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The story of the use of railroads on a major scale during the American Civil War. The book includes maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes.

Over several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation despite dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this text, the author offers an explanation for the country's political evolution, which considers the influence of the USA and other international forces.

The author of this study seeks to bring to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the 20th century. He explores how this group of labourers thought about and participated in politics and public power - at the polling station, at home and on the shop floor.

This text examines the techniques of first-person interpretation - the portrayal of historical characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying - to identify those that have been most effective with audiences while allowing interpreters to maintain historical fidelity.

Capturing the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonised Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era, Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence and cultural encounters that governed existence on the margins of British America, by using the settlers' own words.

The author challenges the historical assumption that women of Virginia were largely excluded from public life. Varon demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were involved in politics through their presence at political meetings and rallies. In the GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE series.

The careers and ideas of four figures in the history of American conservation - George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and John Wesley Powell - are explored in this text. It shows how they helped define the issues that began changing the nation's attitudes toward its environment.

Bailey points out in this book that Hardy found a reasoned basis for his meliorism in Von Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious. Hardy's philosophic thought influenced his interpretation of history. His Napoleon is not an example of failure with historical character "but is a graphically imagined projection of an idea".

Traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture.

White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier

The author of this book compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and California state legislatures to illuminate the broader implications of the election and integration of women into public office.

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of "land-as-woman". It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity, and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The third offensive, the northern Mississippi campaign, led to the devastating and little-studied defeats at Iuka and Corinth. This work details the tactical stories of Iuka and Corinth, analyzing troop movements.

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, this title traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the 19th century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II.

Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the US has often chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes. This text examines US support of right-wing dictatorships. It challenges the contention that democratic impulse consistently motivates US foreign policy.

Drawing on short stories, adverts, medical writings and Hollywood films, this study explores gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism in post-war America.

During the Irish famine 2,000,000 Irish men and women fled their homeland to settle in large British and American cities already wrestling complex urban problems. This book examines how the cities of Liverpool and Philadelphia met the challenge of this influx of immigrants.

Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews.

Examining ""folk revivals"" in the early 20th century, this book reveals the cultural politics surrounding the re-emergence of Southern Appalachian handicrafts. The author shows how this revival had not so much to do with recapturing tradition as fufilling the desires of middle-class taste.

Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power.

Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II

Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, the author's insightful and documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972.

Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War.

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, this book challenges scholarly views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. It states that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions.

From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. This study explores the central but ever-changing role they have played in the nation's economic, political and cultural development, across manufacturing, sales, services and farming.

History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism.