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Examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. Carl Schlam argues that the work cannot be seen as purely comic or wholly serious; he says that the entertainment offered by the novel includes a vision of the possibilities of grace and salvation.

In examining public debate over foreign policy in the United States between the outbreak of World War II and America's entry into the war, Schneider focuses on Chicago, a major metropolitan area that encompasses virtually every major interest group found in the US. He reveals how widely the controversy raged and how foreign policy considerations cut across other interests.

William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. This biography covers his life in service to the Crown to the end of the American Revolution.

In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. Pach analyses the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid - for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe - to contain Communist expansion during the late 1940s.

Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence US attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. In The Vietnam Lobby, Joseph Morgan concentrates on the actions of those who endorsed US intervention in Vietnam.

William Link's account of the transformation of Virginia's country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South. His theme is the impact of localism and community on the processes of public education - first as a motive force in the spread of schooling, then as a powerful factor that collided with the goals of urban reformers.

It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943. This volume examines the causes of this conflict that may, in fact, have started in 1940 with the problems of the Baltic states.

The fragment poem, long regarded as a peculiarly Romantic phenomenon, has never been examined outside the context of thematic and biographical criticism. By submitting the unfinished poems of the English Romantics to both a genetic investigation and a reception study, Marjorie Levinson defines the fragment's formal character at various moments in its historical career.

Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944

Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme Fiction

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To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E.H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: railroads. Maury Klein offers the first in-depth biography in more than seventy-five years of this influential yet surprisingly understudied figure.

This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behaviour in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century.

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense - and making narrative - out of the comforts and discomforts of its historical moment.

From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928-1933

Kaiser's Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany

Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change

How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most vibrant and competitive southern states, wher

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During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the "social evil," became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era. Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context.

A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only to those derived from Christianity in constructing our modern culture. Originally published in 1987.

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All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling - perhaps even more so - as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic.

In the 1940s, the name Henry J. Kaiser was magic. Based on the success of his shipyards, Kaiser was hailed by the national media as the force behind a "can-do" production miracle. In this book, Stephen Adams offers Kaiser's story as the first detailed case study of "government entrepreneurship".

Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897-1912

Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B.W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes. In 1932 he produced for his Tar Heel audience a revolutionary work on the plant ecology of the state, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina.

Ideologically divided and disorganized in 1960, the conservative wing of the Republican Party appeared to many to be virtually obsolete. However, over the course of that decade, the Right reinvented itself and gained control of the party. Mary Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds joined forces to make their voices heard.

United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951

Though preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term consequences of the crisis. Theodore Rosenof examines the long-run theories and legacies of four of the leading members of this generation: John Maynard Keynes, Alvin Hansen, Gardiner Means and Joseph Schumpeter.

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula.