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This historical and comparative study explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time.

In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. The author traces the rise and fall of this movement.

This text addresses how Germany's Christians responded to Nazism by focusing on the 600,000 self-described ""German Christians"" who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. It also shows how German Christians were incorporated into mainstream church life after 1945.

Drawing on 50 oral interviews with migrants and on various written records, this text examines the experiences of African American women who migrated west and built communities there. Perspectives are given on how social change takes place and how community is established and maintained.

Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, this text examines how freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws were so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.

This study argues that in its emphasis on class distinctions and patriarchal authority, the racial uplift ideology of middle-class African Americans was tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology, and was therefore limited as a force against white prejudice.

This work analyzes the rhetoric and programmes of 80 bourgeois women's associations in Hanover, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power. It examines the social and demographic foundations of the women's movement, interweaving local history with developments on a national level.

An analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power and policy in Nicaragua over 300 years. Spanning many forms - including literature, music, film - the book explores the evolution of Nicaraguan culture, its manipulation for political purposes and the opposition to cultural policy.

Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the American Civil War. John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements across the state, including the classical pitched battle of Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid.

This is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners.

By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley's study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousand other American places, to industrial priorities in the decades following World War II.

Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole

This is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism.

Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America

In this comprehensive study of the role of religion in American education, the author argues that public schools and universities must take religion seriously. The book argues both for a radical change and for taking a middle course in America's culture wars.

Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium

This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's "bureaucratic" theory of scientific management or Elton Mayo's "corporatist" idea of human relations.

Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News

Originally published in 1984, Senator Ervin's delightful collection of stories and anecdotes winds its way from his native Morganton through Chapel Hill and Harvard, the military, the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Senate, and Watergate. It represents a lifetime of wit and wisdom - told in the late Senator Ervin's inimitable style.

Provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labour unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. Deborah Levenson-Estrada explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. She focuses especially on the case of 400 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City.

Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey

Chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement - the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community.

Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of the most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex - and often opposing - attitudes.

Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right

Presents new paradigms of interpretation that help to bring the often oppositional stances of First versus Third World and traditional versus postmodern feminism into a more constructive relationship. Donaldson situates contemporary theoretical debates about reading, writing, and the politics of identity within the context of historical colonialism.

In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme.

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analysing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state.

With his popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop and his three previous books, Roy Underhill has inspired millions. In his fourth book, Underhill features step-by-step instructions for many projects featured on the television series in recent years. All projects are illustrated with photographs and measured drawings.