Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

Employing a sophisticated research design, Whitman Ridgway examines the changing leadership patterns in four diverse communities in Maryland from 1790 to 1840. The results indicate clearly the need to study the American democratic process at the local level.

This political history of modern Brittany focuses on the social, cultural, and economic factors underlying Breton nationalism. Brittany is characterized by small land holdings, poverty, and the social afflictions that accompany depressed areas. Reece describes the formulation in 1898 of the Union Regionaliste Bretonne and the subsequent movements toward nationalism, autonomy, and separatism.

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and co

This study rejects the notion that Arthurian society actually presented a would-be ideal. In its place, the author offers a new and compelling way to read Malory by examining the underlying anarchic and self-destructive aspects of Round Table society. Included is a unique and much-needed annotated bibliography of significant Malory scholarship.

Deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching - its background, circumstances, and meaning - introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed study of the lynchings of 1930 in an effort to find an answer to the complexities of the problem.

Analyses the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands of colonialism, catholicism, and contraception are woven into a background of profound social change.

Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones. This first work to concentrate on the Elizabethan Catholic church relates party thought to the quarrels with the Catholic community during Elizabeth's reign.

A commoner respected for his knowledge of law and politics, Pory was appointed, in 1618, secretary to the new governor of Virginia, and he became the first speaker of the first Legislative Assembly of America. His letters contain contemporary information on the Thirty Years War, social and political conditions in England, and his impressions of Virginia.

The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This collection of stories, written in the 1940s, show how quickly a gifted author learns and develops his craft. The collection, taken as a whole, reveals a remarkable portrait of a time and place.

In a time when educated men spoke and wrote in Latin as easily as their native tongues, a huge volume of Latin verse was published by men in every walk of life. This anthology includes the poetry of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castigliione, and Sanazaro Ariosto among the Italians; Du Bellay and Michel de l'Hopital in France; Melanchthon and Erasmus in Germany and the Low Countries; and More in England.

This is the story of racial tension in the United States during the year of global war from mid-1942 to 1943. The author sees three groups to blame for this tension: the new Afro-American, better educated, better aware of his economic potentialities; northern agitators campaigning for black rights; and the old white South, unwilling to relinquish its traditional folkways.

These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes - to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same reason that impelled their other business ventures - the hope of profit.

Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the Ortesia and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully prepared evolution in the trilogy from a primitive to a more civilized form of justice.

The contributors, influenced by scoiology and anthropology, have abandoned the confines and conventions of ecclesistical history to discuss the relationship between the religion of the people and that of the clergy and elite. In introducing the volume, Obelkevich discusses the concept of popular religion and the methodology used to examine it.

Novy demonstrates how plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analysing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and romances and how they are acted out in the tragedies.

Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned.

Spenser not only dedicated The Faerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this volume a convincing reading of the great poem.

In the most comprehensive analysis of southeastern ecohomic growth to date, Niemi estimates state and regional gross product by major industry and uses these estimates to compare southeastern economic growth with the rest of the United States from 1950 to 1970. The author describes recent southeastern expansion and assesses the underlying causal factors.

Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the mountain people--the ancient arts of hand-weaving and vegetable dyeing.

Moroney's investigation of several aspects of the productive structure of manufacturing not only assembles in one place a body of material that is scattered throughout the literature but also contains a great deal of original material, which makes it an extremely valuable contribution to the field.

In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions. The underlying theme is that if one wants to understand the South, it is necessary to examine the bonds among these various institutions.

De Mun led the shift of the French Right from royalism to republicanism during the first half of the Third Republic. He was an aristocrat who sought to build a popular party, a fervid Catholic who would be undermined by his church, an idealist who engaged in illegal conspiracies, and a patriot whose nation would reject his counsel until just before his death.

Strauss's book, The Life of Jesus, published in Germany in 1835, established the discipline of biblical criticism and decisively articulated the question of the role of faith in a secular age. The book divided the Christian Hegelians into "right" and "left" factions depending on their belief in the necessity of affirming the New Testament's historical truth to espouse the Christian faith.

This first volume in a larger study of political participation and attitudes in Venezuela focuses on the mobilization of public opinion in the 1973 campaign. Data is drawn from personal observation, interviews with party elites, and a nation-wide survey. Six months of travel with the major presidential candidates provides insight into the strategy, tactics, and personalities of the campaign.

German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgium's future did much to block a compromise peace. In the postwar decade, Belgium's role as intermediary between France and Britain was pivotal, and its primary concerns reveal mush about postwar Europe's search for stability.

Schultz provides a complete history of female relief workers in the Civil War era--around 20,000 women of diverse regional, race, and class backgrounds who worked as nurses, cooks, and laundresses in Union and Confederate hospitals.

Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics

Argues that Foucault's "archaeology" is an attampt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics.

Education of the Heart: The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth

In this first full-length biography of Ferrari, Lovett traces his intellectual development in Milan and describes his twenty years of voluntary exile in Paris. Lovett documents the growth of his political consciousness in the 1840s, his gradual commitment to the democratization of European society, and his response to the French and Italian revolutions of 1848.