The author discusses the inducements to public life and describes the type of personnel responsible for the public service, analyzes relationships in the various branches of the government, and pre...więcej »
Johnson is concerned with the waste of land and human wealth in the Southeast. He believes that in practically every form it takes this waste is avoidable and remediable. He proposes a constructive...więcej »
In the critical years between 1914 and 1920, the League to Enforce Peace offered the strongest and most unified support in America for a League of Nations. By 1919 it had gained enthusiastic suppor...więcej »
Francis Bacon's comments on communication and rhetoric are scattered throughout his works--in letters and occasional writings, in philosophical, scientific, and literary compositions. The author co...więcej »
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Sp...więcej »
Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "sigogglin," or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending...więcej »
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, ra...więcej »
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a di...więcej »
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a g...więcej »
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Part...więcej »
Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. In the first book-length work on the topic, Lisa Wilson exam...więcej »
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state foll...więcej »
The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, ...więcej »
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose ...więcej »
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influen...więcej »
This volume is 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 ...więcej »
This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and t...więcej »
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics. Exami...więcej »
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous peop...więcej »
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...więcej »