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The Confederate armies included in their ranks a remarkable range of nationalities. Covering the story of the activities of the foreigners in the Confederacy - in both military and civil service - this work recognizes their many contributions to the cause of the South.

In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community.

Tracing a seismic shift in American thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism.

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the 20th century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973).

An exploration of black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts between the slave doctors and the whites who attempted to supervise their work.

The author uses previously untapped primary resources to bring insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism and migration. Duany argues that the Puerto Rican nation must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities.

Using a social-historical approach, the author focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts and considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter them. The book also traces the economic restructuring which transformed corporate anti-unionism.

Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920

In 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of educated African Americans. However, Jim Crow's dictates meant they were almost entirely excluded from public life. Ferguson shows how Roosevelt's New Deal opened up oppportunities for black Atlantans struggling to acheive full citizenship.

This is an analysis of the logical structure of the entire text of Aristotles ""Politics"" and each of its constitutive arguments and conclusions. A commentary on the philosophical argument in ""Politics"", it should serve as a basis for future study of Aristotle's political thought.

Trained at West Point, Buckner saw service in the Mexican War but retired to private life afterwards. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a general in the Confederate army. In the troublesome years following the war, he served as governor of Kentucky. Cultured, courtly, unostentatious, Buckner was the Borderland Knight, truly great in his simplicity.

An exploration of the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche - three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of US social science radicalism.

In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote. Analyzing propaganda aimed at women voters, this study shows how various groups struggled to reconcile traditional assumption about women's interests with the changing face of the family and female economic activity.

Here, Blevins sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype. He covers a wide range of Ozark social life, including the development of agriculture and the rise and fall of extractive industries.

An examination of the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s, and in the USA, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. It explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their governments understood and discussed slavery and emancipation.

The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. This work delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists, examining the rebellion's economic, religious and political roots.

In the mid-20th century nations across Africa fought for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these struggles, this work probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political and social lives of African Americans.

In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 per cent of the US workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994 there were too few to warrant a separate census category. This study demonstrates the debates on the changes in family farming that occurred in literature.

A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments.

This ain't no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theatre program for incarcerated women that she founded. This work chronicles the collaborative process of transforming incarcerated women's stories into productions that include dance and music, for example.

This text traces the development of social reform movements among American Catholics from 1880 to 1925. Deirdre M. Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologies, emerging middle-class values, and ethnic identities shaped the goals and activities of lay activists in this time.

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and co-operation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped shape the city.

Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, this work contends that to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War, we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard.

A blend of environmental theory and literary studies, looking behind the myth of Alaska as America's ""last frontier"". It traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity and national identity.

In this text Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions.

The 1914-1915 strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills was an important episode in the development of the New South. In this account, Clifford Kuhn demonstrates how its story sheds light on the industrialization, urbanization, and modernization of the region. He draws on a wide range of sources.

Placing her focus on the membership of the Salvation Army and its transformation as an organization within the broader context of literature on class, labour and women's history, Taiz reveals the character of American working-class culture and religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

An examination of the dual transformation of market liberalizing reforms and democratization in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s. The author examines the politics of market reform in Chile, Argentina and Mexico, analyzing its implications for democratic practices in each case.

Using previously-untapped legal records and oral history interviews, this work provides an in-depth account of the struggle to integrate the southern paper mills in the United States over the period 1945-80. Jobs were strictly segregated till the 1960s with black workers in menial positions.

Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a transition from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. This crucial stage of Cuba's political evolution, often overshadowed by the 1959 revolution, is addressed here, stressing the importance of the mass mobilization of the popular classes.