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The intense and concentrated revolution in poetic taste in seventeenth-century England is traced from Donne's idiom - subtle, complex, and shot through with unconventional moods - to the idiom of Dryden, which follows the taste for clarity, harmony, and propriety. Originally published in 1940.

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Provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known - racial, social, and cultural as well as political - regarding the inhabitants of central Asia, from the earliest times (c. 3000 B.C.) down to the sixth century A.D. Originally published in 1939.

Moss, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill from 1904 until 1906 and again from 1912 until 1932, was one of the best loved and most influential men in the life of that university community. This memorial volume provides a selection of his sermons and prayers that represent his religious philosophy. Originally published in 1940.

Printing was introduced into North Carolina in 1749 when James Davis set up a press at New Bern. Davis served North Carolina as its official typographer for many years. The vast majority of extant North Carolina imprints are of his printing. This book is a bibliography of those and other imprints. Originally published in 1938.

Presents a graphic picture of the backgrounds, development, status, and needs of business education in the changing South. The data have been compiled and analysed in a regional framework with the results carefully evaluated and presented in a fair, logical, and clear-cut fashion. Originally published in 1939.

From 1752 to 1803, Pendleton was adviser to Washington, Jefferson, R.H. Lee, and Madison. This picture of Virginia life and politics shows Pendleton to be influential but modest. Originally published in 1939.

Throughout the antebellum decades the slavery controversy raged. Making abundant use of contemporary materials - pamphlets, reports, newspapers, periodicals, and the writings and speeches of northern and southern leaders - this book tells the history of this great battle of ideals and interests. Originally published in 1939.

Scholars have always considered Brown a political enigma. Hill's careful examination of state and Confederate records, newspapers, and the memoirs, correspondence, diaries, and speeches of Brown's contemporaries enables her to answer many of the questions that have arisen with reference to the motives of Georgia's war governor.

Discusses the influence of the seventeenth-century sheriff of England on the local political institutions of the American colonies, with particular attention to Virginia and Maryland. The author has used resources both in this country and in England. Originally published in 1930.

This book is the result of personal first-hand investigation of over three hundred mills in the state. Herring discusses fully the activities of mill managements with respect to schools, churches, athletics, recreation, housing, company stores, general community enterprises, public health, and employee representation. Originally published in 1929.

Incomes and wages in the American South once were considerably below the average obtained in other parts of the country. This volume presents briefly the available statistical evidence concerning the relationship of wages in the South and the rest of the country. Originally published in 1930.

Reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement.

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyses depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives.

Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the focus of Peru's tourism economy. Mark Rice's history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century - from its "discovery" to today's travel boom - reveals how Machu Picchu was transformed into both a global travel destination and a powerful symbol of the Peruvian nation.

Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.

This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendered dimensions of suicide in the South during the long Civil War Era.

In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes.

Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In this new book, he explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic agendas.

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities - all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society.

Considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Gloria E. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics.

Reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labour by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism.

Tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed.

Nationwide interest in farm tenancy, articles in newspapers, and congressional hearings have increased American interest in the ways in which other countries have dealt with similar problems. This book presents information about Ireland's accomplishments in this area. Originally published in 1938.

These essays are an attempt to review, in a fragmentary and simple manner, certain relationships pertaining to those general concepts of legal terminology, comparing some characteristic features of specific legal orders but avoiding the attempt to approach problems pertaining to any particular legal system. Originally published in 1941.

A study of a Swiss jurist whose thought is demonstrably a primary source of the theory expressed in the Declaration of Independence that happiness is a natural right of man and that helping man to attain this natural right is the chief end of the state. Originally published in 1937.