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Using documentary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the fighting at Cowpens, 1781, this volume provides a minute-by-minute account of the clash that many believed turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South.

This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment.

Tracing the formulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and forms of social and political mobilization in Cuba, de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education and political representation.

Archie Green - shipwright, folklorist, teacher and lobbyist - is a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. This book contains 12 of Green's essays which represent the range of his writings over 40 years.

Explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. The work asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral past in this way.

Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, this work provides an analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes.

This volume explores childhood during the American Civil War. The author describes how the war changed the schoolbooks published for children, how it affected children's relationships with absent fathers and brothers, and how the responsibilities on children shortened their childhoods.

A comprehensive account of America's involvement in the war against Zimbabwe, which occurred after Smith's Rhodesian government made a unilateral declaration of independence and broke with Britain in 1965. Smith received tacit support from the US (American mercenaries fought with Rhodesia).

This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War period. It examines how, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. The author shows how they and others used their writing to make sense of topics like war, womanhood and slavery.

An analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, offering a provocative look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Manisha Sinha argues that secession was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.

An interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, it tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, and analyzes the growth of markets.

A gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt explores how gender helped shape Chile's evolving national identity.

Focusing on African-American attitudes towards China and Japan, this study examines the rise and fall of black internationalism. The failed quest for support, the author argues, foretold the difficulty black society would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.

Walt Whitman dreamed of inspiring ""a race of singers"" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein embraced and reconfigured Whitman's vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded.

Explores the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and postcolonial Vietnam's place in history. The author argues that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism and postcolonial state-making were implicated in the dynamics of the Cold War in shaping US-Vietnamese relations.

This text examines the history of US foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. William LeoGrande argues that Central America's fate hinged on decisions subject to struggles among, and within, Congress, the CIA, the Pentagon, State Department and the White House.

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by a rough and rebellious figure; a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. This work challenges this stereotypical portrait.

The author argues that the failure of the American Left lies in its inability to come to grips with the centrality of race in the American experience. Placing the history of the Left in a comparative context, he broadens our definition of the Left to include public policy and popular culture.

Apart from churches, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than any other kind of voluntary organization. This book explores the history and cultural significance of these organizations, arguing that changing cultural attitudes and an expanding welfare state propelled their decline.

Aiming to offer fresh insights into the history of labour policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, the author of this work examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early 20th century.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of public support for American Cold War foreign policy. The author argues that Americans ultimately came to equate national loyalty with global anticommunism and an interventionist foreign policy.

This biography of William Faulkner asserts that we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. The book includes detailed analyses of individual texts and poetry.

A history of the Book-of-the-Month Club from its founding in 1926, which suggests that the books recommended by the club have been instrumental in forming literary taste in America and in defining the desires of the middle class. The author also reflects on the role of the club in her own life.

Celebrating country ham's culinary past and its continued close ties with life across America's South, this text discusses the lore and history of country ham, and explains buying, preparing and serving a ham. Over 70 recipes are included for country ham and its accompaniments.

By focusing on North Carolina, Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate aspects of slavery in colonial America. They demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African past to make sense of their new world.

An exploration of the wide-ranging social and psychological implications of the transition from old-fashioned common schools to modern graded schools. It argues that this critical change in methods of instruction both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South.

Teenagers Corky and Toby row out into the swamp off Stumpy Point, North Carolina, drawn by the mysterious light that hovers above it. Thrown back in time by a sudden explosion, they find themselves floating above 17th-century England, as the life of Blackbeard the Pirate unfolds below.

A study of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. It demonstrates how he inherited certain traditions; how he reshaped them in the light of his experience as a lawyer, political candidate and judge; and how he justified the vision of the law he wrote.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the US textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation as African Americans entered the industry in growing numbers. This is an account of the integration of the mills, using legal records and oral history interviews.

An examination of the critical impact of nuns on the development of Catholic culture and, ultimately, on American society. Focusing on the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, it explores how nuns directly influenced the lives of millions of Americans, both Catholic and non-Catholic.