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How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? Drawing on personal letters and diaries, James Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women.
Examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labour formation. The book highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class.
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the US, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a Yogi. David Neumann tells the story of Yogananda's fascinating life while interpreting his position in religious history, transnational modernity, and American culture.
Provides the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves.
Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit as a welcoming participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. The story of this statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people.
The power of the commerce clause touches most intimately the relations between government and economic enterprises, and the process by which the conflicting claims of the nation and states are mediated through the Supreme Court is of continuing interest. This study is a clear exposition of the various interpretations of the commerce clause under three great chief justices.
For many years the legal status of the state taxation of banks, never too definitive, has been most precarious. This study traces the evolution and implications of the legal issues that revolve around the taxation of banks and evaluates the methods of bank taxation now in force in the several states. A suggested solution of difficulties is offered for consideration.
The existence of a wide variety of legislation in the forty-eight states - on insurance, banking, corporation charters - inevitably results in confusion and injury to legitimate business and personal interests. In this volume a mode of procedure is suggested that will avoid centralization under federal laws and will make possible uniform action on a reasonable basis. Originally published in 1934.
Beginning with the Age of Discovery, these adventures of explorers, pioneers, inventors, and others, whose deeds of valor won a continent, cover a period of 250 years. Written especially for use as a supplementary reader in the fourth and fifth grades, it will awaken in young readers a pride in their heritage. Originally published in 1935.
In Mexico the term ejido is applied to agricultural lands held collectively by agrarian communities. In this book, the ejido becomes a point of departure for a detailed examination of the whole gamut of problems in rural Mexico--land distribution and tenure, education, agricultural credit, and political organisation and social control.
Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film.
This is the story of public education from 1900 to 1924 in the states that constituted the Confederacy. It gives a view, not only of the actual educational situation in 1900, but also of the social, economic, and political conditions that had prevailed there for two or three decades following the Civil War and were important to the educational problems of the South.
Foerster has here formulated his ideas concerning the relation of humanism to graduate study and scholarship. In a day when all educational ideals and methods are up for reexamination and appraisal, this book is particularly timely, and no one interested in such questions can afford to be ignorant of this carefully considered statement by one of the leading thinkers of his day.
The author here attempts to dispel the intellectual fog that often dims the Christian's view of Christ. He recognises that it is good for an individual to move now and then intellectually and spiritually, but he cautions against discarding such things as religious faith, human service, political stability, and economic security. He offers a satisfying philosophy of life for individuals and groups.
Offers an excellent description of the more important forces that have made Denmark one of the most highly civilized and enlightened nations of the world - a nation in which the problems of town and country cooperation have been solved better than anywhere else in the world.
Only by isolating the particular material about the Afro-American from the body of American literature can we come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of his place in our national life. This volume presents an outline of the literature concerning blacks--drama, fiction, criticism, and verse--whether written by them or about them. Originally published in 1928.
The author here shows that the interests of the small town and of the country around it are closely bound together, that the town originally was and will continue to be a country agency. Miller's chief desire has been to tell progressive townsmen some of the things a countryman sees and thinks when he looks toward the town, what he considers the meaning of the town to be to him and his fellows.
One-time city editor of the old Raleigh Observer, the author's knowledge of men and affairs in his native state is extensive and important. Pervading this book is the charm of reminiscences of childhood before the Civil War, student days in Chapel Hill, and life in reconstruction days.
The distinguished Kansas editor and author gives a vivid picture of the three major cycles of our country's progress--the revolutionary cycle, the antislavery cycle, and the populist cycle--each viewed as a part of the larger cycle of democratic growth that itself has come from that development loosely termed Christian civilization.
In this very practical aid to the student of the intellectual and social history of England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authors have given a two-fold bibliography and they have supplied two indices, the first chronological and the second geographical. It is a broadly inclusive and convenient finding-list of British periodicals.
Farm Life Abroad: Field Letters from Germany, Denmark, and France
In this collection, a southerner of high scholarly distinction and wide personal influence, discourses wisely and charmingly on the Americanism of American literature, on Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, O. Henry, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and on various aspects of literature in the South. A bibliography of the writings of C. Alphonso Smith is included.
Argentine Literature: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism, Biography, and Literary Controversy
This volume is the second of two that are a textbook for adult beginners in community schools. While teaching pupils to read, write, and figure, the books also teach rules of health, diet, work, play, thrift, and community cooperation and impress upon students those ethical concepts necessary to the proper development of good citizenship.
The author discusses important questions of social differentiation and relates them to the problems of democracy. Following his belief in the essential unity of the social sciences, he has drawn upon materials from the fields of psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology, as well as sociology.
This volume is number one of two that are a textbook for adult beginners in community schools. While teaching pupils to read, write, and figure, the books also teach rules of health, diet, work, play, thrift, and community cooperation and impress upon students those ethical concepts necessary to the proper development of good citizenship.
This study of typical Afro-American songs in the US south is a foundation study of great importance both to the specialist and to the general reader. With scholarly investigation is combined intelligent sympathy and a rare understanding of the black in his various aspects. The book discusses the religious songs, the social songs, and the work songs of the Afro-American.
The present study is distinctive in that the author examines Byron as an artist and self-critic. Based mainly on Byron's own self-analytical and critical statements as found in his letters and in contemporary memoirs, and written with considerable verve, this volume gives a refreshing picture of Byron as an artist who knew what he was doing and why.
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