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Moses Brown carried on a wide range of business activities, seeking profit as capital for humanitarian purposes. He became a reluctant participant and eventually a leader in many reform movements - crusades against slavery and war; efforts to provide education for the underprivileged, orphans, and Afro-Americans; and programs of urban redevelopment and public health. Originally published in 1962.

This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and administrative problems. Originally published in 1961.

Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds

George Croghan - land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent - was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the US West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia attic. Originally published in 1959.

Brings together essays that address the dilemmas facing development theory today. These essays reclaim the important role once played by sociological theory in development studies. The collection provides an overview of traditional theories of development, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and identifies the new actors, issues, and processes that future analysis must address.

Describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyses the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system. Originally published in 1960.

The Otis family was largely responsible for committing Barnstable to the revolutionary cause, a move that irrevocably undermined the placid, homogenous nature of their society. As he discusses the reactions of the Otises and their community to this crisis, Waters illuminates the causes of the Revolution itself. Originally published in 1962.

This is Jim Dean's second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping - or, as Dean might put it, "messing around" outdoors. These forty-six engaging essays are arranged in a loose chronicle of the sporting year, but they seldom follow predictable routes.

In 1933, John W. Hill opened the New York office of what would become the most important public relations agency in history: Hill & Knowlton, Inc. The Voice of Business chronicles Hill & Knowlton's influence on American public discourse in the years following World War II.

Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. The first modern, comprehensive biography of Clodius, The Patrician Tribune traces his career from its earliest stages until its end in 52 BC, when he was murdered by a political rival.

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.

In this corporate history of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nannie M. Tilley recounts the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and the vast R. J. Reynolds tobacco complex with precision and drama. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company includes absorbing accounts of the company's steady technological progress, its labour problems and advances, and its influential role in North Carolina.

Presents a comprehensive picture of the furniture manufacturer's marketing policies and the framework of the industry out of which marketing policies evolve. The author thoroughly investigates and critically analyses the existing marketing policies of the industry and furnishes data on the industry's profitability.

Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world - not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures.

Horace's first three books of Odes, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Drawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and using several contemporary critical methodologies, Matthew Santirocco reveals the Odes both as individual poems and as components in a larger poetic design.

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, the authors show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority.

A biography of the "Defender of Vicksburg", General John C. Pemberton. Written by Pemberton's grandson and based on research in official records and family papers, this book brings to light long-neglected facts revealing the tragedy of errors that led to Vicksburg's fall. It is "the fairest, as well as the fullest study of the tragedy from the viewpoint of the principal Confederate actor."

Examines one of the dirtiest presidential campaigns in American history. The author suggests that both Democrats and Republicans sensed a political system falling apart, as voters drifted from being affiliated to a specific party to voting according to a candidate's stand on a particular issue.

Charting the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA), this text discusses the Yankee Internationists' effect (with and within the IWA) on the American Left, and the reasons behind their ultimate purging from the IWA by Marxists.

Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts, and the meaning that the action dramatizes.

Demonstrates the impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. The text shows that workers valued the unions for higher wages and improved benefits as well as the grievance and arbitration procedures they made available.

In a convenient format, Schumann offers a guide to the campus of the University of North Carolina and immediately adjacent areas in Chapel Hill that will be indispensable for walkers wishing to acquaint themselves with the University and its history. In the revised edition, she has added two hour-long walks to the four presented in the original volume.

Examines the nature and some of the functions of nationalism in Mexican society, presents a theoretical framework for the use of the kind of nationalism that has characterized Mexico, and analyses the extent to which that framework is relevant in the Mexican case. Originally published in 1968.

Offers the first full-length assessment of the poetry and criticism of Robert Graves. Concentrating on his development as a poet from his earliest efforts in 1916 to his most recent collection and using his critical writings as commentaries on that development, it provides a needed survey of Graves's career. Originally published in 1963.

Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyses the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown.

Taking an exploratory rather than a dogmatic approach to the problem, this book pulls together materials bearing on casual inference that are widely scattered in the philosophical, statistical, and social science literature. It is written in nonmathematical terms, and it is imaginative and sophisticated from both a theoretical and a statistical point of view.

Explores Ernest Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work - his short stories and novels. Originally published in 1968.

The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colourful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. Originally published in 1976.

With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society. Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman.

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their new institutional connections to effect a transformation of American political culture.