Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

This original and useful contribution to knowledge about the theatre focuses on the playgoer. Samuel Selden shows how artists in the playhouse serve the playgoer as creators and guides while they participate in the double game of theatre. Originally published in 1969.

This handbook, clearly and simply written, is a useful guide to practical farming, and will be of value to rural teachers and other rural leaders who may feel the lack of practical farm experience. The book can serve as a basic text in connection with teacher-training programmes and in other instances where a basic knowledge of practical agriculture is desired.

Prelude to Yorktown: The Southern Campaign of Nathanael Greene, 1780-1781

In this life of Walter Clark, the author tells of an antebellum boyhood on a Carolina plantation and a long career of involvement in the bitterest sociopolitical battles the state of North Carolina has known, which won Clark a national reputation as a liberal noted for his straight thinking and his clear speaking.

Seidenberg sees the history of man as a conflict between instinct and intelligence. He regards change as a temporary condition in the development of mankind, and explores the fateful trends that are impelling him towards the organisation of intelligence that will transform the present movement into an unalterable stability. Originally published in 1961.

In clear, forceful language, the author traces the early history of the college, the physical development of buildings and campus, the variety of student affairs, and the make-up and character of college committees, faculty, and administration. It is also a tribute to President Emeritus Bird, who served the college for thirty-seven years.

Miller's career has had many facets: statesman, politician, soldier, educator, author, and churchman, and his contacts have been world wide. He is best known for his work with the World's Student Christian Federation and the Century Club and for his leadership of the anti-Byrd forces in Virginia. Originally published in 1971.

Moes defends a subsidization of industry and advocates a bolder approach than that now in vogue. The application of the theoretical approach of this book is worldwide, and even though the setting of this study is America, the suggested advances in this field should prove of especial interest to underdeveloped countries. Originally published in 1962.

Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi's literary development, define her literary identity, and evaluate her achievement. Originally published in 1985.

This first modern critical edition of Esule dalle sfere exhibits Stradella's architectural genius and sensitive treatment of text. Vocal instrumental forces include two soloists, a four-voice chorus, violin, and continuo. This edition contains an English translation of the libretto, historical background and commentary, and a discussion of performance problems.

Among Latin-American nations, Colombia offers a unique opportunity for a study in comparative governmental methods and institutions. In 1958 Colombia initiated an extraordinary political experiment in controlled democracy: the two traditional parties agreed on absolute parity of representation from national to local level. This is a study of that experiment. Originally published in 1962.

The Febrerista party of Paraguay, which is examined here, is particularly interesting because it has operated in exile for twenty-seven of the thirty years of its existence. This is an informative study concerning a long-neglected type of political party and should invite comparative analyses from other countries. Originally published in 1968.

Traces John Dryden's theory of comedy through two main stages of development, 1663-75 and 1675-1700. In the first stage, Dryden conceives of ideal comedy as a heightened mixture of Jonsonian humour and Fletcherian love and wit. In the second stage, naturalness and satire become the key principles, and Shakespeare becomes his primary model. Originally published in 1963.

Designed to guide the student or scholar through the maze of books and articles on the philosophy of Marx and Marxism-Leninism, this bibliography should be an essential aid, not only to students of Marxism and to professional philosophers, but also to scholars in every field in which Marxist thought has had an impact. Originally published 1967.

West Haven: Classroom Culture and Society in a Rural Elementary School

Argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Although the two playwrights clearly share a fascination for the soldier hero and an acute awareness of his social incompetence and deviance, the dramas reveal sharply divergent attitudes toward his heroic idealism. Originally published in 1980.

In this book Daniels's main interest is Mexico - its people, its national life, its arts, its amusements, its problems, its relations with the United States. The book is based on his experiences as ambassador to Mexico, from the beginning of the New Deal in the United States and the Six-Year Plan in Mexico to the early years of World War II. Originally published 1947.

Skialetheia, or A Shadowe of Truth, in Certaine Epigrams and Satyres

Drake's study of politics and culture in Umbertian Italy focuses on the political thought and activity of a highly intellectual group of reactionary intellectuals whose politics were a nostalgic appeal to the Mazzinian vision of the Third Rome. By 1900 a fresh ideological alternative had developed for the right-wing intellectuals - nationalism. Originally published 1980.

The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences the value and meaning of his or her novels, how keen awareness of the interplay of theory and technique is revealed, and how new resources of the novelist's art have grown out of the anatomy of time. Originally published in 1963.

So commonplace has the term rule of law become that few recognize its source as Dicey's Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Cosgrove examines the life and career of Dicey, the most influential constitutional authority of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, showing how his critical and intellectual powers were accompanied by a simplicity of character and wit.

Shows how pressure groups in the US work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and tells how they eventually occupied high government positions involving foreign policy decisions that influenced the lives of millions. Originally published 1968.

Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and Jarvis, Cooper and Morse, and Verplanck and Frazee. Also, the role of the Knickerbockers in the development of American architecture and painting is treated at length. Originally published in 1967.

Eighteenth-century Baltimore was a traditional society - aristocratic, personal, and private. New social groups appeared with new ideas, values, institutions, and social controls, and the community adapted in various ways. The industrial revolution standardized social processes and made them a matter of public concern, providing the basis for the new, nineteenth-century public society.

The story of North Carolina's railroad development is the story of a long and unsuccessful struggle to secure a trunk line east and west. Today the main railroads run north and south, following the fundamental geographical lay of the land, the original dream defeated by geography, sectional differences, politics, and the paralyzing effects of war.

What distinguishes Boyle's book from similar studies is his sensitive judgment as critic and his deep and refined spirituality as a man of God. His approach is uncomplicated. After discussing the nature of metaphor, he reaches a provisional definition that includes rhythm. This rhythm, he believes, has unique metaphorical significance in Hopkins's poetry. Originally published in 1961.

Brings together the most interesting criticisms of Shakespeare by English-speaking actors. The introductory chapter suggests the actors' typical contributions to Shakespeare criticism. Each of the four main chapters deals with one of the major tragedies, presenting the actors' ideas about the play itself, and the concluding chapter evaluates the actors' criticisms. Originally published in 1969.