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The Woodwright's Shop
A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technololgy, and humor, he provides both a source of general information and a detailed introduction to traditional...
Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies
The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. He offers a comparative and critical analysis of the challenges data protectors face int their attempt to preserve individual rights.
In Praise of Prometheus
Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This book analyzes in detail the argument that Aeschylus was a great poet whose views on religious and political thought were naive and primitive. The author cites relevant evidence to discount this theory and identifies Aeschylus as a rationalist and a humanist.
Originally published in 1966.
A...
Monumental Mobility
The Memory Work of Massasoit
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's...
Southern Snacks
77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflowing meals. In seventy-seven recipes that range from classic to contemporary, Perre Coleman Magness embraces the southern approach to snacking, including...
Prairie Patrimony
Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural...
by Federico Romero
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study of U.S. postwar policy toward the reconstruction of Europe's trade unions, Romero demonstrates the weaknesses of the American strategy to reshape European societies in the likeness of American social pluralism. Using Italy as a case study, he shows how the U.S. government cooperated...
by Christine A. White
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
White reassesses Anglo-American trade with Soviet Russia immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution to show that, unlike diplomatic relations, commercial ties were not severed by ideological differences. She argues that British and American trade with Russia resumed soon after the Bolsheviks'...
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the...
by Stephen D. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Hot Springs, Arkansas
by Keith Maillard
World War II-era Hot Springs is the foundation for this author's story, a tale about his family's crumbling dynamics in troublesome times.
"'Well, of course I remember Pearl Harbor,' my mother says, the tone of her voice adding,What do you think...
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 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...
Southeastern Geographer
Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that...