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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 14: Folklife
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions.
Moving...
by Mark V. Tushnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization...
by Thomas D. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically,...
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that...
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences...
The Mario Garcia Omnibus E-book
Includes Blowout! and The Latino Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Mario Garcia's landmark books on Latino Studies.
The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify themselves...
Latinos at the Golden Gate
Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city's story since its beginning. Charting the...
The Church in the Barrio
Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In a story that spans from the founding of immigrant parishes in the early twentieth century to the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement in the early 1970s, Roberto R. Trevino discusses how an intertwining of ethnic identity and Catholic faith equipped Mexican Americans in Houston to overcome...
Gathering to Save a Nation
Lincoln and the Union's War Governors
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained the Union while it mobilized and sustained...
Closing the Gate
Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all
Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal
law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race
or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open
immigration, this landmark legislation...
Strangers and Pilgrims
Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times...
Frederick Douglass
America's Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation...
Wilhelm II
Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. This volume completes Lamar Cecil's prize-winning scholarly biography of the Kaiser, one of modern history's most powerful--and...
Prophets of Rebellion
Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German...