Product Description: Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee...read more

Product Description: "So Black and Blue is the best work we have on Ellison in his combined roles of writer, critic, and intellectual. By locating him in the precarious cultural transition between Jim Crow and the era of promised civil rights, Warren has produced a thoroughly engaging and compelling book, original in its treatment of Ellison and his part in shaping the history of ideas in the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society...read more

Product Description: This collaborative work offers an overview of surgery concerned with the liver, the pancreas and the biliary tract. Topics include interventional radiology, endoscopy, pancreatic transplantation and congenital biliary atresia. There are step-by-step diagrams of surgical procedures which are accompanied by brief notes outlining indications, pre-operative evaluation and preparation, anaesthesia and sedation, descriptions of the procedures in detail, complications, post-operative care and inherent risks...read more