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Reveals that faculty of colour often face two sets of rules when applying for reappointment, tenure, and promotion: those made explicit in handbooks and faculty orientations or determined by union contracts and those that operate beneath the surface. It is this second, unwritten set of rules that disproportionally affects faculty who are hired to "diversify" academic departments.

Chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Nora E. Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern Mexico, and the growth of modern medicine in the Latin American context.

Examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles. Expanding on the traditional narrative of middle-class uplift, Campbell demonstrates that the black working class fought to secure their own economic and social freedom by forging communal bonds with black elites and other communities of colour.

This study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. Anne Blankenship shows how church leaders were forced to assess the ethics and pragmatism of fighting against or acquiescing to what they clearly perceived, even in the midst of a national crisis, as an unjust social system.

Contains selected articles that have appeared during the 1958-63 period and two previously unpublished essays on the shifting of the burden of public expenditure onto future generations. It provides the necessary material for understanding the several positions developed in the dispute on this important issue.

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up.

Presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists.

James and Grace Lee Boggs were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. Ward's book restores the Boggses to their rightful place in postwar American history.

Reinterprets the United States' record on human and labour rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.

Presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of social work. It orients the social worker to those larger aspects of the field which might be obscured by the more immediate consideration of specific problems.

Traces the interaction between the syndicalist Left and the royalist Right in France during the period between the Dreyfuss affair and the beginnings of World War I. Some royalists turned to the Left to enlist support for replacing the Third Republic with a "social" monarchy; the Left community was in such disarray that some syndicalists responded to the overtures of the Right.

Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, this title suggests that there were three active parties - the partisan, court, and country. From the land-grant maze following the 1779 migration, through a brief Tory movement, the author traces the parties' development and their struggle for power in the world of postrevolutionary Kentucky politics.

As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia.

Studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the South's attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862. Jones argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy, a move that would have legitimized secession and undermined the Constitution.

Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, was a unique political leader whose speeches, lectures, newspaper articles, and historical essays greatly influenced his people. Wellek brings together for the first time an English translation of Masaryk's writings that appeared between 1895 and 1910. Originally published 1974.

While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing inequality in the United States, Americans are demonstrably not very good at living with difference, says Evelyn M. Perry. Her analysis of the multiethnic, mixed-income Milwaukee community of Riverwest, advances our understanding of why and how neighbourhoods matter.

Draws on original documents, diaries, and letters composed as the US Civil War unfolded to produce a clear and credible portrait of everyday life in Appomattox, as well as examining the galvanizing events of April 1865. The also scrutinizes Appomattox the national symbol, exposing and explaining some of the cherished myths surrounding the surrender there.

Analysing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule.

Examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizersAE, amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, this explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Nessler argues that the territories' borders and governance were often unclear and mutually influential.

This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities - most notably, New York City - focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture.

Want to eat like the locals? D.G. Martin has spent years travelling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. Here D.G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as places to eat but also as fixtures of their communities.