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Provides grape growers with practical information about choosing an appropriate site for a vineyard, establishment, and operation of commercial vineyards in North Carolina. The book includes a new chapter on spring frost control and examines the pros and cons of active frost protection systems.

The Muhammadijah (or Muhammadiyah) movement was founded by Ahmad Dahlan in 1912 and evolved to emphasize religious and secular education, personal moral responsibility, and a tolerance for other faiths. Published in 1978, this historical and ethnographic study was one the first books about this major Islamic reform movement and is considered an insightful and relevant work to this day.

Part three of three volume set, this text opens with Monroe's inauguration, reports the postwar period, and chronicles the changing developments in the 1820s. Originally published in 1978.

Part one of three volume set, this text covers the beginnings of the new government through the first six years of Jefferson's presidency. Originally published in 1978.

Part two of three volume set, this text begins with the Congress that met following the Chesapeake incident, covers the period of the War of 1812, and closes with the end of Madison's administration. Originally published in 1978.

Serving with a relief party directed by Michael Pupin in Serbia during World War I made Logan think deeply about the place of liberty in a world apparently ready to crush it. This volume presents his conclusions concerning liberty in relation to law, thought and expression, government, work, history, science, humanism, and religion.

This is a collection of characterizations of such significant southern leaders as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Aycock, Joel Chandler Harris, Booker T. Washington, and others. They were leaders whose contributions resulted from hard work and devotion to special causes rather than to any dominance of self, leaders whose personalities and capacities were able to adapt to changing needs.

Smith describes the political ideas of Chief Justice Taney and discusses his contributions to American constitutional law. Taney is revealed as a socially minded jurist who believed in the power of the whole people to regulate the affairs of life for the common good. As a political leader, Taney belongs in the democratic line that runs from Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt; as a jurist he is a forerunner of Holmes and Brandeis. Originally published in 1936.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

This collection of the most interesting and important Negro American writings up to the close of the Civil War is of both literary and social interest, being a contribution to the history of the Negro as well as a literary work. In preparing the biographical and critical sketches, the editor has shown rare judgment in selecting pertinent and complete facts about the writers represented here.

In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, McCormick argues that Mexico's rural peoples formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support.

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

The seventh volume of the Papers of Nathanael Greene documents a crucial period of the American Revolution in the South. In the first months of 1781, Nathanael Greene, who had taken command of the Southern Army only weeks before, initiated the campaign that would ultimately free the South from British occupation.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

This thirteenth and final volume of the series devoted to the papers of General Nathanael Greene includes correspondence to and from Greene from the end of the Revolutionary War up to his death in June 1786. It concludes with an epilogue and an addendum of forty-six documents that have come to light since the volumes in which they would have appeared have been published.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance.

This volume continues the most detailed study of the Revolutionary War in the South. In more than 1,000 documents, it traces the British evacuation of Georgia as well as General Nathanael Greene's ongoing efforts to force a British withdrawal from South Carolina.

Studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). Mariselle Melendez analyses elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary.

Baum combines sophisticated statistical analysis with traditional historical methods to analyse the internal dynamics of Massachusetts politics and the structure of the Republican party, especially the ""Bird Club"", a dominant radical faction that flavoured Bay State politics for more than a decade.

This volume of selected readings in medical care fills the urgent need for teaching material on this subject. The book contains 122 articles written by 75 contributors, as well as official reports from 20 associations and foundations whose interests lie in this field. It is an invaluable source book to all medical and public health professions. Originally published in 1958.

The chronological arrangement of entries depends on the earliest-known appearance of each allusion: in manuscript, under year of composition; in book form, under year of publication. The usefulness of the catalog is increased by alphabetical indexes of the names of allusion makers and the titles of works in which the allusion appear, and the Spenserian passage to which individual allusions occur.

These fourteen essays, written especially for this volume by colleagues and students of Professor Caldwell, cover a vast range of classical subjects. They are arranged chronologically so that the reader may catch something of the grand sweep and drama of the history of the ancient world. Originally published in 1964.

This Festschrift honouring John N. Couch, Kenan Professor of Botany, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is composed of articles by his former students and colleagues. The many distinguished mycological articles should make this a valuable addition to the literature of mycology. Originally published in 1968.

Argues that popular understandings of the civil war have been shaped by four traditions that arose in the nineteenth century - the Lost Cause; the Union Cause; the Emancipation Cause; and the Reconciliation Cause. This book traces an arc of cinematic interpretation from one once dominated by the Lost Cause to Emancipation and, to Reconciliation.

Assesses the historical literature of North Carolina. It combines the talents and insights of eight noted scholars of state and southern history: William S. Powell, Alan D. Watson, Robert M. Calhoon, Harry L. Watson, Sarah M. Lemmon, and H. G. Jones. Their essays are arranged in chronological order from the founding of the first English colony in North America in 1585 to the present.

Assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist scholarship, which emerge as a rich, if sometimes dissonant, chorus of voices.