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According to a Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans want elected officials to serve only a limited number of terms. Nevertheless, every two years American voters return, on average, more than 95 percent of incumbents to the US House of Representatives. John Hibbing's book provides unique evidence of the problems that would result from congressional term limitations.

In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley - an isolated pocket in North Carolina. Sheppard began visiting her neighbours in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains - Cabins in the Laurel - was published. The book included 128 photographs by Bayard Wootten.

Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford

Explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective the top-grossing film melodramas of that decade.

The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined - and limited - female autonomy in the American South.

Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organisational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.

The Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This is the fascinating story of the Banks and the Bankers; of whalers, stockmen, lifesavers, wreckers, boatmen, and fishermen; of the constantly changing inlets famous for channel bass fishing; and of the once thriving Diamond City that disappeared completely in a three-year period.

Offers a carefully argued study of peasants and labour during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology.

The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candour and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and reared in the tradition of the southern belle, tells of the hard days of war and the poverty brought on by emancipation and Reconstruction.

In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830.

Eleanor Agnes Lee, Robert E. Lee's fifth child, began her journal in December 1852 at the early age of twelve. An articulate young woman, her stated ambitions were modest: "The everyday life of a little school girl of twelve years is not startling," she observed in April 1853; but in fact, her five-year record of a southern girl's life is lively, unpredictable, and full of interesting detail.

Offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. This volume features more than 250 activities, organised by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the text.

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War, Europe underwent a transformation unparalleled in its history. Theodore Hamerow examines the innovations that challenged nineteenth-century Europe, using a perspective that transcends events that occurred within national boundaries.

Traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. Stevens describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the past two decades, both students and the practicing profession have questioned this authority.

Examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism". In portraying Eisenhower as a virulent anti-Communist and cold warrior, Stephen Rabe challenges the Eisenhower revisionists who view the president as a model of diplomatic restraint.

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated.

Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighbourhoods through local organisations. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighbourhood planning programs and in-depth case studies, Planning with Neighborhoods offers the first comprehensive description and evaluation of the effectiveness of these programs.

The purpose of allusion in a literary work is the development and revelation of character, structure, and theme. This book presents a list of allusions found in James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". It includes Joyce's allusions in such areas as literature, philosophy, theology, history, and the fine arts.

The basic purpose of Williamson's study is to determine whether the Kuznets cycles, or long swings in the domestic economy, have had any consistent effect on U. S. foreign trade and, as a result, on the nation's balance-of-payments position. The author has chosen the period from 1820 to 1913 and has studied it in detail.

This volume is a study of the structure of certain of James's works, as well as a search for the structural principles that inform James's fiction and lie behind the technical dicta of his essays and prefaces. It also develops the thesis that most of James's structures are determined by logical and spatial, rather than chronological, concepts of relationships.

This volume is the third of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. In this volume Smither discusses the Italian oratorio from the 1720s to the early nineteenth century and oratorios from other parts of Europe from the 1750s to the nineteenth century.

Reform and Reaction: The Politico-Religious Background of the Spanish Civil War

This is a report on political conditions in ten widely differing states judged, for one reason or another, to be crucial, typical, or otherwise important. Part one is composed of case histories of state politics; part two reviews some general characteristics of the political structure; the epilogue applies this material to the question of the future.

This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria. The emphasis in on the legal system, but the author also examines certain non-legal factors, such as the 1962-68 Development Plan, education, and manpower, which all condition the investment climate of the country.

Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy

American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation