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New World Cities
Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody:...
Entrepreneurs of Ideology
Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. He shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German...
by Celia E. Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered.
Based...
The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology
Durkheim, Weber, and Garfinkel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hilbert demonstrates the historical connection between the nineteenth-century theory of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, in which sociology had its origins, and the ethnomethodological approach articulated in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel. The author rejects the conventional view that draws radical distinctions...
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America
Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized...
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers,...
by Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This work is a cantata for chorus and orchestra, with baritone solo, celebrating the pioneers who settled the American wilderness. In his poem, Green has given us the finer spirit of the ancestors of many native Americans throughout the republic. Charles Vardell has brought his imagination and distinguished...
A Thousand Thirsty Beaches
Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including undocumented immigrants) from Great Britain and Europe through Cuba to the United States between 1920 and the end of Prohibition. Because of their proximity...
Richard S. Ewell
A Soldier's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate; when Jackson died, Ewell took command of the Second Corps, leading it at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House.
In...
Between Churchill and Stalin
The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943. This volume examines the causes of this conflict that may, in fact, have started in 1940 with the problems of the Baltic states.
Originally published 1988.
A UNC Press Enduring...
Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought
A Study in the Relationship between the Philosophy of William James and the Literary Art of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination...
by Frank P. Albright
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks to Eberhardt, building his evidence by a diligent reading of the Moravian records and by a careful cataloging of the characteristics of each clock. He reconstructs Eberhardt's...
Transforming the Elite
Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, numerous white students exited the public system altogether, with parents choosing homeschooling or private segregationist academies. But...
by Richard A. Soloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s. He concludes that the response of individuals and organizations drawn into the debate over birth control and the consequences...