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by Reginald C. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history of aggressive U.S. expansionism. Until the mid-nineteenth century, many believed that Canada would ultimately...
Land Reform in China and North Vietnam
Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the...
The Beauty of Holiness
Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing...
Blue Ridge 2020
An Owner's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous...
Technology in the Garden
Research Parks and Regional Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
More than half of the 116 research parks now operating in the United States were established during the 1980s, with the aim of boosting regional economic growth. But until now no one has systematically analyzed whether research parks do in fact generate new businesses and jobs. Using their own surveys...
Slang and Sociability
In-Group Language Among College Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions. In Slang and Sociability, Eble explores the words...
Talking Gender
Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist...
by Martin Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau sought to remedy and the issue of whether the...
Southeastern Geographer
Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Southeastern Geographer
VOLUME 54, NUMBER 1 : SPRING 2014
Table of Contents
Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, Number 1
David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
The Great Lakes-to-Florida Highway: A Politics of Road Space in 1920s West Virginia and Virginia
Jessey...
by Muriel Earley Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley -- an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppard began visiting her neighbors and forming friendships in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in...
Radio Free Dixie
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...
The Inner Islands
A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it...
Decoration Day in the Mountains
Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our...
Princess Noire
The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She...