History

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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.

For hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines.

This informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - 1848, Kaiserreich, Imperialismus, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Historisches Institut - Geschichte der Europäischen Moderne), Veranstaltung: Politische Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit untersucht die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe im preußischen Verfassungsentwurf von 1848, die vom preußischen Justizminister mit dem "Culturzustand" begründet wurde.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Historisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit untersucht den Lüneburger Salzhandel im Spätmittelalter und seine Bedeutung für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand der Stadt Lüneburg.

From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nations most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale.

Volume 1, Ornithology at Home, includes readings from the prespective of ornithology in Britain.

For anyone whos ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation.

The rich history of North Carolinas Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways.

This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era.

American democracy has fascinated generations of historians.

Abbotts book deals with the Freedmens Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War.

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history.

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement.

Who are we, and where do we come from?

In this book, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade.

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C.

This book explores how women dissidents in the Soviet Union faced punishments equal to men in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, labour camps and exile, yet their political activism, imprisonment and acts of resistance remain largely overlooked in literature.

Originally published in 1992, this scarce, long out-of-print book draws together the varied evidence for the pagan religion of the early Saxons and interprets this evidence.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 3,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit behandelt die Entwicklung und Dynamik von Kolonialausstellungen, insbesondere anhand der Stuttgarter Kolonialausstellung von 1928.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Moderne Geschichte, Note: 1,0, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Zeitgeschichte), Veranstaltung: PS Zeitgeschichte: Zionismus und der Staat Israel.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

This book explores the resilience of the Spanish Monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV's monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660.

With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day.

A gifted teller of tales sketches a lively picture of his boyhood in the old tobacco section of Person County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia line.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alltagsrassismus, Racial Profiling und Polizeigewalt gegen People of Color führten im Jahr 2013 zur Gründung der transnationalen Bewegung „Black Lives Matter“.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Europa Nachkriegszeit, Note: 1,0, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: PS Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte: Motive - Akteure - Konflikte.