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Chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.

During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from an agrarian-based economy into one driven by pharmaceutical, medical, and technological advances. In this survey, Monteith argues that it was North Carolina's investment in practical education that drove this change.

Desafios, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadania se inserta dentro del creciente interes en los estudios sobre ciudadania al tener como objetivo el entender las diferentes formas en las que las politicas-economicas neoliberales cuestionan, controvierten e incluso mutan el concepto de ciudadania.

Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies.

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom. It was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honour" and "virtue". As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society.

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. Nina Silber examines the contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric.

In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences.

Why did the Soviet economy suddenly collapse in the late 1980s, only a few years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that although Gorbachev and his allies sought to learn from China's economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping, their efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism proved much less successful.

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. This book tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South.

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate - about care as a "mere voluntary courtesy" - became routine in a wide range of subsequent cases about "good Samaritans".

For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1914 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism.

Louis Austin (1898-1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. In this biography, Jerry Gershenhorn chronicles Austin's career as a journalist and activist, highlighting his work during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar civil rights movement.

For generations, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. They not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black Freedom Struggle. Jelani Favors offers a history of HBCUs told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar became one of the best loved saints in America? Drawing on a dazzling array of art, music, drama, film, hymns, and prayers, Patricia Appelbaum explains what happened to make St. Francis so familiar and meaningful to so many Americans.

Chronicles the dawn of the global women's rights in the early twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the US or Europe. Instead, Katherine Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women who forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism.

Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future

This is an edition of the parts of the Quincuagenas of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo that the author considers "aspectos de las Quincuagenas que podemos considerar respaldados por las vivencias del autor", hence the title Memorias. We are left, however, with two substantial volumes of which this is the second.

Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi Chiappelli, Julia Conway Bondanella, Oscar Budel, Marga Cottino-Jones, Christopher Kleinhenz, Sara Sturm, Concetta Carestia Greenfield, Armaud Tripet, Douglas Radcliff-Umstead, Conrad H. Rawski, John E. Wrigley, Eugenio Battisti, Benjamin Kohl, Angelo Mazzocco, Jerome Taylor, Donald L. Guss, Paolo Cherchi, Frank L. Borchardt, Gerhard Dunnhaupt, and Gerhart Hoffmeister.

White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements and critiques of capitalism. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, this book tells a different story, examining the history of white working-class conservatism since the Civil War.

A history of consumer capitalism in Brazil that is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. The book tells how a new economic outlook took hold in the twentieth century, a time when the US became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens.

Few places are more notorious for civil rights-era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning. Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering insight into the social impacts of commemoration.

Taylor Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II.

The first book to tell the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the ""March to the East"". Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.

Crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organised by one connected group of people.