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Focusing on the town of Schwabisch Hall, the author explores the recovery of the region's urban communities after the Thirty Years' War. He argues that changing relations between town and country contributed to the weakening of craft production, and therefore, to the region's urban stagnation.

This is the story of the blacks of Mississippi, their efforts to gain the advantages that freedom" promised, and the frustration of most of those efforts by relentless natural and cultural forces.

Examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic shifts and alterations in economic activity.

Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds

The Reverend Charles Pettigrew was a blend of many elements: Huguenot-Scot-Irish, Presbyterian and Anglican, frontiersman and urbanite, schoolteacher and aristocrat, common man and Federalist - in other words, American. His career was an excellent example of upward mobility in early America, and this account assumes a significance beyond the North Carolina locale.

Edward A. Pollard of Virginia was one of the ablest journalists of his time. Until 1867, he was a fierce defender of southern institutions, but during 1867-68 he was converted into a free-labour unionist and became one of the most advanced of "reconstructed" southern conservatives.

Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina

The Jiangyuin mission station in the Shanghai region of China is used in this book to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the 20th century. The author concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed because of the secular benefits it provided.

Discusses the effect of Jeffersonian democracy on South Carolina specifically, but, in doing so, it also discusses the part that South Carolinians played in the developments that concerned the United States as a whole. Originally published in 1940.

The author gives a complete picture of the struggle for prohibition in Alabama and of the effects of that struggle on the state from its earliest settlement down to 1943. Originally published in 1943.

This study treats the intellectual and political history of the various democratic movements in the major German states during the nineteenth century. Snell describes the origins of the democratic impulse, traces the gradual alienation of German democracy from German liberalism, and concludes with an extensive analysis of political and social institutions of the German empire as promoters or deterrents of democracy. This book is the first to focus on the history of ideas and politics during this period.Originally published in 1976.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- 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.