Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
By Leslie ButlerIn this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an...
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Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s
By Robert Bocking StevensIn this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends....
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Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays
By Gertrude Stein, Sherwood AndersonSherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays
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New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy
By Stanley VittozBy examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible for many New Deal labor reforms. The author demonstrates that...
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The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family
By Margaret J. M. EzellContemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines...
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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
By Douglas R. EgertonGabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay...
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The Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb and the Bell Buckle Story
By Laurence McMillinThe Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb and the Bell Buckle Story
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Ancient Greek Alive
By Paula Saffire, Catherine FreisThis innovative textbook offers students a dynamic introduction to classical Greek. It inspires a constructive sense of enthusiasm in the classroom while helping students master grammatical principles and reading skills.Among...
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Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-century English Historical Writing
By Monika OtterCombining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with...
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Passalong Plants
By Felder Rushing, Steve BenderPassalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus,...
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Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel
By Norman L. RosenbergFrom the trial of John Peter Zenger in the eighteenth century to the recent libel cases of William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, political defamation cases have attracted considerable attention. As...
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The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930
By Anthony Channell HilferThis incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to...
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America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
By David S. FoglesongFrom the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing...
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Rebel Raider: Being an Account of Raphael Semmes's Cruise in the C.S.S. Sumter
By Raphael SemmesHere is as exciting a tale of sea adventure as any piece of fiction. Yet it is even more interesting as the first-hand account of one of the most fascinating--if...
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
Volume 2: Geography. This volume addresses general topics of cultural geographic interest, such as Appalachia, exiles and expatriates, Latino and Jewish populations, migration patterns, and the profound Disneyfication of central...
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Thomas Jefferson and Music
By Helen CripeOriginally published: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974.
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina
By Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. SouthernEastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth...
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Military Music of the American Revolution
By Raoul F. CamusThis book correlates early American history during the Revolutionary War with the musical tradition of America. The growth and topics of American colonial and Revolutionary era music, especially in the...
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A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965
By John A. Salmond, John Alexander SalmondWilliams, an Alabama liberal committed to civil rights long before such a position was expedient in the South, became the director of the National Youth Administration where he hired blacks...
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Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution
By Paul Anthony RaheAn assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. "In a series of sketches...