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Pre-Owned The Literary Percys: Family History Gender and the Southern Imagination (Hardcover 9780820316659) by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

9780820316659. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 128. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures 37. The Percys are notable not only for their prominence in the political and... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)

As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till s murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12 1963 he was shot in the... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)

As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till s murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12 1963 he was shot in the... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Hammers of Creation (Paperback)

In The Hammers of Creation Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Zora Neale Hurston s... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (Paperback)

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries European men--including traders soldiers and government agents--sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as half-breeds. The Indian... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Moses Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Paperback)

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion race and southern history. The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Paperback)

In Becoming Confederates Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War focusing on Robert E. Lee Stephen Dodson Ramseur and Jubal A. Early--three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Hardcover)

In Becoming Confederates Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War focusing on Robert E. Lee Stephen Dodson Ramseur and Jubal A. Early--three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Power of the Porch: The Storyteller s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston Gloria Naylor and Randall Kenan (Paperback)

Southern literature is often celebrated for its told rather than written qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family friends and neighbors Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World (Hardcover)

In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World Fred Hobson offers a witty and engaging preliminary estimate of some of the most prominent new figures in southern fiction. Although he discovers no shortage of talent he does find various and... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Literary Percys (Hardcover)

The Percys one the most distinguished families in the South are notable not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta but also for their literary creativity. In The Literary Percys noted historian... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Countercultural South (Hardcover)

At once upholding and refuting the South s conservative image The Countercultural South explores the politically divergent cultures of resistance created by poor white and working-class black southern men. With humor and insight Jack Temple Kirby... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Power of the Porch (Hardcover)

Southern literature is often celebrated for its told rather than written qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family friends and neighbors Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: Daughters of Time: Creating Women s Voice in Southern Story (Paperback)

Drawing upon letters autobiographies and novels Daughters of Time examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to create their own voice their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. Lucinda H. MacKethan shows that... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: A Late Encounter with the Civil War (Paperback)

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as... more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

Until recently the American South has often been treated in isolation by historians and literary critics. In these essays five scholars of southern history and literature evaluate elements of contemporary--and future--southern experience including... more

Huxley memorial lectures to the University of Birmingham. With an introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge ... (1914) [Leatherbound]

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Lectures on the Constitution of the United States : before the law class of Mercer University 1897 [Leather Bound]

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Lectures on the Constitution of the United States : Before the Law Class of Mercer University (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

The growth and influence of classical Greek poetry; lectures delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turnbull memorial foundation in the Johns Hopkins university 1893 [Leather Bound]

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The British Empire and world peace; being the Burwash Memorial Lectures delivered in Convocation Hall University of Toronto November 1921 by the Hon. Newton W. Rowell. 1922 [Leathe

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Pre-Owned The One and the Many: America s Struggle for the Common Good: 2 (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government) Paperback

E pluribus unum no longer holds. Out of the many have come as many claims and grievances all at war with the idea of one nation undivided. The damage thus done to our national life as too few Americans seek a common good is Martin Marty s concern.... more

Huxley memorial lectures to the University of Birmingham 1914 [Leather Bound]

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Soft Interfaces: The 1994 Dirac Memorial Lecture (Paperback)

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century died in 1984. Dirac s college St. John s of Cambridge generously endowed annual lectures to be held at Cambridge University in his memory. This volume contains a much... more

Horace: A Return to Allegiance: The Lewis Fry Memorial Lectures University of Bristol 1932 (Paperback)

First published as part of the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1932 this book presents the content of the Lewis Fry Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of Bristol by T. R. Glover during the same year. The volume contains a comprehensive... more

Pre-Owned A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (Paperback) 0743230094 9780743230094

When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price one of Christianity s most eloquent outlaws was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001 he chose to explore a subject of fierce debate and timeless... more

For Palestine : Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group (Hardcover)

On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003 Tom Hundal a photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University travelled from Manchester to the Middle East to witness the horrors in Iraq and then later in Palestine. Tom was shot in the... more

Spacetime And Geometry : The Alfred Schild Lectures (Paperback)

These reports at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin... more

Pre-Owned The One and the Many: America s Struggle for the Common Good: 2 (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government) Paperback

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Retrospects and Prospects Relating to University Life : Being the First Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecture Delivered before the University of Liverpool / Royal College of Surgeons (1905) [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned The One and the Many: America s Struggle for the Common Good: 2 (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government) Paperback

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For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group (Paperback)

On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003 Tom Hundal a photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University travelled from Manchester to the Middle East to witness the horrors in Iraq and then later in Palestine. Tom was shot in the... more

Pre-Owned Surprise Security and the American Experience (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization & Government) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures) Paperback

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A Serious Way of Wondering : The Ethics of Jesus Imagined (Paperback)

When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price one of Christianity s most eloquent outlaws was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001 he chose to explore a subject of fierce debate and timeless... more

Pre-Owned Surprise Security and the American Experience (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization & Government): 4 (The Joanna ... on American Paperback

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The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1843-1871 (Paperback)

Drawing primarily from previously unpublished manuscripts in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Collection in the Houghton Library at Harvard University recent editions of Emerson s correspondence journals and notebooks sermons and early... more

Literature and life: being the lecture delivered upon the inauguration of the work of the Linden-Kent Memorial School of English Literature in the University of Virginia. By Chas. W. Kent (1894)

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1894 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations... more