The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Meaning Over Memory
Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for...
by Alan L. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes--to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same reason that impelled their other business ventures--the...
Immigrants on the Land
Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When slavery was abolished in 1888, Sao Paulo, Brazil, subsidized the immigration of workers from southern Europe and Japan. Faced with a worldwide coffee market and abundant land for expansion, native planters developed a package of incentives to attract workers, in contrast to the coercive labor...
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture
Toward a New Science of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The author argues that Foucault's archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics. She examines...
by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case...
by Judith Andre
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies. The work they do also varies widely: consulting on ethical issues in patient care, working with legislatures, dealing with...
Feeding a Hungry Planet
Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's...
by Daphne Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced...
The Wilson Era
Years of War and After, 1917-1923
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In this volume, Daniels tells how Wilson, having fought against war with monumental patience, finally led this country into world conflict. He proved himself a militant fighter and strategist, and when victory came he believed that it had made possible a warless world. Wilson's fight for the League...
by Josephus Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This volume, rich in its first-hand knowledge of men and events, begins with the years of Cleveland's second administration, covers the meteoric rise of Bryan, and ends with Josephus Daniels's appointment as secretary of the navy under Wilson. Among the more dramatic incidents in the book is the account...
Response to Revolution
The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst in shaping American foreign policy over the past generation. Welch's study is the first detailed evaluation of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the early years of the Castro regime and the first effort to analyze public sentiment during that crucial period. Our response...
U.S. Intervention in British Guiana
A Cold War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism.
When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in...
Infectious Ideas
U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era. Brier describes how AIDS workers--in groups as disparate as the gay and lesbian press, AIDS service...
City in a Garden
Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its...