The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
The Road to Confrontation
American Policy toward China and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Concentrating on U.S. concerns for credibility abroad, Stueck uses recently declassified documents and many interviews to analyze the origins of the Sino-American confrontation in Korea in late 1950. He demonstrates how personalities (Secretary of State Marshall and General MacArthur) and bureaucracies...
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
by Jonathan H. Earle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation...
Washington Brotherhood
Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington...
The Majority Finds Its Past
Placing Women in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history following its publication in 1979. This...
An Unwanted War
The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain Over Cuba, 1895-1898
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Offner clarifies the complex relations of the United States, Spain, and Cuba leading up to the Spanish-American War and contends that the war was not wanted by any of the parties but was nonetheless unavoidable. He shows that a final round of peace negotiations failed in large part because internal political constraints limited diplomatic flexibility.
Arc of Empire
America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political...
Modern Food, Moral Food
Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules...
by Johanna Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that followed,...
The Look of Things
Poetry and Vision around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing...
Rethinking Aging
Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life,"...
by Jeffrey C. Beane, Alvin L. Braswell, Joseph C. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Revised and updated to reflect the most current science, and including 30 new species, this authoritative and comprehensive volume is the definitive guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. The new edition features 189 species of salamanders, frogs, crocodilians, turtles,...
The Terms of Order
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...