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Offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War. Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987 and first published in English in 1991, The Spanish Civil War is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking research and is the most exhaustive study on the subject in any language.

"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history.

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.

What's Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture.

The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, was one of Latin America's most extensive. In this history of the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men delineated the country's territorial and racial composition.

This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.

During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico.

By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos - mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans - currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of US urban crisis and imperial migration from Latin America.

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.

Presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Donald M. Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods to demand Indigenous sovereignty.

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the US South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended Calvinism from what they feared were the unbridled forces of evangelical greed and power.

In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. Blanton argues that material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith.

Explains the background, organisation, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918. The author analyses the board's struggle to succeed and reveals how both labour and business attemted to use this partnership to further their own special interests.

This distinguished study brings to light and interprets thoughtfully a vast fund of information on the scientific interests and contributions of the revolutionary generation. It presents an integrated discussion of the character of science in colonial America, and it assesses the changes made in this pattern during the American Revolution. Originally published in 1956.

Problem of Order: Elizabethan Political Commonplaces and an Example of Shakespeare's Art

Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912