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The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the centre of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski offers the first complete account of the national railway under Hitler's regime.

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.

This study establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins, tracing the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race.

Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the US, Fay Botham argues that religion - specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race - had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War.

Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey

In this essential guide, preeminent physician Hadler urges American healthcare consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like with a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient.

The idea of ""region"" in America has often served to isolate places from each other. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for ""hicks,"" certain regions of the country are identified as static, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. This title explores this trend and offers alternatives to it.

James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation

Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America

France and the United States: Their Diplomatic Relations, 1789-1914

Although Germany's short-lived colonial empire was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant. The establishment of German colonies affected international politics in a period of tension. Smith focuses on the interaction between Germany's colonial empire and German politics and on the connection between colonialism and socioeconomic conflict in Germany before World War I.

Tanner, like so many of the region's giants, began his career in the South's dismal age of reconstruction. This is not only the Tanner story but, in microcosm, the story of those significant southern institutions, mill stores and villages, and the story of the rise of an industrial South. Originally published in 1952.

With a five-state region (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi) as a laboratory and with the active cooperation of the expert personnel of the state agricultural colleges, this study - the first of its kind - brings together the best techniques and abilities of the entire region covered by this research to provide a genuine contribution to land tenure research.

Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee

This is a heartening and inspiring story of the regeneration of the southern piedmont region after the desolation of war and reconstruction had all but destroyed its economy and disrupted its social life. It is a sociopsychological study of the growth of cotton mills viewed as a social movement.

In this, his third book of poetry, Garrett presents recent poems that enhance a reputation already well established for charm of language, a frank and perceptive approach to experience, strong images, and a large understanding of life and feelings.

In this review of major extension activities in the past thirty-four years, we find an impressive record from the point of variety and scope of the service of the university to the state. In truth the extension services have done much to make the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the `University of the People'.

This original investigation deals with the procedure Donne used in dilating a text into a sermon. An analysis of Donne's sermon on Psalm 32:1-2 exemplifies the way in which he divided his text and accordingly structured his discourse. This framework can then be filled out by multiplying the significations of words and figures.

This book is a light-hearted treatise on roses for southern gardens, and though it is gay and witty, chatty and informal, spiced with sketches, pictures, and aphorisms, it is packed with hard-headed practicality and invaluable suggestions out of the author's own long experience in Georgia gardens.

This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd's short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of style.

Offers a critical appraisal of Tennyson which attempts to balance the Victorian and "modern" views of the poet. By a careful analysis of the major poems, Baum has exhibited fairly both the weaknesses and the fine qualities of Tennyson's genius.

Brown's position is that Gay, Young, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, Cowper, and Crabbe contributed in a unique way to the development of the heroic couplet. His analysis of the precise ways in which these later masters contributed to the tradition demonstrates the vitality of the heroic couplet.

This study is concerned with the cultivation, marketing, and manufacture of Bright Tobacco--technically called flue-cured tobacco--in the Virginia-Carolina area and its subsequent expansion into Georgia. The author discusses many aspects of the industry and in conclusion surveys the effects of the introduction of greater capital into the Virginia-Carolina area.

Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955) served as president or chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Illinois, and New York University from 1919 to 1951. His significant career, as an outstanding American university statesman for thirty-two years, is sketched and happily appraised against the educational challenges of this period.

To Print the News and Raise Hell!: A Biography of Wilbur F. Storey

The Playmakers have brought fame and national publicity to the university at Chapel Hill since their establishment by Frederick H. Koch in 1918. In the first fifty years they have produced over a thousand plays and have taken many on tour. Koch's encouragement of the folk play has had a wide influence on the development of the American theatre.

This is a report of a four-year study begun in May 1960 to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of treating young psychotic children and the use of collateral group therapy with their parents. While other therapeutic measures were employed, the emphasis was on group treatment, and the report presents this process in considerable detail.