The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Opening America's Market
U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America's Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies over the last sixty years, placing them within a historical...
by Robert Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's response...
Conceiving Freedom
Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late...
State and Revolution in Cuba
Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on...
Confronting America
The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research...
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished...
The Mormon Question
Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect...
The Roots of Justice
Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county's entire...
The Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death...
White Ethnic New York
Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive...
A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook
Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This special enhanced ebook edition to the newly updated A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle...
by Robert S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity....
American Honor
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'...
Brown's Battleground
Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate.
Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward...