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So commonplace has the term rule of law become that few recognize its source as Dicey's Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Cosgrove examines the life and career of Dicey, the most influential constitutional authority of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, showing how his critical and intellectual powers were accompanied by a simplicity of character and wit.

Shows how pressure groups in the US work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and tells how they eventually occupied high government positions involving foreign policy decisions that influenced the lives of millions. Originally published 1968.

Eighteenth-century Baltimore was a traditional society - aristocratic, personal, and private. New social groups appeared with new ideas, values, institutions, and social controls, and the community adapted in various ways. The industrial revolution standardized social processes and made them a matter of public concern, providing the basis for the new, nineteenth-century public society.

Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and Jarvis, Cooper and Morse, and Verplanck and Frazee. Also, the role of the Knickerbockers in the development of American architecture and painting is treated at length. Originally published in 1967.

The story of North Carolina's railroad development is the story of a long and unsuccessful struggle to secure a trunk line east and west. Today the main railroads run north and south, following the fundamental geographical lay of the land, the original dream defeated by geography, sectional differences, politics, and the paralyzing effects of war.

Brings together the most interesting criticisms of Shakespeare by English-speaking actors. The introductory chapter suggests the actors' typical contributions to Shakespeare criticism. Each of the four main chapters deals with one of the major tragedies, presenting the actors' ideas about the play itself, and the concluding chapter evaluates the actors' criticisms. Originally published in 1969.

What distinguishes Boyle's book from similar studies is his sensitive judgment as critic and his deep and refined spirituality as a man of God. His approach is uncomplicated. After discussing the nature of metaphor, he reaches a provisional definition that includes rhythm. This rhythm, he believes, has unique metaphorical significance in Hopkins's poetry. Originally published in 1961.

A gifted teller of tales sketches a lively picture of his boyhood in the old tobacco section of Person County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia line. All the white grown-ups of the boy's childhood were former slaveholders and former soldiers who had come through the Civil War and had met the need for readjustment.

In telling the story of the North Carolina Railroad's independent years (1849-71), Trelease covers all aspects of the company and its development, including its construction and rolling stock; its management, labour force, and labour policies; its passenger and freight operations; and its role in the Civil War. Originally published in 1991.

School of Pharmacy of the University of North Carolina

Basing Point Pricing and Regional Development: A Case Study of the Iron and Steel Industry

Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew

Explores the intellectual background of Paradise Lost, with particular emphasis on problems of characterization. Character is fate, but it is also moral choice; and the nature of that choice plays a determining role in Milton's epic action. To analyse the principal actors in his epic, one must see them in their proper context.

This moving account of the many different aspects of the work of a child psychiatry consultant in therapeutic group child-care programs is a practical, jargon-free treatment of the problems and tested solutions arising in group-care situations. Originally published 1980.

Talbert's discussion of the relationship between serious character-types and structure in the dramas of the late 1580s and the early 1590s reveals the various playwrights' precise control of their material and their effective utilization of the revenge motif, ideas concerning kingship, and other ready-made concepts. Originally published in 1963.

Winthrop's Boston: A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649

This volume completes Newman's monumental study of the sonata. It examines the evolution of the sonata idea from the precocious Romanticisms of Dussek before 1880 to the near exhaustion of Romantic music by the time of World War I. Thoroughly documented, illustrated by extended lists of sonatas as well as a full bibliography of Romantic music literature, this book is invaluable to musicians.

Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America had no inclination to receive. Even now, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains his reputation as a reactionary defender of genteel morality, yet, as Thomas Nevin reminds us, he continues to be a scholar of importance and an erudite, forceful teacher.

Explores Henry James' representation of children and adolescents, reaching its conclusions directly from the texts of the fiction itself. The major emphasis of the study is on identification, analysis, and synthesis of diverse thematic patterns that fused in the 1890s to produce the uniquely Jamesian child. Originally published in 1969.

Provides the first account in English of the revolutionary movement of 1848 in the Czech lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia; it is also the first in any language to cover the entire period of turmoil from the outbreak of the revolt in March 1848 to its final suppression during the summer of 1849. Originally published 1969.

Demonstrates both the limits and unique role of non statutory controls in a world that demands a flexible administrative response that might be overly constrained by rigid statutes. It also explains that nature and impact of congressional involvement through non statutory controls.

Examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. Stark shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German nation. Originally published in 1981.

The present volume is an important bibliographical and critical record of twentieth-century interest in Sterne. The introductory essay offers a comprehensive and a provocative survey of Sterne's present reputation, and at the same time, it appraises the permanence of the novelist's appeal. Originally published in 1966.

Traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyses the literary technique employed by these writers and evaluates their contributions to American thought.

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that indicates the poet has moved into a new and exciting period.

The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.

Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in Sao Paulo, 1886-1934"

Offers a survey of the frequent attempts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica to combine into a single large state. Using the Central American Archives, the author traces all of the known attempts at federation and analyses the more basic reasons for continued lack of success. Originally published in 1961.