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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays AEMDNMOin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and...
Long Gray Lines
The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...
A Hard Country and a Lonely Place
Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
William Link's account of the transformation of Virginia's country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South. His theme is the impact of localism and community on the processes of public education -- first as a motive force in...
Death in Life
Survivors of Hiroshima
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors....
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which...
God's New Israel
Religious Interpretations of American Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a
special destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both a
stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American
self-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivating
national mythology.
God's New Israel is...
White Enough to Be American?
Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach...
by Anne Shelby
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, writer and storyteller Anne Shelby creates fourteen lively, original stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world.Many of the stories feature a girl named Molly Whuppie, who is clever, brave, and strong. Encountering...
The Divided Path
The German Influence on Social Reform in France After 1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating...
Inventiones
Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical...
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses
Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were viewed with suspicion...
Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture
Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold...
Writers in Retrospect
The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills--from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism...
From Belloc to Churchill
Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J. L. and Barbara Hammond, G. M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast...