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Journey of Hope, Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This rich narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent.

In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, the author explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a cultural history of football and a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media.

Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how both the U.S. and French governments actively cultivated and shaped leisure travel to advance their foreign policy agendas. Endy reveals how consumerism and globalization played a major role in transatlantic affairs.

After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos. Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect of its Afro-Caribbean identity.

Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the Consolidation of Labour Laws (CLT) was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and political formation of the Brazilian working class.

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves ""masters"" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most southerners could only aspire.

Exploring the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, this title focuses on the late 19th century, leading to the 1905 withdrawal of British military forces from the region. It shows how fire-lit social upheavals served as forerunners of political independence movements.

Historians have argued that Catholicism in the USA stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. In this title, Catholicism in the USA emerges as a powerful outpost within an international church that struggled for three generations to vindicate the temporal claims of the papacy within European society.

Campbell focuses on three popular musical institutions in Atlanta at the height of the Jim Crow era: the annual visit of the Metropolitan Opera, the Colored Music Festival, and the Georgia Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, demonstrating how music addressed Atlantans' class anxieties and affirmed the segregationist impulse.

The story of the US was recorded by white historians; early-19th-century African American writers had to piece together a counterhistory to present the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed. This title shows they created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical and the political are inextricably connected.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this text traces the efforts of citizens of diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to live together in the state between 1920 and 1980. It shows that a new legal ideology was created which aspired to liberty and equality for all.

The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. The author explores the roots of this conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers.

This comparative look at Roman Catholicism and Twelver Shi'i Islam focuses on the linkages between these two religions rather than on the seemingly intractable differences between them.

Between 1901 and 1907, a coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism.

In the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy.

At the end of World War II, working mothers in the USA protested vigorously at the termination of child care subsidies. This text traces grassroots activism and national and local policy debates concerning public funding of children's day care in the two decades after the end of the war.

Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. This text presents a history of efforts to propagate this vision and describes the resulting encounters between activists and ethnic, immigrant and working-class residents.

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by US women of colour to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of 11 novelists, she argues that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked.

An examination of American women's participation in the practice of history from the late-19th century through to the end of World War II. It shows how women transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, educators, archivists, preservationists and social activists.

Combining archaeological and historical methods, this is an account of the runaway slaves settlements (""palenques"") that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850. The author demonstrates how romanticized the communities have become in historical memory.

This is the story of a region at once representative and unique in the history of Southern culture, which was from its earliest colonial beginnings a focus of strength, intellect, and proud individuality. Warren County, North Carolina, heart of the Roanoke Region, early built for grace and vigour. It bred people who were great in the affairs of the state and the nation.

An examination of the growing phenomenon of Christian protest against civil authority and political order in the USA. It argues that, since the 1960s, there has been a proliferation of religious activism against what protesters perceive as government's excessive power and lack of moral principle.

By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.

This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia.

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition.

Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station.

The man who gave his name to the greatest failed frontal attack in American military history, George E. Pickett is among the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Lesley J. Gordon sets out to illuminate Pickett's legend as well as his life.

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both considered small business the backbone of American democracy and free enterprise. In Beyond the Broker State, Jonathan Bean considers the impact of this ideology on American politics from the Great Depression to the creation of the Small Business Administration during the Eisenhower administration.

This volume introduces the modern cook to 408 recipes covering pickles, preserves, relishes, conserves, jellies, marmalades, chutneys, jams, fruit butters, pickled meats, mincemeats, ketchups, sauces, and candied fruits.

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different.