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Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College. Through Commager's life and legacy, Neil Jumonville explores a number of questions central to the intellectual history of postwar America.

For thirteen days in October 1962, America stood at the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and John F. Kennedy's defiant response introduced the possibility of unprecedented cataclysm. Awaiting Armageddon provides the first in-depth look at this crisis as it roiled outside of government offices.

Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic

This book describes many types and varieties of hostelries. Hayner has gathered the basic materials for his book from interviews with hotel bellboys, maids, waiters, and hotel dwellers and from them he has drawn a picture of the detachment, freedom, loneliness, and release from restraints that mark the hotel population.

Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater inclusion at Christian colleges and universities.

Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance

Examines London's inner life, primarily as it is revealed in his art, to discover the man concealed beneath the public persona. Although London was wealthy, famous, and one of the last great self-made men in America, Hedrick shows that he was always torn by his troubled relationship to his lower-class origins.

The mountaineer stereotype - violent people who preserve a traditional lifestyle and vote Republican - has been perpetuated through the years. This demonstrates that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic and geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence of Republican voting patterns.

Until now, the single comprehensive history of Salsa - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.

This book goes beyond the concept of power and studies the structure of relations among nations as a stratified system in terms of economic, prestige, and power variables that determine relative superiority and inferiority. It identifies some of the fundamental typologies of international actions in the three basic stratification variables. Originally published in 1963.

Contains both a warning and a challenge: a warning that the age-old inertia of the "common man" has permitted inefficiency and abuses in our industries, schools, and government; and a challenge to men in all fields to exert their wills and devote their talents and energies to bringing about a renaissance. Originally published in 1949.

The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never obscure and they go deep.

From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction

Examines the recruitment of the legislative-gubernatorial candidates by twelve political parties forming the five major party groupings in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, from 1962 until 1965. Originally published in 1968.

Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analysed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of'psychological' individualism for his social class.

Until now, the East European canon in American literature has been dominated by male dissident figures such as Brodsky, Milosz, and Kundera. Magdalena Zaborowska challenges that canon by demonstrating the contributions of lesser-known immigrant and expatriate women writers from Poland and Russia: Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elizabeth Stern, Maria Kuncewicz, and Eva Hoffman.

Examines the often contradictory views that characterized the British Labour party's approach to foreign policy from the end of World War I through the 1920s. Henry Winkler documents the progression from Labour's general indifference toward international issues, to its rejection of the prevailing international order, to its eventual acceptance of the need to work for international cooperation.

One of the most powerful of Elizabethan statesmen, Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, served the queen from 1558 until his death in 1598. This study identifies 118 commoners who served Lord Burghley at various times from 1544, when he first established a household, until 1598. Originally published in 1969.

Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900

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.

During his tenure as undersecretary of state from 1961 to 1966, George Ball was the only presidential adviser who systematically opposed American military intervention in Southeast Asia. In this volume David DiLeo profiles Ball's opposition to the United States' role in Vietnam and evaluates the impact of this dissent on the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

North Carolina is one of the states that specifically targeted industrial development efforts toward the microelectronic industry and, in 1981, established an independent, nonprofit organization, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. This volume examines some of the planning and policy issues raised by the state's efforts to attract the industry and details the objectives of its policy.

This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. The study combines quantitative analysis with previously untapped sources in the Kennedy Library. Originally published in 1984.

Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation

Hunter returns to Atlanta and reveals how the power structure of the 1950s has changed during the 1960s and 1970s. By combining scholarly analysis, personal reminiscences, observation, and social prescription, he provides a companion work that is as important as its predecessor.