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  • Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies

    Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies

    by Rebecca Mark • Keely Byars-Nichols • Susan Thananopavarn • Scott Romine • Zackary Vernon • William Tynes Cowan • Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford • Josh-Wade Ferguson • Hannah Godwin • Peter Jay Ingrao • Joseph Kuhn • Lauren E. LaFauci • John Wharton Lowe • Jessica Martell • Matthew E. Suazo • Matthew Sutton • Mitch Therieau

    Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, t... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
  • Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South (Southern Literary Studies)

    Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South (Southern Literary Studies)

    by J. Gerald Kennedy • Monica Carol Miller • Susan Zieger • Scott Romine • Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield • Katharine Burnett • Zackary Vernon • David A. Davis • Matthew Sutton • Alison Arant • John Stromski • Cara Koehler • Caleb Doan • Ellen Lansky • Jenna Sciuto • Christopher Rieger • Robert Rea • Hannah C. Griggs • Jennie Lightweis-Goff

    Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard­-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-­provoking essay... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
  • American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

    American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document the ways ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Religion Wars in the 1920s (Bedford Document Collections)

    Religion Wars in the 1920s (Bedford Document Collections)

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    By reading the most important and lively original sources related to the intellectual battles between Christian fundamentalists and religious liberals in the 1920s, including sermons, tracts, and cartoons, students will come to understand that far more was at stake than simply theology or doctrine. ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
  • American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

    American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    In the first comprehensive history of American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, Matthew Sutton shows how charismatic Protestant preachers, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Narrating the story from the perspective of the faithful, he shows how apocalyptic thin... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History With Documents

    Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History With Documents

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    As one of the most media-savvy ministers in U.S. history, Jerry Falwell figured prominently in the political mobilization of religious conservatives in the 1970s and early 1980s. Falwell’s life and work touched on almost all of the major issues of the time period: the cold war, changing gender roles... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • Al Smith and the Presidential Election of 1928

    Al Smith and the Presidential Election of 1928

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    This collection brings together documents from Al Smith’s supporters and detractors in months leading up to the election of 1928. After completing the unit, students should be able to construct an argument that addresses the central question: How does Al Smith’s failed presidential bid illuminate th... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

    Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2007
  • Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

    Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

    Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

    by Matthew Avery Sutton

    During the years between the two world wars, Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States. She built an enormously successful and innovative megachurch, established a mass media empire, and produced spellbinding theatrical sermons that rivaled Tinsel... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2007
  • Social Research: An Introduction (Sage Benchmarks In Social Research Methods Ser.)

    Social Research: An Introduction (Sage Benchmarks In Social Research Methods Ser.)

    by Matthew David • Carole Sutton

    The perfect book for any student taking a research methods course for the first time! The new edition of David and Sutton's text provides those new to social research with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts, Second Edition

    Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts, Second Edition

    by John Horst • Suthan S. Suthersan • Matthew Schnobrich • Nicklaus Welty • Jeff McDonough

    "This second edition of Remediation Engineering will continue to be the seminal handbook that regulators must have on-hand to address any of the remediation issues they are grappling with daily. The book is wide-ranging, but specific enough to address any environmental remediation challenge." —Patr... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

    Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

    by David Sanders • Robin Starr Minthorn • Heather J. Shotton • Bryan McKinley Brayboy • Charlotte Davidson • Stephanie Waterman • Erin Kahunawai Wright • Adrienne Keene • Amanda Tachine • Sweeney Windchief • Theresa Jean Stewart • Matthew Van Makomenaw • Natalie Rose Youngbull • Christine A. Nelson • Kaiwipuni Lipe • Pearl Brower

    Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Ind... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
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