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Catherine M. Lewis
Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. Nobody walking the unpaved county roads could have imagined that…
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Examines the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women - enslaved and free, African American and white, wealthy and poor, northern and southern.
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The term Jim Crow has had multiple meanings and a dark and complex past. This book provides readers with primary source materials from 1828 to 1980 that reveal how the…
Michael J. Coles,Catherine M. Lewis
Michael Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the US Congress, and set transcontinental cycling world records. His story…
Lee E. Rhyant,Catherine M. Lewis,Johnny Isakson,Kathy Schwaig
A powerful underdog story, Soaring delivers practical leadership advice, business lessons, and tips for success mined from the real-life strategies of Lee Rhyant’s forty years as a corporate leader.
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies…
More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely…
Leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment philosophies compared to women’s actual experiences in Spain and Spanish America during the period.
Sandra Deal,Jennifer Dickey,Catherine M. Lewis,Betty Foy Sanders
Tells the story of the Georgia Governor’s Mansion - what preceded it and how it came to be as well as the stories of the people who have lived and…
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating…
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A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY
Underscores the fallacious nature of stereotyped images and the thunderous power of myth, archetype, detail, metaphor, self-portrait, collage, and, most importantly, black women artists, to overcome them. -Priscilla Frank, Huffington…
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining…
Anne J. Cruz,Elizabeth Franklin Lewis,Monica Bolufer Peruga
In original essays drawn, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Merito, founded in 1787, claimed a role…
This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women’s religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives…
This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women's religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives…
