הוצאת University of South Carolina Press
הספרים של הוצאת University of South Carolina Press
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DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron’s poetry forms a lyrical conversation with an ominous and omnipotent de...
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As South Carolina enters into the fourth century of its storied existence, the state’s captivating, colorful, and controversial history continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state’s history, accomplished Southern historians Jack Bass and W. S...
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Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The ‘Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century (Studies in Comparative Religion)
מאת Hayrettin Yücesoy
This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. "Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam" analyzes the role of Muslim messianic and apocalyptic beliefs in the development of the 'Abbasid Caliphate to highlight ...
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This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794
מאת Robert, Jr. Alderson As French consul to the Carolinas and Georgia, Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit was dispatched in 1792 to capitalize on the fledgling alliance between the young republics as a means to spread the French Revolution into Spanish holdings in the Floridas and Louisiana. "This bright era of happy revolut... |
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First published in 1928, This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third D... |
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This is an exploration of diverse linguistic underpinnings in South Carolina's social history.In "Voices of Our Ancestors", Patricia Causey Nichols offers the first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina as she explores the contacts between distinctive language cultures in the colonial and ea...
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Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World (Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
מאת T. J. Desch Obi
The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop c...
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During the Civil War, some thirty-five thousand New Hampshire soldiers--representing approximately 11 percent of the state's population--were dispatched to serve the Union in seventeen infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, three artillery batteries, and three companies of sharpshooters and a... |
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True Places is an emotionally charged photographic documentary of the lives of evangelical pastor Floyd Knowlin and his close-knit African American congregations who live, work, and worship in a rural stretch of coastal South Carolina.
For more than a decade photographer Stanley F. Lanzano has im... |
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Kurt Vonnegut’s death on April 11, 2007, marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture—a conversation that produced fourteen no...
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Visions of Order in William Gilmore Simms: Southern Conservatism and the Other American Romance
מאת Masahiro Nakamura
This is a provocative contrasting of Simms' romances with those of his Northern contemporaries. One of nineteenth-century America's foremost men of letters, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) of Charleston, South Carolina, distinguished himself as a historian, poet, and novelist; yet his stalwart all...
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The Fourth Gospel in Four Dimensions: Judaism and Jesus, the Gospels and Scripture
מאת D. Moody Smith This multidimensional volume from the leading American scholar of Johannine studies brings together D. Moody Smith's germinal works from the past two decades along with some original articles published here for the first time. The resulting collection augments current understanding of the Gospel ... |
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"Performance is better than promise" has long been the motto of Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, a former Governor of South Carolina and six-term U.S. Senator who has distinguished himself as a stalwart advocate of fiscally responsible progressive programs. In this political memoir, Hollings takes aim ...
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Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
מאת Jim Piecuch Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies we... |
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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (Southern Classics Series)
מאת Allison Davis
This is a landmark study in Southern social stratification. First published in 1941, "Deep South" is the cooperative effort of a team of social anthropologists to document the economic, racial, and cultural character of the Jim Crow South through a study of a representative rural Mississippi communi...
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Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories
מאת Genevieve W. Chandler Coming Through marks the first complete publication of these interviews with former slaves and their descendants living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina as collected by Genevieve W. Chandler as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project. Between 1936 and 1938 Chandler interviewed more t... |
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Vonnegut in Fact offers a thorough assessment of the artistry of Kurt Vonnegut, known not only as the best-selling author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Timequake, and a dozen other novels, but also as the most widely recognized public spokesperson among writers since Mark Twain. Jerome Klinkowitz traces t...
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Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
מאת Christopher Lyle Johnstone
In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle’s treat...
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Understanding Tony Kushner surveys the acclaimed writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Angels in America and coauthor of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Munich. Viewing Tony Kushner as a sociopolitical dramatist in the tradition of Henrik Ibsen, George Bernar...
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Reminiscences of South Carolina Confederate Cavalry: Including Some Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier, by Edwin Calhoun, and Reminiscences of the Sixties, by Charles Crosland (AccessAble Books)
מאת Edwin Calhoun
Both sections first printed circa 1910. Reproduced from the first editions in the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina...
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A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam (Studies in Comparative Religion)
מאת Gordon Darnell Newby
The Jewish communities of Arabia had a great influence on the attitudes that Muslims hold toward Jews, and yet relatively little has been written about their history. Through techniques borrowed from anthropology, literary criticism, sociology, and comparative religion, Gordon Darnell Newby reconstr...
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The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Volume I: My People Need Me, June 1918–March 1936
מאת Howard Washington Thurman
The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a four-volume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanning the long and productive career of the Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the history of intellectual and religious life in the mid-twentieth-century United Sta...
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Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine (Studies in Maritime History)
מאת Louis Arthur Norton
This book offers original insights into a quirky quintet of naval heroes of the American Revolution. In "Captains Contentious" accomplished maritime historian Louis Arthur Norton observes that many of the captains of the Continental Navy were quite obstinate as compared to their British counterparts...
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The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
מאת Joanna S. Ploeger
This is a rhetorical case study in the evolving presentation of science to the public. Joanna S. Ploeger examines the communicative practices of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in suburban Chicago to show how the rhetoric of science functions as an indicator of the intellectual and politic...
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This book presents a reevaluation of the objectives and actions of Tar Heel 'Reds' from the 1920s to the 1960s. Based on oral histories, archival sources, and previously unpublished documents of the Communist International, "The History of the North Carolina Communist Party" is the first comprehensi...
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Since the origin of the breed in the early twentieth-century, the Boykin spaniel has proven to be a crackerjack retriever, remarkable trick artist, and a family favorite. This revised edition of The Boykin Spaniel: South CarolinaÂ’s Dog by breed enthusiasts Mike Creel and Lynn Kelley is written f...
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Understanding Paul Auster is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an impressive breadth of novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry. James Peacock views Auster as chiefly concern...
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First published in 1982, Daufuskie Island vividly captured life on a South Carolina Sea Island before the arrival of resort culture through the photographs of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and words of Alex Haley. Located between Hilton Head and Savannah, Daufuskie Island has since become a plush resort d...
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Since the origin of the breed in the early twentieth-century, the Boykin spaniel has proven to be a crackerjack retriever, remarkable trick artist, and a family favorite. This revised edition of The Boykin Spaniel: South CarolinaÂ’s Dog by breed enthusiasts Mike Creel and Lynn Kelley is written f...
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With a title borrowed from Samuel Johnson, insatiable globetrotter Russell Fraser fondly recalls his travels in China, Peru, Italy, France, Russia, Scotland, the Persian Gulf, and the Antarctic in this series of meditations on the distinguishing elements of culture and history found in far-flung loc...
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This is the first comprehensive history of the Lower Chickasaws in the Savannah River Valley. Edward J. Cashin, the preeminent historian of colonial Georgia history, offers an account of the Lower Chickasaws, who settled on the Savannah River near Augusta in the early eighteenth century and remained...
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Understanding Julian Barnes surveys the career of an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on three occasions. In this analysis of Barnes’s distinctive qualities and of his place in the British literary establishment, Merritt Moseley suggests that Barnes’s...
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The Centennial Senator: True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People Who Knew Him Best
מאת R. J. Duke Short
The Centennial Senator gives readers unprecedented access into the public and private life of U.S. Senator J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina through personal reflections from more than 150 friends, staffers, colleagues, and constituents. From presidents, senators, and Supreme Court justices...
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This is the first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of "Birds of America". "Understanding Lorrie Moore" is a comprehensive companion to the works of this wickedly humorous writer, whose fiction shows a deep sensitivity to the dynamics of contemporary gender rel...
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This is a chronicle of postwar resistance in the Palmetto State. "State of Rebellion" recounts the volatile course of Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest, and most dynamic federal presence in the years immediately following the Civil War. Richard Zuczek examines the opp...
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In this original study of Elizabeth Bishop's lifelong engagement with Christianity, Laurel Snow Corelle illuminates the ways in which Bishop's Protestant childhood and reading of Christian literature, coupled with her deep commitment to agnosticism, inform the works of this former poet laureate o... |
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Writing the Future of Black America explores the work of eight representative African American writers of the hip-hop generation to assess their common themes and offer insights into contemporary race relations in America as expressed and challenged in their works. In this groundbreaking study, Dani...
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August Wilson counts among America’s greatest playwrights—having garnered commercial success on Broadway and critical acclaim including New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Tony Awards, and two Pulitzer Prizes. Understanding August Wilson provides a comprehensive view of the ...
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Understanding Joseph Heller: Revised Edition (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
מאת Sandford Pinsker
To add a significant phrase to our language is no easy feat, but that is precisely what Joseph Heller (1923–1999) did with “catch-22,” the principle of absurdist logic and bureaucratic foul-up that energized his debut novel, Catch-22, in 1961. In this revised edition of Understanding Joseph He...
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