The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Thomas Rath
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican...
Growing Up Jim Crow
How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette,"...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and...
Blue Texas
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when...
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ
The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism...
by Melvyn Dubofsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political,...
In Love and Struggle
The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese...
by Edward P. Crapol
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In this biography of the tenth president, Edward P. Crapol challenges depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government,...
The Botanizers
Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
Ecological Revolutions
Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway...
Visions of Power in Cuba
Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained...
Antiracism in Cuba
The Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social...
Blowout!
Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...