Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
By James Edward Smethurst, Bill V. MullenThis collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the...
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A Critical Edition of Lope de Vega's Las Paces de Los Reyes Y Judía de Toledo
By Lope de Vega, James A. CastañedaThe introduction to this critical edition offers a new examination of the historical probability of the love affair of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, and a Jewess. It further traces...
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Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
By Robert C. McMathSignificant as a political, economic, and social organization, the southern Farmers' Alliance was the largest and most influential farmers' organization in the history of the United States until the rise...
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Theater in the Planned Society: Contemporary Drama in the German Democratic Republic in Its Historical, Political, and Cultural Context
By H. G. HuettichThis study presents the historical development of topical drama in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1975. The author investigates the sociopolitical function of both dramas and dramatists such...
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The Poetry of Brecht: Seven Studies
By Philip John ThomsonThough not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major themes as well. Each of the seven chapters...
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The Teachings of Saint Louis: A Critical Text
By David O'ConnellDavid O'Connell's study seeks to serve as the final word on which version of the Enseignements de Saint Louis can claim ultimate authenticity. Through an analytical comparison of the three...
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Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains
By Catherine McNicol StockThis study of class during the Great Depression is the first to examine a relatively neglected geographical area, the northern plains states of North and South Dakota, from a social...
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The Papers of John Marshall
By John MarshallThis volume continues the acclaimed annotated edition of the papers of Chief Justice John Marshall, the great statesman and jurist. The constitutional nationalism of the Marshall Court reached its peak...
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The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, January 1820-December 1823
By John MarshallThis volume marks the continuation of the first annotated edition of the papers of John Marshall, the great statesman and jurist. The Supreme Court's most celebrated case during these years...
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Rainer Maria Rilke and Jugendstil: Affinities, Influences, Adaptations
By Karl Eugene WebbThis study focuses on the striking relationship between one of the most important and enigmatic poets of the twentieth century and the art and artists of the Art Nouveau. The...
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Hermann Hesse and His Critics: The Criticism and Bibliography of Half a Century
By Joseph MileckOriginally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work for Hesse scholarship is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short...
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The Story of Tobacco in America
By Joseph C. RobertThis history of tobacco in America begins with the country's earliest times. The author gives the broadest possible interpretation to his assignment, tracing not only the industry itself in its...
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Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England
By Garthine Walker, Jennifer KermodeRecent years have witnessed a considerable body of published research on both crime and women in the early modern period. There have been few attempts, however, to synthesize such studies...
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A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General
By William Woods HasslerA. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General is the first biography of the Confederacy's long-neglected hero whom Lee ranked next to Jackson and Longstreet. Although the name and deeds ot this...
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Women's Writing in Exile
By Mary Lynn Broe, Angela J. C. IngramUsing a broad range of methodologies, the contributors examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the last hundred...
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Organized Labor and the Mexican Revolution Under Lázaro Cárdenas
By Joe C. AshbyIn this book one can trace the determined growth of the Mexican labor movement from the time of an uneasy imperialist government to a system of firmer self-sufficiency. Behind the...
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The Editor and the Republic: Papers and Addresses
By William Watts BallThis is a collection of public addresses and articles by Ball from 1911 to 1945. It presents the essence of his political philosophy with originality and boldness. His brilliant conservative...
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China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
By Qiang ZhaiIn the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States....
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Nation & Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916
By Teresita Martínez VergneCombining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martnez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national...
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The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
By Jonathan HartlynOver the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new...