North of South

Reducere. The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of be...

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

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

For more than 80 years The Shell Channel Pilot has been the ultimate authority on English Channel navigation and pilotage.

Reducere. When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial ...

Reducere. James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black school...

While South Carolina's preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's subsequent call to arms started the Civil War, South Carolina's secession and...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Reducere. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and...

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

Reducere. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865), was a Victorian British writer. Her novels are fascinating to historians because they offer detailed portraits of ...

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and ...

By: Joseph A. Grooves and Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1901, revised 1976, and reprinted 2015, 668 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-013-6.There were ...

Examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in bot...

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 ...