The University of North Carolina Press - Böcker

What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made d...

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A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil ...

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Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics...

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Desde diversas perspectivas criticas y anclado igualmente en diversos aparatos teoricos, este libro reune las contribuciones de ocho destacados criticos: Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Ramon Alvarado Ruiz, Gaelle Le Calvez House, Julio Enriquez-Ornelas...

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La Moneda, nombre curioso para una casa de gobierno fue incendiada y destruida después de albergar a veintitrés presidentes de la República y de haber permanecido en pie durante siglos de historia. La destrucción de este cuerpo arquitectónico fue ...

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Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth through the ele...

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Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR ...

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This book is the first general history of Russian ""businessmen"" from Peter the Great to the Revolution of 1917. It is also a challenging new interpretation of the nature of social change in tsarist Russia. Alfred Rieber seeks to explain how Russ...

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In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean an...

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In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presup...

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Donaldson studies how and why the United States contributed to the increase in contraceptive use from 1965 to 1980 by promoting family planning throughout the developing world. He argues that the people and institutions they supported overseas sta...

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Prominent historian Mark Noll considers the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, as both Northerners and Southerners generally agreed on the authority of the Bible but disagreed about what it taught about slavery. He a...

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In 1933, John W. Hill opened the New York office of what would become the most important public relations agency in history: Hill & Knowlton, Inc. By 1959, the combined sales of its clients--which included Procter & Gamble, Texaco, Gillette, and A...

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Finally available in paperback - the definitive guide to the people, recipes, and lore North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is...

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Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early ""ta...

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This translation of all the poems in the main body of the work of George extensively revises the first publication of The Works of Stefan George which appeared in 1949. The editors have also expanded the volume, adding a number of George's early p...

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Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries. In lively prose and with vivid illustrations, Rebekah E. Pite explores how this Indigenous infusion, made from the naturally caffein...

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Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917-1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement...

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Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania adored him: Henry Kyd Douglas. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experien...

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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creatin...

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In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recordi...

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Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eas...

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Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the unique histor...

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The author develops practical methods of determining the reading interests of children and gives the results of records collected in libraries and schools. The book presents material that should be of considerable value to children's departments i...

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This study seeks to find a solution to the problem of the high concentration of poverty and dependency among Afro-Americans by finding out what becomes of the defective, delinquent, and dependent black children in North Carolina and by working out...

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Lamar, one of the most gifted public figures from the South after the Civil War, was born in Georgia and practiced law both there and in MIssissippi. A brilliant defense of the states' rights principle plunged him into a political career covering ...

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It is a fundamental postulate of this book that civilization consists of man's adjusting his institutions to obtain from his natural and cultural environments a more satisfactory existence. This volume attempts to present economies as the science ...

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Calogeras's book occupies a unique place among the histories of Brazil. Comprising the story of Brazil from its discovery in 1498 up to 1926, it describes events, institutions, literature, personalities, the colonial epoch, the era of independence...

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Markham sees as the principal sign of our time the striving of men and women all over the world for a better life. He deals with the question of how one can tell mass striving that is evil from that which is good. He feels that any wave that bring...

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This book provides an impartial look at the whole picture of biracial education in the United States. It is also a history of segregation in education in the United States and the story of the South's effort to equalize educational opportunities f...

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