166 títulos para "University Of Virginia"

Building Natures

Daniel, Julia E

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets...

Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories

Bey, Maissa

This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey's important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Al...

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"

Stanton, Lucia

Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of which was made possible by the work of slaves....

What Time and Sadness Spared

Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar, Roma / Ben-Atar, Doran S

Not an ordinary memoir, this book is a joint project undertaken by a holocaust survivor and her historian son.  Its reluctant primary author, Roma Ben-Atar, resisted until late in life the urging of her daughter and son to revisit her memories of her past.  Finally only her granddaughter&#...

Citizenship Revolution

Bradburn, Douglas

Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not...

Lynching of Emmett Till

At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local...

Building Natures

Daniel, Julia E

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets...

Recomposing Ecopoetics

Keller, Lynn

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the "self-conscious Anthropocene," a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. Recomposing Ecopoe...

Jefferson, the Virginian

Dumas Malone

Dumas Malones classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jeffersons life. Volume 1. Jefferson the VirginianThis first volume explores the early phases of Jeffersons life, from his youth, education, legal career, and m...

Writing Rumba

Arnedo-Gomez, Miguel

Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part...

Facing Freedom

Thorp, Daniel B

The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated...

Memory at Bay

Trouillot, Evelyne

Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti's most vital authors, Éve...