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Going behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, this text studies how East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. It reveals how the relationship between centre and periphery functioned in the Cold War Soviet empire.

This work demonstrates that a close look at American politicians at work in their districts can tell the observer a great deal about the process of representation. The author reveals grassroots approaches to explore how patterns of representation have changed in recent decades.

In 1860 Somerset Place was one the most successful plantations in North Carolina, and its owner one of the largest slaveholders. This book tells the story of Dorothy Spruill Redford, a descendant of those slaves, and her ten year quest to recover the forgotten history of her ancestors.

This work examines the meaning of the Cuban war for independence of 1898, as represented in 100 years of American historical writing. It offers both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war informed by Cuban sources.

In this text, the author demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about, and concern for, the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding, he argues that this blurred the line between foreign policies and domestic concerns.

A biography of the Confederacy's boy artillerist.

This is a biography of A.P. Hill, a general in the American Civil War.

Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture

The division of the late Roman Empire into two theoretically cooperating parts by the brothers Valentinian and Valens in 364 deeply influenced many aspects of government in each of the divisions. This work argues that the emperors were actually much more pragmatic in their decision making than has previously been assumed.

How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach: A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast

The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more important, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S Grant. This book provides a study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence.

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba.

A description of how Mexico's industrial capitalism between 1920 and 1950 shaped the country's national identity, contributed to Mexico's emergence as a modern nation-state, and transformed US-Mexican relations. It shows that government programmes were central to encouraging commercial growth.

This study demonstrates that today's domestic advice writers -women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson and B. Smith - are part of a long tradition. Sarah A. Leavitt crafts a cultural history and genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of manuals spanning 150 years of history.

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic powers - Britain, France, Germany and the United States - Giauque explores these early stages of European integration.

This biography looks at the life and career of Alexander ""Sandie"" Swift Pendleton, a high-spirited and intelligent Confederate staff officerfrom Virginia who, at the age of 22, won the confidence, admiration and affection of General Thomas ""Stonewall"" Jackson.

A study of how Americans wrote, published and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the 19th century. It also reveals disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of US history, and the place of US literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters.

Challenging trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, the author of this book criticizes the Court's ""postmodern equal protection"" and seeks to demonstrate that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy.

The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability.

During the 19th century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace and 12 of the most successful of them provide the focus for this study by Mary Kelley. They wrote books which both embraced and questioned the expectations of the women of the time.

Study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism that takes readers on a journey across 2 centuries and 5 continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.

The Freedmen's Savings Bank was set up in 1865. It grew rapidly and established branches throughout the US South. It later failed because of dishonesty and incompetence. Fleming traces the bank's origin, growth, decline, and failure, and he indicates its effects on the black population. Originally published in 1927, this is a UNC Press Enduring Edition.

This updated edition traces the tradition of classical rhetoric through the ages, from its development in ancient Greece and Rome, through its continuation and adaption in Europe and America and through the Middles Ages and Renaissance, to its enduring significance in the 20th century.

Based on research from over 1200 wartime letters and diaries written by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this text offers a social history of Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865.

Originally 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.

In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism

A critique of US trade policies during the second half of the 20th century, placing them within a historical perspective reaching back to 1776. It attributes growing political unrest and economic insecurity in the 1990s to shortsighted policy decisions made after World War II.

This special issue of Southern Cultures includes contributions by Marcie Cohen Ferris; Adriane Lentz-Smith; Andrea Morales; Rachel Gelfand; Keira V. Williams; Gregory Samantha Rosenthal; Maggie Loredo in conversation with Perla Guerrero; Cynthia R. Greenlee; and more.