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by Colin A. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University...
Citizenship in the Western Tradition
Plato to Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It is striking to observe the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a period of 2,500 years and to learn how...
A Cautious Patriotism
The American Churches and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
World War II was a turning point in twentieth-century American history, and its effects on American society have been studied from virtually every conceivable historical angle. Until now, though, the role of religion--an important aspect of life on the home front--has essentially been overlooked....
Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy
Volume I: Six Essays in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. A better approach, he...
Most Favored Nation
The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897-1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Most Favored Nation discusses the movement for tariff revision under Republican administrations in the critical years preceding World War I. Paul Wolman shows how and why some Republicans turned away from their party's -- and the nation's -- traditional tariff reduction and revision. Wolman describes...
by Robert M. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Robert Schwartz examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the varied and shifting attitudes toward the delinquent poor, and the government's efforts to control mendicity...
Harvesting Change
Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened the country's economic lifeline. New employment...
What's Wrong with the Poor?
Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade,...
American Orientalism
The United States and the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium....
A License to Steal
The Forfeiture of Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent...
Southeastern Geographer
Innovations in Southern Studies, Winter 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 51, Number 4 (Winter 2011)
Introduction: With Thanks
Graham A. Tobin and Robert Brinkmann
Innovations in Southern Studies within Geography
Derek H. Alderman and William Graves
The Bible Belt in a Changing South: Shrinking, Relocating, and Multiple...
Revenuers and Moonshiners
Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The federal government's attempt to enforce civil rights measures during Reconstruction is usually regarded as a failure. Far more successful, however, was the collection of federal excise taxes on liquor during the same period -- an effort that secured for the government its single most important...
German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924
The Rhineland and Westphalia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Robert Moeller investigates the German peasantry's rejection of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and provides a new interpretation of Catholic peasant conservatism in western Germany. According to Moeller, rural support for conservative political solutions to the troubled Weimar Republic was the result...
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...