Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater inclusion at Christian colleges and universities.

Examines London's inner life, primarily as it is revealed in his art, to discover the man concealed beneath the public persona. Although London was wealthy, famous, and one of the last great self-made men in America, Hedrick shows that he was always torn by his troubled relationship to his lower-class origins.

Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance

The mountaineer stereotype - violent people who preserve a traditional lifestyle and vote Republican - has been perpetuated through the years. This demonstrates that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic and geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence of Republican voting patterns.

Until now, the single comprehensive history of Salsa - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.

This book goes beyond the concept of power and studies the structure of relations among nations as a stratified system in terms of economic, prestige, and power variables that determine relative superiority and inferiority. It identifies some of the fundamental typologies of international actions in the three basic stratification variables. Originally published in 1963.

The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never obscure and they go deep.

From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction

Examines the often contradictory views that characterized the British Labour party's approach to foreign policy from the end of World War I through the 1920s. Henry Winkler documents the progression from Labour's general indifference toward international issues, to its rejection of the prevailing international order, to its eventual acceptance of the need to work for international cooperation.

Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900