Here Warren Kimball explores Roosevelt's vision of the postwar world by laying out the nature and development of FDR's "e;war aims"e;--his long-range political goals.
While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense.
This collection of diverse pieces excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina.
The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organizations men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles.
As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order.
This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years.
The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.
A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (180289) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists.
Andrew Pickens (17391817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces.
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide.
The first part of this fascinating account of a biographers problems tells of the adventures of one biographer in tracking down clues in several parts of the world accidental discovery, long pursuit of a watward detail, and suggestions of new ways of turning up evidence.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays.
Moving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of "e;thinking-throughs"e; of formally innovative and politically oriented poets pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold.
Een Nederlandse schrijver ontmaskert rechteloosheid in RuslandIn 1912 en 1913, vijf jaar voordat de Russische revolutie het land onherkenbaar zou veranderen, reisde Jacob Israël de Haan naar Rusland.
In zijn semi-autobiografische werk analyseert Louis Couperus zijn eigen ontwikkelingen als schrijver door ze te spiegelen aan zijn alter-ego Hugo Aylva.
Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900 focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, Karlsruhe University of Education (Fakultat 1), course: Literary and Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper thoroughly examines the profound analogies between At-wood's dystopian universe and the ongoing debates over abortion rights in the U.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Between Chance and Adaptation.
This intellectual biography of the Egyptian Muslim theologian, scholar, and activist, Muhammad al-Ghazali (1917-1996), provides the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most influential Sunni Muslim writers of the twentieth century.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Rostock (Amerikanistik/ Anglistik), course: Global Plots: Transnationality in Contemporary American Literature, language: English, abstract: The haunting ghost of history can be found everywhere in our existence.
In Italy as in other Western societies, the medicalization of basic biological functions contributes to the loss of personal confidence in the care of the body.
The first women lawyers in America, like many of their twentieth-century counterparts, had to reconcile the traditional roles assigned to women with their roles as lawyers.
