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How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? This book answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy.

Language has a profound power to shape political reality. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. This title deals with the most provocative word in the political vocabulary of antebellum America.

Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who laboured at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews, Monica Perales unearths the history of this forgotten community.

The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review

Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, the author offers the history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy.

A study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War.

Presents a story of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure. This title relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites.

The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was built without conflict or opposition. This book reveals that the historical archives tell a different and much more complicated story.

The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things - from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. This book gives an account of the ecology of this remarkable region.

With over 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. This title describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians in the nation.

Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to US imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, the author traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans.

The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting 'brother against brother'. The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. This title provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America.

Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, this book looks at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery.

Brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the US labour and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labour, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately.

This brings the North Carolina's rich literary history to life. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative non-fiction.

Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time.

Presents an exploration of Iranian literature and society. This book warns against the rise of what the author calls the 'New Orientalist narrative', which thrives on stereotype and prejudice and is often tied to geopolitical conflict rather than an understanding of Iran.

Related black communities claim different ethnoracial identities based in laws. Anthropologists widely agree that identities - even ethnic and racial ones - are socially constructed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity.

How do we define 'religion'? For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. This book shows that cultural notions about what constitutes 'religion' are crucial to public debates over religious freedom.

Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. This work examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments.

The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. This title examines the relationship between women and guns in America and the ways in which the figure of the armed woman has served as a lightning rod for cultural issues.

Exploring the contribution of sailors to literary culture, this book analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea.

Presents the environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus. This book emphasizes the two processes that have had a dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. It demonstrates how the sugar industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.

Offering an approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, this title explores how racial mixture challenged and sometimes changed the boundaries that defined what it meant to be American. It reveals how ambiguous status of racially mixed people underscored the problematic nature of policies and practices based on racial boundaries.

Looking at a century of struggle, liberation and gutsy play, this title chronicles women's basketball in the US. Offering portraits of heroes and contemporary stars, it provides a perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights.

Shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This work demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. It explains that in Latin America the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics.

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, this title demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it.

Offering the intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, this title examines a group of internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. It addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism.

Presents a critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. This work contains ten essays that offer a distinct view of German nationhood in particular and of nationhood in general as a product of collective negotiation and exchange between the many memories that exist in the nation.

Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. The author contends that virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other necessities combined to create a crisis beyond the captors' control.