Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
By St. Louis Symposium on German Literature 1994Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, and mechanisms...
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Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston
By Mary-Russell Roberson, Kevin George StewartHow were the Appalachian Mountains formed? Are the barrier islands moving? Is there gold in the Carolinas? The answers to these questions and many more appear in this reader-friendly guide...
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The North Carolina Continentals
By Hugh F. RankinIn this classic account of the Revolutionary War experiences of the North Carolina Continentals, Hugh F. Rankin traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the...
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The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792: 1787-1792
By George MasonThe Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792: 1787-1792
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Structures of Influence: A Comparative Approach to August Strindberg
By Marilyn Johns BlackwellThis collection of essays featuring contributions from eminent Swedish and American Strindberg scholars addresses the question of how Strindberg's art collides and colludes, ideologically and aesthetically, with the literary doyens...
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Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
By Michael OriardIs football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard asks these and other...
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The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South
By Guy Benton Johnson, Howard Washington OdumThis study of typical Afro-American songs in the South is a foundation study of great importance both to the specialist and to the general reader. With scholarly investigation is combined...
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Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters
By Charles Henry BrownDuring the 1850s the doctrine of Manifest Destiny sanctioned a popular movement in which adventurers sought to enlarge the nation's boundaries by military incursions into Latin American countries. Brown portrays...
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Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State
By Julia RodrÃguezAfter a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country...
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Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry
By Sarah H. HillIn this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke...
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Patriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort
By Mary A. DeCredicoPatriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort
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Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
By Thomas D. MorrisThis volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial...
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Garden Perennials for the Coastal South
By Barbara J. SullivanFinally: a book that addresses the unique challenges of gardening in the coastal South.Master Gardener Barbara Sullivan provides an authoritative guide for gardeners from Tidewater Virginia to Florida and all...
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Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South
By R. Celeste RayEach year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and...
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Native Americans in Early North Carolina: A Documentary History
By Dennis IsenbargerThis landmark work chronicles through primary sources the Native American experience in North Carolina from the earliest European explorations in the late sixteenth century through the last decades of the eighteenth century.
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The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
By James Noble GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their...
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The First State University: A Pictorial History of the University of North Carolina
By William S. PowellWilliam Powell's The First State University, originally published in 1972 and revised in 1979, has become a classic for many Carolina alumni and friends. This third edition brings the story...
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The Campus of the First State University
By Archibald HendersonThe Campus of the First State University
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Rousseau and His Reader: The Rhetorical Situation of the Major Works
By Robert J. EllrichThis study is an analysis of Rousseau's relationship to his reader in the major works from Discours sur les sciences et les arts to Reveries du promeneur solitaire. In addition...
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Location Problems in Soviet Industry Before World War II: The Case of the Ukraine
By I. S. KoropeckyjDuring 1928-37 Soviet economic planners decided to deemphasize the industrial growth of the Ukraine and other western regions in favor of the all-out industrialization of a few underdeveloped areas in...