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by Ralph B. Levering
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this analysis of the years of greatest American friendship with the Soviet Union, Levering comes to two conclusions. First, cosmopolitan, educated Americans of all classes were much more likely to change their negative attitudes of 1939 to positive ones by 1943 than were the provincial and poorly...
Jack London, Enhanced Ebook
A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide...
by Daniel Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H....
Cloud by Day
A Story of Coal and Coke and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book, written from the author's personal knowledge of the district, is a picture of the fabulous and violent past of Pennsylvania's famed coke region and of its uncertain present. In tracing its history Sheppard shows the changes in methods of production and in the racial character of the population;...
Dixie Highway
Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes...
by Jerome Loving
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence. Tracing the parallel careers of Emerson and Whitman, the author shows how each served his literary apprenticeship, moved beyond his vocation, prospered, and, finally, declined...
To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the United States. Jones analyzes the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and he concludes...
Union in Peril
The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Jones studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the South's attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862. He argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy,...
Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
The Development of Their Form and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts,...
The House on Diamond Hill
A Cherokee Plantation Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond...
"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail"
Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
by Peter S. Carmichael
Why do we argue—and argue—so much about Robert E. Lee?
"While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past."
Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation
Emperor Ferdinand II, William Lamormaini, S.J., and the Formation of Imperial Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Confirming what historians have long suspected--that the influence of a court confessor could be crucial for the formation of policy--Bireley explores the relationship between Ferdinand and Lamormaini during the Thirty Years War. The author shows how Lamormaini planned for the restoration of Catholicism...
by Qiang Zhai
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War...
Metis and the Medicine Line
Creating a Border and Dividing a People
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both...