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Real NASCAR
White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition....
Bring Your "A" Game
A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written...
King Football
Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Housing desegregation is one of America's last civil rights frontiers. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists, civil rights attorneys, and policy analysts, these original essays present the first comprehensive examination of housing integration and federal policy covering the last two decades....
by Susan Archer Mann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor? Capitalist develoment has been slower and more uneven in agriculture than in other spheres of production, and major parts of the rural economy remain almost preindustrial...
by John T. Kneebone
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism. John Kneebone presents a richly detailed intellectual history of southern racial liberalism between World War I and World War II by examining the works of five leading...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
Putinomics
Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies? What patterns...
A Deplorable Scarcity
The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in...
Freedom's Teacher
The Life of Septima Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In...
Law School
Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the...
by John Henry Schlegel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge...
Empty Pleasures
The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production,...
Fighting for the Confederacy
The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him...