The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Working in Hollywood
How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors,...
Living the Revolution
Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey...
Rich Indians
Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas...
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
William Brown's African and American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded...
Traders and Raiders
The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood...
Hotel Life
The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as...
by Eliza Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe...
Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities,...
Not Straight, Not White
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise...
by Paula M. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known...
Talking Guitar
Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering...
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
A Handbook and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This handbook provides the background necessary for fully understanding the nearly one thousand poems of Hardy. As it treats the poems individually and often supplements the analysis of a poem by relating it to other poems and to passages in the fiction, every comment helps build a portrait of Hardy...
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished...
Civic Passions
Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were...