North Carolina, Hardcover

Reducere. Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ...

Reducere. DescriptionSelf-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in ...

Side dishes are the very heart and soul of southern cuisine. So proclaims Fred Thompson in this heartfelt love letter to the marvelous foods on the...

DescriptionA compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on...

Reducere. In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote ...

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

Reducere. Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

Reducere. The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

Over the past two hundred years, Western North Carolina has evolved from a mountainous frontier known for illicit moonshine production into a renow...

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

Reducere. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

Reducere. The roots of American music are deeply grounded in North Carolina s music history. North Carolina musicians pioneered and mastered the genres of ol...

Reducere. This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflow...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

Reducere. DescriptionPlan a weekend of hiking, cycling, climbing, and paddling Whether you're a novice or an experienced adventurer, North Carolina offers a ...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Reducere. Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-w...

Reducere. In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking loca...

Reducere. A fascinating portrayal of a handsome, timeless house in Chowan County near Edenton and of the people associated with it. Designed by British archi...

Reducere. Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the Sout...

Reducere. Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. ...

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

Reducere. Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

Reducere. DescriptionA native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants--Barrington's, Good...

Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay...

Reducere. Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventure...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

Reducere. Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Reducere. When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...

Reducere. In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of the streets not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but a...

Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other...

Reducere. Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a di...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's wes...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

Reducere. Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacke...

According to tailgating enthusiast Taylor Mathis, You'll understand why a game day in the South is unlike any other when you read this cookbook. Ma...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little le...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective pa...

Reducere. DescriptionI m continually intrigued by the manner in which the natural and human histories of any given region overlap and eventually commingle. T...

Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

Growing up on a farm in the heart of eastern North Carolina's tobacco country, author Phil Beaman has been surrounded by country folk and their col...

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Reducere. New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only p...

Reducere. Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more, UNC A to Z is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nation's first public ...

Reducere. This book celebrates the beauty, tradition, and variety of golf across the Carolinas, featuring eighteen beloved courses as experienced by the walk...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy TomesIn a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail shows off the most spectacular, historic and quirky elements of the North Carolina landscape. Stretching one thousand mi...

Reducere. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime, and police forces, arms makers, po...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...