In Pursuit of Prosperity: Education in North Carolina as the United States Becomes a Wealthy Nation, Paperback - Larry K. Monteith

Reducere. During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-...

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the ...

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In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

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Offers a narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's ``breathtakingly original`` (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. ``Ca...

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Looking into the economics of American Protestantism, this work examines how churches have raised and spent money since colonial times and consider...

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