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This is the authentic story of the thirty-year effort of the Communist party to channel Afro-American protest in terms of Kremlin edicts rather than the Bill of Rights. From its beginnings after World War I, the party chose blacks as a major target in its recruiting campaign. Wilson shows the patriotism and wisdom of the black leaders who have resisted the pressure of the Communist attack.

Tells the story of an early effort toward technical education in the US South. Its sponsors were far-sighted Georgians who realized the value of engineering. It is a story of high standards, hard work, and trained men who went forth to serve in technical fields.

In Dalzell's story, a handful of Confederate cruisers killed the American carrying trade by so harrying Federal merchant shipping that world commerce took flight from ships flying the United States flag. The scene shifts often: from the high seas to high diplomatic intrigue in world capitals, to shipyards of supposedly neutral nations. Originally published in 1940.

This book is first of all a personal narrative that is alternately dramatic, thoughtful, and hilariously funny. It is also a vivid picture of plantation life before and during the Civil War and the beginnings of the building of a New South.

Leyburn shows the evolution in the early works of Henry James's power of relating comedy and tragedy and then analyses some of the ways in which, as a mature artist, he characteristically revealed the interconnections. In nothing is Henry James more modern than in his finding comedy and tragedy inseparable. Originally published in 1968.

Lehning finds that economic development in Marlhes did not destroy its peasantry. Rather, the peasants adjusted to the commercial forces of the industrial world by adapting traditional forms of behaviour and attitudes toward the new conditions, not abandoning old ways and adopting unfamiliar ones. Originally published in 1980.

These eighteen essays present innovative perspectives on global policies by introducing new concepts and by redefining others within the ecological framework. The authors explore a variety of ecological issues: food supply, oceanic pollution, climate disruption, and the more general need for equitable resource management. Originally published in 1979.

Warm ideas are clearly and beautifully present in this first collection of Wright's poetry, a collection marked by its great variety in form and subject. These poems can be demanding or deceptively simple. The most important aspect of Wright's poetry is the revelation of a man of compassion, a man who can feel and transmit that feeling to the reader.

The poems in this posthumous volume are grouped in five sections according to theme or subject matter; poems about art and the artist, about religion, about social issues, poems of a personal nature, and, finally, those employing the metaphor of teaching. The striking versatility of forms and moods demonstrates Godsey's success in attaining structure and diversity.

The purpose of these eleven scholars is to give the Russian official a distinct identity, to describe him in terms of the society from which he emerged, and to summarize the experience that rendered him ever more indispensable as the government became more complex. Quantitative data is skillfully integrated into the analysis of more than ten thousand official careers spanning some thirty decades.

The appearance in 1920 of H.L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, "The Sahara of the Bozart", set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred Hobson examines Mencken's love-hate relationship with the South.

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it.

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.

Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan

Although British leaders made the principal contribution to the drafting of the League of Nations Covenant, Egerton shows that the British political elite opposed the type of league that emerged. These sceptics objected to the system of "collective security" and preferred to build upon the traditions of the British Empire to institute a system that would integrate "functional" cooperation.

Describes the development of theatre, amateur and professional, in the US South during the forty-five-year period preceding the Civil War. Dormon establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programing, production, and audience composition and behaviour.

This is a timely examination of both the concept of the responsibilities of citizenship in England, France, and the United States today and of the methods of education for those responsibilities.

Provides a comprehensive historical, economic, social, and scenic description covering the seacoast, the tobacco and cotton country, and the famous recreational areas of the Great Smokies. The greater part of the book is devoted to motor tours from points on the state line and within the state which point out landmarks, locate historic spots, and acquaint the traveller with the country.

Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of this century and includes a substantial scholarly introduction and notes that will help the reader better understand Hermogenes.

The varied career of Walter Hines Page affected many facets of the American political and social milieu from the end of Reconstruction to World War I. Throughly researching both American and British government documents and private papers, and using interviews with Page's contemporaries, Cooper reinterprets and establishes the significance of Page's career.

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.

Examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose solution would largely determine the country's progress toward national union.

This is one of the few works in any language to concentrate on the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Federal Republic. By studying a series of legislative case histories of bills presented between 1949 and 1960, Pinney assesses the role of party politics in maintaining three persistent characteristics of the Bundesrat. Originally published in 1966.

The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst in shaping American foreign policy over the past generation. Welch's study is the first detailed evaluation of US policy toward Cuba in the early years of the Castro regime and the first effort to analyse public sentiment during that crucial period.

This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition, and magnificent... in its achievement. The author's command of the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly orchestrated and rich with insight.... Rahe shows how alien the modern project, in all its diverse versions, was to the classics as well as the Bible." - Thomas L. Pangle, Political Theory

For much of the 19th century and all of the 20th, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world - a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. This title presents an illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba.

By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, this work provides a study of the complex relationship between US imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent war, Abraham Lincoln offered to accept a constitutional amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the slave states. Daniel Crofts unearths the hidden history and political manoeuvring behind the stillborn attempt to enact this amendment.

This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South. Through six essays, Nell Irvin Painter explores such themes as interracial sex and white supremacy.