Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-class Identity
By Daniel J. WalkowitzPolls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is...
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From Puzzles to Portraits: Problems of a Literary Biographer
By James Lowry CliffordThe first part of this fascinating account of a biographer's problems tells of the adventures of one biographer in tracking down clues in several parts of the world--accidental discovery, long...
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New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910
By Don Harrison DoyleCities 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...
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Lessons from the Sand: Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach
By Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. PilkeyChapters also include indoor activities for rainy days and activities for nighttime discovery. This book will become an indispensable companion for families, teachers, and students heading to the Carolina coast for years to come.
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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
By Thomas C. BuchananAll along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the...
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The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, April 1807-December 1813
By John Marshall, Herbert Alan Johnson, Charles T. CullenAt the close of 1830 John Marshall (1755-1835) had passed his seventy-fifth year and completed his third decade as chief justice of the United States. The preceding four years had...
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Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography
By Susanna EganTraditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume...
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Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1725-1825
By William Edward NelsonNelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each...
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Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction
By Keith Eldon ByermanWith close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African...
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Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-century America
By Alison PiepmeierImages of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives...
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Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930
By Ian R. TyrrellFrances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an...
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To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783
By E. Wayne CarpAmerican political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration. E. Wayne Carp shows that at...
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William Louis Poteat, Prophet of Progress
By Suzanne Cameron Linder HurleyAs one of the key figures in the political and cultural development of North Carolina in the twentieth century, William Louis Poteat lived during a time, from 1856 to 1938,...
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Testing Democracy: Electoral Behavior and Progressive Reform in New Jersey, 1880-1920
By John Francis ReynoldsThe strong partisanship that pervaded nineteenth-century politics disappeared after 1900, and political campaigns evolved from intricately organized spectacles with great mass appeal into more sedate media contests limited to the...
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Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939
By Daphne Patai, Angela J. C. IngramRediscovering Forgotten Radicals reintroduces the work of writers and activists whose texts, and often whose very lives, were passionately engaged in the major political issues of their times but who...
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
By Victoria E. BynumBetween late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their...
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Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
By William Tecumseh ShermanThe first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860...
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Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-century American Literature
By Glenn HendlerAfrican American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a...
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The Reception of United States Literature in Germany
By Lawrence Marsden PriceThe Reception of United States Literature in Germany
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The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography
By Fred Miller RobinsonReflects a new understanding of modernism by following the fortunes of a single item of fashion. "When Fred Miller Robinson tugs the bowler from the closet in...