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John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day, it is also a minute report of the soil, climate, trees, plants, animals, and fish in the Carolinas.

Traces the efforts of 19th-century American interpreters to make sense of newly-arrived Buddhism in Western terms. The author shows that American understanding of Buddhism, even for its most enthusiastic proponents, was significantly shaped by the prevailing culture until the following century.

This text traces the history and development of institutions for the ""feeble-minded"" in South America between 1900 and 1940. It examines the influence of gender, race and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest of America.

A critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, this book examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. It also suggests that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between embodiment and identity generally.

A study of the attempted ""denazification"" of German music by the Music Control Branch of the Information Control Division of Military Government. Monod argues that the long-term effects are greater than has been recognized, as German officials regained control and limited their involvement in artistic life while promoting ""new"" (anti-Nazi) music.

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents.

This study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.

In this account, Pfanz introduces the men and the units, examines the development of tactical plans and the deployment of troops, and discusses the roles played by the commanders' key subordinates, whose conduct has been the source of controversy. His emphasis is on the battle itself.

A thorough foundation for the fresh recognition of one of the great painters of eighteenth-century Europe, a leading fresco painter who is a colorist worthy of comparison to the best of his contemporaries.

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the diary of plantation owner Thistlewood.

Eighty-two percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend or one of its affiliates by 1939. These adolescents were recognized by the SS as a source of future recruits to its own elite ranks. Gerhard Rempel examines the special relationship that developed between these two most youthful and dynamic branches of the National Socialist movement.

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, this text explores how the Nazi programme of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and gypsies. It describes how the programme provided a practical model for the Holocaust.

This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved dance to the edges of society. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a confrontational view of American democracy.

Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperament.

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.

Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's Novalis is a critical evaluation of the life and works of Novalis, the German Romantic poet. This book presents a fully rounded picture of the man, the philosopher and scientist, the writer, the mystic, and a commentary on one of the most influential and fruitful periods in German intellectual life.

Explores some of the more significant aspects of Storm's literary technique. The treatments of some of Storm's Novellen

Rendered into English for the first time by Wayne Wonderley and provided with a critical introduction, this rollicking tale of baroque satire by Christian Reuter not only illuminates the mores and mentality of the time but forms a noteworthy link in the development of the European novel.

Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-didactic and religious allegory that documents late medieval views on many aspects of literature, history, law and religion.

Presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. A long chapter on Parzival focuses especially on the introduction of Christian themes and changing ideas of the compatibility of love and marriage.

Originally published in 1950, this collaboration of two accomplished translators resulted in the first English verse translation of a major work of German literature. Rather than a translation of the entire poem, the translators present key passages connected by prose summaries, and include an introduction giving an overview of the work.

Praised highly by Mann himself, Weigand's book is an essential piece of criticism on Mann's monumental novel. In his study of The Magic Mountain Weigand comments on the novel's genre and organisation before dissecting the themes of disease and mysticism, Mann's use of irony, and other aspects of this masterpiece of German literature.

Focuses on the striking relationship between one of the most enigmatic poets of the twentieth century and the artists of the Art Nouveau. The author explores the depth of the relationship itself, examines Rilke's activities as an art critic, and analyses the influence of Art Nouveau on the themes, motifs, and structure of the poet's early works.

In this 1954 study of poetic realism and the Novelle form, Silz examines nine Novellen by Brentano, Arnim, Droste-Hulshoff, Stifter, Grillsparzer, Keller, Meyer, Storm and Hauptmann. Through his textual interpretation of these works Silz draws the threads of the transition from Romanticism to Naturalism and the development of the Novelle form.

Mariana Scott, poet and translator of Hofmannsthal, Meyrink, Celan, and others, translates the eighth-century Old Saxon Heliand into its original meter in this work originally published in 1966. This anonymous masterpiece presents the life of Christ and affords an excellent insight into medieval life.

This 1952 study is an investigation into the nature of language that focuses on reinterpreting Hamann's theories of language in light of twentieth century linguistic philosophy. One of the first studies of Hamann to be presented in English, it poses many questions of universal concern and interest.

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 poems, two essays, and the lyrical drama The Lady's Praying.

First published as an American contribution to the 1959 bicentennial celebration of Friedrich Schiller's birth, Krumpelmann's translation of the poet's Joan of Arc drama retains the iambic pentameter of the original. This revised second edition, published in 1962, corrects typographical errors and includes some changes to the text.

This first complete modern edition of Peter Schott's Lucubraciunculae opened a treasure-trove of information to students of German literature, historians of Humanism, folklorists, and theologians on its publication in 1963. Also included in this volume are the De mensirus syllabarum epithoma and a letter in German to Schott's sister Anna.

The poetry of Wilhelm Muller, to whom Heine expressed indebtedness for his renewal of the forms of the German Volkslied, had rarely been discussed in depth prior to this volume, originally published in 1970.