Reduced to poverty after the Civil War, seventeen-year-old Mattie Campbell and her family struggle to survive in the ruined city of Charleston, South Carolina. When her father inherits land in…

Death in the heartland plunges Georgy into the depth of three murders. Returning to the small town where she lived as a child to care for her aunt’s house until…

In this charming little volume Karen Stokes has collected beautiful and moving documents that display the interior life of Southerners of the 19th century. These letters portray deep and long-lasting…

The daughter of a plantation owner, Cecilia Lawton was married at sixteen and went to live at her husband’s plantation in South Carolina. A few months later, she found herself…

Presents the Civil War correspondence of the Haskells, a prominent family of Abbeville, South Carolina. This outstanding collection of eloquent, compelling letters is unusual in that it includes the correspondence…

This book examines Australia’s attempts to control the illicit drug industry, and discusses how - within the confines of our liberal democratic values and culture - we might improve our…