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This narrative of the political, economic, and social activities of the Negro during the years from 1876 to 1894 contributes substantially to a neglected phase of state history by closely examining the laws, the penal codes, the working and living conditions, and the religious and educational organizations of that period.

This comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays performed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance significantly modifies traditional views. The authors' four essays address the textual relationships, sources and influences, music, and development of the cycle. Also included are all known surviving external documents.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors to this volume deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish policy; his relationship with the European Left, world order, and the League of Nations; and Wilson and the problems of world peace.

With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Milton's thought. He argues that Milton's responsiveness to the holy as the most fundamental of experiences caused his outlook to transcend immediate doctrinal concerns.

The distinctive and varied formal roles that a fictional society might play in a novel is the subject of this pioneering work. Langland opens with a discussion of novel theory, placing her perspectives within contemporary theory, and follows with a discussion of novels from the British, American, and Continental traditions from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist studies by integrating the diverse aspects of foreign policy.

In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution that these religious interests made to James's later work.

American Opinion and the Russian Alliance, 1939-1945

Larkin presents an original thesis on the development of the modern Irish state, maintaining that Parnell forged a de facto state that was strengthened and consolidated before the conventionally accepted dates for the emergence of the Irish state.

In this provocative study, the author treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War II. His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the non-political background of today's radical social thought.

Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of D'Orleans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes

Knave, Fool, and Genius: The Confidence Man as He Appears in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

During 1928-37 Soviet economic planners decided to deemphasize the industrial growth of the Ukraine and other western regions in favour of the all-out industrialization of a few underdeveloped areas in the east beyond the Ural Mountains. The repercussions of this decision have strongly influenced the course of economic development in individual regions and in the USSR as a whole since that time.

Kim, a Korean by birth, examines the task of nation-building in Korea under an ineffectual thirteen-year civil rule followed by a modern military establishment. The baffling ambivalence of the military in politics - expressed by the overthrow of the legitimate government in defense of democracy - is given serious study in this book.

No longer merely custodial facilities, the children's home now offers a broad range of services to families in danger of breaking up. The authors provide an overview of the basic theory and methods of the family-centred children's home. Included also are twenty-one brief essays and papers on specific aspects of group child care.

In this well-balanced review of major expositions of political thought and ideology in Latin America, attention is focused on the independence period - the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Intellectual trends and schools of social and philosophical thought are traced, and representative individuals and their writings are examined in detail.

In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success. Setting his analysis against the background of popular science, Kelly follows popular Darwinism as it permeated education, religion, politics, and social thought in Germany. He explains how the popularizers changed Darwin's thought in subtle ways and how these changes coloured their perceptions of Darwinism.

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the US. Jones analyses the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and concludes that the two countries signed the treaty because they considered it the wisest alternative to war.

Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction. Hollowell presents a critically sharp portrait of what the new journalists and novelists are doing and why. The author concludes that future writing will further obscure the difference between fact and fiction.

Focuses on a single central problem: the frequently noted similarity between Ford's protagonists, men whose peculiarly alien temperaments and ethics lead them into inevitable conflict with their particular milieu. The main argument of the study is that behind these struggles, traced out through four successive centuries, lies a previously unnoted pattern.

The Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina quickly achieved a national reputation for its contribution to pure research, university teaching, and public affairs. Despite worries about academic acceptance and funding, the institute's scholars produced research and publications that are landmarks in American social science.

This is the story of a revolution - the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labour-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life resulting from the sales.

Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy. She then describes public reaction to royal policy and court Catholicism and the use parliamentary leaders made of anti-Catholicism from 1640 to 1642. Hibbard concludes that behind the exaggerated claims lay genuine anxieties that historians should begin to take seriously.

Hobart demonstrates how Malebranche's theories of truth, ideas, and intelligible extension were formulated under the influence of mathematics and how these theories conflicted with the assumptions and patterns of thought needed for traditional substance philosophy and natural theology.

The author of this challenging book does not discount the ties that hold the South to a one-party system; yet he presents convincing evidence that the region and its politics have been changing and that the trend is toward two-party politics. The most startling sign of change was the Dixiecratic bolt-revolt.

Throughout nearly sixty-five of writing, Pound specialized on the suffocating effects of time on poetry, aesthetic form, and history. Harmon examines Pound's strategies for dealing with time and arrives at a persuasive reading of Pound's works in general and of the The Cantos in particular.

This book is Brooks Hays's own story of the political career that produced his moderate attitude on the desegretation issue and was itself the produce of deep religious conviction as to the meaning of the brotherhood of man. He is convinced of the crucial importance of the churches in the whole field of race relations.

This study is based primarily on case records of more than one hundred white tenant farm mothers living in North Carolina, but comparisons are made with an equal number living in the Deep South. Through its scientific approach, this study serves all those who seek a better understanding of rural people and their problems.