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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Revolution in the Countryside Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala 19441954
£49.18
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina CocaColonization and the Cold War The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War
Book SynopsisArgues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, Reinhold Wagnleitner shows that’Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States.
£57.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Farmers and Fishermen Two Centuries of Work in Essex County Massachusetts 16301850
Book SynopsisExamines the shifting labour strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Daniel Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms.
£32.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina By the Bombs Early Light American Thought and
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural “fallout” in America during the early years of the atomic age. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time.
£35.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Character Is Capital Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America
Book SynopsisIn the late-19th century a new type of book - the success manual - became commonplace in millions of homes across America. This text argues that these books, far from offering practical advice, presented a dire picture of an uncertain new age, portraying life as a brutal struggle for survival.
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Nation as a Local Metaphor Wurttemberg Imperial Germany and National Memory 18711918
Book SynopsisIn this study, Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their place - despite Germany's fragmented past. This nationhood identity project is examined with reference to the southwestern state of Wurttemberg.
£49.18
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Romance of Reunion Northerners and the South 18651900
Book SynopsisFocusing on the cultural imagination of reconciliation following the American civil war, in fiction, journalistic accounts, travel literature, minstrel shows, and popular songs - this work examines how the north created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society.
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Mirror Talk Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography
Book SynopsisA study of directions in autobiography. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in crisis but develops a resolution, whereas contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crisis. The author examines works by a range of writers, including Primo Levi, Ernest Hemingway and Mary Meigs.
£49.18
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Light Writing and Life Writing Photography in Autobiography
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which text and image can interact with and reflect on one another in the context of autobiography. The text focuses on the work of many writers and photographers and includes work by Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Eudora Welty, Wright Morris and Edward Weston.
£58.08
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Tender Violence Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism
Book SynopsisAnalyzes how American female photographers contributed to a ""doctrine vision"", reinforcing the imperialism and racism of the dawn of the 20th century. This study is relevant to the fields of history of photography and gender studies, and to a growing understanding of US imperialism at the time.
£52.25
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Childrens Civil War
Book SynopsisThis volume explores childhood during the American Civil War. The author describes how the war changed the schoolbooks published for children, how it affected children's relationships with absent fathers and brothers, and how the responsibilities on children shortened their childhoods.
£29.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina English Law in the Age of the Black Death 1348 A
Book SynopsisShows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. Robert Palmer's book, based on all of the available legal records, establishes a genuinely new interpretation and chronology of these important legal changes.
£89.28
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Americas Secret War against Bolshevism U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War 19171920
Book SynopsisFrom the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of this secret war and reveals a new dimension to the first years of the US-Soviet rivalry.
£58.08
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Foreigners in the Confederacy
Book SynopsisThe Confederate armies included in their ranks a remarkable range of nationalities. Covering the story of the activities of the foreigners in the Confederacy - in both military and civil service - this work recognizes their many contributions to the cause of the South.Trade Review"No one, whether professional historian or layman, can claim to be an authority on the Confederacy without perusing Foreigners in the Confederacy." - Journal of Southern History
£44.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Conflicting Missions Havana Washington and Africa 19591976
Book SynopsisBased on unprecedented research in Cuban, American and European archives, this is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy towards the continent.Trade Review"Fascinating... and often downright entertaining.... Gleijeses recounts the Cuban story with considerable flair, taking good advantage of rich material." - Washington Post Book World; "Gleijeses's research... bluntly contradicts the Congressional testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry A. Kissinger." - New York Times; "With the publication of Conflicting Missions, Piero Gleijeses establishes his reputation as the most impressive historian of the Cold War in the Third World." - John Lewis Gaddis, author of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
£52.69
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Writing Indian Nations Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography 18271863
Book SynopsisIn the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy.
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Living Indian Histories Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
Book SynopsisThe Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the USA. This work explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the tribe's socioeconomic and political history from the 1960s to the 1980s and discussing relations between the Lumbee and Tuscarora people of Robeson County.
£46.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Allies and Adversaries The Joint Chiefs of Staff the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II
Book SynopsisFormed soon after Pearl Harbor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. Analysing the wartime rise of military influence in US foreign policy, Mark Stoler focuses on the evolution of and debates over US and Allied global strategy.
£52.69
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
Book SynopsisThe Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
£32.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Shattered Nation The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy 18611868
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that white Southerners did not begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. This book also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy.
£29.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina To Be Useful to the World Women in Revolutionary America 17401790
Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center. This book provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era, as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a ""golden age"" or a disaster for women.Trade Review"Clearly shows the complexity of women's experience in revolutionary America, thus providing an excellent introduction for graduate students and scholars outside the field." - The Journal of American History"
£45.12
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Fatal Knot The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain
Book SynopsisTells the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world's first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon's defeat in the Peninsula War. Focusing on the army of Francisco Mina, John Tone offers new insights into the origins, motives, and successes of these first guerrilla forces.
£32.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina In This Remote Country French Colonial Culture in the AngloAmerican Imagination 17801860
Book SynopsisWhen Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate to build their republic. But, French settlers had inhabited the territory. Images of these French settlers saturated every American text. This work argues that these representations played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation.
£36.32
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam 19601975
Book SynopsisOffers the comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith.Trade Review"For Nation of Islam practitioners [of the 1960s and 1970s], Islam was not only a theology but also a system of ritualized practices that brought them what they described as dignity, hope, civilization, self-determination, pride, peace, security, and salvation. - from the Introduction"
£36.32
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Book of Salsa A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Book SynopsisPresents salsa as a pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. This book explains that it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry.Trade Review"Salsa music [is] now globalized....It is time to introduce Rondon's foundational book to the United States and to the wider English-speaking world. - Frances R. Aparicio, from the Translator's Note"
£27.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Proper Sense of Honor Service and Sacrifice in
Book SynopsisIn 1775, when patriot leaders formed the Continental army, they were informed by their knowledge of the British army. This book shows that, following this decision, a gap existed in the conditions of service between soldiers and officers of the Continental army. It illuminates the social world of the Continental army.
£36.05
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The History of Black Business in America Capita Volume 1 To 1865
Book SynopsisPresents a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activities among African Americans. This edition covers African American business history through the end of the Civil War and features a comprehensive account of black business during the Civil War.
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Gender and the Mexican Revolution Yucat225n Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Book SynopsisThe state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, this book examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped these developments.
£47.20
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Patriarchs Wife Literary Evidence and the History of the Family
Book SynopsisContemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.Trade ReviewAltogether a remarkable volume, excellently written and readable as well as scholarly.--Peter Laslett
£55.11
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Kaisers Chemists Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany
£55.11
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Romantic Fragment Poem A Critique of a Form
Book SynopsisThe fragment poem, long regarded as a peculiarly Romantic phenomenon, has never been examined outside the context of thematic and biographical criticism. By submitting the unfinished poems of the English Romantics to both a genetic investigation and a reception study, Marjorie Levinson defines the fragment's formal character at various moments in its historical career.
£55.11
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Arming the Free World The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program 19451950
Book SynopsisIn this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. Pach analyses the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid - for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe - to contain Communist expansion during the late 1940s.
£52.69
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 17761891
Book SynopsisThe relations of the US with Haiti have been different from American relations with any other nation; they have been vital and at times even dramatic. They climaxed in 1891 when the US failed to make Haiti lease her Mole St. Nicolas. Recounting the story of Haiti's struggle for independence, this book discusses her diplomatic relations with the United States.
£57.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Invasion of America Indians Colonialism and
Book SynopsisThe traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the role of foil whose contribution was to stimulate the energy of European dispossessors. This book recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion.Trade Review"The Invasion of America launched the first major salvo against the provincialism of early American historiography, and the book's urgency, insights, and trenchant critiques endure. Jennings shook the foundations of American historical inquiry to its core, exposing the centrality of settler colonialism in the making of New England. Generations remain indebted to his bold and relentless claims." - Ned Blackhawk, Yale University"
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina My Southern Home The South and Its People
Book SynopsisThe culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognised as the first African American novelist for Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834.
£40.80
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Radical Moves Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina America and the French Nation 19391945
Book SynopsisAnalyses American responses - diplomatic, military, intellectual, and popular - to the plight of the French nation during World War II, as the constitution of the Third Republic was suspended, Petain ruled in Vichy, the Germans administered Occupied France, DeGaulle organised the Free French movement, and an internal French resistance slowly gathered strength.
£55.11
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Commentary on Platos Meno
Book SynopsisThe Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a theatrical presentation. Just as Socrates's listeners would have questioned and examined their own thinking in response to the presentation, so, Klein shows, should modern readers become involved in the drama of the dialogue.
£23.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures RaetoRomance Bibliography De Passione Judas an AngloNorman Poem and Seth an AngloNorman Poem
Book SynopsisPart one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De Passione Judas: An Anglo-Norman Poem. The poem is prefaced by an introduction describing it and relating its probable date of origin. Part three is Seth: An Anglo-Norman Poem.
£29.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley
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£39.83
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lope de Vega El Peregrino en Su Patria
Book SynopsisThis critical, annotated edition and study of a long-neglected work by Lope de Vega reveals the philosophical seriousness that the author in his early maturity, anticipating Cervantes' Persiles y Segismunda by more than a decade, brought to his treatment of the Byzantine novel or novel-of-adventures.
£37.95
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Rudolf Otto An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
Book SynopsisAlmond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists. Elements of Otto's theories are shown to be closely related to the social and intellectual milieu of Germany both before and after World War I.
£44.78
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Chester Mystery Cycle Essays and Documents
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays performed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance significantly modifies traditional views. The authors' four essays address the textual relationships, sources and influences, music, and development of the cycle. Also included are all known surviving external documents.
£57.95
John Wiley & Sons Its Important I Remember
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£18.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation War and War New Directions Paperbook
Book SynopsisFrom the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeTrade Review"The story in War & War is fascinating, but the writing surpasses even a story as inventive as this one…It is perhaps one of the most interesting technical accomplishments in any language…" -- The Hyper Literate"eep in War and War may be a key to making sense of what happened on November 8th, 2016." -- Eileen Battersby - The Irish Times"Krasznahorkai writes with a measured and bizarre elegance…exquisite explorations of consciousness, perception and memory." -- Matthew Spellberg - Harvard Book Review"A seminal author of our time." -- David Auerbach - The Quarterly Conversation"I love Krasznahorkai's books. His long, meandering sentences enchant me, and even if his universe appears gloomy, we always experience that transcendence which to Nietzsche represented metaphysical consolation." -- Imre Kertész
£14.24
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Flagler
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£24.87
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Idella
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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