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Offers a history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice who led some of the successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. The author provides a narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Ku Klux Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.

Postwar American officials desired, in principle, to promote Arab-Israeli peace in order to stabilize the Middle East. This book shows how, during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the desire for peace was not always an American priority. Instead, they consistently gave more weight to their determination to contain the Soviet Union.

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. But the author demonstrates that the transformation of the disease from fatal condition into a chronic illness is tinged with irony and one which illuminates the human consequences of medical intervention.

Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement

In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)-the Union army's largest veterans' organisation. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first interracial organisation.

Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam

Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi ism"

Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of "land-as-woman". It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity, and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews.

Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism.

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England

History of the Oratorio: Vol. 1: The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris

Barbara Ransby chronicles Ella Baker's long political career as an organizer, intellectual and teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. She paints a picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with progressive struggles worldwide in the 20th century.

Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11

James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation

Although Germany's short-lived colonial empire was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant. The establishment of German colonies affected international politics in a period of tension. Smith focuses on the interaction between Germany's colonial empire and German politics and on the connection between colonialism and socioeconomic conflict in Germany before World War I.

Tanner, like so many of the region's giants, began his career in the South's dismal age of reconstruction. This is not only the Tanner story but, in microcosm, the story of those significant southern institutions, mill stores and villages, and the story of the rise of an industrial South. Originally published in 1952.

This original investigation deals with the procedure Donne used in dilating a text into a sermon. An analysis of Donne's sermon on Psalm 32:1-2 exemplifies the way in which he divided his text and accordingly structured his discourse. This framework can then be filled out by multiplying the significations of words and figures.

Offers a critical appraisal of Tennyson which attempts to balance the Victorian and "modern" views of the poet. By a careful analysis of the major poems, Baum has exhibited fairly both the weaknesses and the fine qualities of Tennyson's genius.

Brown's position is that Gay, Young, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, Cowper, and Crabbe contributed in a unique way to the development of the heroic couplet. His analysis of the precise ways in which these later masters contributed to the tradition demonstrates the vitality of the heroic couplet.

This is the story of Leonidas Polk, whose name was destined to become a national byword. In 1889 he was elected president of the Farmers' Alliance, the largest agricultural organisation in American history. The agrarian reforms that Polk had championed led to the agrarian crusade and the New Deal.

This is a collection of public addresses and articles by Ball from 1911 to 1945. It presents the essence of his political philosophy with originality and boldness. His brilliant conservative ideas are shown in the light of the Republic's initial philosophy.

With easy informality the author sets down his thoughts on education, art, and life in the war-torn world of 1943. Each chapter is complete in itself, but all are built on a central theme. The essence of the theme is that our training and our ideals have become mechanical and sterile, that the simple and perennial values of life are in danger of being forgotten.

For many years Green travelled up and down his native Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina, collecting the folklore of the people of the valley - noting down their speech, beliefs, customs, anecdotes, ballads, epitaphs, legends, proverbs, stories, superstitions, games, folk songs, and the like. The selections from this rich harvest of human laughter and tears represent Green at his best.

This lively study of a region and its newpapers during the past century owes much to the geography of the region, to the spirit of its people, and to the special skills and dedication of its authors. This newspaper history is also the record of the growth of the city and its traditions.

When Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, China and Japan were on the agenda, revolution was flaming in Mexico, and Europe was on the verge of war. With the outbreak of war in 1914, the struggle for neutrality and preparedness began. The book includes lively portraits of a young FDR, a great Bryan, a grand old Admiral Dewey, an inexplicable Lodge, and a memorable Edison.