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Book The North Carolina Historical Review

Download or read book The North Carolina Historical Review written by Beth G. Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invention of the White Race

Download or read book The Invention of the White Race written by Theodore W. Allen and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US history a highly original and seminal work." David Roediger, University of Missouri

Book 1940 1946

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2013-08-26
  • ISBN : 3110937786
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book 1940 1946 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Book Down and Out on the Family Farm

Download or read book Down and Out on the Family Farm written by Michael Johnston Grant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota between 1929 and 1945, Down and Out on the Family Farm examines small familyøfarmers and the Rural Rehabilitation Program designed to help them. Historian Michael Johnston Grant reveals the tension between economic forces that favored large-scale agriculture and political pressure that championed family farms, and the results of that clash. ø The Great Depression and the drought of the 1930s lay bare the long-term economic instability of the rural Plains. The New Deal introduced the Rural Rehabilitation Program to assist lower- to middle-income farmers throughout the country. This program combined low-interest loans with managerial advice. However, these efforts were not enough to compete with the growing scale of agriculture or to counter the recurring drought of the era. Regional conservatism, environmental factors, and fiscal constraints limited the federal aid offered to thousands of families. ø Grant provides extensive primary source research from government documents, as well as letters, newspaper editorials, and case studies that focus on individual lives and fortunes. He examines who these families were and what their farms looked like, and he sheds light on the health problems and other personal concerns that interfered with the economic viability of many farms. The result is a provocative study that gives a human face to the hardships and triumphs of modern agriculture.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mammals of the World

Download or read book Mammals of the World written by Ernest Pillsbury Walker and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers  Volume XI

Download or read book The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Volume XI written by Marcus Garvey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThese papers contain over 2300 documents relating to the presence and influence of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Caribbean from 1911 to 1945./div

Book Sexual Reckonings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Cahn
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-05
  • ISBN : 0674063937
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Sexual Reckonings written by Susan Cahn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts. Those years witnessed the birth of a modern awareness of adolescence and female sexuality that clashed mightily with the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South. As youth staked its claim, the bodies and beliefs of southern girls became the battlefield for a transformed South, which was, like them, experiencing growing pains. Cahn reveals how young women, both white and black, were seen as the South's greatest hope and its greatest threat. Viewed as critical actors in every regional crisis, from the economic recession and urban migrations of the 1920s to the racial conflicts precipitated by school desegregation in the 1950s, female teenagers became the conspicuous subjects of social policy and regional imagination. All the while, these adolescents pursued their own desires and discovered their own meanings, creating cracks in the twin pillars of the Jim Crow South--"racial purity" and white male dominance--that would soon be toppled by the student-led civil rights movement. Sexual Reckonings is an amazingly intimate look at a time of deep personal exploration and profound cultural change for southern girls and for the society they inhabited, a powerful account of the clash between a society's fears and the daily lives and aspirations of its most prized, and unpredictable, population.

Book Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb

Download or read book Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb written by John Gaddis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war since the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and argue that major war would have been `obsolete' even without the bomb. This book tests these propositions by examining the careers of ten leading Cold War statesmen—Harry S Truman; John Foster Dulles; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin; Nikita Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and Konrad Adenauer—and asking whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of these leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

Book Electing FDR

Download or read book Electing FDR written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in more than seven decades to examine the presidential election that ushered in the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented four-term presidency. Explains how the Democratic Party rebuilt itself after three successive Republican landslides, and how it managed to maintain that power for as long as it did.

Book Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masterpieces of European Painting  1800 1920  in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book Masterpieces of European Painting 1800 1920 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Margaret Fuller   An American Romantic Life Volume 1  The Private Years

Download or read book Margaret Fuller An American Romantic Life Volume 1 The Private Years written by Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992-09-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

Book Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Alexander Graham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1957
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 716 pages

Download or read book Papers written by William Alexander Graham and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Institutions of American Democracy  The Judicial Branch

Download or read book Institutions of American Democracy The Judicial Branch written by Kermit L. Hall and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays that provide an examination of the judicial branch of the American government, including its history, its imapct, and its future.

Book The Judicial Branch

Download or read book The Judicial Branch written by Kermit L. Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election. The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Kermit L. Hall and Kevin T. McGuire, this volume of essays examines the role of the Judicial Branch in American democracy and the dynamic between the other branches of government, compares international models, and discusses possible measures for reform. The Judicial Branch considers the impact of courts on American life and addresses such central questions as: Is the Supreme Court an institution of social justice? Is there a case for judicially created and protected social rights? Have the courts become sovereign when interpreting the Constitution? Essays examine topics that include the judiciary in the founding of the nation; turning points in the history of the American judicial system; the separation of powers between the other branches of government; how the Supreme Court resolves political conflicts through legal means; what Americans know about the judiciary and its functions; and whether the American scheme of courts is the best way to support democracy.

Book London s New Scene

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Tickner
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre BA
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 1913107108
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book London s New Scene written by Lisa Tickner and published by Paul Mellon Centre BA. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.