The University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 2381 books
Past into Present
Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
First-person interpretation--the portrayal of historical
characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying--is
an effective, albeit controversial, method used to bring history
to life at museums, historic sites, and other public venues.
Stacy Roth examines the techniques of first-person...
by Cecil W. Wooten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of this century and includes a substantial scholarly...
by Jeanne Voltz, Elaine J. Harvell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Good country ham is a delicacy that deserves to be in gourmet company. Dry cured with salt and other natural ingredients and aged to a rich intensity, true country ham boasts a flavor and texture that puts the more common wet-cured ham, which is soaked in brine or injected with a salt solution, to...
Poems in Their Place
Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself -- the concept and the material fact -- as an object of interpretation. The authors argue that the decisions poets make about the presentation of their works...
Southeastern Geographer
Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Southeastern Geographer
VOLUME 54, NUMBER 2 : SUMMER 2014
Table of Contents
Cover Art The Buddha Abides in Mississippi Mark M. Miller
Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, Number 2 Carl A. Reese and David M. Cochran
Part I: Papers
The Geography of Non-Earned Income in the...
Southeastern Geographer
Summer 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Table of Contents for Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2013)
Cover Art
Sleeping Kudzu
J. O. Joby Bass
Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 2
David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
Recovering Destination from Devastation: Tourism, Image, and Economy...
Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model
The Rhetoric of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars in this century have considered Cicero's attitudes toward and dependence on Demosthenes to be an issue of importance. Cecil Wooten brings together these two...
by Edward Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Donne...
Boss Lady
How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret...
Down and Out in the Great Depression
Letters from the Forgotten Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has...
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of...
Right to Ride
Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing...
Memories of Conquest
Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the first study to focus on a single...
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time
The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. It still exists today. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood,...