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Examines the complex relationships between family life, culture, and economic change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dissatisfied with interpretations based on European experience, contributors to this volume incorporate the particular histories, ideologies, and aspirations of New World peoples into analyses informed by general theory.

Traces British and American attempts to control the Asian opium trade from the fall of the Manchu dynasty in China in 1912 to the French withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. Analysing the moral, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, and security aspects of drug control, William Walker argues that the fight against opium played a significant role in Anglo-American relations in the region.

During the secession crisis of the winter of 1860-61, Southerners spoke out and wrote prolifically on the subject, publishing their views in pamphlets that circulated widely. In this valuable reference work, Jon Wakelyn has collected twenty representative examples of this long-overlooked literature.

"A thoughtful and wide-ranging contribution to the social and economic history of the High Medieval urban milieu." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History; "Interesting and comprehensive.... A major accomplishment." - Journal of Economic History

Challenges the widely held assumption that frontier farm life in the United States made it easier for women to achieve rough equality with men. Using as her example the family farm in rural Nebraska from the 1880s until the eve of World War II, Deborah Fink contends instead that agrarianism reinforced the belief that a woman's place was in the home, her predestined role that of wife and mother.

Examines the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the last hundred years. Djuna Barnes, Isak Dinesen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Doris Lessing are among the writers whose narratives of exile are studied. Originally published in 1989.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Exploring the controversial question of feminist criticism's relationship to recent critical theory, Elizabeth Meese resists the impulse to encompass women's diverse experiences within a single theory. Instead, she attempts to make American critical theory more radically political and American feminist criticism more self-consciously polyvocal and de-centering.

More than 50 percent of mental health centre caseloads involve individuals who could be helped outside the traditional clinic setting. This book is the first to outline procedures for expanding local mental health programs by adding non-clinical services: individualised tutorial or group education, social rehabilitation and self-help group experiences, and case management services.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Combines ecology, taxonomy, and the life histories of 79 species of North Carolina red algae in the first step toward a complete regional analysis of all inshore algae. Each paired alternative in the readily usable dichotomous key represents anatomical characteristics that are typically present and easily observed.

Little has been written previously about adopting a child beyond infancy. Carney's book is a warm, down-to-earth, and at times humorous, account of an older child who grows up in her family. As she draws attention to the dilemmas of the child who is meeting the many forced adjustments, she also recognizes the problems and feelings that are imposed on the parents. Originally published in 1976.

Focusing on Jefferson's two terms as president, this volume continues the study of the practical functioning of the Jeffersonian party begun in The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organizationm 1789-1801. Together these volumes present a comprehensive picture of the origins and early development of the present-day Democratic party.

Gardening enthusiasts and those who love to read about gardening will be delighted by this new collection of Elizabeth Lawrence's work. A gifted landscape architect and writer, Lawrence (1904-85) chronicled her experiences with plants in a voice treasured for its distinctive blend of horticultural expertise and stylistic elegance.

This study seeks to find a solution to the problem of the high concentration of poverty and dependency among Afro-Americans by finding out what becomes of the defective, delinquent, and dependent black children in North Carolina and by working out a state-wide program of aid.

Analyses runoff elections by assembling a data set that includes primary and general election returns for those US states that regularly use runoffs for selecting state legislative, executive, and congressional officials. The authors also draw on data for many municipal offices nationwide and examine court cases and legislative efforts aimed at abolishing or altering runoffs.

In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge, a society they hoped would live by Biblical teachings. The Moravian Brethren bought slaves to help operate their farms and industries. This volume examines that era.

Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction of masculinity in Victorian literature.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Offers a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not fragment experience or exploit the environment, E.V. Walter explores the way people in other cultures and other times have experienced place.

George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it.

The rise of the Jeffersonian party is a phenomenon in American history that has often attracted the attention of historians. However, little examination has been made of the actual instrumentalities with which the principles of Jeffersonian democracy were implemented or rejected. This book traces, from its nebulous beginnings to its first great victory in 1800, the formation of the national party organization that lay behind the elevation of Jefferson to the presidency.Originally published in 1958.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. Now Suzanne Stutman and John Idol have worked from manuscript sources at Harvard University to reconstruct The Party at Jack's as outlined by Wolfe before his death.

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the US's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran. This volume provides a corporate history of this maverick financial institution.