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Cotton farmers, although adding a billion dollars annually to the wealth of the world, are the most impoverished and backward of all the large groups of producers in America. Their status demands complete dependence. The authors discuss the declining market of cotton and suggest a re-homesteading project as a solution for tenant farmers.

During World War I, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia created a policy of enlightened democracy that caught the attention of Europe and America. He saw clearly, however, that democracy must create for itself a spiritual discipline, that it must solve the problems of living, that it must present a unified outlook on existence. Originally published in 1941.

Presents numerous facts about the 352 types of manufacturing in the US and more specific facts about those related to the South. Herring reveals the directions in which the southeast has pushed its industrial development far enough and the directions in which it could wisely plan for and encourage expansion. Originally published in 1940.

This record of black graduates covers the period from the time the first Afro-American received an academic degree, 120 years ago, to 1936. Particular attention is given to the number, location, occupations, and social and economic backgrounds of living graduates. Originally published in 1938.

Here one finds descriptions of 239 native trees, 22 foreign trees - now escaped from civilization and become wild - and a list of native shrubs that occasionally reach tree size. Almost every description is illustrated with drawings showing typical leaves, flowers, and fruits. Complicated technical terms have been avoided. Originally published in 1937.

In this book, MacCracken points out that it is the citizen who is responsible for the successes and failures of a democracy. He argues that, if the citizen is not interested in the government, it will deteriorate and that, if he is interested in it and supports its laws, it will be improved.

This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled by storms and tell tales of hardship, hard work, and freedom.

In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system - a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). The two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level.

In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship-the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy.

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

In 2007 anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbours.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head and a jurisprudence of the heart.

With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the groundbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck.

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These Wrongs offers a lively account of this pioneering effort in America's War on Poverty.

Follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate how the picaresque masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age founded a narrative structure that was continued by Defoe, Smollett, Melville, Twain, and Mann.

Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fish, rodents, and other animals. More than 60% of US households have pets, and America grows more pet-friendly every day. But as Katherine C. Grier demonstrates, the ways American talk about and treat their pets have their origins long ago.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected - by influencing social norms, the economy, and the US's role as a world leader.

Through conversations with Ulysses Byas, a black school principal in Georgia in the 1950s and `60s, and access to his archives on his principalship, Vanessa Siddle Walker finds that black principals were well positioned in the community to serve as conduits of ideas, knowledge, and tools to support black resistance to officially sanctioned regressive educational systems in the Jim Crow South.

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the centre of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the first detailed history of this important organisation, Alfred Mierzejewski presents a sophisticated analysis of the Reichsbahn's operations, finances, and political and social roles.

Using a series of case studies from five industries, Dicke analyses franchising, a marketing system that combines large and small firms into a single administrative unit, strengthening both in the process. He studies the franchise industry from the 1840s to the 1980s, closely examining the rights and obligations of both the parent company and the franchise owner. Originally published in 1992.

Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. The gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel.

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, numerous white students exited the public system altogether. But some white elite private schools opted to desegregate. The black students that attended these schools courageously navigated institutional and interpersonal racism. This book tells this story.

Examines the deep history of American Islamophobia, showing how negative perceptions of Islam and Muslims shaped US foreign relations from the Early Republic to the end of World War I. This is a vital exploration of the crucial role the United States played in the Islamic world during the long nineteenth century - an interaction that shaped a historical legacy that remains with us today.

These songs are valuable because they are here presented exactly as they were found and sung. Thus collected and preserved, they provide portraiture of the Afro-American folk song and background, and they remain a treasure source for future harmonization if that should be desired. In their simplicity and realism, they record a true emancipation of the black spirit. Originally published in 1930.

Accurately and dramatically details the circumstances of the second Moroccan crisis, the smoldering background, the bold coup when the Germans dropped anchor before the closed port of Agadir and precipitated the crisis, the tortuous diplomacy, and embitterment of Franco-German and Anglo-German relations that preceded the Franco-German treaty of 1911. Originally published in 1940.