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Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the        Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern        system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did        not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with...

This well-illustrated and wide-ranging study examines a pervasive and enduring icon of American popular culture. Featured in Literature, country music, comic strips, film and televsion shows, and even the internet, the hillbilly has served a mythic space through which Americans have attempted to define their personal and national identity and to...

Carl Thompson examines the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' for Romantic writers and travellers such as Wordsworth and Byron. Surveying branches of Romantic-era travel writing such as shipwreck, captivity, and exploration narratives, he considers how and why the...

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The foundation for all scholarly study in biblical law is the shared assumption that the Covenant Code, as contained in Exodus 20:23-22:33 is the oldest code of laws in the Hebrew Bible, and that all other laws are later revisions of that code. In  A Law Book for the Diaspora, John Van Seters strikes at that foundation. He argues that those laws in...