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Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War

Reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, Jack Greene challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyse colonial British American history.

Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture

Weaving together the histories of black and white migrants, this book traces their paths and experiences, and demonstrates how this diaspora reshaped America by ""southernizing"" communities and transforming cultural and political institutions. It also shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change.

Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution

Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. In the first book-length work on the topic, Lisa Wilson examines the stereotypes and actualities of colonial stepfamilies and reveals them to be important factors in early United States domestic history.

This text offers a comprehensive study detailing the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe between 1968 and 1989, focusing especially on the pivotal Solidarity uprisings in Poland. It contains firsthand testimonies and some fresh archival findings.

In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre. Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera questions assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist.

In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against France and the USA. This book examines China's conduct towards Vietnam, providing important insights into Mao Zedong's foreign policy and the motives behind it.

Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War

Genesis of Shakespeare Idolatry, 1766-1799: A Study in English Criticism of the Late Eighteenth Century

This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture. Merrens is the first author to effectively examine the relationship between geographical factors and to analyze it for the entire colonial period.

Based on biographies of over 800 women, this study of the suffrage and the anti-suffrage movements in Southern America, highlights the effects that such factors as class, race and gender had in inspiring the region's women to work for or against their own enfranchisement.

This text explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-20th century US. It was in the workplace of this era, the author argues, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape.

This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European Stalinism. The author offers a case study showing how totalitarian states adapt their policies to the contours of the societies they rule.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations.

This work tells the story of the first Opium War between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the ""opening of China"".

Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)

Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965

Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk

Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933

Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South

More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and after the war.

Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three. In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups.

All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862

Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action.

Focuses on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War. This book sheds light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus.

This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s.

Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community