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Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Wendy Martin recreates the textures of these women's lives, showing how they parallel the shifts in the status of American women from private companion to participant in a wider public life.

Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers

This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative ""I am a Woman - and a Jew"", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity.

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.

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfil his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland, Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy.

Providing a comprehensive account of how political, social, and economic factors work together to shape the culture of opportunity in a postindustrial workplace, Katrinell Davis shows how government manpower policies, administrative policies, and drastic shifts in unionisation have influenced the prospects of low-skilled workers.

This is a text designed for a two-year course in high school or a one-year course in college. It provides a clear, simple presentation of the subject, with emphasis on drill in syntax. Pronunciation has been incorporated within the body of the text to make the student feel that it is an essential feature of language work. There are complete vocabularies and a subject index.

In preparing these lectures, Norlin drew upon his experiences of the Hitler revolution in Germany. He attempts to answer the question: What is proper nationalism? Approaching this question by an analysis of nationalism at its worst - as seen under a Nazi regime - he pleads for nationalism at its best and for a rediscovery of America.

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important theater of the late Cold War.

Prussian Schoolteachers: Profession and Office, 1763-1848

Excavating the site of the factory has revealed that Bonnin and Morris produced bone porcelain some fifty years earlier than experts had previously believed it was manufactured in America. With wit and a keen eye, Hood examines the larger implications of the failure to establish a large-scale industry in the colonies.

This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic and entrepreneurial history, focusing on Russian state economic policy and activity concerning China.

This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis. It details Cornwallis's work in India, his contributions in Britain as master general of ordnance, his tenure as lord lieutenant and commander in chief in Ireland, and his diplomacy in negotiating the peace of Amiens.

The building of the wall in 1961 occupies the central position in Dulles's book. But she has prefaced it with an excellent review of Berlin's tangled history since the end of World War II with its recurrent crises and the hardening of lines as the cold war continues.

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of US rule, this book connects the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. It explores the history of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents.

"This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1902-1981), author of the 1958 national best-seller 'Only in America', illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s"--

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white. In her history of music and race in midcentury America, Christina D. Abreu argues that these musicians played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities.

Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's desire to modernize his country.

Truett has undertaken a study of the earliest history of America using as his foundation the Indian trails and traces and the trading paths of the early settlers. It is a sympathetic portrayal of the people who traveled these roads, of the inns and taverns at which they were entertained, and of their uniquely adapted modes of conveyance. Originally published in 1935.

In this study, agrarianism is reoffered as a pattern for a way of living. Cauley believes it is both possible and desirable for people to establish and maintain an agrarian society. He presents the legislative measures and public policies that are necessary to establish such an economy.

This book is designed to help the teacher to program informal activity in the classroom. Specific directions are given for establishing centres of interest in reading, science, and art; suggestions are made for combining the flexibility of the activity program with the essential order of a daily routine; and large units of work for all the grades are described in detail.

Few books about George Washington treat exclusively his western interests and activities. As these interests were extensive and admittedly determining factors in his career as a soldier, this volume offers a much needed picture of this phase of Washington's life. The author offers substantial evidence to refute the charges that Washington's interests were predominantly selfish.

North Carolina's highway system was one of the greatest single steps toward progress ever made by the state, linking the somnolent and backward communities with the more accessible and progressive sections. This volume presents the story of this highway system with due regard to the conditions of the past out of which it grew.

The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery. Originally published in 1961.

Based on the printed memoirs and documentary records of those who fought in the 1865 Georgia campaign of the American Civil War and those who lived in the path of General Sherman's onslaught, this book tells John Barrett's story of what happened in the three months that followed.

This study refutes the vision of the USA's stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety and health, political economy and property, and morality. Challenging the myth of individualism, the author explores the commitment to public duty.

In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a "new economic history".