A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- 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. The...więcej »
The ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ were necessary for salvation and forgiveness of sin so that you could possess eternal life. And eternal life is to know God the Father an...więcej »
Never intended for anyone's eyes except parents, these letters are now compiled by the author for her adult children to read and relive the life they loved growing up in Zaire, Africa (Democrati...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 »
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 »
This volume is a brief study of the general development of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present--Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Roman church, absolute monarchy, democracy, n...więcej »
The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to con...więcej »
The authors present a new theory of decision-making that provides modes that can be used to describe such widely diverse political entities as the British cabinet, a Quaker meeting, or a village me...więcej »
This book resulted from a cooperative study by the Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina and the University of South Carolina. It represents some fourteen mon...więcej »
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in India...więcej »
In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of whi...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 »
Seidenberg sees the history of man as a conflict between instinct and intelligence. He regards change as a temporary condition in the development of mankind, and explores in this bold and far-reach...więcej »
The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elite's cultural aspirations by exa...więcej »
Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acte...więcej »
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in A...więcej »
The building of the wall in 1961 occupies the central position in Dulles's book. But she has prefaced it with an excellent review of Berlin's tangled history since the end of World War II with its ...więcej »
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their fami...więcej »
During the peak of the COVID 19 pandemic, there seemed to be turmoil and chaos everywhere I looked. We were surrounded by illness, death, loss of jobs, business closures, political debacles, and...więcej »
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ah...więcej »