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In The Scalawags, James Alex Baggett ambitiously uncovers the genesis of scalawag leaders throughout the former Confederacy. Using a collective biography approach, Baggett profiles 742 white southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party. He then compares and contrasts the scalawags with 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and eventually replaced them. Significantly, he analyzes this rich data by region -- the Upper South, the Southeast, and the Southwest -- as well as for the South as a whole.

Baggett follows the life of each scalawag before, during, and...

This book opens up the history of twentieth-century French cinema from the silent era to the present day by exploring the key role of gender and sexual politics. A much-needed sequel to Berg's bestselling Gender and German Cinema, the volume tackles such questions as:

- What role did the female voice play when sound cinema was first developed?

- How have film genres and movements been shaped by gender and sexual politics?

- How does gender intersect with factors of race, class, ethnic and national identity?

The contributors also throw into relief broad issues such...

The city is Neopolitan, a conflicted collection of in-your-face sensibilities just on the cusp of hipster discovery, and the year is 1998. Erin Patricia Pierce has just turned twenty-one and has decided she wants to achieve three things: 1) move out of her mother's house before they kill each other; 2) quit her job at Flaming Jackass pizza parlor (and land one at the infamous Acid Pit club) before 'Ed the Head' fires her; and 3) date that cute guy with the hazelnut cream eyes. Alex James has created over one hundred freaks, victims, geeks, villains, super-freaks, allies, and...

A respected hostage negotiation expert loses his mind when a bizarre kidnapping case results in a child's unexplained death. His wild talk of murderous monsters born from the victim's own imagination is impossible to believe, and the catastrophe sees him driven out of business in a cycle of alcoholism, denial and despair. Several years later, when a new case arises bearing all the hallmarks of the same killers, Harlan Falk emerges from obscurity a changed man: a monster negotiator. Using resources and methods beyond the scope of conventional investigators, he sets out to finally close the...