The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Edward J. Berbusse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Through a close examination of the United States military governments established in Puerto Rico, and with careful attention to the important Foraker Act of 1900, the author presents in detail the results of Puerto Rico's transition from the old world to the new.
Originally published in 1966.
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Showbiz Politics
Hollywood in American Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But, as Kathryn Cramer Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system. Since the 1920s,...
Hard Work Is Not Enough
Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening...
Ambivalent Embrace
Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance...
The Tennessee Valley Authority
A Study in Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As an example of the efficient administration of a vast public enterprise, the T.V.A. furnished a basis for renewed faith in democratic institutions and for hope in the reconstruction of a war-torn world. The author discusses the background of the T.V.A., its multiple-purpose program, its development...
The Armchair Birder
Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating...
Rereading Doris Lessing
Narrative Patterns of Doubling and Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
According to Sprague, doubling in Lessing's novels is a perfect correlative for the complexity and contradiction Lessing perceives as central to the private and collective human experience. Her doubles and multiples not only indicate the fracturing or the formation of identity but they also are among...
Into the Pulpit
Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women--all of whom had much at stake--disagreements that touched...
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery....
St. Francis of America
How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast...
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the...
Radical Friend
Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802@–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights...
The Most Dangerous Area in the World
John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance's...
From Working Girl to Working Mother
The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies...