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The Terms of Order
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...
Creek Country
The Creek Indians and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 8: Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have...
Blowout!, Enhanced Ebook
Enhanced ebook with video and audio - Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's...
Original Sin and Everyday Protestants
The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 14: Folklife
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions.
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Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...
Strangers Below
Primitive Baptists and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended...
The Word in the World
Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been...
A Little Taste of Freedom
The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The...
by Mark V. Tushnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization...