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Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners. In this fascinating biography, Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Seeger.

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South

This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making in fiscal theories as well as the methodological setting in which positive proportions in fiscal theory must be developed.

Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. As this engaging culinary and natural history reveals, the humble eel is an amazing creature. Consulting fisherfolk, cooks, and scientists, Schweid takes the reader on a global tour to reveal the economic and gastronomic importance of the eel

Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution

While battlefield parks and memorials have served to commemorate southern valour in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually "living monuments" to the Lost Cause. R.B. Rosenburg provides the first account of the establishment and operation of these homes for disabled and indigent southern veterans, which had their heyday between the 1880s and the 1920s.

This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis.

Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia

James Lane Allen and the Genteel Tradition

For more than one hundred years, Harvard's use of the case method of appellate opinions dominated legal education. The realists at Yale developed a functional approach to the discipline - one that stressed the factual context of the case rather than the legal principles it raised, one that attempted to address issues of social policy by integrating law with the social sciences.

Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks to Eberhardt, building his evidence by a diligent reading of the Moravion records and by a careful cataloging of the characteristics of each clock.

Here the term "sharecropper" has been expanded to include many non-farm workers. For the real meaning of the term one should look to such matters as low wages, insecurity, and lack of opportunity for self-direction and responsible participation in community affairs. The national pattern of exploitation finds its most exaggerated expression in the South.

Pinckney's lifetime as a leading member of the southern oligarchy is important to an understanding of that group's assumptions about itself, its aspirations, and its exacting standards of public and private conduct for its leaders. It also provides insight into the development of the Federalist and Republican parties in the South.

Presents a comprehensive and clear picture of the functioning of the different Russian institutions, the efforts of the planners to impose their goals, and the various types of economic adjustments made at different stages of development. The huge mass of previously inaccessible quantitative data presented serves as a basis for understanding the Soviet planning system.

Using the selected works of eight twentieth-century writers, Wilson demonstrates how literature forms the essential evidence in his inquiry into the condition of modern existential man. He discovers recurrent themes, preconceptions, and concerns that establish a connection between literature and society.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself.

Walker's impressive study is the first to link Harris's background to the nature of his teachings and to discuss the dynamics of his movement's development. Harris not only articulated the confusion and desires of his followers but also created new aspirations by helping them see what they could achieve in their own society and in their relations with Europeans.

This study of the relationship between the world-view in modern serious playwriting and the effectiveness of modern attempts at tragic drama is also an examination of the perennial problem of tragic spirit: is tragedy optimistic or pessimistic? This provocative and stimulating book is the first detailed analysis of whether tragedy hints at hope or acts out dread.

Turner's work documents New Hampshire's transition from colony to state, including the development of the state constitution, the contests between constantly mutating political parties, and the conquering of the New England wilderness. He details the painful evolution of relations between the state government and the equally inexperienced federal government.

Vasu analyses the attitudes of a national sample of both public and private planners, using a questionnaire he devised and administered, and contrasts the results with a nationwide sample of the American public. He finds that planners are a distinct interest group with ideological orientations, political party affiliations, and political participation that differ from those of the American public.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Nueces County, Texas, is the locus of long historical contacts and conflicts of four peoples - Indian, whites, blacks, and Mexicans. In this study all aspects - historical, economic, social, and political - of the present Nueces County and its people are considered, with personal memories of early residents of all races forming a concrete and interesting basis for discussion.

Catholicism and Political Development in Latin America

General Maurice Sarrail, 1856-1929: The French Army and Left-Wing Politics

Summarises some of the basic data of the framework through which southern schooling must be seen if a proper understanding of the problems of southern public education is to be achieved. It provides a brief handbook of basic data on southern schools, as they are today and as they can be in the next decade.

Stone portrays the members of this great court of law as strategically situated individuals who worked to advance their own corporate pretentions while simultaneously advocating a precarious balance of monarchical, aristocratic, middle-class, and "popular" interests. Their apparent radicalism disguised their efforts to preserve the traditional legalistic French monarchy.

Many books have been written about the Pre-Raphaelite movement in painting, but its manisfestation in poetry has been relatively ignored. These exemplary essays offer lively judgments on the themes and relationships of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Charles Swinburne and provide fresh insights on their imagery and prosody.

F.O. Matthiessen succeeded in uniting critical formalism with political radicalism, Christian concerns with social egalitarianism, to make a major contribution to American literature and culture. Stern's compassionate study reveals now Matthiessen synthesized the opposing forces in his own ideas to interpret the art of literature.