Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

Provides a account of the southern frontier is the first to give a detailed critical analysis of the 1733-49 period during which Georgia served as a British military buffer colony between Spanish-dominated Florida and British-held South Carolina. Primarily a military history, British Drums on the Southern Frontier also emphasizes frontier politics and Indian diplomacy.

Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence

This novel tells the story of two boys growing up in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Drawing on the Old Testament story of ""David and Jonathan"", it tells of the boys friendship and love. The book was part of a small body of gay literature when it was first published in 1950.

Examines the policies of corporations such as insurance companies, banks, and credit card firms that regularly process medical, financial, and consumer data. According to Jeff Smith, many companies lack comprehensive policies regulating the access to and distribution of personal data, and where stated policies do exist, actual practices often conflict.

Vance Packard's bestselling books taught the generation that came of age in the early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism.

Baloyra argues that the deepening American involvement in a domestic conflict between Salvadorans has failed to eliminate the obstructionism and violence of the "disloyal right". He holds that neutralizing this group is the key to resolving the crisis and that a reconciliation of the Christian Democrats with the Democratic Revolutionary Front is necessary. Originally published in 1982.

In this work the author seeks to consider Paul and his teachings through an analysis of his social experience and, by studying his different letters, to build a concrete picture of the human situations with which he had to deal. Rather than depicting him as a theologian, the author sees him as the missionary concerned with real problems of human need.

Discusses the effect of Jeffersonian democracy on South Carolina specifically, but, in doing so, it also discusses the part that South Carolinians played in the developments that concerned the United States as a whole. Originally published in 1940.

The story of the Night Riders is an important episode in the history of the Kentucky Black Tobacco Belt. In an attempt to protect their most valuable money crop from the exploitation of capitalistic trusts, law-abiding farmers organised and resorted to the use of illegal force to prevent buying and selling except through their own agency. Originally published in 1936.

Discusses the first half of the eighteenth century, a period that saw the contest for supremacy in the southeastern corner of North America among Spain, England, and France - a contest that kept diplomats of these nations busy for almost two hundred years and that at times had recourse to sterner methods in Queen Anne's War and the War of Jenkins' Ear. Originally published in 1936.

The author gives a complete picture of the struggle for prohibition in Alabama and of the effects of that struggle on the state from its earliest settlement down to 1943. Originally published in 1943.

Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community.

Offers a view from the trenches of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This book is not the story of the commanders, but rather shows in intimate detail what the war in the western theatre was like for the enlisted men. Larry Daniel argues that the unity of the Army of Tennessee can be understood only by viewing the army from the bottom up rather than the top down.

This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the US examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution.

The US has declined to approve most human rights treaties, despite widespread support for such treaties among other Western democracies. This study explores the legacy of the 1950s, when opposition to the treaties was articulated, and the residual strength of that opposition in contemporary deliberations. Originally published in 1990.

Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labour? Emphasizing the agriculture of the American South, Mann adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing insights from history and economics as well as sociology.

Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

A study of women in vaudeville. It reveals how female performers, patrons and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. Once a sign of vaudeville's refinement, Kibler says, women became associated with the decay of vaudeville.

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the 19th century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, and the concept of the ""white man's burden"" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had the opposite effect.

Tells the story of the rise of the US Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography.

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colours rushed to the US-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands.

In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth.

These plays tell of comedy and tragedy in the lives of people far in the backcountry of the Deep South. They present characters such as a young black widow, a scapegrace black troubadour, and a lively black girl in their native surroundings and portray what life is like for them. These plays may be produced simply on school and little theatre stages. Originally published in 1943.

In order to survive as a democracy the US must have a disciplined citizenry. This book states the case for the dynamic nature of a democratic discipline. The ends chosen to show a disciplined citizenship are based on the ancient trinity of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, ideals served by the disciplines of science, art, and politics. Originally published in 1942.

Here the techniques customarily employed in the interpretation of legal phenomena are critically analysed from the position of rigorous scientific method. Cairns's book is a brilliant statement for the possibilities of the scientific approach in regard to social institutions in general and to the sociology of law in particular. Originally published in 1941.

Brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the post-revolutionary Mexican state. While artists and intellectuals sought free expression, Stephanie Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage.