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Demonstrates that tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. This work also demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. This book collects 26 of these stories that are suitable for kids.

An anthology that provides overviews of life, history, and culture and offers insight into Brazil's development over the past century. It offers fresh perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.

Education played a decisive role in recasting women's collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, this title measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries.

The Richmond campaign of 1862, waged by armies under Robert E Lee and George B McClellan, ranks as one of the important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. This book offers nine essays which explores questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign.

How do Americans reckon with slavery? This book offers an analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture.

Presents a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activities among African Americans. This edition covers African American business history through the end of the Civil War and features a comprehensive account of black business during the Civil War.

Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This volume celebrates this essential element of southern life.

Examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. This volume reflects the variety of southern life, paying attention to the region's economic transformation in the decades.

A collection of essays which recognize Americanism in all its complexity - as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning.

A collection of seven essays which reinterpret the bloody Fredericksburg campaign and place it within a social and political context. It analyzes the battle's antecedents as well as its aftermath, and challenges long-held assumptions about the engagement.

The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. The climactic clash came on September 17 at the battle of Antietam, where more than 23,000 men fell in the single bloodiest day of the war. This book examines the ways in which the battle has been remembered.

Susanna Rowson - novelist, actress, and playwright - bears resemblance to the character in her creation, Charlotte Temple. This novel shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women.

A collection of letters by the men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression. It shows the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time.

Contains 17 personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The essays in this book show how - first as graduate students and then as professional historians - they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men.

Southern Cultures was founded in 1993 to present different sides of the American South. This volume collects 27 essays from the journal's first fifteen years. It includes topics that range from black migrants in Chicago to Mexican immigrants in North Carolina, and from Tennessee wrestlers to Martin Luther King.

Contains eleven essays which offer an analysis of North Carolina's politics and policy, placed in the context of its own history as well as the politics and policies of other states. This book also discusses the evolution of political institutions, the roles of governors, the judicial branch, and, interest groups, and party systems.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; and, the roles of race, gender, and sexuality. This collection of eighteen essays explores the convergences and divergences of these two literary lives.

In 1775, when patriot leaders formed the Continental army, they were informed by their knowledge of the British army. This book shows that, following this decision, a gap existed in the conditions of service between soldiers and officers of the Continental army. It illuminates the social world of the Continental army.

Brings together more than 200 period documents on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the structure of government and society, labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion.

While public debates over America's foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this work offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. It examines the central role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy.

Covers the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. This title also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and ""freedom of the press,"" and literacy and orality.

Brings together many stories and pictures to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Covering women from all 100 North Carolina counties, this book includes 22 biographies of notable women. It also features more than two hundred photographs and documents.

Explores language and dialect in the South, including English, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities. Topical entries in this work discuss changes in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of English in the increasingly mobile South.

Presenting a collection of twelve essays, this volume explores how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. It covers a variety of topics - including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, and more.

The Wilderness campaign of May 5-6, 1864, initiated an epic confrontation between Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee that would ultimately end, eleven months later, with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. This work assembles eight essays that explore aspects of the background, conduct, and repercussions of the fighting in the Wilderness.

Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. White gained access to white elite culture, establishing friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt and numerous congressmen and Supreme Court justices. This book considers the man who embodied many contradictions.

In Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Deborah Wyrick argues that modern Continental and American literary theory is "tantalizingly applicable to Swiftian texts." Its applicability, she writes, "stems from Swift's interest in and exploration of what are now though of as phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist, and new historicist concerns: how a life in language comes into being, how semiotic systems determine meaning, how texts open up their own systems to other texts and to multiple interpretations."Wyrick investigates Swift's confrontations with three theories of language current in his day, theories that locate meaning in the thing named, in the idea behind the word, or in the response of the audience. She concludes that Swift fashioned a fourth theory of meaning, one that locates meaning in and among words themselves. Because of his fear of the anarchic potential of language, Swift attempted to invest his words with extratextual authority; yet a powerful counterforce was his desire to exploit the possibilities of language divested of stable significance. These divestitures, particularly the word-play and language games, ultimately served serious personal and social purposes.A crucial personal purpose was Swift's ability to create a textual self, which he did, Wyrick maintains, by constructing defensive transvestitures centered on clothes and money. These parallel sign systems produced Swift's greatest achievement in using the resources of language and history to effect political action. By using the entire Swift canon -- poems and prose narratives, letters and essays, sermons and satires -- Wyrick presents Swift's struggle with the inadequacies of language and its inability to answer the tremendous demands he made upon it.Originally published 1988. 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.