Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'
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This pioneering collection of essays explores the paradoxical nature of civil rights politics in the years following the 1960s civil rights movement by chronicling the ways in which presidential politics both advanced and constrained the quest for racial equality in the United States.
This book spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll, showing how the region’s musical activities reveal deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture.
152 b&w photographs and 30 color plates trace the development Latin American sculpture, architecture, pottery, painting and more, from pre-columbian times to the
An invaluable, illustrated reference to all known seaweed taxa found in Florida coastal waters and a helpful aid for researchers in Florida as well as the Caribbean and the SE United States. With 51 line art panels and 12 b&w figures.
In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman, a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom as well as <em>Ulysses</em>’ broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire.
The years 1500–1700 AD were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, <em>Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States</em> presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans.