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Miss America’s God
Faith and Identity in America’s Oldest Pageant
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481311977
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power. Despite the cultural winds of the past century, Miss America continues to captivate the nation, giving America what it wants most--sex,...
No Saloon in the Valley
The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitions in the 1800s
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780918954879
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2003
Format: Hardcover
In this engaging study, James D. Ivy recovers an intriguing and neglected aspect of Texas cultural history--the confluence of social strategies that fueled the Texas prohibition movement. In particular,...
Providence
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780918954848
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2002
Format: Paperback
Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography,...
Letters by Lamplight
A Woman's View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 1873-1883
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780918954695
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 1998
Format: Paperback
Through letters written by one family in post-Reconstruction Texas, Myers shows what life was like in this part of the Old West from a feminine perspective. The detailed letters of joy and struggle...
Miss America’s God
Faith and Identity in America’s Oldest Pageant
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481311977
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power. Despite the cultural winds of the past century, Miss America continues to captivate the nation, giving America what it wants most--sex,...
No Saloon in the Valley
The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitions in the 1800s
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780918954879
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2003
Format: Hardcover
In this engaging study, James D. Ivy recovers an intriguing and neglected aspect of Texas cultural history--the confluence of social strategies that fueled the Texas prohibition movement. In particular,...
Providence
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780918954848
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2002
Format: Paperback
Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography,...
Letters by Lamplight
A Woman's View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 1873-1883
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780918954695
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 1998
Format: Paperback
Through letters written by one family in post-Reconstruction Texas, Myers shows what life was like in this part of the Old West from a feminine perspective. The detailed letters of joy and struggle...