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Helps understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. This book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.

The logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on the archival research in North and South Carolina, this title illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. This title offers a personal recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. It explores various South's peoples and their landscapes.

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership.

Examines struggles over wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component in the making of social hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship. This book addresses the issue of class politics and places the problem of ""interests"" squarely at the center of political economy.

On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. This title offers the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships.

Taking an original approach to American literature, this book examines nineteenth-century writing from a different angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. It is a useful reading for students of American literature and culture, deaf studies, and disability studies.

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism. This work argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism.

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. This work shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. It explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.

Understanding ethnicity as an intersection of class, national origins, and religion, this title demonstrates that the white ethnic populations of New York had significantly diverging views on authority and dissent, community and individuality, secularism and spirituality, and obligation and entitlement.

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.

Collects twenty-four of the author's major essays and reviews, as well as a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. This work offers an array of interventions into matters - academic and nonacademic.

Discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British interpretation of the prophesies, this study reveals an unsuspected visionary poetics in Eliot's writings and demonstrates that her later works rewrite Protestant apocalyptics in both romantic and satiric styles.

Presenting an analysis of the American literary history, this work offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the discipline. It reveals the forces, both inside and outside the academy, that propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as influences on the work of practitioners of the field.

Offers an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center. This book provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era, as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a ""golden age"" or a disaster for women.

Blending history with the study of material culture, the author sheds light on the ironic convergence of anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Revival movement in nineteenth-century America. He shows how architectural and artistic features became tools through which Protestants adapted to America's commercialization.

Offering an analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, this book looks at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) and Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who left Cuba, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.

This explores key groups, leaders and events in the civil rights movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. He demonstrates that both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality.

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves ""masters"" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most southerners could only aspire.

This is the story of a region at once representative and unique in the history of Southern culture, which was from its earliest colonial beginnings a focus of strength, intellect, and proud individuality. Warren County, North Carolina, heart of the Roanoke Region, early built for grace and vigour. It bred people who were great in the affairs of the state and the nation.

Explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. The work asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral past in this way.

Teenagers Corky and Toby row out into the swamp off Stumpy Point, North Carolina, drawn by the mysterious light that hovers above it. Thrown back in time by a sudden explosion, they find themselves floating above 17th-century England, as the life of Blackbeard the Pirate unfolds below.

An account of the archaeology of North Carolina. It weaves together information gleaned from excavations and surveys carried out across the state, and presents a narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period to the arrival of the Europeans.

In the early 20th century, a group of women workers fell victim to radium poisoning due to working with radium-laced paint. This account portrays their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease, as an important chapter in the history of modern health and labour policy.

A study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. The book examines the vast array of programmes sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical and efficient society.

Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical narratives also employed the self-referential techniques characteristic of fiction.

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analysing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state.

Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organisational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.

Offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. This volume features more than 250 activities, organised by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the text.