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Bread And The Ballot - The United States And India'S Economic Development, 1947-1963

by Dennis Merrill

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A Time Of Bees

by Mona Van Duyn

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 The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.
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West Haven - Classroom Culture And Society In A Rural Elementary School

by Norris Brock Johnson

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 West Haven: Classroom Culture and Society in a Rural Elementary School
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Possessed With Greatness - The Heroic Tragedies Of Chapman And Shakespeare

by Richard S. Ide

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 Argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Although the two playwrights clearly share a fascination for the soldier hero and an acute awareness of his social incompetence and deviance, the dramas reveal sharply divergent attitudes toward his heroic idealism. Originally published in 1980.
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America And The French Nation, 1939-1945

by Julian G. Hurstfield

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 Higginbotham explores the experiences of the first generation of black women to integrate northern U.S. colleges and universities, examining how social class, family upbringing, and expectations--their own and others'--prepared them to achieve in an often
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Time And Reality - Studies In Contemporary Fiction

by Margaret Church

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 The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences the value and meaning of his or her novels, how keen awareness of the interplay of theory and technique is revealed, and how new resources of the novelist's art have grown out of the anatomy of time. Originally published in 1963.
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The Hawks Of World War Ii

by Mark Lincoln Chadwin

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 Shows how pressure groups in the US work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and tells how they eventually occupied high government positions involving foreign policy decisions that influenced the lives of millions. Originally published 1968.
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Shakespeare From The Greenroom - Actors' Criticisms Of Four Major Tragedies

by Carol Jones Carlisle

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 Brings together the most interesting criticisms of Shakespeare by English-speaking actors. The introductory chapter suggests the actors' typical contributions to Shakespeare criticism. Each of the four main chapters deals with one of the major tragedies, presenting the actors' ideas about the play itself, and the concluding chapter evaluates the actors' criticisms. Originally published in 1969.
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Kindred Spirits - Knickerbocker Writers And American Artists, 1807-1855

by James T. Callow

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 Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and Jarvis, Cooper and Morse, and Verplanck and Frazee. Also, the role of the Knickerbockers in the development of American architecture and painting is treated at length. Originally published in 1967.
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Baltimore In The Nation, 1789-1861

by Gary Lawson Browne

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 Eighteenth-century Baltimore was a traditional society - aristocratic, personal, and private. New social groups appeared with new ideas, values, institutions, and social controls, and the community adapted in various ways. The industrial revolution standardized social processes and made them a matter of public concern, providing the basis for the new, nineteenth-century public society.
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Agents Of Manifest Destiny - The Lives And Times Of The Filibusters

by Charles H., Jr. Brown

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 Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters
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Metaphor In Hopkins

by Robert Boyle

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 What distinguishes Boyle's book from similar studies is his sensitive judgment as critic and his deep and refined spirituality as a man of God. His approach is uncomplicated. After discussing the nature of metaphor, he reaches a provisional definition that includes rhythm. This rhythm, he believes, has unique metaphorical significance in Hopkins's poetry. Originally published in 1961.
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Southern Exposure

by Peter Mitchel Wilson

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 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.
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Town And Country

by Elva E. Miller

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 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.
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Reason'S Double Agents

by Carol Johnson e Johnnie Johnson

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 This polished study of the uses of reason in poetry is a philosophical meditation. Its basic thesis is that poetry is the objective correlative of reason, and in this sense it attacks both romantic subjectivism and the more general tendency to consider poetic effects in terms of reason-emotion dichotomy. Originally published in 1966.
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Social Work And The Training Of Social Workers

by Sydnor H. Walker

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 Presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of social work. It orients the social worker to those larger aspects of the field which might be obscured by the more immediate consideration of specific problems.
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Fiscal Theory And Political Economy - Selected Essays

by James M. Buchanan

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 This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making in fiscal theories as well as the methodological setting in which positive proportions in fiscal theory must be developed.
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The Quest For Power - The Lower Houses Of Assembly In The Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

by Jack P. Greene

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 Describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern US royal colonies - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia - in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.
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A White-Collar Profession - African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921

by Theresa A. Hammond

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 This publication provides a history of black exclusion from accounting and the pioneering efforts of the first black CPAs. It chronicles the determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field and gives a broad understanding of links between race, education and economics.
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Reimagining Process - Online Writing Archives And The Future Of Writing Studies

by Kyle Jensen

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 <em>Reimagining Process</em> explores how process and attending concepts such as reflection, care, power, and portfolios might play a more prominent role in emerging writing studies research.
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Colonial North Carolina In The Eighteenth Century - A Study In Historical Geography

by Harry Roy Merrens

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 This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture. Merrens is the first author to effectively examine the relationship between geographical factors and to analyze it for the entire colonial period.
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Relicts Of A Beautiful Sea: Survival Extinction And Conservation In A Desert World - Survival, Extinction, And Conservation In A Desert World

by Christopher Norment

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 Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
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The Mediating Nation - Late American Realism, Globalization, And The Progressive State

by Nathaniel Cadle

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 Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
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The Freedman'S Savings Bank - A Chapter In The Economic History Of The Negro Race

by Walter L. Fleming

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 The Freedmen's Savings Bank was set up in 1865. It grew rapidly and established branches throughout the US South. It later failed because of dishonesty and incompetence. Fleming traces the bank's origin, growth, decline, and failure, and he indicates its effects on the black population. Originally published in 1927, this is a UNC Press Enduring Edition.
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