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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 TherieauSwamp 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: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
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-GoffMoving 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: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
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: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Religion Wars in the 1920s (Bedford Document Collections)
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: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
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: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History With Documents
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: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Al Smith and the Presidential Election of 1928
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: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
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: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
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: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Aimee Semple Mcpherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
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: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Social Research: An Introduction (Sage Benchmarks In Social Research Methods Ser.)
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: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts, Second Edition
"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: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
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 BrowerIndigenous 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: ENGCopyright: 2018