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An account of the archaeology of North Carolina. It weaves together information gleaned from excavations and surveys carried out across the state, and presents a narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period to the arrival of the Europeans.

Focusing on the history of social workers, this is an examination of the changed and contested meaning of the term ""middle class"" over the last 100 years. It explores the interplay of race, ethnicity and gender, and studies the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work.

In this analysis, the author aims to explain why Kennedy's grand plan for Latin America proved to be such a policy failure. He investigates the nature of Kennedy's intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the region.

The African-American poet and playwright, Amiri Baraka, helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This work examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centres of late-20th century America.

An analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, moving beyond the labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. It argues that the state's real political battle is between two factions of the state's political and economic elite: modernizers and traditionalists.

After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John Winthrop, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Samuel Clemens.

Drawing on legal cases, church records, pamphlet literature, political fiction and women's rights convention proceedings, Nancy Isenberg here asserts that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted coherent feminist critique of church, state and family.

Explores the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Drawing on a range of sources, this text demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s, with varying degrees of success.

This text traces the history of ""Ms."" magazine from its origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. It examines how the magazine negotiated the multiple and frequently incompatible demands of advertisers, readers, and the various and changing constituencies of the feminist movement.

This study of the battle against convict labour in the Tennessee coalfields between 1871 and 1896 analyzes the place of convict labour in southern economic development, the contested meanings of citizenship in late 19th-century America and the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics.

This study explores the process by which the conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity took place. Using archival sources, the authors chart the conversion, depicting religious transformation as a reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.

This work traces the life of Charles R. Drew and the legacy of his death after a road accident in North Carolina, April 1950. Within hours, rumours spread that the man who had helped create the American Red Cross blood bank, had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him.

This volume covers the years between the guerillas' first attack in Peru in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde's decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. It covers the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both government and rebels.

This study of religious freedom in contemporary America situates constitutional arguments about free exercise within theological and sociological insights about American religious experience. The book's conclusions about religious liberty are embedded in an appreciation of American pluralism.

Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle in America. This account traces the evolution of non-violent protest in the city, focusing particularly on the sometimes problematic intersection of the local and national movements.

Explores the rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. The book argues that country people met the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture with both resistance and accommodation.

In this study, Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their place - despite Germany's fragmented past. This nationhood identity project is examined with reference to the southwestern state of Wurttemberg.

This volume addresses the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in intellectual and cultural history, and it explores the rhetoric of historiography. The author includes women in the history of the Revolutionary era, then makes the discovery that gender is her central subject.

In the late-19th century a new type of book - the success manual - became commonplace in millions of homes across America. This text argues that these books, far from offering practical advice, presented a dire picture of an uncertain new age, portraying life as a brutal struggle for survival.

In the early 20th century, a group of women workers fell victim to radium poisoning due to working with radium-laced paint. This account portrays their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease, as an important chapter in the history of modern health and labour policy.

In 1933 Congress granted American labourers the right of collective bargaining, but farmorkers got no New Deal. This account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an effort to keep their fields well stocked with labour.

Robert Zieger charts the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from its founding in 1935 to its merger with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. The book combines the institutional history of the CIO with depictions of working-class life in this critical period.

This is a look at how the rise in standards throughout the US after World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. It shows how their economic expectations increased and how their purchasing power grew - with little help from the unions.

This analysis of Honduran social and political development explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbours, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The author challenges traditional Banana Republic theory within this comparative framework.

This study explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. The author documents the marked decline in the political power of the armed forces and invokes rational-choice theory to account for the success of civilian politicians

A study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. The book examines the vast array of programmes sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical and efficient society.

Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical narratives also employed the self-referential techniques characteristic of fiction.

Demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. The book describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's field. The text focuses on Asia and Latin America.

In this re-examination of the historical evidence, the author attempts to separate the Robert E. Lee of reality from the Lee of mythology.

Combines cultural and technological history, to show how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American west. The author uses agricultural textbooks, USDA documents and settlement accounts to explore the idea that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to the wilderness.