Books from University of North Carolina Press
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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762
By Eliza Lucas PinckneyThe Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762
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Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
By David E. WhisnantDavid Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional...
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Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway
By John Anthony AldermanThe Blue Ridge Parkway, winding along the backbone of the southern Appalachian Mountains, is cherished for its grand vistas and massive mountain peaks, but nestled in the recreation areas, overlooks,...
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Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies: The Classic Guide for Sportsmen
By Jim GasqueJim Gasque's classic 1948 work offers a period portrait of outdoor life in the Great Smoky Mountains. Filled with anecdotes, fishing and hunting stories, and recollections of legendary local sportsmen...
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American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945
By Douglas LittleWith the events of September 2001, America's relationship with the Middle East exploded to the forefront of our national consciousness. Looking back more than a half-century, Douglas Little offers valuable,...
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Roman Catholics & Shiʻi Muslims: Prayer, Passion, & Politics
By James A. Bill, John Alden Williamsi This timely work explores two influential religious traditions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. With the worldwide rise of religious fundamentalism,...
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The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism Or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe
By Robert BireleyBireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produced an international political literature that...
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Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993
By Sean McCloudIn an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious...
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The Dream Long Deferred
By Frye GaillardThe Dream Long Deferred
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Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1949
By Aaron David MillerMiller shows how the American stake in Saudi Arabian oil challenged the United States to create closer ties with the Saudi kingdom, compelling the move from isolation to involvement with...
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Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763
By John Robert McNeillAtlantic Empires of France and Spain is a comparative study of the colonies of Cape Breton and Cuba within their imperial systems and within the Atlantic world in general. John...
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Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions
By Cynthia S. JordanSecond Stories offers an innovative reexamination of selected texts by major figures in American literature: Benjamin Franklin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Bown from the early national period, and...
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United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871
By Reginald C. StuartThis sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history...
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The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky
By Ellis Merton CoulterThe purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that...
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Ego--alter Ego: Double And/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
By John David PizerGerman Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt...
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Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations
By David Fort GodshalkIn 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities. Atlanta's black...
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Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
By Daniel Maudlin, Bernard L. Herman"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction ...
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Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
By Catherine A. BrekusMargaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against...
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The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, July 1788-December 1795. Account book, July 1788-December 1795
By John MarshallSponsored by the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture under the auspices of the National Historical Publications Commission.
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Increase and Multiply: Arts-of-discourse Procedure in the Preaching of Donne
By John S. ChamberlinThis original investigation deals with the procedure Donne used in dilating" a text into a sermon. An analysis of Donne's sermon on Psalm 32:1-2 exemplifies the way in which he...