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This title tells the story of Southern refugees during the American Civil War It includes tales of people scrambling for trains or making river crossings It examines the psychological effect of the war on the homeless the humour they found in their difficulties and legislation concerning them
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Margaret Junkin Preston 18201897 was once deemed by the Washington Post to be one of the really famous American authors of the day A prolific author of poetry and fiction she came to popular acceptance despite masculine disapproval of female writers especially in the South In this comprehensive literary biography Stacey Jean Klein maps the progress by which this Pennsylvania native became a celebrated poet of the Confederacy and eventually an established author of national prominence
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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history After writing A Confederacy of Dunces Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon amp Schuster for two years Exhausted from Gottliebs suggested revisions Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box Years later he suffered a mental breakdown took a twomonth journey across the United States and finally committed suicide on an inconspicuous road outside of Biloxi Following the funeral Tooles mother discovered the manuscript After many rejections she cornered Walker Percy who found it a brilliant novel and spearheaded its publication In 1981 twelve years after the authors death A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer PrizeIn Butterfly in the Typewriter Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends family and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive a
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As Jefferson Davis paraded through the streets of Montgomery Alabama to take the oath of office as the first president of the Confederate States of America two men accompanied him in his open coach Alexander Stephens the vicepresidentelect and Basil Manly A noted southern Baptist preacher educator and the most ardent secessionist of them all Manly had been selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress and opened the inaugural ceremonies with a prayer For nearly thirty years Manly had worked devotedly for the establishment of a southern nation and in 1861 his sermons and public prayers before church and congress lent moral and religious legitimacy to the new Confederate government In this the first full biography of Manly A James Fuller analyzes the life and career of this working minister illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy Fuller argues that Manly brought together the various themes of the broader culture into his own conception of Christian gentility including his actions as the official chaplain to the Confederate government In Manlys eyes the Confederacy was the incarnation of Gods plan for the South A planter slaveholder and staunch defender of the peculiar institution he hoped to temper the brutality of bondage by promoting the Christian duties of masters as well as slaves In practice he tried to reconcile the traditions of honor and evangelical virtue the contradictions of white liberty and black slavery the ideals of the individual and the need for community in matters both sacred and secular
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As Jefferson Davis paraded through the streets of Montgomery Alabama to take the oath of office as the first president of the Confederate States of America two men accompanied him in his open coach Alexander Stephens the vicepresidentelect and Basil Manly A noted southern Baptist preacher educator and the most ardent secessionist of them all Manly had been selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress and opened the inaugural ceremonies with a prayer For nearly thirty years Manly had worked devotedly for the establishment of a southern nation and in 1861 his sermons and public prayers before church and congress lent moral and religious legitimacy to the new Confederate government In this the first full biography of Manly A James Fuller analyzes the life and career of this working minister illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy Fuller argues that Manly brought together the various themes of the broader culture into his own conception of Christian gentility including his actions as the official chaplain to the Confederate government In Manlys eyes the Confederacy was the incarnation of Gods plan for the South A planter slaveholder and staunch defender of the peculiar institution he hoped to temper the brutality of bondage by promoting the Christian duties of masters as well as slaves In practice he tried to reconcile the traditions of honor and evangelical virtue the contradictions of white liberty and black slavery the ideals of the individual and the need for community in matters both sacred and secular
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Margaret Junkin Preston 18201897 was once deemed by the Washington Post to be one of the really famous American authors of the day A prolific author of poetry and fiction she came to popular acceptance despite masculine disapproval of female writers especially in the South In this comprehensive literary biography Stacey Jean Klein maps the progress by which this Pennsylvania native became a celebrated poet of the Confederacy and eventually an established author of national prominence
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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history After writing A Confederacy of Dunces Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon amp Schuster for two years Exhausted from Gottliebs suggested revisions Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box Years later he suffered a mental breakdown took a twomonth journey across the United States and finally committed suicide on an inconspicuous road outside of Biloxi Following the funeral Tooles mother discovered the manuscript After many rejections she cornered Walker Percy who found it a brilliant novel and spearheaded its publication In 1981 twelve years after the authors death A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer PrizeIn Butterfly in the Typewriter Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends family and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University capturing his upbringing in New Orleans his years in New York City his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico his return to his beloved city and his descent into paranoia and depressionnbsp
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Offers a composite portrait of the Southern soldier during the Civil War
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Henry King Burgwyn Jr 184163 one of the youngest colonels in the Confederate Army died at the age of twentyone while leading the twentysixth North Carolina regiment into action at the battle of Gettysburg In this sensitive biography originally published by UNC Press in 1985 Archie Davis provides a revealing portrait of the young mans character and a striking example of a soldier who selflessly fulfilled his duty Drawing on Burgwyns own letters and diary Davis also offers a fascinating glimpse into North Carolina society during the antebellum period and the Civil War
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A digital copy of Echoes From Dharamsala Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community by Keila Diehl Download is immediately available upon purchase
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To risk my life had to mean something Otherwise what was it all for Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US army Smuggled into Iran Gulwali embarked on a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe spending time in prisons suffering hunger cruelty and violence Like so many of the migrants we hear about he endured a terrifying lifethreatening journey on a tiny boat in the Mediterranean braved the brutality of those who should care for children and spent a desolate month in the camp at Calais Somehow he survived and made it to Britain no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone Here in Britain he was fostered went to a good school worked hard and won a place at a top university Gulwali was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012 He wants to tell his story to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men women and children who risk their lives to leave behind the troubles of their homelands Many die along the way some are sent back to face imprisonment and possible death some survive and make it here to a country which offers them the chance of a life of freedom and opportunity One boys experience is the central story of our times This memoir celebrates the triumph of courage and determination over adversity
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Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an antiNazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad Hans Wesemann a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a number of antiNazi articles Once in Britain he found life difficult and dull and thus for a number of reasons agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with information about other refugees Inevitably Wesemann became ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequencesDuring the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar Republic Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the analysis of politics high culture and popular beliefs He dared not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power Once working as a Gestapo agent he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss prison Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fiancDee in Venezuela his unsavory past would continue to haunt him in South America and later in the United States
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In Echoes from Dharamsala Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibets governmentinexile The Dalai Lamas presence lends Dharamsalas Tibetans a feeling of being in place but at the same time they have physically and psychologically constructed Dharamsala as not Tibet as a temporary resting place to which many are unable or unwilling to become attached Not surprisingly this community struggles with notions of home displacement ethnic identity and assimilation Diehls ethnography explores the contradictory realities of cultural homogenization hybridity and concern about ethnic purity as they are negotiated in the everyday lives of individuals In this way she complicates explanations of culture change provided by the popular idea of global flowDiehls accessible absorbing narrative argues that the exiles focus on cultural preservation while crucial has contributed to the development of essentialist ideas of what is truly Tibetan As a result foreign or modern practices that have gained deep relevance for Tibetan refugees have been devalued Diehl scrutinizes this tension in her discussion of the refugees enthusiasm for songs from blockbuster Hindi films the popularity of Western rock and roll among Tibetan youth and the emergence of a new genre of modern Tibetan music Diehls insight into the soundscape of Dharamsala is enriched by her own experiences as the keyboard player for a Tibetan refugee rock group called the Yak Band Her groundbreaking study reveals the importance of music as a site where official and personal old and new representations of Tibetan culture meet and where different notions of Tibetanness are being imagined performed and debated
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Palestinian refugees experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history In her breathtaking new book Ilana Feldman explores this communitys engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventyyear period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research Life Lived in Relief offers a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic How do people in these conditions assert the value of their lives What does the Palestinian situation tell us about the world Life Lived in Relief is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of humanitarianism todaynbspnbsp
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Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an antiNazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad Hans Wesemann a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist fled his native Germany in 1933 after writing a number of antiNazi articles Once in Britain he found life difficult and dull and thus for a number of reasons agreed to furnish the German Embassy in London with information about other refugees Inevitably Wesemann became ensnared in his own treachery and suffered the consequencesDuring the volatile and experimental years of the Weimar Republic Wesemann applied his urbanity and cynicism to the analysis of politics high culture and popular beliefs He dared not remain in Germany once Hitler came to power Once working as a Gestapo agent he was implicated in the kidnapping of a German exile onto German territory and spent considerable time in a Swiss prison Although he was eventually freed and able to join his fiancDee in Venezuela his unsavory past would continue to haunt him in South America and later in the United States
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Palestinian refugees experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history In her breathtaking new book Ilana Feldman explores this communitys engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventyyear period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research Life Lived in Relief offers a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic How do people in these conditions assert the value of their lives What does the Palestinian situation tell us about the world Life Lived in Relief is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of humanitarianism todaynbspnbsp
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In this firstever biography of Hubert Katherine Bentley Jeffrey offers a farreaching account of his extraordinary life Born in revolutionary France Hubert entered the Society of Jesus as a young man and left his homeland with fellow Jesuits to join the New Orleans mission In antebellum Louisiana he interacted with slaves and free people of color felt the effects of antiCatholic and antiJesuit propaganda experienced disputes and dysfunction with the trustees of his Baton Rouge church and survived a nearfatal encounter with KnowNothing vigilantism As a chaplain with the Army of Northern Virginia Hubert witnessed harrowing battles and their equally traumatic aftermath in surgeons tents and hospitals After the war he was a spiritual director friend mentor and intermediary in the fractious and politically divided Crescent City where he both honored Confederate memory and promoted reconciliation and social harmony Huberts complicated and tumultuous life is notable both for its connection to the most compelling events of the era and its illumination of the complex and unexpected ways religion intersected with politics war and wars repercussions
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Leslie Michaels is a visionary and only those close to her know of her special gift and visions Fate has a way of righting many wrongs and for Leslie it is a destiny that changes her life dramatically but not before she is forced to flee into the wilderness to escape a murderous trapper bent on claiming her for his very ownFaith and a strong will to survive are her only companions until she encounters Winnokin the handsome Seneca war chief who first came to her in her dreams Not only does he prove to be her rescuer and protector he teaches her that tragedy can breed happiness and the passion to live and love deeply once more
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