History

In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities - Fannie Lou Hamer and James O.

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Brub (19462007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States.

It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year.

In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites.

Through an analysis of womens reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state.

Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism.

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.

In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously.

American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments.

Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond.

Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois womens associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power.

One of the most dramatic episodes in American history was the attempt to establish a two-party political system in the South during Reconstruction.

Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc.

Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the regions fires have almost always been caused by humans.

In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development.

Gabriels Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South.

While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cause their own.

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, outline volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans.

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project.

To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams and those who play on them our national pastime is much more than a game.

More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War.

Junius Wilson (19082001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward.

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph (17721836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity.

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty.

Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century.

In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America.

At a time when North Carolinas population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the states leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.

The state of Yucatn is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution.

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking.

In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development.

The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes.

Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular and largely unexamined idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.

Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61?

A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kk kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound.

William L.

Debut fevrier 1939 : quelque 2 500 refugies espagnols arrivent dans le Loiret.

Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities.

In 1967, Dr.

A groundbreaking, now classic book that transformed our understanding of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has always received less attention from scholars and the general public than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations.

The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers.

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (17401807).

How should a free nation be governed, and how can political power be balanced without sacrificing liberty?

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.

On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a small religious community in central Texas.

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the East witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners.

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This book addresses the long-standing theoretical gap regarding the concepts of gender and religion within Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process.