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A study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. The book examines the vast array of programmes sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical and efficient society.

Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical narratives also employed the self-referential techniques characteristic of fiction.

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analysing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state.

Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organisational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.

Offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. This volume features more than 250 activities, organised by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the text.

Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighbourhoods through local organisations. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighbourhood planning programs and in-depth case studies, Planning with Neighborhoods offers the first comprehensive description and evaluation of the effectiveness of these programs.

The basic purpose of Williamson's study is to determine whether the Kuznets cycles, or long swings in the domestic economy, have had any consistent effect on U. S. foreign trade and, as a result, on the nation's balance-of-payments position. The author has chosen the period from 1820 to 1913 and has studied it in detail.

This volume is a study of the structure of certain of James's works, as well as a search for the structural principles that inform James's fiction and lie behind the technical dicta of his essays and prefaces. It also develops the thesis that most of James's structures are determined by logical and spatial, rather than chronological, concepts of relationships.

This volume is the third of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. In this volume Smither discusses the Italian oratorio from the 1720s to the early nineteenth century and oratorios from other parts of Europe from the 1750s to the nineteenth century.

Reform and Reaction: The Politico-Religious Background of the Spanish Civil War

This is a report on political conditions in ten widely differing states judged, for one reason or another, to be crucial, typical, or otherwise important. Part one is composed of case histories of state politics; part two reviews some general characteristics of the political structure; the epilogue applies this material to the question of the future.

This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria. The emphasis in on the legal system, but the author also examines certain non-legal factors, such as the 1962-68 Development Plan, education, and manpower, which all condition the investment climate of the country.

Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy

Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose.

When the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in `Brown v. Board of Education' in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under `Brown', abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by `Brown' and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation.

Provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, this book presents Glatthaar's supporting data and major conclusions in extensive and extraordinary detail.

Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters

Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908

Explores the forces that sparked a dramatic 'prison art renaissance' in the 1970s, shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes.

Taking an approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century, this title demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system.

A collection of essays that encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.

An examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. It finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.

Historians have often glorified 18th century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. This title explains how North Carolina's first planters struggled to impose a plantation society upon the settlers and how those early small farmers, defending a wide franchise and religious toleration, steadfastly resisted.

Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the US Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. This title offers a portrait of the American army from 1814 to the end of the Civil War.

Exploring gender relations during the Civil War, this book compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. It finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home.