Amherst Men in Gray

Amherst Men in Gray
Author: Robert J. Faught
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Amherst County (Va.)
ISBN: 9781890306748

The Value of Herman Melville

The Value of Herman Melville
Author: Geoffrey Sanborn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108471447

This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.

Our Beloved Kin

Our Beloved Kin
Author: Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300196733

"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.

The Necklace

The Necklace
Author: Matt Witten
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608094596

The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago—and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer's execution. On her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that leads her to suspect the condemned man is innocent—and the real killer is still free. Even worse, her prime suspect has a young daughter who's at terrible risk. With no money and no time to spare, Susan sets out to uncover the truth before an innocent man gets executed and another little girl is killed. But the FBI refuses to reopen the case. They—and Susan's own mother—believe she's just having an emotional breakdown. Reaching deep, Susan finds an inner strength she never knew she had. With the help of two unlikely allies—a cynical, defiant teenage girl and the retired cop who made the original arrest—Susan battles the FBI to put the real killer behind bars. Will she win justice for the condemned man—and her daughter—at last? Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben Optioned for film—with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as producer

Will He Go?

Will He Go?
Author: Lawrence Douglas
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538751879

In advance of the 2020 election, legal scholar Lawrence Douglas prepares readers for a less-than-peaceful transition of power. It doesn't require a strong imagination to get a sense of the mayhem Trump will unleash if he loses a closely contested election. It is no less disturbing to imagine Trump still insisting that he is the rightful leader of the nation. With millions of diehard supporters firmly believing that their revered president has been toppled by malignant forces of the Deep State, Trump could remain a force of constitutional chaos for years to come. WILL TRUMP GO? addresses such questions as: How might Trump engineer his refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat? What legal and extra-legal paths could he pursue in mobilizing a challenge to the electoral outcome? What legal, political, institutional, and popular mechanisms can be used to stop him? What would be the fallout of a failure to remove him from office? What would be the fallout of a successful effort to unseat him? Can our democracy snap back from Trump? Trump himself has essentially told the nation he will never accept electoral defeat. A book that prepares us for Trump's refusal to concede, then, is hardly speculative; it is a necessary precaution against a coming crisis.

Cartoon County

Cartoon County
Author: Cullen Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0374298556

A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt, " explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.

Religion in India

Religion in India
Author: Lawrence A. Babb
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780466188

An introduction to South Asian religions for non-specialist readers and undergraduate students.

Contagions of Empire

Contagions of Empire
Author: Khary Oronde Polk
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469655519

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.