Mark M Smith: 30 books
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
A Sensory History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege,...
Mastered by the Clock
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly...
How Race Is Made
Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial...
by Mark M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended...
by Dr Christopher T. Emrich, Dr Jerry T. Mitchell, Dr Walter W. Piegorsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's...
by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality,...
The Out of This World Bundle
A Sixteen Book Box Set
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Explore the future and the universe with this exciting ebook bundle of science fiction and fantasy short stories, novellas, and novels.
Discover how people will survive, and thrive, as they encounter challenges in outer space or deal with struggles here on Earth.
Mystery and adventure,...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...
Very Merry Christmas Bundle
20 Tales of Christmas Cheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!
Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will...
The Haunted Bundle
A Twenty Ebook Box Set
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Have you ever felt as though someone was watching you, but when you turned around no one was there?
How many times have you been unable to find something, then it later turned up in the exact place you’d searched over and over?
Why does your cat act as though it’s staring at something,...
Crimes, Capers, & Rule-Breakers
20 Tales Of Mischief and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Sometimes, you gotta be bad.
Steal away with this bundle of thieves and miscreants and join them on their criminal adventures! From burglars to assassins, grifters to con artists, these are mysteries from the other side, from the criminal point-of-view.
Break some rules and snag the...
by Jamie Ferguson, DeAnna Knippling, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Love pulp fiction?
Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it!
11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more. Some monsters you’ve seen before…
And some of them you haven’t!
Some monsters are the good guys…
And...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...