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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...
Southeastern Geographer
Winter 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
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...
Amicable Agreement Versus Majority Rule
Conflict Resolution in Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
When the German edition of Steiner's masterful analysis of Switzerland's political system was first published in 1970 as Gewaltlose Politik und kulturelle Vielfalt, it was greeted by the American Political Science Review as a laudable departure from conventional comparative series." This new edition,...
by Hubert M. Blalock
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Taking an exploratory rather than a dogmatic approach to the problem, this book pulls together materials bearing on casual inference that are widely scattered in the philosophical, statistical, and social science literature. It is written in nonmathematical terms, and it is imaginative and sophisticated...
U. S. Grant
American Hero, American Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency...
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...
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...
Contested Waters
A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban...
Pigmentocracies
Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original...
Hammer and Hoe
Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.
The...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 21: Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and...
White Captives
Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 23: Folk Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic...
Help Me to Find My People
The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers...