The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
A Good Southerner
The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Wise (1806-76) was extremely active on the Virginia and national political scene from the early 1830s to the mid-1860s, drawing popular support because of his projection of hopefulness and energy. Regarded as eccentric, Wise is given, in this study, an interpretation that finds consistency in his...
Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the...
Living Monuments
Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cause their own. R. B. Rosenburg provides the...
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Until the mid-1700s, law was not thought of as a science or profession. Most Virginians adhered to the English country tradition that considered law to be a local and personal affair. The growth of cities and business, however, guaranteed that disputes would spill over county boundaries. As law proliferated...
Character Is Capital
Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In late nineteenth-century America, a new type of book became commonplace in millions of homes across the country. Volumes sporting such titles as The Way to Win and Onward to Fame and Fortune promised to show young men how to succeed in life. But despite their upbeat titles, success manuals offered...
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials,...
Nation Building in South Korea
Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and...
Parting
A Handbook for Spiritual Care Near the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take--the journey of a loved one toward the end of life. For those who choose to serve as close companions of terminally ill relatives or friends, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith...
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos,...
Sold American
Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers...
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
The Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this provocative study, the author treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War II. His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today's radical social thought.
Originally...
Burying the Dead but Not the Past
Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women...
Receiving Erin's Children
Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities,...