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  • - The Life and Letters of a Man of Many Parts
    av William S. Powell
    673,-

    A commoner respected for his knowledge of law and politics, Pory was appointed, in 1618, secretary to the new governor of Virginia, and he became the first speaker of the first Legislative Assembly of America. His letters contain contemporary information on the Thirty Years War, social and political conditions in England, and his impressions of Virginia.

  • av Ovid Pierce
    592,-

    The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This collection of stories, written in the 1940s, show how quickly a gifted author learns and develops his craft. The collection, taken as a whole, reveals a remarkable portrait of a time and place.

  • - An Anthology
    av Alessandro Perosa
    1 334,-

    In a time when educated men spoke and wrote in Latin as easily as their native tongues, a huge volume of Latin verse was published by men in every walk of life. This anthology includes the poetry of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castigliione, and Sanazaro Ariosto among the Italians; Du Bellay and Michel de l'Hopital in France; Melanchthon and Erasmus in Germany and the Low Countries; and More in England.

  • av Alan L. Olmstead
    827,-

    These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes - to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same reason that impelled their other business ventures - the hope of profit.

  • av Howard W. Odum
    827,-

    This is the story of racial tension in the United States during the year of global war from mid-1942 to 1943. The author sees three groups to blame for this tension: the new Afro-American, better educated, better aware of his economic potentialities; northern agitators campaigning for black rights; and the old white South, unwilling to relinquish its traditional folkways.

  • - An Essay on the Meaning of Aeschylus
    av Brooks Otis
    673,-

    Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the Ortesia and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully prepared evolution in the trilogy from a primitive to a more civilized form of justice.

  • av James Obelkevich
    827,-

    The contributors, influenced by scoiology and anthropology, have abandoned the confines and conventions of ecclesistical history to discuss the relationship between the religion of the people and that of the clergy and elite. In introducing the volume, Obelkevich discusses the concept of popular religion and the methodology used to examine it.

  • av William E. Nelson
    827,-

    Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned.

  • - Gender Relations in Shakespeare
    av Marianne Novy
    827,-

    Novy demonstrates how plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analysing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and romances and how they are acted out in the tragedies.

  • - The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene
    av Michael O'Connell
    827,-

    Spenser not only dedicated The Faerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this volume a convincing reading of the great poem.

  • av Albert W. Niemi
    673,-

    In the most comprehensive analysis of southeastern ecohomic growth to date, Niemi estimates state and regional gross product by major industry and uses these estimates to compare southeastern economic growth with the rest of the United States from 1950 to 1970. The author describes recent southeastern expansion and assesses the underlying causal factors.

  • - Miss Lucy Morgan's Story of Her Unique Penland School
    av Lucy Morgan
    827,-

    Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the mountain people--the ancient arts of hand-weaving and vegetable dyeing.

  • av J. R. Moroney
    827,-

    Moroney's investigation of several aspects of the productive structure of manufacturing not only assembles in one place a body of material that is scattered throughout the literature but also contains a great deal of original material, which makes it an extremely valuable contribution to the field.

  • av James Clotfelter
    827,-

    In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions. The underlying theme is that if one wants to understand the South, it is necessary to examine the bonds among these various institutions.

  • - Paladin of the Third Republic
    av Benjamin F. Martin
    996,-

    De Mun led the shift of the French Right from royalism to republicanism during the first half of the Third Republic. He was an aristocrat who sought to build a popular party, a fervid Catholic who would be undermined by his church, an idealist who engaged in illegal conspiracies, and a patriot whose nation would reject his counsel until just before his death.

  • - The Meaning of The Life of Jesus in German Politics
    av Marilyn Chapin Massey
    673,-

    Strauss's book, The Life of Jesus, published in Germany in 1835, established the discipline of biblical criticism and decisively articulated the question of the role of faith in a secular age. The book divided the Christian Hegelians into "right" and "left" factions depending on their belief in the necessity of affirming the New Testament's historical truth to espouse the Christian faith.

  • - The Venezuela Campaign of 1973
    av Enrique A. Baloyra
    996,-

    This first volume in a larger study of political participation and attitudes in Venezuela focuses on the mobilization of public opinion in the 1973 campaign. Data is drawn from personal observation, interviews with party elites, and a nation-wide survey. Six months of travel with the major presidential candidates provides insight into the strategy, tactics, and personalities of the campaign.

  • av Katharine Dupre Lumpkin
    827,-

    Schultz provides a complete history of female relief workers in the Civil War era--around 20,000 women of diverse regional, race, and class backgrounds who worked as nurses, cooks, and laundresses in Union and Confederate hospitals.

  • - Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
    av Sally Marks
    996,-

    German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgium's future did much to block a compromise peace. In the postwar decade, Belgium's role as intermediary between France and Britain was pivotal, and its primary concerns reveal mush about postwar Europe's search for stability.

  • - A Study in Reconstruction Politics
    av Jack P. Maddex
    827,-

    Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics

  • - Toward a New Science of History
    av Pamela Major-Poetzl
    827,-

    Argues that Foucault's "archaeology" is an attampt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics.

  • - The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth
    av Edgar E. MacDonald
    996,-

    Education of the Heart: The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth

  • av Clara M. Lovett
    827,-

    In this first full-length biography of Ferrari, Lovett traces his intellectual development in Milan and describes his twenty years of voluntary exile in Paris. Lovett documents the growth of his political consciousness in the 1840s, his gradual commitment to the democratization of European society, and his response to the French and Italian revolutions of 1848.

  • av Frenise A. Logan
    827,-

    This narrative of the political, economic, and social activities of the Negro during the years from 1876 to 1894 contributes substantially to a neglected phase of state history by closely examining the laws, the penal codes, the working and living conditions, and the religious and educational organizations of that period.

  • - Essays and Documents
    av Robert M. Lumiansky & David Mills
    996,-

    This comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays performed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance significantly modifies traditional views. The authors' four essays address the textual relationships, sources and influences, music, and development of the cycle. Also included are all known surviving external documents.

  • av Jerome Loving
    827,-

    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.

  • av Arthur S. Link
    827,-

    In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors to this volume deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish policy; his relationship with the European Left, world order, and the League of Nations; and Wilson and the problems of world peace.

  • - A Reading of Paradise Lost
    av Michael Lieb
    996,-

    With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Milton's thought. He argues that Milton's responsiveness to the holy as the most fundamental of experiences caused his outlook to transcend immediate doctrinal concerns.

  • av Elizabeth Langland
    673,-

    The distinctive and varied formal roles that a fictional society might play in a novel is the subject of this pioneering work. Langland opens with a discussion of novel theory, placing her perspectives within contemporary theory, and follows with a discussion of novels from the British, American, and Continental traditions from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

  • - America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933
    av Melvyn P. Leffler
    996,-

    Argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist studies by integrating the diverse aspects of foreign policy.

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