Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

The existence of a wide variety of legislation in the forty-eight states - on insurance, banking, corporation charters - inevitably results in confusion and injury to legitimate business and personal interests. In this volume a mode of procedure is suggested that will avoid centralization under federal laws and will make possible uniform action on a reasonable basis. Originally published in 1934.

Beginning with the Age of Discovery, these adventures of explorers, pioneers, inventors, and others, whose deeds of valor won a continent, cover a period of 250 years. Written especially for use as a supplementary reader in the fourth and fifth grades, it will awaken in young readers a pride in their heritage. Originally published in 1935.

In Mexico the term ejido is applied to agricultural lands held collectively by agrarian communities. In this book, the ejido becomes a point of departure for a detailed examination of the whole gamut of problems in rural Mexico--land distribution and tenure, education, agricultural credit, and political organisation and social control.

Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film.

This is the story of public education from 1900 to 1924 in the states that constituted the Confederacy. It gives a view, not only of the actual educational situation in 1900, but also of the social, economic, and political conditions that had prevailed there for two or three decades following the Civil War and were important to the educational problems of the South.

The author here attempts to dispel the intellectual fog that often dims the Christian's view of Christ. He recognises that it is good for an individual to move now and then intellectually and spiritually, but he cautions against discarding such things as religious faith, human service, political stability, and economic security. He offers a satisfying philosophy of life for individuals and groups.

Foerster has here formulated his ideas concerning the relation of humanism to graduate study and scholarship. In a day when all educational ideals and methods are up for reexamination and appraisal, this book is particularly timely, and no one interested in such questions can afford to be ignorant of this carefully considered statement by one of the leading thinkers of his day.

Only by isolating the particular material about the Afro-American from the body of American literature can we come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of his place in our national life. This volume presents an outline of the literature concerning blacks--drama, fiction, criticism, and verse--whether written by them or about them. Originally published in 1928.

Offers an excellent description of the more important forces that have made Denmark one of the most highly civilized and enlightened nations of the world - a nation in which the problems of town and country cooperation have been solved better than anywhere else in the world.

The author here shows that the interests of the small town and of the country around it are closely bound together, that the town originally was and will continue to be a country agency. Miller's chief desire has been to tell progressive townsmen some of the things a countryman sees and thinks when he looks toward the town, what he considers the meaning of the town to be to him and his fellows.

One-time city editor of the old Raleigh Observer, the author's knowledge of men and affairs in his native state is extensive and important. Pervading this book is the charm of reminiscences of childhood before the Civil War, student days in Chapel Hill, and life in reconstruction days.

The distinguished Kansas editor and author gives a vivid picture of the three major cycles of our country's progress--the revolutionary cycle, the antislavery cycle, and the populist cycle--each viewed as a part of the larger cycle of democratic growth that itself has come from that development loosely termed Christian civilization.

In this very practical aid to the student of the intellectual and social history of England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authors have given a two-fold bibliography and they have supplied two indices, the first chronological and the second geographical. It is a broadly inclusive and convenient finding-list of British periodicals.

Farm Life Abroad: Field Letters from Germany, Denmark, and France

In this collection, a southerner of high scholarly distinction and wide personal influence, discourses wisely and charmingly on the Americanism of American literature, on Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, O. Henry, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and on various aspects of literature in the South. A bibliography of the writings of C. Alphonso Smith is included.

Argentine Literature: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism, Biography, and Literary Controversy

This volume is the second of two that are a textbook for adult beginners in community schools. While teaching pupils to read, write, and figure, the books also teach rules of health, diet, work, play, thrift, and community cooperation and impress upon students those ethical concepts necessary to the proper development of good citizenship.

This volume is number one of two that are a textbook for adult beginners in community schools. While teaching pupils to read, write, and figure, the books also teach rules of health, diet, work, play, thrift, and community cooperation and impress upon students those ethical concepts necessary to the proper development of good citizenship.

The author discusses important questions of social differentiation and relates them to the problems of democracy. Following his belief in the essential unity of the social sciences, he has drawn upon materials from the fields of psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology, as well as sociology.

The present study is distinctive in that the author examines Byron as an artist and self-critic. Based mainly on Byron's own self-analytical and critical statements as found in his letters and in contemporary memoirs, and written with considerable verve, this volume gives a refreshing picture of Byron as an artist who knew what he was doing and why.

This study of typical Afro-American songs in the US south is a foundation study of great importance both to the specialist and to the general reader. With scholarly investigation is combined intelligent sympathy and a rare understanding of the black in his various aspects. The book discusses the religious songs, the social songs, and the work songs of the Afro-American.

This volume contains descriptions of direct observations on, and illustrations of all known American species of the family Saprolegmiaceae. Notes are added on related families, as Leptomitaceae, Blastocladiaceae, and Monoblepharidaceae. Originally published in 1923.

Offers the first book-length examination of the pivotal Spotsylvania campaign of 7-21 May, 1864. Drawing on extensive research in manuscript collections and an exhaustive reading of the available literature, William Matter sets the strategic stage for the campaign before turning to a detailed description of tactical movements.

For thirteen days in October 1962, America stood at the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and John F. Kennedy's defiant response introduced the possibility of unprecedented cataclysm. Awaiting Armageddon provides the first in-depth look at this crisis as it roiled outside of government offices.

Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College. Through Commager's life and legacy, Neil Jumonville explores a number of questions central to the intellectual history of postwar America.

Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic

This book describes many types and varieties of hostelries. Hayner has gathered the basic materials for his book from interviews with hotel bellboys, maids, waiters, and hotel dwellers and from them he has drawn a picture of the detachment, freedom, loneliness, and release from restraints that mark the hotel population.