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Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport. This text presents a history of Cuban railroads from their introduction in the 19th century, through to the 1959 revolution, focusing particular attention on its interconnection with Cuba's predominant agro-industry - sugar.

Arguing that the central problem of American Labor relations since World War One has been the struggle among workers, managers and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace - this work explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflict.

This work traces the development of the notion that the health of the US democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry, from the 17th through to the 19th century. It assesses its continuing influence and changing meaning.

Despite the Supreme Court declaration of 1954, that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, many white southern clergy continued to defend segregation. This text offers a collective biography of several southern white religious leaders who did join the protest movement.

The political differences between Douglass and Delany have historically been reduced to ""assimilationist versus separationist"". The author of this study seeks to restore their relationship to its original complexity, exploring their debates over abolitionism, emigration and nationalism.

For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played a role in discussions of race. This work argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and conservatives, and of racists and anti-racists.

An interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. The text argues that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class inheritance was the virtual exclusion of females from land holding.

The author of this study investigates 18th-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts and assumptions - integrating the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era.

This volume examines the changing role of national histories written in early 20th-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J.L. and Barbara Hammond, G.M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill.

Based on archival research, this text reinterprets the origins and impact of progressivism in the South. It shows that a fundamental clash of values divided reformers and rural Southerners, ultimately blocking the reforms.

African-Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs. This study of 20th-century American history analyzes black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 to the independence movements of the 1960s.

This volume seeks to demonstrate that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas's Estado Novo depended on the reorganization of social relations in the private sphere. New necessities and opportunities for women were created without changing gender inequality.

Dealing with the development of pre-industrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy and drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 and 1860, the author argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region earlier than previously thought.

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of GBP20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human "property". The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance.

This study charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. Although the establishment of the Bundeswehr ultimately stabilized Germany, the acrimony surrounding its formation was deeply divisive.

Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life

Using Dodge County, Georgia, as a case study, Peggy Barlett reveals consumerism, individualism, and short-term decision making as the greatest threats to the family farm. "This book is of value not only to students of agriculture and rural sociology but also to city dwellers attempting to understand the lure and frustration of family farming." - Choice

Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802

Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyses the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices.

Recent abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. With a comprehensive account of key abortion and death penalty cases, Epstein and Kobylka reach a surprising conclusion: the way litigants frame legal arguments is as important as political pressures or the moral climate in bringing about changes. 33 tables.

Traces the transformation of the American labour movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Elizabeth Faue explores women's involvement in labour and political organisations and the role of gender and family ideology in shaping unionism in the twentieth century.

Acknowledged as the classic work on North Carolina cuisine, North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery was first published in 1955. This new edition, marking the book's first appearance in paperback, has been revised and updated by the author and includes several dozen new dishes.

Cities were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil War. In New Men, New Cities, New South, Don Doyle argues that if the plantation was the world the slaveholders made, the urban centres of the New South formed the world made by merchants, manufacturers, and financiers.

Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore and legend. In this study, Altina Waller tells the real story of the Hatfields and McCoys and the Tug Valley of West Virginia and Kentucky, placing the feud in the context of community and regional change in the era of industrialization.

In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina

Using a variety of sources - official papers, travel documents, diaries and newspapers - Duane Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migaration, their life in America and their curious allegiance to George III.

Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America

The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth.

Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War