Books from University of North Carolina Press
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North Carolina Women: Making History
By Emily Herring Wilson, Margaret Supplee SmithFor generations, books on North Carolina history have included the names of only a few women. But in addition to such well-known and legendary figures as Queen Elizabeth I and...
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The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics
By Jack P. MaddexThe Conservatives won control of the Virginia state government in 1869 and goverened for ten years on a program of integrating their homeland into the structure of the contemporary United...
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Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
By Jennifer RitterhouseSheds new light on the racial etiquette of the South after the Civil War, examining what factors contributed to the unwritten rules of individual behavior for both white and black children. Simultaneous.
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Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right
By Michael LieneschThis balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only...
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The Magic Mountain: A Study of Thomas Mann's Novel, Der Zauberberg
By Hermann John WeigandIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps -- a community devoted exclusively to sickness -- as a microcosm for Europe, which in...
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Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of the Masses, 1911-1917
By Leslie FishbeinWith John Reed and Emma Goodman, the young, energetic radicals associated with The Masses attacked the genteel tradition in American culture and developed an artistic and literary style that was...
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A Birder's Guide to Coastal North Carolina
By John O. FussellA popular destination for bird-watchers from across the country, the coastal region of North Carolina is a seasonal home to approximately 400 species of bird, some of which are found...
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The Sixties: From Memory to History
By David R. FarberThis collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the...
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Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904
By Guillermo A. BaraltThis book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished...
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F.O. Matthiessen, Christian Socialist as Critic
By Frederick C. SternMatthiessen succeeded in uniting critical formalism with political radicalism, Christian concerns with social egalitarianism, to make a major contribution to American literature and culture. As a major literary critic and...
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Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers
By William Bernard McCarthy, Cheryl Oxford, Joseph Daniel SobolThe "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in...
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The Parlement of Paris, 1774-1789
By Bailey StoneStone portrays the members of this great court of law as strategically situated individuals who worked to advance their own corporate pretentions while simultaneously advocating a precarious balance of monarchical,...
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The French Parlements and the Crisis of the Old Regime
By Bailey Stone"The predominant twentieth-century view of the French Revolution stresses the socioeconomic causes of this upheaval and argues that it began as an aristocratic class insurgency during 1787-88. Bailey Stone challenges...
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Place, Profit, and Power: A Study of the Servants of William Cecil, Elizabethan Statesman
By Richard C. BarnettOne of the most powerful of Elizabethan statesmen, Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, served the queen from 1558 until his death in 1598. This study identifies 118 commoners who served...
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At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
By Jane T. Merritt, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & CultureExamining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian...
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Books from Chapel Hill, 1922-1997: A Complete Catalog of Publications from the University of North Carolina Press
By University of North Carolina PressAn annotated listing of everything published by the University of North Carolina Press since its founding in 1922, this new edition of Books from Chapel Hill will be a valuable...
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Encyclopedia of North Carolina
By William S. PowellThe first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is a landmark publication that will serve those who...
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Bill Neal's Southern Cooking
By Bill NealSouthern 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...
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An Outer Banks Reader
By David StickFor half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. Two of his...
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Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
By C. Peter RipleyEncompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist...