Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care After the Second World War
By Emilie StoltzfusDuring World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. At the end of the war, working...
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Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-century Slave Narratives
By Paul D. EscottSlavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400...
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Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle
By Fred FussellThe Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in America. This book is...
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Man on a Rock
By Richard HertzThis book is a powerful and convincing attack on modern mechanized thinking, psychology, and progress. Hertz believes that the bourgeois emphasis on the external material must be focused on the...
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The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
By James T. SchleiferIt is impossible fully to understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." Moreover, it is impossible fully to appreciate Tocqueville by assuming that he brought...
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The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause
By Harold Holzer, Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College Harold Holzer, Mark E. NeelyFirst published in 1987, The Confederate Image examines the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War. These images helped sustain and revive Southern identity...
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Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
By Patricia SullivanIn the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. In Days of Hope,...
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The Political Liberalism of the New York Nation, 1865-1932
By Alan Pendleton GrimesThe author has made an evaluation of the files of theNation, showing how the interpretive writing of its editors has influenced the liberal movements in the United States since the...
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Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information
By Stephen VaughnThe Committee on Public Information, the major American propaganda agency during World War I, attracted a wide range of reform-oriented men and women who tried to generate enthusiasm for Wilson's...
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Sodom Laurel Album
By Rob AmbergWhen photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small...
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The Country Life of the Nation
By Wilson GeeThe Institute of Public Affairs held at the University of Virginia in 1929 brought together the group represented in this volume. The fundamental importance of the American farm life problem...
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Heinrich Von Kleist: Studies in the Character and Meaning of His Writings
By John Martin EllisEllis's book confronts directly the most central issue of Kleist criticism: the essential nature and meaning of his work. Rather than provide a general survey of Kleist's writings, Ellis performs...
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Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition
By James C. O'Flaherty, Timothy F. Sellner, Robert Meredith HelmThese fifteen essays on Nietzsche's indebtedness to the Classical Tradition were composed by scholars in the fields of philosophy, theology, German and Classics. The essays roughly cover the following epochs:...
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Dental Radiology
By Stephen R. Matteson, Cy Whaley, Vickye C. SecristThe fourth edition of this highly regarded manual provides information on current intraoral radiographic techniques and new material on radiation safety. Featured in this book are illustrated...
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The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
By Leslie Gérald DesmanglesVodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and...
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James Madison: A Son of Virginia & a Founder of the Nation
By Jeff BroadwaterFrom Broadwater's view, no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth president.
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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: Vol. XI: 7 April - 30 September 1782
By Dennis M. Conrad, Roger N. ParksIn this volume, the British evacuate Georgia, and Greene's army continues a desultory siege of Charleston.
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Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies
By Frederick Cooper, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Thomas Cleveland HoltIn this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for...
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina
By Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, Jennifer F. MartinThis portable field guide to the historic architecture of western North Carolina covers 1,200 historic buildings in 25 counties in the foothills and mountains. It introduces readers to the region's...
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Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order
By Alejandro Portes, A. Douglas KincaidWhat does it mean to speak of 'national development' in the 1990s? As a result of the tumultuous changes in global economic and political structures, scholars and policymakers specializing in...