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This book shows how food functioned both as a tool of self-aggrandizement for rulers and as a means of coercion and leverage in power negotiations in a seventeenth-century German kingdom--Author:...

The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of...

The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal Béhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant...

This unique blend of memoir and history interweaves autobiography with the history of the slave trade and the American South--Provided by publisher.Author: Charles B. DewPublisher: University Of...

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the...

A biography of Andr?Michaux, the most famous scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark, who was conscripted by the revolutionary French government as a secret agent to organize...

Author: Daniel MendelsohnPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 081394466XISBN-13: 9780813944661

Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring...

This book has evolved out of a series of jointly authored articles on torts that we published in law reviews between 2013 and 2021.--Author: Kenneth S Abraham, Professor G Edward WhitePublisher:...

On the first anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, published Trump's First Year, a nonpartisan assessment that was...

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an...

Glenn Fine, who served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020, highlights the...

When Americans describe their compatriots, the members of their imagined community" who share their heritage, values, and aspirations, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question...

These essays examine women's varying roles during the War for Independence--Author: Professor Emerita Holly A MayerPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of...

Examines the crucial work performed by presidential transition teams and proposes a solution to the current, ad hoc system. Liddell argues that transition teams should begin their work in Year Zero,"...