The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Ludwig Erhard
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In the first English-language biography of one of the most important figures in postwar German history, Alfred C. Mierzejewski examines the life and service of Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), West Germany's first minister of economics and second chancellor. Erhard liberalized the German economy in 1948...
Cinema in Democratizing Germany
Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during...
The Nazi Voter
The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era,...
Mama Learned Us to Work
Farm Women in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic...
Franchising in America
The Development of a Business Method, 1840-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Using a series of case studies from five industries, Dicke analyzes franchising, a marketing system that combines large and small firms into a single administrative unit, strengthening both in the process. He studies the franchise industry from the 1840s to the 1980s, closely examining the rights...
The National War Labor Board
Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918. She analyzes the board's struggle to succeed and reveals how both labor and business attemted to use this partnership to further their own special interests. The author...
A Chance for Change
Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also...
To Be Useful to the World
Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster...
by Horace R. Cayton, George S. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This is a book for those who want to know what really happens when, in circumstances of enormous complexity and under the impetus of the New Deal, an irresistible drive for labor organization runs head-on into an immovably imbedded race prejudice. It is based on interviews by the authors with those...
The Kennedy Crises
The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. Focusing on press coverage of government...
by Larry E. Tise, Jeffrey J. Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
These essays pose new questions concerning the social and political origins of the Revolution in the South, the social disorder indiced by the war, and the impact of the conflict and its ideologies on blacks and women. Contributors are: Pauline Maier, Robert M. Weir, Jack P. Greene, Marvin L. Michale...
by Lisa Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. In the first book-length work on the topic, Lisa Wilson examines the stereotypes and actualities of colonial stepfamilies and reveals them to be important factors...
Fighting Bob La Follette
The Righteous Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette (1855-1925) was one of the most significant leaders of American progressivism. Nancy Unger integrates previously unknown details from La Follette's personal life with important events from his storied political career, revealing a complex man who was a compelling...
The Making of Massive Resistance
Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this book, Gates brings before the reader persons and features unique to racial politics in the commonwealth of Virginia. He deals with the turbulent days that followed school desegregation decisions in 1954 and 1955 and with the emergence of the "massive resistance" movement in the region.
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