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This history analyzes women's antislavery petitions, the speeches calling women to petition and public reaction from 1831 to 1865. It argues that petitioning not only made significant steps to abolish slavery but also contributed toward transforming women's political identity.

Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955

Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General

This unified treatment of principal themes in the area of the philosophy of history is an attempt to combine important insights scattered among books and articles published during recent decades and to coordinate the various approaches to the nature of history associated with positivism, analytical philosophy, pragmatism, and phenomenology.

Presents the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into the fiber of American society.

Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930

Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America s International Power"

What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities.

The first book dealing with any period in American history which describes and analyses national politics through studying voting patterns in state legislatures. During the 1780s two relatively stable legislative parties" emerged in every state, and each state possessed common characteristics. Originally published in 1972.

Artist Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives. Although Soyer never identified himself as a "Jewish artist", Samantha Baskind, in the first full-length critical study of the artist, argues that his work was greatly influenced by his ethnicity and by the Jewish American immigrant experience.

Envisioning La Escalera - an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba - in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organised slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century.

In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. Tortora reveals how the war destabilized the South Carolina colony and threatened the white coastal elite.

Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic

Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of - and lend dignity to - hundreds of lynching victims about whom we have known little more than their names and alleged offenses.

The transition from military rule to democracy.

Explores how African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as "black music". David Gilbert shows how they used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity.

"Published in association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. This title offers answers to questions concerning the war. It examines the origin of Spain's genocidal policy of ""reconcentration""; the causes of Spain's military difficulties; and, the condition, effectiveness, and popularity of the Cuban insurgency.

Charts the origins, meanings, methods, evolution, and maturation of African American historical writing from the period of the Early Republic to the twentieth-century professionalization of the larger field of historical study.

In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. He argues that the history of the Caribbean is bound up in the shared experiences of those who crossed the straits and borders between the islands just as much as in the actions of colonial powers.

In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation.

Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

Offers a look at a long-neglected aspect of childbirth in America - the changing role of the expectant father. The author uses first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature to offer fresh perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s.

The role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the whaling industry of New England sent thousands of men to distant seas. This work examines letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and city directories, to reconstruct the lives of the ""Cape Horn widows"" left behind onshore.

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place.

North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South