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By: Lewis Falley Allen (1800-1890) | |
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Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings |
By: William C. Scully (1855-1943) | |
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Stories by English Authors: Africa |
By: Francis Haverfield (1860-1919) | |
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Ancient Town-Planning | |
Roman Britain in 1914 |
By: William C. Scully (1855-1943) | |
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Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories |
By: Francis Haverfield (1860-1919) | |
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The Romanization of Roman Britain |
By: Wolfram Eberhard (1909-1989) | |
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A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] | |
A History of China |
By: Francis Key Howard (1826-1872) | |
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Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national anthem about the "land of the free," which makes a very stunning contrast. The sufferings that were imposed on him by the Union forces had the effect of solidifying his determination to resist unjust governmental dictates. (Introduction by Katie Riley) |
By: A. F. Morris Hands | |
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Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor |
By: Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) | |
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Don Juan, Cantos 13 -16
These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited to spend the autumn with a hunting party at the ancient country seat of Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville. There, he meets the most intriguing of the Byronic heroines, Aurora Raby, and is visited by a ghost with ample breasts (!). That is the narrative outline but hardly the focus of the last Cantos... |
By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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The Marrow of Tradition
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White) |
By: J. T. Cunningham (1859-1935) | |
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Hormones and Heredity |
By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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The Conjure Woman | |
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays | |
House Behind the Cedars
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery. | |
Colonel's Dream
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace the old. This novel illustrated how race hatred and the impotence of a reluctant Federal Government trumped the rule of law, ultimately setting the stage for the rise of institutions such as Jim Crow, lynching, chain gangs and work farms--all established with the intent of disenfranchising African Americans. |