

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    37 min

    From the moment pub landlord and keen amateur entomologist, Arnold Matson, arrives in Blinkington-on-the-Treacle to take over his new hostelry, the listener is guided superbly by one of Britain's best-loved actresses, Prunella Scales, as she introduces local characters and intimately narrates her way through a colourful collection of vignettes and poignant flashbacks that are both comically funny ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

    par Stephanie M. H. Camp ...
    Collections series Gender and American Culture
    Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    par Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    par Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Collections series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    par Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Manhood

    University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

    par Timothy J. Williams ...
    In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era’s middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students’ perspective and drawing from ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD