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Describes and analyses the steps taken by the Soviet government between 1962 and 1966 in modifying the organization and management of the Soviet economy. Zaleski, by virtue of his profound knowledge of how the Soviet planning system evolved cuts through a mass of detail to a clear picture of recent reforms. Originally published in 1967.

Presents the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into the fiber of American society.

Approach to Public Welfare and Social Work

This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode.

This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.

The many faces of the Civil War in the US South can be seen through the eyes of the soldiers who did the fighting and dying at the front, the wives and slaves who kept the home fires burning, and the children and grandchildren for whom their elders' stories of the war were their most vivid recollections. Much of the book is based on first-hand accounts.

Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, this title suggests that there were three active parties - the partisan, court, and country. From the land-grant maze following the 1779 migration, through a brief Tory movement, the author traces the parties' development and their struggle for power in the world of postrevolutionary Kentucky politics.

As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia.

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial progress.

A collection of nineteen essays on race relations at mid-century, written in honour of the late Robert E. Park. Park left important sociological concepts that still stand the test of time - folk or sacred versus modern or secular society, racial frontiers, the marginal man, racial conflict, and racial movement. The contributors came directly under Park's influence either as students or colleagues.

Traces the interaction between the syndicalist Left and the royalist Right in France during the period between the Dreyfuss affair and the beginnings of World War I. Some royalists turned to the Left to enlist support for replacing the Third Republic with a "social" monarchy; the Left community was in such disarray that some syndicalists responded to the overtures of the Right.

Vetch's life illustrates the problems that arose in shaping a colonial policy and an imperial establishment during the distractions of war, politics, inept bureaucracies, and inexperienced leadership. His experiences help reduce the theories of empire and the abstractions of history to some semblance of practical life.

Contains selected articles that have appeared during the 1958-63 period and two previously unpublished essays on the shifting of the burden of public expenditure onto future generations. It provides the necessary material for understanding the several positions developed in the dispute on this important issue.

Studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. Lumans shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these German minorities between helped determine its behaviour toward neighbouring states.

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.