Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era.

After the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction shattered the plantation economy of the Old South, white southerners turned to the railroad to reconstruct capitalism in the region. This study of the New South's experience with the railroad network provides valuable insights into the history of capitalism.

As Wesley Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival.

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, and drag performance, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept has not prevented the Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community.

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this "Land of the Pure".

For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established - and even attractive and exotic - representation of poverty.

How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? Drawing on personal letters and diaries, James Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women.

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world.

Examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labour formation. The book highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the US, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a Yogi. David Neumann tells the story of Yogananda's fascinating life while interpreting his position in religious history, transnational modernity, and American culture.

Provides the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves.

Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit as a welcoming participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. The story of this statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people.

The power of the commerce clause touches most intimately the relations between government and economic enterprises, and the process by which the conflicting claims of the nation and states are mediated through the Supreme Court is of continuing interest. This study is a clear exposition of the various interpretations of the commerce clause under three great chief justices.

For many years the legal status of the state taxation of banks, never too definitive, has been most precarious. This study traces the evolution and implications of the legal issues that revolve around the taxation of banks and evaluates the methods of bank taxation now in force in the several states. A suggested solution of difficulties is offered for consideration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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