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In a time when the professions are attracting new scrutiny, these four essays offer new insights into the process of professionalization in American society. The unifying theme is a scepticism concerning existing models of this process, and the authors insist that professional ideologies not be dismissed as mere verbal smoke screens designed to disguise self-interest.

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Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal.

Brown (1771-1810) was America's first professional man of letters. His novels are enactments of psychological processes, tracing the paths by which we surrender our need for omniscience, restrain our underlying savagery, make peace with out sexual identity, and overcome the destructive effects of egotism. Grabo's work is a radical interpretation of Brown's fiction.

Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through presidential task forces.

Taxicab: An Urban Transportation Survivor

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.

This book tells of the career of Isabella, a strange and powerful woman who was reared on a New York slave plantation, whose life was one of unspeakable hardships, whose brilliant mind was deprived of the barest rudiments of formal learning, but whose unusual intelligence and wit could confound the wise and mighty. She was a passionate fighter for the freedom of her race.

Joint-Stock Enterprise in France, 1807-1867: From Privileged Company to Modern Corporation

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South - farm labourers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations - and those on relief.

Downs uses great books to write the cultural history of society. His thesis is that the economic, social, and political behaviour of a region, a nation, or even the world is shaped largely by the printed word.

Begun as a royal adventure to enhance the glory of the king, the Dutch War sparked serious debate within the French government over the relationship of the ruler to the state. Ekberg focuses on one significant year of the war and explains how, despite opposition by several counsellors, the king escalated the original conflict into a full European war and wrought a dramatic shift in French policy.

This study brings together under the heading of business history an account of the development of leading American financial, commercial, agricultural, transportation, and manufacturing enterprises during the period from the settlement of the colonies to the beginning of the twentieth century.

By focusing on Chicago's first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago's early academic professionals united to press for reforms in education, criminal justice, social welfare, and municipal administration. By claiming professional autonomy, they established the university firmly in American society and were able to affect it profoundly.

A reassessment of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and dollar-gold convertibility. Using recently declassified documents, Francis Gavin argues that Bretton Woods was a highly politicized system that required constant attention and caused deep conflicts within the Western Alliance. He reveals how these rifts affected U.S. strategy during the Cold War.

Lowell's continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study. Though Cooper's primary purpose is to demonstrate the principle of the interrelation of the poems, a secondary and equally important purpose is to analyse the significance of Lowell's most recent work.

Presents a detailed history of men and movements in southern education based largely on first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development of the Conference for Education in the South, of the Southern Education Board, and of the origin of the General Education Board.

Presents a detailed history of men and movements in southern education based largely on first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development of the Conference for Education in the South, of the Southern Education Board, and of the origin of the General Education Board.

The driving force in Chesnutt's life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he later joined, and to the end of his life, he lectured, wrote, and corresponded on the "everlasting problem". His letters reveal courage and good sense with which he faced racial discrimination.

The first part of this fascinating account of a biographer's problems tells of the adventures of one biographer in tracking down clues in several parts of the world - accidental discovery, long pursuit of a watward detail, and suggestions of new ways of turning up evidence. The second part deals more generally with problems faced by all biographers.

The 121 letters published here for the first time comprise the existing prenuptial correspondence of Vance and his first wife. Primarily love letters, they reveal the salient traits of two high-minded beings and also offer fascinating glimpses into the society of antebellum North Carolina.

American Idea: The Literary Response to American Optimism

In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach a decision as to whether the law was actually a success or failure, legally and socially.

After presenting the theoretical background of her study, Burgess discusses the geography and ecology of region and city and examines the class and institutional structure of the sub-community. She employs a variety of methods to identify the black leaders and the roles they play in the community.

Botsch samples current attitudes of southern blue-collar workers, both black and white, toward work and race and questions whether these workers can overcome racial barriers to form a populist-style coalition aimed at improving their shared economic condition.

Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers were afforded additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and other enemies of Christian faith.

In this history of the Southern Renaissance, Bradbury is concerned with the whole range of fiction, poetry, and drama in the fertile period since the twenties. He has evaluated the works, outlined the patterns, and related both to the traditions of the region and to new forces at work in the twentieth-century South.

Reveals the ways in which many Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through amendment to alter the meaning of the US Constitution. Even though religious freedom was guaranteed, it took the sustained efforts of vigilant Jews to fulfil the constitution's promise of religious equality.

In this prodigiously researched study, the author concentrates on the reaction to the trials by various segments of the American public largely in terms of the legality of the tribunal, the composition of the court, the justice of the verdicts, and the implications for the future.

This brilliant, dramatic reconstruction of the Puritan mind in action, informed with psychological and sociological insights, provides a fresh understanding of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and gives her controversy with the Puritan Saints a new dimension in American colonial history.