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Conatins articles written between 1919 and 1948. In the area covered, ten genera are recognised, one of them new. These genera include sixty sepcies, one variety, and two forms. Illustrations include drawings of microscopic detail.

United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871

Speeches in Thucydides: A Collection of Original Studies with a Bibliography

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Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock

Charlotte Observer: Its Time and Place, 1869-1986

Traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book describes his life, his personality, and his politics. It includes sections on his memoir, ""Living to Tell the Tale"", and his journalistic account, ""News of a Kidnapping"".

Missouri Compromise is the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War. This title reveals the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe.

A comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War that captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. It challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met.

South Koreans tailor American ideas about economic development and democracy. This study examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. It explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century.

Presents an interpretation of antebellum slavery that offers a portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. This work describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents.

Examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926.

Revealing the stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.

Compares the formation of Yoruba (Nago) religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and needs.

Explores the connections between the comforting simplicity of cultural myth and the troublesome complexities of cultural history. This book examines a process of intentional and systematic cultural intervention that had - and still has - far-reaching consequences.

In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations, our understanding of the nature and emergence of these groups takes on heightened importance. This work presents an analysis of the dynamics that facilitate the organization and mobilization of the virulent types of these organizations.

Is there a place for complementary and alternative therapies in modern health care? This book discusses the need for establishing rules and standards to facilitate appropriate integration of conventional and complementary and alternative medical CAM therapies.

Helps understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. This book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.

Tells how one human emotion shapes our lives. Briding science and spirituality, this book makes the case that a sense of wonder is a principal source of humanity's belief in the existence of an unseen order of life. It argues that like no other emotion wonder prompts us to pause, admire, and open our hearts and minds.

Employing resilient and entrepreneurial approaches to audiovisual art in Cuba, this title focuses on what the author calls Street Filmmaking - the production of audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry - to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity.

Demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied across the course of American history. This book shows how at select moments of history, perceptions of sex difference were translated into complex and mutable patterns for differentiating women and men.

Argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise. This title emphasizes the key role that radical groups, particularly Marxists and black nationalists, played in shaping contemporary Haitian history.

The logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on the archival research in North and South Carolina, this title illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a 'colored' cabman. This title explains legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North.

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. This biography provides insights into Williams' personality.

Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities

Challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. This title demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and that in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested.

The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. This title offers a personal recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. It explores various South's peoples and their landscapes.

Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others, this work demonstrates that sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.

Presents the comparative history of US tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century which demonstrates that empire is a more textured, variable, and interactive system of inequality and resistance than commonly assumed.