This book illustrates the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussion of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today, including affirmative action, gay ri
The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort
On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of share corppers, boarded a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, to leave his home state for the first time in his life.
The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various period
Clear-Cutting Eden examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s.Christopher Rieger studies t
Contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps. Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and th
Winner of the 2010 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, sponsored by the Media Ecology Association. An interdisciplinary study of the conditio
"This book is, quite simply, magnificent; both informative and comprehensive in ways rarely seen in archaeological studies. The artifact data presented, particularly the ceramic sequence, will be a v
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for w
The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast "City of the Gods" in central Mexico. In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological exp
A new statement of how "beauty" in nature is understood and appreciated.Aesthetic experience is one of the fundamental ways that we develop a relationship to our natural surroundings. Emily Brady prov
Although fallacies have been common since Aristotle, until recently little attention has been devoted to identifying and defining them. Furthermore, the concept of fallacy itself has lacked a sufficie
This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of communication and unavailable through other approaches. The
A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry.Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by m
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet. With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work—White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Yet, Crane’s po
The first comprehensive archaeological survey of the Muskogee (Mask￠k?) Creek Indians. The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue
First major work to deal solely with the Plaquemine societies.Plaquemine, Louisiana, about 10 miles south of Baton Rouge on the banks of the Mississippi River, seems an unassuming southern community f
