The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Innocent Weapons
The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children...
Armed with Abundance
Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities,...
Entitled to Power
Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.
Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women...
Searching for Scientific Womanpower
Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms "technocratic feminism" traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's...
by Patrick J. McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their...
Dress Casual
How College Students Redefined American Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American wardrobe, Clemente argues, was born in the classrooms, dormitories, fraternity and...
Love for Sale
Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual...
Distilling the South
A Guide to Southern Craft Liquors and the People Who Make Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement, capturing her journey in the creation of six original Liquor Trails. As fascinating as the craft itself are the distillers' experiences and backstories....
by Cleanth Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun...
The Scotch-Irish
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence...
by Woodruff D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Although Germany's short-lived colonial empire (1884-1918) was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant. The establishment of German colonies and attempts to expand them affected international politics in a period of extreme tension. Smith focuses on the interaction between Germany's...
Farm Fresh Tennessee
The Go-To Guide to Great Farmers' Markets, Farm Stands, Farms, U-Picks, Kids' Activities, Lodging, Dining, Wineries, Breweries, Distilleries, Festivals, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
The first guidebook of its kind for the Volunteer State, Farm Fresh Tennessee leads food lovers, families, locals, and tourists on a lively tour of more than 360 farms and farm-related attractions, all open to the public and all visited by Memphis natives Paul and Angela Knipple. Here are the perfect...
Appalachia in the Making
The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians...
by Arthur S. Link
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish policy; his relationship with the European Left, world order, and the League of Nations; and Wilson and the problems of world peace. They show...