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This book presents new and convincing evidence demonstrating the Judeo-Christian themes and allegory of Chretien de Troys' `Conte del Graal'. Basing the study on a careful analysis of Chretien's milieu as well as on his work itself, the authors seek the essential meaning of the most significant masterpiece of the Middle Ages before Dante.

In this biography of David Hunter Strother, the nineteenth-century chronicler of Southern manners, who, as Porte Crayon, was read and revered by more Americans of the time than either Hawthorne or Melville, the author restores him to his rightful place in the arts.

Beginning with a study of the frontier mind, Davenport traces the cultural development of the city in the rise of schools, colleges, churches, and medical science; he gives special attention to the amusements of the day - drama, opera, concerts, and minstrels; finally he examines the newspapers and magazines of the period, the poets and would-be poets, and the architects and their creations.

The `holy experiment' of the Quakers involved political hegemony and economic wealth. Gradually the Quakers realized that they had become involved in the compromises fatal to the spiritual integrity of the Society of Friends itself. The political crisis of 1756 hastened this realization, and the Quaker merchants abandoned the outward plantations and turned again to the plantations within.

Offers a study of the battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina and the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. This work analyzes the reasons for the initial success and eventual failure of General Joseph E Johnston's offensive.

Challenging assumptions about a distinctive ""southern military tradition,"" Rod Andrew demonstrates that southern military schools were less concerned with preparing young men for actual combat than with instilling in their students broader values of honour, patriotism, civic duty, and virtue.

Drawing on interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Korstad explores their confrontations against racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners and shored up white supremacy.

This volume looks at the natural and human history of North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, part of the Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the United States. It chronicles the geological forces that created this landscape, traces its environmental change and human intervention.

Hurricanes are a key factor in the development of modern Cuba. This book shows how these great storms - and three in particular (1842, 1844, 1846) - played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the island's history. Eyewitness accounts and agricultural/economic data are used.

Going behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, this text studies how East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. It reveals how the relationship between centre and periphery functioned in the Cold War Soviet empire.

In 1860 Somerset Place was one the most successful plantations in North Carolina, and its owner one of the largest slaveholders. This book tells the story of Dorothy Spruill Redford, a descendant of those slaves, and her ten year quest to recover the forgotten history of her ancestors.

This work examines the meaning of the Cuban war for independence of 1898, as represented in 100 years of American historical writing. It offers both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war informed by Cuban sources.

In this text, the author demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about, and concern for, the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding, he argues that this blurred the line between foreign policies and domestic concerns.

A biography of the Confederacy's boy artillerist.

This is a biography of A.P. Hill, a general in the American Civil War.

Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture

The division of the late Roman Empire into two theoretically cooperating parts by the brothers Valentinian and Valens in 364 deeply influenced many aspects of government in each of the divisions. This work argues that the emperors were actually much more pragmatic in their decision making than has previously been assumed.

How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach: A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast

The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more important, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S Grant. This book provides a study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence.

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba.

A description of how Mexico's industrial capitalism between 1920 and 1950 shaped the country's national identity, contributed to Mexico's emergence as a modern nation-state, and transformed US-Mexican relations. It shows that government programmes were central to encouraging commercial growth.

This study demonstrates that today's domestic advice writers -women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson and B. Smith - are part of a long tradition. Sarah A. Leavitt crafts a cultural history and genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of manuals spanning 150 years of history.

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic powers - Britain, France, Germany and the United States - Giauque explores these early stages of European integration.

This biography looks at the life and career of Alexander ""Sandie"" Swift Pendleton, a high-spirited and intelligent Confederate staff officerfrom Virginia who, at the age of 22, won the confidence, admiration and affection of General Thomas ""Stonewall"" Jackson.

A study of how Americans wrote, published and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the 19th century. It also reveals disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of US history, and the place of US literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters.

During the 19th century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace and 12 of the most successful of them provide the focus for this study by Mary Kelley. They wrote books which both embraced and questioned the expectations of the women of the time.

Study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism that takes readers on a journey across 2 centuries and 5 continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.

The Freedmen's Savings Bank was set up in 1865. It grew rapidly and established branches throughout the US South. It later failed because of dishonesty and incompetence. Fleming traces the bank's origin, growth, decline, and failure, and he indicates its effects on the black population. Originally published in 1927, this is a UNC Press Enduring Edition.