The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Thomas H. Naylor, James Clotfelter
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions. The underlying theme is that if one wants to understand the South, it is necessary to examine the bonds among these various institutions....
Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro
Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview...
Dred
A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective.
Through the compelling...
by Jessica M. Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention. While other attempts...
Congo Love Song
African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African...
Cosmos and Tragedy
An Essay on the Meaning of Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the <3>Ortesia<1> and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully...
by Ebrahim Moosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
*Abu Hamid al-Ghaz&*257;l&299;, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics,...
by Felix Frankfurter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The power of the commerce clause touches most intimately the relations between government and economic enterprises, and the process by which the conflicting claims of the nation and states are mediated through the Supreme Court is of continuing interest. This study is a clear exposition of the various...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including GPS, Detailed Maps, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official National Park Service trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the parkway, including the Appalachian Trail and...
Chiasmus in the New Testament
A Study in Formgeschichte
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This study is devoted to the tracing of the Hebrew literary influence of the Greek text of the New Testament. It discusses specifically one form, the extensive use of the inverted order called chiasmus, a form that seems to be a part of Hebrew thought itself, whether in poetry or in prose. Originally...
Crooked Paths to Allotment
The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on...
by William Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Throughout nearly sixty-five of writing, Pound specialized on the suffocating effects of time on poetry, aesthetic form, and history. Harmon examines Pound's strategies for dealing with time and arrives at a persuasive reading of Pound's works in general and of the The Cantos in particular. By concentrating...
The Woodwright's Workbook
Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftsman to armchair woodworker--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Roy returns here with his third book. The...
A Luminous Brotherhood
Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the...