Search Results

ENGLISH

A Whole New Ball Game - An Interpretation Of American Sports

by Allen Guttmann

44,61€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. In A Whole New Ball Game, Allen Guttmann examines the American fascination with sport and what that fascination reveals about American culture.
ENGLISH

Turners And Burners - The Folk Potters Of North Carolina

by Charles G. Zug Iii

64,89€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of â€œturners and burnersâ€ whose creations are much admired for their strength and beauty. This book is an attempt to understand both the past and the present, the now largely vanished world of the folk potter, and the continuing achievements of his descendants.
ENGLISH

Black Athena Revisited

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This text disputes the claims made by Bernal in ""Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization"", that ancient Greek culture derived from Egypt and Phoenicia and that European scholars have been biased against the notion of Egyptian and Phoenician influence on Western civilization.
ENGLISH

Feeble-Minded In Our Midst - Institutions For The Mentally Retarded In The South, 1900-1940

by Steven Noll

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This text traces the history and development of institutions for the ""feeble-minded"" in South America between 1900 and 1940. It examines the influence of gender, race and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest of America.
ENGLISH

Blasphemy - Verbal Offense Against The Sacred, From Moses To Salman Rushdie

by Leonard W. Levy

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is â€œnumbâ€ to outrage.
ENGLISH

Power And Privilege - A Theory Of Social Stratification

by Gerhard E. Lenski

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Offers an answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories.
ENGLISH

Media And The American Mind - From Morse To Mcluhan

by Daniel J. Czitrom

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
ENGLISH

The Dynamics Of Interdependence

by Andrew M. Scott

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 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. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
ENGLISH

American Historical Pageantry - The Uses Of Tradition In The Early Twentieth Century

by David Glassberg

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the early twentieth century, a time when thousands of Americans joined in civic celebrations by acting out episodes from their towns' history.
ENGLISH

To Starve The Army At Pleasure - Continental Army Administration And American Political Culture, 1775-1783

by E. Wayne Carp

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783
ENGLISH

Arms And The Woman - War, Gender, And Literary Representation

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
ENGLISH

Habits Of Industry - White Culture And The Transformation Of The Carolina Piedmont

by Allen Tullos

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont - the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain - over the course of 150 years. By examining the social and religious culture of the region, Allen Tullos illuminates the lives of the working men and women whose â€œhabits of industryâ€ shaped their world.
ENGLISH

Home Fires Burning - Food, Politics, And Everyday Life In World War I Berlin

by Belinda J. Davis

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, this book uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace, particularly poorer women, on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.
ENGLISH

Jefferson Adams' Letters - The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson And Abigail And John Adams

by J. Adams

57,88€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
ENGLISH

Many Excellent People - Power And Privilege In North Carolina, 1850-1900

by Paul D. Escott

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina's major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or workers, and the blacks, and analyses their attitudes, social structure, and power relationships.
ENGLISH

Taylorism Transformed - Scientific Management Theory Since 1945

by Stephen P. Waring

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's â€œbureaucraticâ€ theory of scientific management or Elton Mayo's â€œcorporatistâ€ idea of human relations.
ENGLISH

Humor Of A Country Lawyer

by Sam J. Ervin Jr.

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Originally published in 1984, Senator Ervin's delightful collection of stories and anecdotes winds its way from his native Morganton through Chapel Hill and Harvard, the military, the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Senate, and Watergate. It represents a lifetime of wit and wisdom - told in the late Senator Ervin's inimitable style.
ENGLISH

Spin Control - The White House Office Of Communications And The Management Of Presidential News

by John Anthony Maltese

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News
ENGLISH

Defining Women - Television And The Case Of Cagney And Lacey

by Julie D'Acci

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey
ENGLISH

Trade Unionists Against Terror - Guatemala City, 1954-1985

by Deborah Levenson-Estrada

70,81€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labour unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. Deborah Levenson-Estrada explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. She focuses especially on the case of 400 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City.
ENGLISH

Revolution In The Countryside - Rural Conflict And Agrarian Reform In Guatemala, 1944-1954

by Jim Handy

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954
ENGLISH

Along Freedom Road - Hyde County, North Carolina, And The Fate Of Black Schools In The South

by David S. Cecelski

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement - the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community.
ENGLISH

Discovering North Carolina - A Tar Heel Reader

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. This anthology draws on a wealth of sources - histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines - to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways.
ENGLISH

Subduing Satan - Religion, Recreation, And Manhood In The Rural South, 1865-1920

by Ted Ownby

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of the most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex - and often opposing - attitudes.
Loading results...

View more results