History

In this study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950, Mark Bradley fundamentally reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the twentieth century.

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century.

Long celebrated as a symbol of the countrys origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention.

General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia.

First published in 1978, The Catholic Subjects of Elizabeth I traces the history of the Catholics who refused to accept the Elizabethan State Church.

On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg.

An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germanys defeat.

Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S.

Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect with U.

First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years.

Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration.

During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North.

A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s.

In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods.

A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War.

White reassesses Anglo-American trade with Soviet Russia immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution to show that, unlike diplomatic relations, commercial ties were not severed by ideological differences.

Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.

Using the concept of classical republicanism in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society.

In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on womens employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about womens sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of womens work and the ideologies that arose in response to that work.

A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire.

In a convenient format, Schumann offers a guide to the campus of the University of North Carolina and immediately adjacent areas in Chapel Hill that will be indispensable for walkers wishing to acquaint themselves with the University and its history.

Schoultz examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic shifts and alterations in economic activity.

This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of womens history.

Much of todays political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations.

Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died.

Richard Hamilton provides an in-depth critique of the writngs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Britain, France, and Germany.

It is well this is so terrible!

Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the countys entire criminal justice system.

William Links account of the transformation of Virginias country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South.

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First published in 1926, A Note-Book of European History chronicles five centuries of European development.

Engels study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.

One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor.

Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J.

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Awardwinning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice.

Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War.

From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America.

This discerning and timely study revitalizes Webers ideas, applying them to welfare state redistributions and synthesizing them with major issues in political science, law, public administration, social welfare policy, and philosophy.

The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras.

The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians.

In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer.

Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.

Originally published in 1985, By the Bombs Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age.

Robert Moeller investigates the German peasantrys rejection of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and provides a new interpretation of Catholic peasant conservatism in western Germany.

Wilhelm II (18591941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.

Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitlers foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler.

A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace.

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.