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Major Ellithorpes unitcomprised primarily of refugee Muscogee Creek and Seminole Indians and African Americans who served as interpretersfought principally in Arkansas and Indian Territory, isolated from the larger currents of the Civil War. Using Ellithorpes journal and his series of Chicago Evening Journal articles as her main sources, M. Jane Johansson unravels this exceptional account, providing one of the fullest examinations available on a mixed-race Union regiment serving in the border region of the West.<br><br><br><br><br>Ellithorpe's insightful observations on Indians and civilians as well as the war in the trans-Mississippi theater provide a rare glimpse into a largely forgotten aspect of the conflict. He wrote extensively about the role of Indian troops, who served primarily as scouts and skirmishers, and on the nature of guerrilla warfare in the West. Ellithorpe also exposed internal problems in his regiment; some of his most dramatic entries concern his own charges against Caucasian officers, one of whom allegedly stole money from the unit's African American interpreters. Compiled here for the first time, Ellithorpes commentary on the war adds a new chapter to our understanding of Americas most complicated and tragic conflict.</p>", "author": "M. 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The result offers the first in-depth examination of the city's landscape history.<br>Douglas presents this \"beautiful and imposing\" city as a work of art crafted by numerous influences. His survey from the colonial period to the twentieth century finds that geography, climate, and, above all, the multicultural character of its residents have made New Orleans unique in American landscape design history. French and Spanish settlers, Africans and Native Americans, as well as immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and other parts of the world all participated in creating this community's unique public and private landscapes. 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Though New Orleanians lived in strata according to language, cultural identity, economics, and race, they found common ground, literally, in their community's landscapes.<br>Douglas's sweeping study, illustrated with over 90 color and black-and-white images, includes an exploration of archival horticultural books, almanacs, and periodicals; information about laborers who actually built landscapes; details of horticultural commerce, services, and marketing materials; and an exhaustive inventory of plants grown in New Orleans for agricultural, medicinal, and ornamental uses.<br>Public Spaces, Private Gardens provides an informative look at two hundred years of the designed landscapes and horticulture of New Orleans and a fresh perspective on one of America's most interesting and historic cities.</p>", "author": "Lake Douglas", "slug": "public-spaces-private-gardens-574382-9780807138380-lake-douglas", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807138380.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574382", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574382/public-spaces-private-gardens-574382-9780807138380-lake-douglas", "bisac_codes": [ "SCI026000", "GAR000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807139738", "EISBN13": "9780807138380", "EISBN10": "080713838X" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010018223888" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574381", "attributes": { "name": "Riffraff", "subtitle": "Poems", "description": "<p>Stephen Cushman's Riffraff embodies the spirit of its title, a Middle English word for \"every particle\" or \"things of small value.\" In this striking collection, scraps of the overlooked, and distasteful -- a prostitute passed in the street, the speaker's own forgotten dreams, toothless dogs rolling in deer offal -- become occasions to meditate on the rich experiences from which we too often turn away.<br>The poems reflect on the possibilities of language, the natural world, politics, history, eros, aging, family, and spiritual devotion. Without pretension, Cushman values \"adepts who can dwell in the kiosk of a kiss.\" Skillfully, he transmutes his own curiosity and surprise into moments of shared instruction. \"Keep low,\" he whispers. \"Stay put. / Learn from the leaves.\"<br>Riffraff culls what we have discarded, saves from abandonment the notions we have taken for granted, and, indeed, venerates every particle.</p>", "author": "Stephen Cushman", "slug": "riffraff-574381-9780807137635-stephen-cushman", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/cover_image/9780807137635.png", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "574381", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/574381/riffraff-574381-9780807137635-stephen-cushman", "bisac_codes": [ "POE000000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780807137604", "EISBN13": "9780807137635", "EISBN10": "0807137634" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010015007568" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000574380", "attributes": { "name": "Emancipating New York", "subtitle": "The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 17771827", "description": "<p>An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. 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Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effectively argues that the colonial Southeast cannot be fully understood without paying particular attention to its native inhabitants before their large-scale removal in the 1830s.<br>Axtell begins by treating the irruption in native life of several Spanish entradas in the sixteenth century, most notably and destructively Hernando de Soto's, and the rapid decline of the great Mississippian societies in their wake. He then relates the rise and fall of the Franciscan missions in Florida to the aggressive advent of English settlement in Virginia and the Carolinas in the seventeenth century. 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What Cobb has brought forth is an immensely valuableand entertaining work of both literary and historical significance that plots one extraordinary man's course through the changes of the twentieth century.<br>Cohn was in essence a \"cosmopolitan provincial,\" an observer who realized that the problems and circumstances of the Delta were at the same time unique and universal. A native of Greenville, he was educated at the University of Virginia and Yale University Law School. A brief but highly successful career in business allowed him to pursue his dream of being a writer. He traveled widely but remained faithful to his Delta roots, counting among his close friends both William Alexander Percy and Hodding Carter. 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Her involvement in the establishment of the Women's Missionary Union provided white Baptist women with an alternate means of gaining and asserting power within the denomination's organizational structure and changed it forever. In Lottie Moon: A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend Regina Sullivan provides the first comprehensive portrait of \"Lottie,\" who not only empowered women but also inspired the formation of one of the most influential religious organizations in the United States.<br>Despite being the daughter of slaveholders in antebellum Virginia, Moon never lived the life of a typical southern belle. Highly educated and influenced by models of independent womanhood, including an older sister who was a woman's rights advocate, an open opponent of slavery, and the first Virginian female to earn a medical degree, Moon followed her sister's lead and utilized her extensive education to successfully combine the language of woman's rights with the egalitarian impulse of evangelical Protestantism.<br>In 1873 Moon found her true calling, however, in missionary work in China. During her tenure there she recommended that the week before Christmas be designated as a time of giving to foreign missions. 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The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles, this twenty-two-parish area of south Louisiana encompasses a broad range of people, places, and events. In their historical and pictorial tour of the region, author Carl A. Brasseaux and photographer Philip Gould explore in depth this fascinating and complex world.<br>As passionate documentarians of all things Cajun and Creole, Brasseaux and Gould delve into the topography, culture, and economy of Acadiana.<br>In two hundred color photographs of architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and artifacts, Gould portrays the rich history still visible in the area, while Brasseaux's engagingly written narrative covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century story of settlement and development in the region. 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Pairing these two indisputable facts, author Alex V. Cook takes readers to the many unsung diners, quirky low-fuss restaurants, and family-run establishments that serve up the very best of true Louisiana cuisine. From a gas station with the best boudin links to a Vietnamese bakery with mouthwatering banh mi, lesser-known culinary gems stitched across southeast Louisiana offer tasty local fare in a down-to-earth atmosphere.<br><br><br><br>Setting off from the state capital of Baton Rouge and winding through the back roads of Cajun country, then turning southward to the Gulf, and finally veering onto side streets in New Orleans, Cook profiles more than thirty must-visit eateries with wit and an eye for the authentic. 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