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Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingredients.

Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

Presenting the history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, this title contextualizes the history of a legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property. It focuses on western Europe and the English colonies in America.

Drawing on oral interviews and an array of written sources, this is the dramatic story of the 1946 Columbia ""race riot"", the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. It illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the USA.

John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day, it is also a minute report of the soil, climate, trees, plants, animals, and fish in the Carolinas.

In this work, first published in 1936, the authors follow Longstreet from his leading role in the military history of the Confederacy through his controversial postwar career and eventual status as an outcast in southern society.

By drawing on documents only recently declassified, the author shows that one of President Kennedy's compromises with the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed from the US public and the NATO allies.

The United States installs a leader in a South American country in the massive US covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, this is an analysis of this Cold War tragedy.

African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her antilynching crusade in the 1890s. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad.

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in US history. In this assessment, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress, but of the power of religious tradition.

Explores abolitionist autobiographies in the post - Civil War era. This work illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.

Offering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them.

Describes the US civil rights movement and the decolonization of Africa.

Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. This title explores the science and history of this sea highway known as the Gulf Stream, one of the last vestiges of wilderness on Earth. It examines the scientific discovery of ocean circulation.

This text traces the history and development of institutions for the ""feeble-minded"" in South America between 1900 and 1940. It examines the influence of gender, race and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest of America.

Shows how whites of various classes used the artificial binary of ""black"" and ""white"" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation.

Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Beginning with the resurrection of a decadent bar during the Enlightenment, Jacobson traces the historical evolution of lawyers throughout the long nineteenth century.

Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. Departing from earlier portrayals of Butler as a political opportunist, Hunt shows him to be a genuine reformer who upheld Populist tenets in the face of enormous opposition from Democrats, Republicans, and even members of his own party.

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II.

What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent.

Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era.

All along the Mississippi, nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Exploring the relationship between slavery and freedom, this work looks at the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture up and down America's greatest river.

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, this study analyzes the debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early-20th century. The author argues fundamental principles were established which still dominate immigration law.

Focusing on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, this work looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England.

A critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, this book examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. It also suggests that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between embodiment and identity generally.

Compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era. This book pays attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes. It addresses both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, small firms as well as big businesses.

Presents essays that contribute to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of indigenous cultures. This book offers English translations of passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages.

A study of the attempted ""denazification"" of German music by the Music Control Branch of the Information Control Division of Military Government. Monod argues that the long-term effects are greater than has been recognized, as German officials regained control and limited their involvement in artistic life while promoting ""new"" (anti-Nazi) music.