Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyses the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown.

Taking an exploratory rather than a dogmatic approach to the problem, this book pulls together materials bearing on casual inference that are widely scattered in the philosophical, statistical, and social science literature. It is written in nonmathematical terms, and it is imaginative and sophisticated from both a theoretical and a statistical point of view.

Explores Ernest Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work - his short stories and novels. Originally published in 1968.

The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colourful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. Originally published in 1976.

With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society. Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman.

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their new institutional connections to effect a transformation of American political culture.

This is an impartial, complete, and most informative assessment of the first thirteen years of the British National Health Service. It represents the clearest alternative to private medicine of the kind that is generally practiced in America. Proponents and opponents of socialized medicine will gain from this interesting book. Originally published in 1964.

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. This text assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on Arts, covering the players who created national arts policy.

This polished study of the uses of reason in poetry is a philosophical meditation. Its basic thesis is that poetry is the objective correlative of reason, and in this sense it attacks both romantic subjectivism and the more general tendency to consider poetic effects in terms of reason-emotion dichotomy. Originally published in 1966.

In this first sociological analysis of millenarian and mystical movements from the Middle Ages to the present, Sharot deals primarily with the Jewish masses. He describes religious currents in which hope focused on either a messiah who would bring redemption or on the means by which the individual could achieve mystical cleaving to God.

Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture.

The Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a theatrical presentation. Just as Socrates's listeners would have questioned and examined their own thinking in response to the presentation, so, Klein shows, should modern readers become involved in the drama of the dialogue.

In this incisive book, a distinguished geneticist has succeeded in relating the extraordinary biological discoveries of the last two decades to the basic questions about the origin and evolution of life on earth. The "molecular revolution" in biology, the operation of the genetic code, and the relational order in the biological world are all considered. Originally published in 1969.

Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines the lives of all types of women in both cities.

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.

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.

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.

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.